The game centers around the main character of Apollo (no relation to the sun god) who progresses through the game in an alternating format that switches between platform, side-scrolling action (similar to the Super Mario Bros. series) and side-scrolling s...

Arkista's Ring is an extremely pleasant action/adventure game featuring cute enemies, soothing music and an elf girl as the main character. The 125 stages are chock-full of weapon power-ups and other useful items, and each mission is very straightforward....

Set during World War II. Nazi scientists are about to make an astonishing breakthrough that will allow them to win the war! A rocket pack that allows its bearer to fly is sent back from the future to the player to allow him to hopefully prevent the Nazis ...

Crystalis takes place in the year 2097, in a post-apocalyptic world, 100 years after a global thermonuclear war has reverted civilization to a primitive, medieval state where science is forgotten in favour of magic and fierce mutant creatures populate the...

The player controls the Skipper and is followed around by Gilligan, who is controlled by the computer. The game has four episodes where the player had to wander around the island, collecting various objects, speaking with the other castaways and solving v...

The object is to survive life after the end of the world by battling survivalists and collecting valuable food, water, gasoline, and money in order to continue racing into the desert wasteland that lies beyond. In the game you start out as what appers to ...

The player controls Shadax as he moves through the aforementioned dungeon made of isometric rooms. He or she solves puzzles in these rooms to either advance to the next room, or obtain a specific item that will help them advance. While doing this, the pla...

Each level starts out with a case to solve, and some possible clues. The player drives Tracy's vehicle through the city, avoiding snipers and other cars, to various locations mentioned in the clues, where the action shifts to a side-scrolling adventure ga...

Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987 by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). Maniac Mansion has become known among video game players and programmers for its highly-acclaimed gameplay and its introduction of new id...

Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Trouble is a side scrolling game, though the player can retrace his steps and return to areas he has seen before. The hero has a variety of skateboarding moves and weapons at his disposal, the controls for which can b...

In the game the player (and up to three other players with a special adapter) controlled a character that has to jump and punch his way through various Elm Street locations and homes to collect all of the bones of Freddy Krueger in order to place them in ...

The Immortal is legendary for its profoundly-steep learning curve and practically-impossible difficulty. Indeed, some sections of the game seemingly required the player to die in order to progress. There are also a number of 'one false move' style...

The story revolves around Mike Jones, a star pitcher from Seattle, who comes to C-Island to visit his uncle, an archaeologist named Dr. Steve Jones, after receiving a letter from him. Uniquely, this letter was actually packaged with the game and addressed...

Dragon's Lair led to the creation of numerous video games for home systems. Since some original sequences did not fit in the ports for those systems, they were re-released only in a virtual sequel called Escape from Singe's Castle; A non-linear ar...

The Adventures of Rad Gravity was a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System published by Activision in 1990. It was developed by Interplay Productions. The game was a platformer with a wacky storyline in which the eponymous main character explored mult...

King Neptune's kingdom has been disturbed and turned into an evil underwater world. A dark tentacled creature has stolen his magical orb and eight other artifacts. Armed with bouncing lightshots and a limited amount of bubble bombs that can be detonat...

While Heroes of the Lance is a faithful representation of the books it is based on, it was a departure from the usual RPG style of most Dungeons & Dragons games, and many players lament its difficult gameplay interface which consists of using one characte...

You are Conan, the mighty barbarian warrior. You must claim your destiny... the throne of Aquilonia. To do this, you must prove your worthiness by returning the four burial urns of the Early Kings of Aquilonia to their proper resting place. Your journey w...

The Last Ninja contains a blend of exploration, puzzle solving and combat. The object of the game is to journey to the palace of the evil Shogun Kunitoki to destroy him and retrieve the sacred scrolls. As the player progresses, Kunitoki's henchmen bec...

In this single-player game players rotate from controlling Bill or Ted in a 3/4 overhead perspective as they gather the "phone numbers" (passwords) of several time travling levels. The object is to locate historical figures and return them to 1991 for a h...