As Interplay's first PlayStation football game under the VR Sports label, Jimmy Johnson's VR Football '98 offers both NFL and NFLPA licenses for real teams and players. Choose from 30 NFL teams with rosters reflecting the 1997 season, five of the greatest teams from the '70s, five from the '80s, five from the '60s, or five All-Pro Teams from 1996 and 1997.
You can also create up to four preseason teams (plus one season team) and stock them with up to forty created players! The game features a Practice Mode, Preseason (which is an exhibition game), New Season and a Play Editor, allowing you to create your own offensive plays and save them to memory card (up to 24 plays can be saved for each block of space).
Season progress can be resumed through passwords or via memory card, which offers you a choice between a regular or advanced memory card season. Regular means you can trade and create players, but the trades will be automatic and the created players always appear on your team. The advanced option lets you p
General Storm and his militia are out to take over the world, and it's up to you to stop them.
Luckily, you are armed with a battalion of tank prototypes. While there are only three different types to choose from at the beginning, the number of choices will grow to 12 as more tanks are discovered throughout the game.
There has been a racing game for just about every vehicle - automobile, motorcycle, jet-ski, airplane, you name it. Now, Rapid Racer (Turbo Prop Racing in the United States) lets race speedboats.
The game offers several boats to choose from, and by winning races you can customize your speed, handling and acceleration. The game features six unique tracks filled with twists and turns. Each track is playable in three different modes: day, night and mirror.
There are also plenty of secrets to unlock. As you win races, new tracks and boats will appear, as well as a special fractal racing mode that generates random tracks. The time trial mode lets you race against a "ghost" boat, and you can save your best times to a memory card.
Zero 5 is a futuristic space shooter set in a 3-D, 360 degree playfield. The year is 2044 and the battle for Earth has begun. On the far reaches of the galaxy, a massive invasion force is assembling. Scanners at DEFCON have alerted you to the alien threat. The Earth's best pilots are dispatched in their BAMBAM cruisers to engage the enemy.
A 1997 arcade game developed by Taito (now SquareEnix) subsequently ported to PlayStation and Game Boy Color.
The arcade version was re-released in 2006 as part of Taito Legends 2 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. Later the game was released on the PlayStation Network.
The general objective of the game is to destroy gem-like blocks using a ball and paddle.
Byzantine: The Betrayal is a first-person adventure game in which the player takes the role of an American journalist, summoned to the city of Istanbul by an old college friend with the promise of a once in a lifetime story. By the time the player arrives police are already on the scene, his old friend, Emre, has run away. Players must use their investigative skills in order to uncover the secret he struggled, but failed, to reveal. Failure could mean death.
The game plays in a typical first-person adventure fashion, providing 360º of freedom of movement around the player, as well as the ability to look up and down. Locations are presented as static images and talking is handled similar to that in the Tex Murphy series, with live cast and photo realistic surroundings. The game incorporates details of Turkey's history, as well as that of Southeastern Europe and so the player will have to make use of an abnormal piece of technology to investigate through the past and save yourself in the present, uncovering the sec
Tamagotchi is the name of a Game Boy game released in October 1997, also known as Game de Hakken!! Tamagotchi in Japan. It is very much like the original Tamagotchi, but with additional features such as music, contests, and more games.
Shipwreckers is a third-person arcade-style shooter where you sail around in a pirate ship battling other pirate vessels and destroying the gun turrets and flamethrowers that are defending ports in an attempt to spread your swashbuckling reign of terror. Reward treasures and increasingly more potent weapons keep the pacing alive in this near top-down 3D action game. Shipwreckers supports solo play, head to head, and multi-person battles.
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero is a story-driven fighting game that casts you in the shoes of Sub-Zero, and chronicles a series of events that occurred prior to Mortal Kombat 1. It is the first Mortal Kombat game to feature side-scrolling gameplay.
Gameplay wise the game takes the Mortal Kombat familiar 2D fighting environment and turns it into a hybrid fighter/platformer game, where you must travel trough hazardous levels running and jumping around as well as fighting your way against both digitized and polygonal enemies. Sub-Zero's interface is the same as in every MK game, with the addition of a "use" and "turn around" buttons and additions such as an inventory, and a slight RPG twist in which you get exp. for defeating opponents, which translates into new techniques and moves to execute in the game.
Donkey Kong Land III is the last part in the Donkey Kong Land series and was released for the Game Boy by Nintendo in 1997.
Fame-and-fortune seekers have flooded Donkey Kong Country in search of the fabled Lost World. Dixie Kong & Kiddy Kong rush through 36 Kong-sized levels of action and adventure. Use your animal friends - Squitter the spider, Squawks the parrot, Ellie the elephant, Enguarde the swordfish and Parry the parallel bird - to help you prove your adventuring skills and find the Lost World before someone else does!
Fat Boy Raids The Cookie Factory is a retro-style game where players guide a cookie-craving character named Fat Boy through a series of challenging levels inside a cookie factory. The goal is to collect as many treats as possible while dodging factory guards and obstacles. With simple controls, the game combines arcade action with puzzle-solving.
Scud Race Plus (スカッドレース プラス) is an expanded version of Scud Race, released in 1997 for Sega's Model 3 arcade hardware. This rare and unusual update was exclusive to Japan, though the game's region can be changed. When switched to the US region, it transforms into Sega Super GT Plus. On March 31, 2017, Sega Logistics Service officially ended support for Scud Race Plus machines.
Scud Race Plus is largely identical to the original Scud Race but includes a few additional features:
New track: Super Beginner
Mirror course: Hold the START button on the track select screen.
Time Lap mode: Hold the START button on the transmission select screen.
Extra cars: Available only in Super Beginner mode by holding the START button while selecting a car.
The Mothra Tamagotchi is a licensed vintage Tamagotchi that was released in Japan in December 1997 during the release of the movie Rebirth of Mothra II.
On the Tamagotchi Planet, floating in the sky is the Tenshitchi Capital, home of the Angels, the spirits of Tamagotchi characters that have died. Angels water the clouds to provide rain across the Planet, grow their angelic powers through prayer, and help and guide the living Tamagotchi in small ways. On the Tamagotchi Angel, many Angels returned to The Earth to spend more time with their human caretakers, and to thank them for letting them live good lives. However, they cannot be away from the Tenshitchi Capital for very long, and must eventually return. The user is tasked with raising their Angel, training them to do good deeds while keeping them from becoming the evil Deviltchi.
Wacek and Andzia, a pair of school friends, are told by an old Professor that a flying saucer crashed somewhere on Earth. Poor little alien didn't make it on a sharp interstellar turn... The player guides the two kids trying to find him and help him out.