SWIV 1991 Amiga
When Storm decided to unleash their creativity on a shoot'em-up to sequel Silkworm, they grabbed the original by the neck, rotated it through 90 degrees, slapped in more war-torn khaki visuals than you can shake an Apache at and created a single marathon level which loaded additional graphics data as you played. The end result was very special indeed. Storm hod produced a vertically scrolling blaster which blew the opposition out of the water and into the same grave as all those Iraqi frontliners. Technically and graphically, it's faultless and the gameplay is both addictive and very furious. Feature-wise, SWIV is...
Grand Prix 500 cc 1987 Sports
Grand Prix 500 cc is a motorbike simulator viewed from behind your bike. It lets you ride on 12 circuits all around the world. You can play either alone or against a friend (with an unusual vertically-split screen), and in addition to the championship mode (9 laps with 6 competitors) there's a training mode (just 2 laps with 2 competitors). You can chose to race on any circuit at a time or go for the world championship mode where you race on the circuits in order. ...
Manager, The 1991 Sports
The Manager is an excellent soccer simulation game that is unfortunately much less popular than Championship Manager, current champion of the genre. While Bundesliga Manager, the game's German league equivalent, sells very well in Europe and is being continually updated, this England league counterpart was discontinued years ago. That the game's relative anonymity is undeserved is obvious from the first few minutes you spend with the game. For starter, it includes accurate statistics for the players and clubs in the 1992/1993 Premier League season in England. As manager of a Division 3 club, your job is to lead the team up...
Jewels II: The Ultimate Challenge 1998 Puzzle
Jewels 2 is a puzzle game set in an archeological dig were a pre-sumerian culture left a great treasure. To unlock the treasure you must uncover 24 rune tokens from several places in the dig by solving for each one a logic/pattern recognition puzzle of varying difficulty. The main game screen consists of a map from where you can go directly to each puzzle as well as other interesting sites. There's an in-game journal that offers hints for most puzzles and if you are really stuck you can also consult with the digitally-captured professor Bhandam (the guy in charge of...
Strike Zone 1987 Arcade action
Yet another compilation by Keypunch in which the company essentially stole freelance designers' works (most released as freeware or shareware on various BBS's), took out all credits, and sold them as the company's own games. That the company was able to do this unchallenged in mid-1980s is telling of how much the Internet resembled a lawless "wild west" in its early days ;) Strike Zone compilation includes three arcade-style flight games: Flightmare, Red Baron, and Striker. All of these games are freeware Defender-style sidescrolling shooters, and are all much better than average. You can find reviews of Flightmare and Striker...
Platoon 2002 Strategy
Platoon is based on Oliver Stone's Oscar winning film Platoon. Platoon is set early in the Vietnam conflict - 1965 to 1968 - and includes the several famous battles: Operation Shiny Bayonet, the Pleiku campaign, and Operation Pershing. Players control Martin Lionsdale, a newly married, and green, US Army recruit. Platoon's story involves Lionsdale relationships with other soldier's in his platoon, his emotions, and his long distance correspondence with his wife. Lionsdale gradually advances to the rank of Lieutenant and assumes responsibility for a platoon of 30 soldiers, including riflemen, snipers, scouts, machine gunners, grenadiers, engineers, and commandos. Only historically accurate...
Afterburner 1989 Arcade action
Hokay, for those of you who haven't seen it in the arcades and missed the Megapreview a couple of issues ago, Afterburner goes like this: launch your F-14 Tomcat from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, zoom along at Mach 96 and shoot the marauding hordes of Russi... sorry, enemy aircraft who scoot around taking pot-shots at you, stopping for refuelling occasionally. Nothing frighteningly original there, I know, but where Afterburner excels is in the graphics. Even on the Speccy conversion, the speed at which sprites are wanged around the screen is phenomenal, especially considering that as your F-14...
Bill Elliott's Nascar Challenge 1990 Sports
The signature of former champion Bill Elliott adorns one of the first few NASCAR racing games. There are six tracks, including favorites such as Watkins Glen and Talladega. The game is played through an in car view. Aerodynamic modifications and the drafting effect are incorporated. It features a practice mode as well as full races. Many brand name cars from Pontiac and Ford, fully customizable. Track details are flat shaded polygons. Instant replays are controlled by a VCR-style system. ...
Legion Arena 2005 Strategy
Following the retail release of Slitherine Software's Spartan (and its stand-alone expansion, Gates of Troy), the developer announced Legion Arena, an online game that can be downloaded and played for free. In the same theme as the recent retail games, Legion Arena has players taking control of a Roman legion and pits them against various computer-controlled opponents. Players begin with just one legionnaire general character, who can draft more units as his fame and experience grows from success in battle. The names and appearances of all units in the legion can be customized by the player, and all units become...
Darkside 1988 Arcade action
What can I say? Darkside is one of those games most people have never known and probably never will simply because the game isn't offering very good gameplay or anything else. While it does offer a very simple game engine that some might say is used today's games like Quake, Unreal Tournament and similar games Darkside is still far away from a game like Wolfenstein 3D and similar games from that period. The game isn't taking place in our time. It's more based in a science fiction world with robots but it isn't very easy to get additional info about the...
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