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It's 1939, at the eve of World War II. Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr., at the request of a certain Mr. Smith, retrieves a strange idol from the Barnett College museum to him and his friend Marcus Brody. However, when Indy presents it to Smith, he holds him and Marcus at gunpoint, takes the statue and escapes... 768

Tomb Raider follows the exploits of Lara Croft, a British female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures à la Indiana Jones. The game was critically acclaimed and widely influential. It spawned a number of sequels and a franchise of related media. The player controls the archaeologist Lara Croft in search of the three mysterious Scion artefacts... 719

Alien Trilogy is a 1996 first-person shooter based on the first three films of the Alien series. Developed by Britain's Probe Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment for PC (DOS), PlayStation and Sega Saturn, it casts the player as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley across three acts inspired by Aliens, Alien³ and Alien — the LV-426 colony, the prison... 1056

Haunted Castle (Akumajō Dracula) is a side-scrolling platform game released by Konami for the arcades in 1987. The game is an adaptation of the original Castlevania, but is not a direct port of the NES version. Rather, it is a new game running on custom JAMMA-based hardware. The game has the player controlling Simon Belmont, who embarks on a journey... 1827

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is a platform-adventure game produced by Konami, originally released in Japan in 1987 for the Famicom Disk System. It is the second Castlevania game released for the NES, following the original Castlevania in 1986. Set sometime after the events of the first installment, the player once again assumes the role of vampire... 325

Airborne Ranger is a military simulation game in which a sole airborne ranger is to infiltrate enemy territory to complete various objectives. The game consisted of several missions, in which the player controlled a sole airborne ranger whose objectives included killing an enemy officer, taking out an enemy bunker, and even taking out a SAM-site... 1504

Airborne Ranger is a military simulation game in which a sole airborne ranger is to infiltrate enemy territory to complete various objectives. The game consisted of several missions, in which the player controlled a sole airborne ranger whose objectives included killing an enemy officer, taking out an enemy bunker, and even taking out a SAM-site... 536

Frontier: Elite II is a space trading and combat simulator designed by David Braben. It is the first sequel to the seminal game Elite from 1984. The game retains the same principal component, namely open-ended gameplay, and adds realistic physics and an accurately modeled galaxy. It was the first game to feature procedurally generated star systems.... 651

Civilization is a turn-based single-player computer game. The player takes on the role of the ruler of a civilization starting with only one or two Settler units. The player attempts to build an empire in competition with between two and six other civilizations. The game requires a fair amount of micromanagement (although less than any of the simulation... 3944

Darker has the player assume the role of Tolly, a civilian shuttle pilot in the city of Delphi, the only city situated on the dark side of a planet in synchronous rotation around the local star. The player must defend Delphi from the Halons, inhabitants of the planet's light side, who are invading Delphi... 82

Vampire Killer (Akumajō Dracula) is a platform-adventure video game released by Konami for the MSX2 computer. It is a parallel version of the original Castlevania, which debuted a month earlier for the Famicom Disk System under the same Japanese title. Like in Castlevania, the player controls vampire hunter Simon Belmont, who ventures into Dracula's... 2789

Castlevania (Akumajō Dracula) is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Konami, originally released for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986. It is the first game in Konami's Castlevania video game series. Castlevania uses platform gameplay and is divided into six blocks of three stages each, for a total of 18 stages. Players... 425

Silent Service is a 1985 submarine simulator designed by Sid Meier. The game is set in the Pacific during World War II, with the player assuming control of a United States submarine for various war patrols against Japanese shipping. Although hugely successful during the war, this side of the war in the Pacific is seldom told... 654

Castlevania (Akumajō Dracula) is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Konami, originally released for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986. It is the first game in Konami's Castlevania video game series. Castlevania uses platform gameplay and is divided into six blocks of three stages each, for a total of 18 stages. Players... 1239

Demon Stalkers: The Raid on Doomfane is a top-down action, role-playing video game. It was released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and in 1989 for IBM PC compatibles. It's a dungeon crawler based on killing monsters during the descent. The game can be played in either single player mode or two player co-operative mode. Players can choose to control either... 104

Fortress of Narzod is an arcade shooter for one or two players, developed in 1983 by General Consumer Electronics for the Vectrex system. The player controls a hovercraft on its ascent up a mountain range with the goal of reaching the fortress at its summit. Each screen is part of a roadway, which is defended by three waves of guardians. These waves... 473

Blackthorne (Blackhawk in some European countries) is a computer and video game, a cinematic platformer. The game focuses around protagonist Kyle Vlaros who is known as the Blackthorne, out for revenge on Sarlac and his minions. The gameplay involves large platforming sequences similar to the 2d Prince of Persia games, in which Kyle can run and climb... 164

The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game, originally released for the SNES in 1992. The main characters are three Vikings, Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce, and Olaf the Stout. The goal is to guide all Vikings safely through each level. The game's originality is due to the fact that the player controls three different characters... 257

Shadow of the Beast is a side-scrolling platform computer game released for the Commodore Amiga, but the game has been ported to many other systems. Shadow of the Beast, however, was considered revolutionary because its graphics, with many more colours on screen and up to twelve levels of parallax scrolling backdrops, were of a level rarely if ever... 218

Lemmings is an action-puzzle game developed by the Scottish studio DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1991, originally for the Commodore Amiga. The player guides swarms of mindless, self-endangering lemmings to safety by assigning eight different skills to individual creatures — from digging and bridge-building to self-sacrifice by explosion.... 741