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Developed for 16-bit machines this is the first game in a series of horror adventures from Horror Soft.
Curse of the Azure Bonds returns players to the Forgotten Realms where they are waylaid by mysterious attackers and cursed with blue sigils that can control them. Discovering who is responsible and how to rid themselves of these bonds will take them on an unforgettable adventure.
A turn-based strategy game in which the player conquers maps with armies of summoned monsters.
A turn-based strategy game played on a hex map. The player is in control of the Earth's forces, fighting the Axis Empire for control of the moon. The first game in the Military Madness/Nectaris series.
Battle Chess brings each piece to life by adding comical animations to them.
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.
Ultima V is the second game in the trilogy of Enlightenment of the Ultima story. After your character had gleaned the title of the avatar from traveling to the eight shrines of virtue in the fourth game you return to find that Lord British has been kidnapped!
Famicom Wars marks Intelligent Systems' first game for the Nintendo console, and it also is the first offering of the popular, turn-based strategy series known alternatively as Nintendo Wars or Advance Wars.
Final Fantasy was the first entry in the now widely recognized Final Fantasy franchise, originally developed on the NES by Square (now Square-Enix).
Strategy game developed by NCS in 1987.
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.
Command your various forces against the absolute might of the heavy tank OGRE in this 1980's computer game adaptation of Steve Jackson's sci-fi board game of the same name.
The Chessmaster 2000 is the chess game that began the Chessmaster franchise. It was developed by The Software Toolworks, featuring a chess engine written by David Kittinger.
The first game in Koei's long-running strategy game series, based on the Chinese historical novel of the same name.
A text-based adventure/RPG inspired by The Wizard's Castle and Rogue. Players must explore a castle to find the titular Amulet of Yendor. There's no graphical depiction of the player or environment, it's only described in text.
Ultima IV is a seminal role playing game focused on the protagonist's moral journey rather than defeating a nemesis.
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In this strategy game the players task is to obtain the three parts to the crown of Ultimate Darkness which are located in each of the three lands of Ramagold. Also re-released by Tynesoft for the BBC Micro under the name "Bozo The Brave".
An early Japanese RPG released by Hot-B in 1984 that departed from the fantasy themes of most other early RPGs in favour of what is possibly gaming's first sci-fi cyberpunk plot. Set in a post-apocalyptic city, the game revolves around an amnesiac protagonist with psychic powers.
An early action-strategy-RPG game created by Koji Sumii and published by ASCII for the Sharp X1 computer in 1983. The game is considered a precursor to several genres: the action RPG, tactical RPG, real-time strategy, and tower defense.
Designed by Yoshio Kiya and released by Nihon Falcom in 1983, this was possibly the first action RPG. It introduced real-time combat, sci-fi elements, a persistent open world with day-night cycle, and survival mechanics. This was a precursor to Falcom's seminal action RPG franchise, Dragon Slayer.
Archon: The Light and Dark is a popular hybrid of turn-based, chess-like strategy as well as 2-player action sequences. It has been released on numerous systems including PC, NES, Amiga and C64. The game has also spawned two sequels.
The first Ultima game to be published by Origin Systems Inc.
A turn-based strategy-puzzle game released by Koei for the FM-7 and PC-88 in 1983, later remade as Stop That Roach for the Game Boy in 1994. The gameplay is similar to later tower defense games, with the goal being to protect confectionaries from cockroaches.
Space Spartans is a space combat game for the Intellivision released in 1982. It was one of the first games to utilize the Intellivoice Voice Synthesis Module accessory.
As the name implies this is a video game about the classic board game Chess
Created by Steve Colley, some time around 1974-1975, at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, Maze War is a first-person maze game where the player is represented as an eyeball.
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