Face off with "The Great One", number "99", Wayne Gretzky, nine-time winner of the NHL's MVP award and all-time hockey great. Designed with Wayne and other hockey professionals, this riveting simulation is packed with all the excitement and hard-hitting action that could be squeezed into a computer. From the adrenaline rush of a breakaway goal to the tension of sudden death overtime, Wayne Gretzky Hockey takes you onto the ice for the ultimate test of skill.
In this Infocom interactive adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun novel, you play John Blackthorne, pilot-major of the Dutch trading ship Erasmus, shipwrecked in Japan and struggling to survive in a foreign society.
Savage is an action video game developed by Probe Software and published by Firebird Software in 1988 for ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and MS-DOS. In 1989 Firebird published a version for the Amiga.
Red Storm Rising is a simulation video game based on Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising and released in 1988 by MicroProse. The player is put in charge of an American SSN submarine in the Norwegian Sea Theater with the overall role of a hunter killer performing various missions in the context of the global conflict described in the book representing a campaign. Its original Commodore 64 version was co-designed and co-programmed by the legendary game designer Sid Meier.
The President and nine other world leaders have been kidnapped. You must search through clues inside a simulated government database to find them and the reasons behind their abduction.
The Powerdrome racing series is now into its 24th year of high-speed high-octane action. Why race on flat 2D circuits when you can charge through a multi-textured half-pipe in small aircraft? Typhoon Racing have taken up the challenge, and entered you in their machine.
There are 6 different circuits, with hazards including chicanes, tunnels and crusher gates. Shading to the sections marks out whether a corner or dive is coming up. There are 5 computer opponents to race against in one player mode, while a data link cable allows 2-player games.
Each planet has its own atmosphere, and your machine's filters will need to be set to take account of this. Rain on some circuits necessitates a pitstop for a changeover. You are armed with afterburners, which can provide a speed use in open air but should not be overused. The Amiga version allows you to adjust the sensitivity of the controls - either way, joystick is easier to use but mouse is seen as ultimately being faster.
Peter Beardsley's International Football is a football video game developed in 1988 by Grandslam and endorsed by Peter Beardsley.
Players select an international team to play as, and can choose to play against the computer in a one player league format, or two players in a two player league format. They can then select the other teams in each group.
The generation ship Pandora has been set to infect the Earth with a nasty spore of deadly flowers. You have to stop this ship with the help of all the people on board that are still alive. The only person that can stop the ship is you. When you arrive, you have to get ID from the entry officer, or else you get frazzled by a roof lazer. The time limit to destroy this ship before it begins infesting the Earth with spores is 999 seconds.
The game consists of two different soccer simulations, you can carry out a match in the stadium or indoors. The field is always shown from the top and scrolled softly into all directions.
Different game modes make for diversity. Up to 15 players can enter their names and then compete with each other in a league. One can also take part in a World Cup, whereby the venue corresponds to the one of a real World Cup. The computer takes over the controls of as many teams as needed. A two-player friendly can be played head to head.
The game offers features as "banana kick", "action replay" and weather.
The original was developed by Sensible Software for the C64, Electronic Pencil Company were responsible for the Amiga and Atari ST versions.
You are a slave on a sugar plantation and you decide to incite a revolt against your masters. Will you gain your freedom?
The game combines fighting, strategy, adventure and even some RPG elements.
Dogs of War sets you as a freelance mercenary soldier available to take on a range of missions. These include rescuing kidnapped children, preventing terrorists from overthrowing a Government, and retrieving stolen oil paintings. The amount of money on offer for each mission depends on its difficulty.