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Nitemare-3D is a horror first-person shooter written single-handedly by David P. Gray in 1994 and released under his own company Gray Design Associates. The hero is Hugo from the author's own trilogy of adventure games, whose girlfriend Penelope has been kidnapped by Doctor Hamerstein. Hugo searches for her through the doctor's mansion, his laboratories,... 29

Nippon Safes Inc. is the debut of the Italian studio Dynabyte, a cartoon point-and-click adventure released in 1992 for PC and Amiga. It is set in Tokyo and puts the player in charge of 3 characters who each got tangled up in the same case differently: the safe-cracker Doug Nuts, the boxer Dino Fagioli and the dancer Donna Fatale. Their stories can... 13

The Big Red Adventure is a point-and-click adventure by the Italian studio Dynabyte, published by Britain's Core Design in 1995. It follows on from Nippon Safes Inc. and brings back the same trio of heroes: the thief Doug Nuts, the boxer Dino Fagioli and the dancer Donna Fatale. The story is set in post-communist Russia shortly after perestroika, where... 5

The Terminator for SNES is an action game based on the 1984 film, released by Mindscape in April 1993. It was written by the Canadian studio Gray Matter, so despite the shared name and publisher it is neither a port of the NES version nor related to the Sega or PC games. The player is Kyle Reese and alternates side-scrolling levels, shooting terminators... 131

The Terminator for NES is an action game based on the 1984 film, released in December 1992 by Mindscape under a sublicence from Bethesda. Despite the shared name it has nothing in common with the Sega console versions or the PC game; it was written by the Canadian studio Radical Entertainment and has a structure of its own. The player is Kyle Reese... 75

The Elder Scrolls: Arena is a first-person RPG by the American company Bethesda Softworks, released on 25 March 1994 for PC DOS on floppies and on CD-ROM. The player travels across the whole continent of Tamriel to reassemble the 8 pieces of the Staff of Chaos and unseat the usurper Jagar Tharn. The world holds more than 400 towns and villages, a procedurally... 49

They Stole a Million is a strategy game about planning robberies, made in 1986 by the British studio Tigress Marketing and published under the 39 Steps label of Ariolasoft. The player is the boss: you hire a crew of specialists in locks, explosives and getaway driving, buy the plans of the chosen building, and then write out the whole job on a map... 39

The Clue! is a burglary simulator made in 1994 by the Austrian studio neo Software of Hirtenberg; in German speaking countries it shipped under its original name Der Clou!, and a fully Czech edition followed in 1996 as Zlodej. The player takes the part of Matt Stuvysunt, a small-time criminal of Polish descent who arrives in London in 1953 with no... 15

Whizz is a 1994 isometric platformer by the British studio Flair Software. The hero is a rabbit in a magician's coat fleeing an evil rat in a hot-air balloon, who has to cross four worlds before the clock runs out. Instead of straightforward left-to-right jumping, the player works through maze-like levels using coloured keys that open wooden, brick,... 26

Whizz is a 1994 isometric platformer by the British studio Flair Software. The hero is a rabbit in a magician's coat fleeing an evil rat in a hot-air balloon, who has to cross four worlds before the clock runs out. Instead of straightforward left-to-right jumping, the player works through maze-like levels using coloured keys that open wooden, brick,... 6

Oscar is a 1993 platformer by the British company Flair Software, created by reworking their game Trolls after the troll doll licence expired. The hero is Flair's own character Oscar, and the whole game takes place on movie sets: science fiction, western, horror, cartoons, dinosaurs, detective and a TV game show. Each world requires collecting enough... 27

Oscar is a 1993 platformer by the British company Flair Software, created by reworking their game Trolls after the troll doll licence expired. The hero is Flair's own character Oscar, and the whole game takes place on movie sets: science fiction, western, horror, cartoons, dinosaurs, detective and a TV game show. Each world requires collecting enough... 21

Elvira: The Arcade Game is a 1991 side-scrolling platformer by the British company Flair Software, which used the Elvira licence in a completely different way from Horrorsoft's horror RPGs. The player controls Elvira herself across two large worlds, an underworld of fire and a frozen land, in order to unlock the third one, the castle in Transylvania.... 47

Starquake is a 1985 action platformer written single-handedly by Stephen J. Crow and published by the British label Bubble Bus Software for the ZX Spectrum. The player controls BLOB, an artificial being sent into the unstable interior of a planet to gather nine core elements before it detonates. The world spans 512 screens linked by teleport booths,... 71

Starquake is a 1985 action platformer written single-handedly by Stephen J. Crow and published by the British label Bubble Bus Software for the ZX Spectrum. The player controls BLOB, an artificial being sent into the unstable interior of a planet to gather nine core elements before it detonates. The world spans 512 screens linked by teleport booths,... 4

Movie is a 1986 isometric arcade adventure by Duško Dimitrijević, released under the Imagine Software label. Private detective Jack Marlow has to lift an incriminating tape from the headquarters of mob boss Bugs Malloy, helped by a woman named Tanya whose identical twin Vanya is working for the mob. Beyond the isometric action the game offers conversations... 22

Phantom Club is an isometric arcade adventure from Ocean Software, programmed by the Serbian coder Duško Dimitrijević, author of the earlier hit Movie. The player takes the part of Plutus, the lowest-ranked member of a brotherhood of superheroes taken over by the villain Zarg, and has to work his way up to the highest rank of Ipsissimus by completing... 24

Duke Nukem 3D is a 1996 first-person shooter by 3D Realms that moved its muscle-bound hero from two 2D platformers into first person. It runs on Ken Silverman's Build engine, which allowed looking up and down, jumping, swimming and flying with a jetpack, and it became known above all for how much of its environment the player can actually use. The... 214

Body Harvest is a 1998 open-world 3D action game by DMA Design, released exclusively for the Nintendo 64. Genetically engineered soldier Adam Drake travels through five time periods between 1916 and 2016 to stop an alien race that harvests humans every twenty-five years. Behind the wheel of dozens of vehicles or on foot, he destroys shield generators... 64

Tajemství Oslího Ostrova (Donkey Island) is a 1994 point-and-click adventure created by two teenage students from Brno under the Pterodon Software name and distributed by Vochozka Trading. It is a Czech parody of LucasArts' famous pirate series The Secret of Monkey Island — the hero Gajbraš Trípvůd (a take on Guybrush Threepwood) is shipwrecked on... 60