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Rampage (1988)

Rampage

Activision, Inc.

George, Lizzy and Ralph were just ordinary Americans, until an experiment went wrong, turning them into a Gorilla, Lizard and Werewolf respectively. Following this, the three of them plan to go round destroying buildings, and up to 3 human players can join in.

Street Fighter (1988)

Street Fighter

Capcom Co., Ltd.

You are Ryu, a Street Fighter. Your goal is to travel to 5 countries (Japan, USA, England, China and Thailand) and beat 2 enemies at each of them.

X-COM: Interceptor (1998)

X-COM: Interceptor

MicroProse Software, Inc.

Welcome to the Frontier! In X-COM Interceptor, you take command of an elite force that has been fielded to meet the aliens on their own turf — the depths of space. This time, you’ll be engaging your alien foes from the cockpit of a cutting-edge space fighter, fighting ship-to-ship as you protect Earth’s corporations and X-COM installations. But your job doesn’t end there. As X-COM’s commander in the Frontier, you must maintain your financial standing, manage your bases and increase X-COM’s presence in the area. It is also up to you to guide the research of alien weapons and technology in the hopes of improving your own technology and discovering the reason for the ever-increasing alien activity — before it’s too late.

The Miracle Piano Teaching System (1990)

The Miracle Piano Teaching System

Software Toolworks, Inc., The

The Miracle Piano Teaching System teaches piano to beginning / intermediate players using a combination of scripted lessons, dynamically created lessons, and piano-themed video games. The original version came bundled with a custom piano keyboard. Later versions work with any MIDI keyboard.

Tetris Classic (1992)

Tetris Classic

Spectrum Holobyte, Inc.

An enhanced remake of the classic puzzle game Tetris in which you control the position and rotation of falling blocks and try to assemble and clear lines of blocks as they fall before the play area gets flooded.The release doesn’t make any changes to the original formula, but instead brings the game up to date technology-wise and features completely new VGA graphics and full digitized sound, with new backgrounds and tunes based on Russian mythology and folk tales.

Spiritual Warfare (1992)

Spiritual Warfare

Wisdom Tree, Inc.

Spiritual Warfare is a Zelda-like clone where you play as a soldier of God, fighting the forces of darkness in various parts of a modern city to find the armor of God, each one guarded by increasingly difficult demon bosses. When you are dire need, an angel may come down and help you, if you answer Bible questions correctly. The game will take through increasingly difficult levels of play, where in the end you will face off with Satan himself.

SimCopter (1996)

SimCopter

Electronic Arts, Inc.

SimCopter is a light helicopter flying simulator closely related to Sim City 2000. The player is a rookie helicopter pilot that must make his living by transporting passengers and help the city authority in several tasks, including rescuing sims from fires and boat accidents, divert cars from traffic jams, aid on putting out fires and arresting criminals, controlling riots and MEDEVAC injured sims to nearby hospitals.

Reading Adventures in Oz (1993)

Reading Adventures in Oz

Davidson & Associates

Davidson & Associate Inc.‘s Reading Adventures in Oz for DOS takes children to the land of Oz to meet the characters, including Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Lion. The program covers several skill levels. All activities provide clues in searching for words to bring to the Wizard. In the end, when all tasks are accomplished, the user will finally get to meet the Wizard.

Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon (1990)

Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon

MicroProse Software, Inc.

With $100000 in the bank after taking out loans and selling stocks, it’s time to start a railroad! Choose from 4 scenarios across two continents with randomly generated resources, and design your own railroad that moves people and goods across the country. Use the revenue to continue expanding, while keeping control of your company and appeasing your stock holders with growth and revenues. Play the stock market with company assets. Drive your competitors out of business with buyouts and rate wars. Multiple types of resources to carry (roughly grouped as slow freight, fast freight, passengers, mail) and convert, own faciliites to maximize profit (buy a steel mill and the conversion from iron ore to steel makes money for YOU). Use the latest available technology to your advantage (new locomotives). Your objective is to retire with a huge bonus (based on your company’s assets) and become the President or the Prime Minister (depending on which continent).

Sonic R (1999)

Sonic R

Expert Software, Inc.

While on vacation, Tails and Sonic come across a recruiting advertisement for the World Grand Prix race. Sonic is not interested at first, but once he notices that Dr. Robotnik will participate he decides to enter. Robotnik is only interested in the race because he’s learned the location of the Chaos Emeralds and now he’ll get a chance to beat Sonic while he gets them. Knuckles finds out that Sonic will participate, so he joins him. Amy overhears Robotnik’s plan, so she will also be racing to get the Chaos Emeralds.