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The third installment of Team Ninja's fighting game series, bringing the series to the Xbox.
The follow-up to the 1998 blockbuster, Metal Gear Solid 2 blends tactical stealth and action. This sequel takes the action to an offshore oil cleanup facility seized by terrorists who are holding the President hostage. It helped sell the PS2, featuring advanced AI, physics and cover mechanics for its time, and one of the first postmodern narratives in gaming.
Rare survival horror title for the Dreamcast. Despite being financially unsuccessful, the game earned a cult following for its notable combination of atypical gameplay elements (e.g. trap detection) and bizarre B-movie style comedy-horror themes, dialogue and voice acting.
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is a prequel to the original Fear Effect for the Playstation console. The game's story reveals the conditions under which the three protagonists from the first game met each other, and the events that preceded the story of the original Fear Effect.
An action game that goes from Hong Kong to Hell, Fear Effect takes players to a dark world where killing people and monsters becomes part of the job as players search for a missing girl.
An improved version of Dead or Alive 2, released in 2000 for the arcades, PS2, and Japanese Dreamcast. It included several upgrades over the original 1999 arcade and Dreamcast versions.
The first sequel to Tecmo's signature 3D fighting game series, Dead or Alive 2 features an improved visual style and new multi-tiered environments (filled with their own unique hazards and sizes).
The Granstream Saga is an action RPG released for the PlayStation in 1997 and is the final game developed by Quintet. It was one of the first RPGs with fully 3D polygon graphics and featured third-person real-time combat. The plot, set on floating continents, utilized anime cutscenes.
The third "King of Iron Fist" tournament is underway, and several newcomers enter the fray in the third installment of the Tekken series.
The first in Tecmo's signature 3D fighting game series, Dead or Alive introduces the world to a special "rock-paper-scissors" system with strikes, grapples, and counter-attacks.
The fifth game in the cartoony series of Gradius clones.
The sequel to Namco's original 3D fighting game adds new characters and a variety of new moves and unique attacks.
An eroge adventure game developed by C's Ware about a young man that has a reoccurring dream where he explores a space station that is somehow connected to the real world.
Two Parodius games in one release.
This point-and-click adventure game follows Simon, an unwilling teenage hero on his quest to save the wizard Calypso.
Bubble Bath Babes is an adult puzzle game for the NES. It is known for its rare depiction of nude women and also its status as an unlicensed game.
An on-rails light-gun shooter produced for the Arcade by Midway, based on the 1991 film of the same name. The home versions were titled "T2: The Arcade Game" to distance themselves from the LJN/Ocean side-scroller action game.
An unlicensed NES game known mainly for being converted and rereleased as a Christian game under the title Sunday Funday.
An action game that continues the primary Valis story arc, allowing the player to control three female protagonists. The game was published in America on the Genesis in 1992, followed several months later by the complete TurboGrafx-CD version.
The arcade sequel to the original MSX Parodius, Parodius Da builds on its Gradius-style gameplay and its unique comical charm.
A side scrolling action game, featuring a female protagonist and several animated cut scenes in the CD-ROM format. Developed by Telenet and published by NEC in America in 1990. As is the case with other installments in the series, there are marked differences between some versions.
A PC Engine Action-RPG based on the famous Japanese novel series Nansou Satomi Hakkenden. The gameplay is at least partly inspired by Falcom's Ys series.
Players control a plodding "ninja" who is on a bicycle for some reason.
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode is a mature-themed game with revolutionary design implementing multiple game mechanics, including platforming, first-person shooting, and sniping, and is one of the only games to feature sex on the NES.
A platformer/shooter for 80s computer systems.
Alpha (アルファ) is a visual novel adventure game, developed and published by Squaresoft in 1986, for the PC-8801 & PC-9801 and FM-7 computers. It was known for its real-time animated cutscenes, epic cyberpunk space opera narrative, and scantily-clad heroine.
Eroge game created by PSK and released in 1985.
RPG developed by Kogado and released for Japanese computers in 1985.
An adventure game created by Yuji Horii in 1985 about a young man trying to find the sister of his girlfriend.
Dating simulation game released by Enix in 1985. Considered somewhat revolutionary for its time, this game helped lay the foundations for the dating sim genre.
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