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Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds (1993)

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Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds

ORIGIN Systems, Inc.

Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds takes place one year after the events of Ultima VII: The Black Gate. To celebrate the defeat of the Guardian, Lord British invites the Avatar and his companions to his castle. However, in the night of the feast the Guardian attacks again, encasing the castle in a giant gem of blackrock. Deep in the sewers of the castle, another blackrock gem is found, created as an aftereffect of the attack. This gem is a teleporter to other worlds controlled by the Guardian. Now you, the Avatar, must travel to these worlds in order to free the castle from the Guardian’s spell.

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (1992)

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Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss

ORIGIN Systems, Inc.

You are the Avatar. Once again you return to Britannia. Upon your arrival, you witness the kidnapping of Baron Almric’s daughter. Found guilty of the crime, you are thrown into the Great Stygian Abyss with the choice of either finding the girl or rotting in the dungeon. On your journey you have to get along with the many inhabitants of the dungeon, who are survivors of a failed colony, and eventually find out that there’s much more to this kidnapping than meets the eye.

Ultimate Yahtzee (1996)

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Ultimate Yahtzee

Hasbro Interactive, Inc.

A computer adaptation of the classic dice game Yahtzee. Players take turns throwing five dice and attempting to make scoring combinations (full house, straight). The elusive five of a kind is referred to as a Yahtzee (hence the game’s name).

In addition to the standard game (solo, against the computer, and against other human players), Ultimate Yahtzee has four other variations including Battle Yahtzee (your roll can hurt the other player’s roll) and Pyramid Yahtzee (uses four sided dice).

Wolfenstein 3D (1992)

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Wolfenstein 3D

Apogee Software, Ltd.

Inspired by the top-down infiltration game Castle Wolfenstein, this groundbreaking episodic FPS puts the player in the boots of B.J. Blazkowicz, allied spy. There are six episodes (the first distributed complete as shareware), the second and the third available after registration and the three final missions (which happen before the events of the first episode) available in the “Nocturnal Missions” pack. However, they don’t need to be played in sequence to be enjoyed!

Star Wars: Pit Droids (1999)

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Star Wars: Pit Droids

Lucas Learning Ltd.

Watto has purchased a new shipment of Pit Droids, and it is up to you to get them to the Pod Racing arena, by guiding the droids through 300 puzzels of road blocks, spinning tiles of death and junk heaps. You can also create your own puzzels for the droids to get caught up in, and trade them online with other gamers.

Star Wars: Rebel Assault II – The Hidden Empire (1993)

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Star Wars: Rebel Assault II – The Hidden Empire

LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC

Following his successes for the Rebel Alliance in the previous game, the adventures of the starfighter pilot “Rookie One” continue. While out scouting in the Dreighton Nebula, Rookie One’s patrols receive a distress call from a freighter. As this is an area where ships are known to disappear, any deviation from the flight path is dangerous. But what they find is an Imperial presence where there shouldn’t be one… and a new secret project to bring about the destruction of the Rebel Alliance.

Star Wars: DroidWorks (1998)

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Star Wars: DroidWorks

Lucas Learning Ltd.

Learn about physics and simple machines as you build your own Star Wars droids. Once you have selected various parts to put together in the droid, you pilot it through many different missions in a 3d environment. The beginning training missions teach you about the concepts. Once you get to the final mission, you’ll be navigating your droid to find the Empire’s Assassin Droid Factory so you can reprogram them to save the Alliance.

Star Wars: Rebel Assault (1993)

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Star Wars: Rebel Assault

Softgold Computerspiele GmbH

You play a Rebel space cadet and have various missions to complete: Flying starships, destroying Walkers, infiltrating an enemy base etc. All viewpoints and gameplay is through the use of motion video backdrops.

Rayman 2: The Great Escape (1999)

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Rayman 2: The Great Escape

Ubi Soft Entertainment Software

A gang of pirates have invaded Rayman’s world to seize its unique creatures and sell them to an intergalactic circus. Our mighty hero, Rayman, has been captured and stripped of his powers. He flees captivity and embarks on a dangerous mission to return to his conquered world where he must liberate all of his imprisoned friends from the pirates.

Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (2000)

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Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed

Electronic Arts, Inc.

Need for Speed is back with more! Drive over 80 different Porsches, from the first 356 Ferdinand to the 2000 911 Turbo over multiple tracks. Some tracks have alternate paths. Others are rally tracks where you go from one end of the track to the other instead of doing circuit racing.