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Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner and released in 1989 for the Apple II, that represented a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in video games.
After the original release on the Apple II,...
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Initial release date:
- 1989
Civilization
Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based strategy "4X"-type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991. The game's objective is to "Build an empire to stand the test of time": it begins in 4000 BC and the...
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Initial release date:
- 1991
SimCity
SimCity is a city-building simulation video game, first released on October 3rd in 1989, and designed by Will Wright. SimCity was Maxis' first product, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and spawned...
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Initial release date:
- 1989
Chessmaster
Chessmaster is a chess playing computer game series which is now owned and developed by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five million units sold as of 2002.
The Chessmaster chess engine is called The King,...
Initial release date:
- Oct 27, 2004
Planetfall
Planetfall is a science fiction interactive fiction computer game written by Steve Meretzky, and the eighth title published by Infocom in 1983. Like most Infocom games, thanks to the portable Z-machine, it was released for several platforms...
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Initial release date:
- 1983
Castles
Initial release date:
- 1991
Balance of Power
Balance of Power is a computer strategy game of geopolitics during the Cold War, written by Chris Crawford and published in 1985. The game is notable for engaging the player in nail-biting brinkmanship without using any graphics more complicated...
Initial release date:
- Feb 1985
Starflight
Starflight is a video game published by Electronic Arts and developed by Binary Systems in 1986. Originally developed for DOS and Tandy, it was later released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh and Commodore 64. A fully revamped version of the game...
Initial release date:
- 1986
Deadline
Deadline is an interactive fiction computer game published by Infocom in 1982. Written by Marc Blank, it was one of the first murder mystery interactive fiction games. Like most Infocom titles, Deadline was created using ZIL, which allowed the easy...
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Initial release date:
- 1982
Plundered Hearts
Plundered Hearts is an interactive fiction computer game created by Amy Briggs and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released simultaneously for several popular computer platforms of the time, such as the PC and Commodore 64. Plundered Hearts was...
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Initial release date:
- Jul 30, 1987
Elite
Initial release date:
- 1984
The Secret of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island is a 1990 point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It takes place in a fantastical version of the Caribbean during the age of piracy. The player assumes the role of Guybrush...
Initial release date:
- 1990
Maniac Mansion
Initial release date:
- Oct 1987
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphical adventure game, originally released in October 1988 , published by LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games). It was the second game to use the SCUMM engine, after Maniac Mansion. The...
Initial release date:
- Oct 1988
LOOM
Loom is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1990. It was both developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now called LucasArts) and was the fourth game to use the SCUMM adventure game engine. The project was led by Brian Moriarty, a...
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Initial release date:
- Jan 1990
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game
In 1989, Lucasfilm Games released both a graphical adventure game and an action game of the same name, based on the film. There are also two completely different games for the NES called Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, one released by Taito, and...
Initial release date:
- 1989
Operation Stealth
Initial release date:
- 1990
Cruise for a Corpse
Cruise for a Corpse (orig. Croisière pour un cadavre) is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, made for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC.
The game is designed as a murder investigation. The player assumed the role of Raoul Dusentier,...
Initial release date:
- 1991
Flashback: The Quest for Identity
Flashback, released as Flashback: The Quest for Identity in the US, is a cinematic platformer developed by Delphine Software of France, a now defunct company, and published by U.S. Gold in United States and Europe, and Sunsoft in Japan.
The game was...
Initial release date:
- 1992
Future Wars
Initial release date:
- 1989
Populous
Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as the first PC God game. In 1991, Populous won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1990 as well as 1990 Computer Game of the Year in...
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Initial release date:
- Jun 5, 1989
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is a 1991 computer game in the Populous series for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS-based computers, developed by Bullfrog Productions.
Populous II is a direct sequel to Bullfrog's earlier game Populous and is...
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Initial release date:
- 1991
Revenge of the Mutant Camels
Revenge of the Mutant Camels is a surreal horizontally-scrolling shooter computer game, designed and programmed by Jeff Minter and released on the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Commodore 64 version of the game was commercially...
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Initial release date:
- 1984
Bubble Bobble
Bubble Bobble (バブルボブル, Baburu Boburu) is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986 and later ported to numerous home computers and game consoles. The game, starring the twin Bubble Dragons Bub (Bubblun) (バブルン, Baburun) and Bob (Bobblun) (ボブルン...
Initial release date:
- 1986
Parasol Stars
Initial release date:
- 1991
Midwinter
Midwinter is a first-person action role-playing game with strategy elements for the Atari ST, Amiga and PC. It was designed by Mike Singleton and was released in 1989 by Microplay Software. The game was successful enough to spawn a sequel, Midwinter...
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Initial release date:
- 1989
B.A.T.
B.A.T. (expanded: Bureau of Astral Troubleshooters) is a futuristic point and click adventure game with some role-playing video game elements. It was released in 1990 and available on several home computer platforms. It was developed by Computer's...
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- 1990
B.A.T. II - The Koshan Conspiracy
Initial release date:
- 1992
Chase H.Q.
Chase H.Q. (チェイスH.Q., "Chase Headquarters") is a 1988 arcade racing game, released by Taito. It is a spiritual successor of Taito's 1987 Full Throttle. The player assumes the role of a police officer named Tony Gibson, member of the "Chase Special...
Initial release date:
- 1988
Lemmings 2: The Tribes
Initial release date:
- 1993
Lethal Xcess
Lethal Xcess is a shoot 'em up game developed by two members of the Atari ST demo crew X-Troll and published by Eclipse in 1991. An Amiga version was also created.
After the great magician Sagyr had succeeded in defeating the wicked sorceress...
Initial release date:
- 1991
Hudson Hawk
Initial release date:
- 1991
Little Computer People
Little Computer People, also called House-on-a-Disk, is a life simulation game released in 1985 by Activision for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum and Apple II. An Amiga version was released in 1987. A Family Computer Disk System...
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Initial release date:
- 1985
A Prehistoric Tale
Initial release date:
- 1990
Shinobi
Shinobi (忍 -SHINOBI-) is a side-scrolling action game produced by Sega originally released for the arcades in 1987. In Shinobi, the player controls a modern day ninja named Joe Musashi who goes on a mission to rescue his kidnapped students from a...
Initial release date:
- 1987
Gunship
Gunship is an AH-64 Apache helicopter simulation that was released by Microprose in 1986. Its platforms include DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, MSX, Sharp X68000 and ZX Spectrum. The game was later ported onto the Sega Mega Drive by U.S. Gold in...
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Initial release date:
- 1986
Rolling Thunder
Rolling Thunder (ローリングサンダー) is a side-scrolling action game produced by Namco (now known as Namco Bandai Games) originally released in 1986 as a coin-operated arcade game which ran on the Namco System 86 hardware. It was distributed internationally...
Initial release date:
- 1986
North & South
Initial release date:
- 1989
Stunt Car Racer
Stunt Car Racer (also distributed under the title Stunt Track Racer) is a racing video game developed by Geoff Crammond and was published by MicroStyle in 1989. In the US it was published by MicroPlay.
The game differs from other racing games in...
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Initial release date:
- 1989
RoboCop
Initial release date:
- 1988
Journey
Journey: The Quest Begins is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Marc Blank, with illustrations by Donald Langosy, and released by Infocom in 1989. Like the majority of Infocom's works, it was released simultaneously for several popular...
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Initial release date:
- 1989
Flood
Flood is a 1990 computer game developed by Bullfrog Productions. It was published for the Amiga and Atari ST by Electronic Arts. The game is a Platform game where the objective is to collect all the litter and find the exit to the level. The game...
Initial release date:
- 1990
Shufflepuck Cafe
Initial release date:
- 1989
