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Wizardry 2: The Knight of Diamonds is the second scenario in the Wizardry series, published by Sir-tech Software in 1982. Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead built it as a direct continuation of the first game: the original Apple II release offered no character creation at all, so the party had to be transferred from a Proving Grounds disk, ideally... 32

Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! is a 1985 debut from ICOM Simulations and the very first entry in the MacVenture series, later joined by Uninvited and Shadowgate. The player takes on private eye Theodore "Ace" Harding, who wakes up with no memory in the toilet stall of a smoky Chicago bar, a revolver in his pocket and a dead body one floor up. It... 163

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... 69

The game centers around six adventurers who are trying to discover the secret of the Inner Sanctum: a kind of "holy grail" quest in the land of VARN. While trying to discover the Inner Sanctum, the heroes discover information about Corak's hunt for the missing villain Sheltem. They end up unmasking Sheltem, who had been masquerading as the King, and... 226

Joust is an action game developed by Williams Electronics and released in arcades in 1982. While not the first two-player cooperative video game, Joust's success and polished implementation popularized the concept. Players assume the role of knights armed with lances and mounted on large birds (an ostrich for Player 1, a stork for Player 2), who must... 439

Rampage is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. Players take control of a trio of gigantic monsters trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces. Each round is completed when a particular city is completely reduced to rubble. Warner Bros. currently owns all rights to the property via their purchase of Midway Games and inspired by monster... 314

Metal Gear is an overhead military action-adventure game originally released in 1987 by Konami for the MSX2 computer in Japan and parts of Europe. Considered the game to popularize the stealth game genre, it was the first video game to be fully developed by Hideo Kojima, who would go on to direct most of the games in the Metal Gear series. A reworked... 846

RoboCop 2 is a platform shooter based on the 1990 film of the same name. The game was released for several home computers / consoles developed and published by Ocean Software, and Data East manufactured an arcade version. Detroit cyborg cop known as RoboCop must stop a drug distributor, Cain, from spreading a new drug known as Nuke. The game follows... 1701

Gun.Smoke is a 1985 vertical scrolling run & gun shooter arcade game by Capcom in which the screen scrolls upward automatically and players only have three ways to shoot, using three buttons for left, right, and center shooting. The player can also change the way the gunman shoots through button combinations. This Western-themed game was designed by... 370

Batman Returns is a 1992 beat 'em up video game for various platforms based on the film of the same name. The Sega console versions were published by Sega while the NES and Super NES versions were developed and published by Konami. The Sega versions of the game are similar in design to its previous movie-based Batman game. While different versions... 369

RoboCop is a beat 'em up/run-and-gun action game developed and published by Data East for arcades in 1988, based on the 1987 film of the same name. The gameplay is similar to Data East's arcade game Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja. The games capture the spirit of the RoboCop film to some degree, as it involves killing generic criminals and enemy bosses,... 270

Star Wars is an action platformer based on the 1977 film of the same name, released in 1991 for Famicom/NES console. The game follows a sequence of events close to the storyline of A New Hope, where Luke Skywalker has to pilot a landspeeder around Tatooine, collect R2-D2 from the Sandcrawler, Obi-Wan Kenobi from a cave, and Han Solo from the Mos Eisley... 443

On the surface, Archon appears similar to chess, but there are a number of significant changes. While the board is similar to a chessboard and the various pieces are similarly designed to have various offsetting abilities, when one piece attempts to take another the removal of the targeted piece is not automatic. Instead, the two pieces are placed... 130

Ancient Land of Ys is the first installment of Ys, an action role-playing video game series developed by Nihon Falcom in 1987. The hero of Ys I is an adventurous young swordsman named Adol Christin. As the story begins, he has just arrived at the Town of Minea, in the land of Esteria. He is called upon by Sara, a fortuneteller, who tells him of a great... 183

Star Wars is a Family Computer / NES video game released in 1987 by Namco exclusively in Japan. The game is a side-scrolling platform game where the player controls Luke Skywalker as he travels to join the Rebellion against the Empire. Luke uses a lightsaber as his primary weapon and can also use the Force to execute special maneuvers like floating,... 538

Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord (Haja no Fūin in Japan), is a role-playing video game developed by Kogado, released initially on the Japanese PC-88 in 1986 and then ported to various other systems, including a Sega Master System version which was released in North America. The game takes place in a world of five lands spread out over three... 42

Ghosts 'n Goblins (Makai-mura) is a run and gun platform game created by Tokuro Fujiwara and developed by Capcom, released in arcades on September 19, 1985. The series has subsequently been ported to and released on a variety of game consoles and mobile platforms and spawned several sequels and spin-offs. The player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur,... 623

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1989 arcade game released by Konami and based on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series that began airing two years earlier. In the game, up to four players control the titular Ninja Turtles, fighting through various levels to defeat the turtles' enemies, including the Shredder, Krang and the Foot Clan.... 784

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is an action platformer game produced and published by Konami in Japan in 1989 for NES/Famicom home consoles. Castlevania 3 is a prequel to the original Castlevania, set a few centuries before the events of the original game. The game's protagonist is Trevor C. Belmont, an ancestor of the original hero Simon Belmont.... 801

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