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Gage Blackwood (Agent 5 of the Temporal Security Agency) once again travels through time and space to uncover a ripple in time, save the world from temporal sabotage, and clear his name.
The seventh installment of the Mega Man series brings Mega Man's antics to Nintendo's 16-bit console, as our robotic hero sets out to find the whereabouts of Dr. Wily (who recently escaped from prison) while encountering a mysterious new robotic ally Bass.
The first video game entry in the Front Mission franchise. Wanzer forces from the USN and OCU clash over Huffman Island, with the protagonist Royd Clive caught in the middle.
Years after the first game in the series, Zanthia, a young female alchemist, and a wizard must travel to the center of the world to save the kingdom of Kyrandia from disappearing.
Set in a bleak cyberpunk universe, System Shock is a first-person action-adventure game from Looking Glass Studios that challenges players to overcome the hazards of an immense, multi-level space station under the control of an artificial intelligence with aspirations of godhood.
Serve up some Kilrathi and scrambled eggs in this star-studded FMV space flight simulator from Origin!
A Japan-only turn-based RPG by Squaresoft featuring several seemingly unrelated characters each in different settings and time periods.
Formerly known as Final Fantasy III in North America, Final Fantasy VI follows a diverse group of heroes as they fight to defeat Kefka, a megalomaniac intent on using a combination of long-lost magic and technology to take over the world.
A point-and-click adventure game from MicroProse.
Dark Wizard is a fantasy, turn-based strategy game with integrated RPG elements. Players take on the role of a newly ascended ruler to build a fearsome army against the ultimate evil.
The demon lord Zeon has been set free by an unwitting thief. It is the job of Bowie, a young hero from the Kingdom of Granseal, to lead the Shining Force to victory in this Tactical RPG from Sega.
A turn-based strategy game that allows players to choose one of ten races before taking on a quest for intergalactic dominance. It inspired the term "4X" and introduced a framework that many later games in the subgenre would build upon.
Don the "Terror Mask" on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive one final time to save Rick's wife and son from certain gruesome death in Splatterhouse 3.
The second game in the Shining Force Gaiden side series, but the first one to be released outside of Japan.
Final Fantasy IV is a critically acclaimed RPG in the Final Fantasy series and one of the first of its kind to tell a heavily character-driven story. It also created the Active Time Battle system.
A platformer for the NES which is notable for allowing customization of the main character.
A management game where players control a criminal-turned-porn director. The game consists of directing certain films in a certain way to progress.
Originally released for the Japan-exclusive MSX2 in 1990, this sequel is set four years after the Outer Heaven incident. New FOXHOUND commander, Roy Campbell, brings a shell-shocked Solid Snake back from early retirement to infiltrate the military nation Zanzibar Land.
The sequel to Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode.
Final Fantasy II follows four heroes who join a resistance group and try to stop an empire from taking over the world. Its gameplay deviates greatly from the first game by utilizing a usage-based growth system.
Known as the first stealth-action game, Metal Gear tells the tale of Solid Snake, a rookie operative of the U.S. special forces unit FOXHOUND, as he infiltrates Outer Heaven, a fortified military compound, to destroy a mysterious superweapon known as "Metal Gear".
The second game in Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series of historical simulation-strategy games set in the warring states era of Japan, and the first to be released outside of Japan.
A first-person adventure game with RPG elements, released by Microcabin in 1986. The game featured environments rendered in 3D polygon graphics, for possibly the first time in a home video game, along with early survival horror elements. However, the game is better remembered for its cyberpunk narrative, which was adapted into a sci-fi novel shortly afterwards.
A work of interactive fiction from Infocom, the first in the "Tales of Adventure" series.
An adventure game created by Yuji Horii and published by Enix in 1983 where the player controls a detective solving a murder mystery. The title helped establish the template for the Japanese adventure genre, which many other titles would imitate and build upon.
Take on the role of an aging wizard, betrayed by his own apprentice, as he attempts to traverse his own castle avoiding all the traps and pitfalls he set long ago.
Continuing where part 1 left off, the protagonist reminisce about how they met. The discussion eventually turns to one particular incident that also severed their unique "friendship" permentally.
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