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Stunts (also known as 4D Sports Driving) is a classic 3D racing game developed by Distinctive Software, Inc. It places the player in races on stunt tracks with jumps, loops and corkscrews.
Dick Tracy is a mystery/action game based on the comic strip. Most notable for its extremely unforgiving gameplay; Dick Tracy let's you take control of a police detective out to solve crimes by combining clues to make an arrest on a list of suspects.
Ultima VI is the final entry in the Age of Enlightenment. Its icon- and text-based interface was new to computer RPGs at the time.
46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinka Ron (46億年物語 -THE 進化論- "4.6 Billion Year Story: The Evolution") is a role-playing game released for the PC-98 which later inspired the design and story of E.V.O.: Search for Eden.
The first terminator game ever made. Released in 1990 for the PC, Bethesda created this open world game that allowed players to engage a cat an mouse game across an entire city as either the Terminator or Kyle Reese.
The third Final Fantasy released on the Famicom. This version of the game was never released internationally.
Test Drive III: The Passion is a driving game from 1990 developed by Accolade. The game features 256-color VGA graphics and true 3D environment built up by simple non-textured objects.
Willow is a game based on the movie of the same name.
An action RPG designed by Yu Suzuki for the Sega Genesis. The original advertising for this game claimed that it had "over 300 hours of gameplay".
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.
A fantasy non-linear puzzle/platformer with RPG elements developed by Athena. The hero Lutter must save six damsels from a diabolical maze.
Action RPG developed by Lee Way and published by Sein Soft for the Sharp X68000 home computer in 1989.
Midwinter is a First Person strategy/role playing game with some first-person shooting. Controlling up to 32 characters, players must defend an immense playing area of over 160,000 square miles. Players can ski, hang-glide, snow-buggy or travel by cable car across the glacial landscape.
Tengai Makyou: Ziria is an RPG released by Hudson Soft for the PC Engine in 1989.
The title roughly translates to "Seal of Darkness". It is a Famicom exclusive action RPG released on April 27, 1989 in Japan and is a prequel to the 1985 game Dragon Buster.
Scrolling brawler with RPG attributes. Fight through street gangs as Alex and Ryan in search of Ryan's kidnapped girlfriend. This game was basically an early proto-GTA sandbox brawler, where the player can explore the city, beat up or steal from random people, and shop around.
Friday the 13th puts players in the shoes of one of six counselors at Camp Crystal Lake and tasks them with using any weapon they can find to save the children hiding in cabins spread out across the camp grounds from Jason's murderous rampage.
Atari ST, PC and Amiga versions where handled by the Synergistic team whilst the C64, Spectrum and Amstrad versions where done by Maelstrom.
You are space adventurer Mike Finn. After receiving a distress call, you plot a course for planet Phoebus. Crew members from Earth are being held hostage by the exiled psychotic scientist Triax. Anticipating your imminent arrival, he steals a vital component from your ship and leaves you stranded in orbit.
An early first-person role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software. Ahead of its time, it had 3D polygon graphics, FPS gameplay, strafing controls, open-world space exploration, and an epic sci-fi space opera plot.
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.
A mixture of a action-adventure and a top-down driving game with a post apocalyptic setting. Released in Europe as "Motor Massacre".
Action RPG developed by Sein Soft and released in 1988.
The Scheme is an action RPG released by Bothtec (later known as Quest) for the PC-88 in 1988. It features Metroidvania-style open-world exploration, side-scrolling run & gun shooter combat, and chiptune music by Yuzo Koshiro.
The third release of the Dragon Warrior franchise saw the story take a trip back in time before one and two, taking up the sword of the warrior of legend, Loto. In this game the hero sets out to destroy Baramos after his/her late father Ortega fails.
Released in 1987, War of the Dead is considered to be the first true survival horror game. SWAT officer Lila must rescue survivors in the demon-infested small town of Chaney’s Hill. It also featured open-world gameplay and RPG elements.
Bust all sorts of litterbugs, dopers, honkers, and other horrific criminals as you clean up the mean streets in Atari's APB.
Final Fantasy was the first entry in the now widely recognized Final Fantasy franchise, originally developed on the NES by Square (now Square-Enix).
Action-adventure-RPG released in 1987 by Konami only in Japan. It features both side-scrolling and "3D" (third-person, behind-the-shoulder) segments, open-world exploration, and hack & slash combat, including the earliest third-person hack & slash combat.
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