Arcade rail-shooter game that used a Light Gun. Dredd must save the mayor, who is being held hostage by a former judge. Live-action cutscenes were played at the conclusion to each stage. Completing the game unlocked the final cutscene where Dredd resolves the crisis.
The Sword of Ares is a 1998 unlicensed total conversion for Quake.
The game adds several features not available in vanilla Quakes, such as the ability to switch to a third-person view (which may be a bit buggy) and several selectable player skins.
The Sword of Ares was made of free content but was distributed as shareware. It appears that the registered version (as a separate PAK file) was eventually made available by the author as a free download too, as it can be found on PlanetQuake mirrors alongside the shareware release. It is an unofficial commercial total conversion, whether it was licensed by id Software is unclear.
The game retailed at $9.99 on their official website.
Nanosaur is a third-person action game. The player must find each of the five types of eggs and bring them to time portals. The location of the nearest time portal is always indicated by an onscreen "temporal compass" arrow. The Nanosaur can fly with his jetpack, but the amount of fuel is limited. Pickups with ammunition, health refills, and energy shields can be found strewn about, and fuel can be recharged by standing near gas fissures.
For his defense against the wild dino populace, the Nanosaur is equipped with a "fusion blaster" weapon which has numerous attack modes, each using a different type of ammunition. Apart from the dinosaurs, the player must also watch out for other threats such as lava, rolling boulders, or spore shooting fungi.
The sequel to the original Sega Saturn system seller (in Japan at least) becomes one of the Saturn's last great hurrahs. Head back to early 1900's Tokyo as Oogami Ichirou, a naval commander who's now become the last line of defense against the demons that stalk the capital. The all-female cast from the original returns in full, joined by two additional members. The grid-based strategy battles from the original are improved with better spell attacks and cleaner graphics, while the "LIPS" interactive conversation sequences feature better production values, color depth and a few additional twists on interactivity.
Men in Black: The Game is an officially licensed game based on the 1997 film Men in Black. The plot is unrelated and it is a survival horror game as opposed to being a comedy.
Morita Shogi 64 is a Japanese virtual board game for the Nintendo 64. It was released only in Japan in 1998. It is the sequel to Saikyō Habu Shōgi, a launch game for the Nintendo 64. The cartridge has a built-in RJ-42 Modem Connection port with which players were able to connect to (now defunct) servers to play against other players all around Japan.
Carol The Dark Angel is an interactive comic book PlayStation game designed by Syufo Itahashi that takes place in Grillet City in the year 2018 where a boy that is a drug seller get involved into a war between the god hero called the Dark Angel and an evil cult. The first time that the boy and the Dark Angel meet is on a dark alley when he find 2 corpses and after that they meet again after the boy go out of the police station and get involved in a battle between the Dark Angel and a robot bug sent by the evil cult.
The gameplay is an interactive comic book in which the player can only see the next scene or the previous one, the game allows to use an autoplay mode and allow save anytime. The game features some interesting moving effects during the different scenes.
Shura No Mon (Shura's Gate) is a fighting game released for the Sony Playstation in 1998.
It was developed and published by Kodansha, based on the manga of the same name by Masatoshi Kawahara, which was also published by Kodansha on their monthly shonen magazine from 1987 until 1996.
Sotsugyou III: Wedding Bell is the third game in the Sotsugyou graduation series. The game is a dating simulation first person adventure game. You're a married teacher (to a former student) and you hand out assignments to students, go on dates with your wife, manage schedules, etc. At the beginning of the game the player can choose between one of the five characters he wants to be married to.
A role-playing spinoff to the TwinBee shoot-em-up series in which a new protagonist is summoned to Donburi Island to serve as a temporary pilot for TwinBee following the mysterious disappearance of TwinBee's regular pilot Light.
Angelique Tenkuu no Requiem is the first Neoromance role-playing game. Canonically this game is the direct sequel to Angelique Special 2 and Angelique Maren no Rokukishi.
Ruby Party members later commented that its conception began when written questionnaires indicated a high demand for a Koei role-playing game, a genre which experienced a boost in popularity due to titles such as Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy VII. Since Team-Infinite was simultaneously developing a game for male appeal, Ruby Party was given the inquiry for an Angelique adaptation targeting the female side.
The Premium Box edition includes a fully colored leather-bound manual. Consumers who purchased this title during Koei's 1999 double campaign obtained an original clear file.
Enigma is a 1998 Japanese video game for the Sony PlayStation. It was developed by Omega Force and published by Koei. It is a third person adventure title that includes elements from fighting games which draws influence from Resident Evil.
"Advanced Daisenryaku 98" is a strategy simulation game set in World War II.
Basically, it follows the orthodox simulation game system of hex system and turn base. The system follows the consumer version, but the rules and thinking routines have all been redesigned, and the number of weapons, specs, parameters, and placement have all been refined to make it even more advanced.
Toshinden Card Quest is a Japanese board game based on the fighter games series in which the player will have to try to collect 300+ cards to fill your album. The gameplay is the classic 3d board game and there are different characters of the series to choose and play with.
The game features these games modes: Story mode, freeplay mode, card battle mode, card album mode & trading mode. The game features 8 different characters (taken from the Toshinden fighter series) for the player to choose.
The game uses a 3D graphics engine for the board and the battle parts and 2d graphics for the encounters with other characters around the board. The gameplay is about go around the board getting new powers and cards to defeat the enemy (each player got an energy bar).