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The third game in the SaGa series, released as Final Fantasy Legend III in North America. It is about a group of heroes that travel through time in order to avert an apocalypse.
Part of a series of eight text-based games, originally available only via download on Sega's Meganet service. Each adventure tells some of the character's back story prior to the events in PS2.
Metal Max is a 1991 sandbox role-playing game set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic, open-world environment, where the surviving humans cluster in villages and ruins while "hunters" fight the monsters and outlaws outside.
Final Fantasy Legend II is the second game in Square's "SaGa" role-playing series, originally released for the Game Boy. It adopted the "Final Fantasy" branding in North America for marketing purposes.
The Final Fantasy Legend is the English title given to the first game in the SaGa series. In this game, a group of adventurers journey to the top of a mysterious tower.
Save the town of Lizard Breath from mutant ants in this B-Movie inspired adventure/strategy game.
Released in 1989, Sweet Home is quite possibly the first survival horror, or console horror RPG. A small team enters a haunted house to study the deceased owner's frescoes, only to become trapped by the angered spirits within. It inspired Resident Evil, the game that established the survival horror genre. Sweet Home can also be considered an early immersive sim.
Created by LucasArts in 1988, Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders follows Zak in an attempt to meet girls and stop evil aliens.
Sorcerian, also known as Dragon Slayer V: Sorcerian, is an action RPG released by Nihon Falcom in 1987. It was considered unique for its party-based action combat, magic combination system, and open-ended multi-scenario system that could be extended with expansion packs.
Maniac Mansion is a graphic adventure game originally released in 1987 by Lucasfilm Games. When the innocent Sandy is kidnapped by the maniacal Dr. Fred, it's up to her boyfriend Dave and his friends to her from certain death!
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.
Rescue the princess and defeat the evil Dragonlord in this landmark RPG from Enix.
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.
The first game in Koei's long-running strategy game series, based on the Chinese historical novel of the same name.
An action RPG released by Nihon Falcom in 1985 that was the company's first blockbuster success, becoming one of the best selling Japanese PC games of all time.
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.
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