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Video Cube: Space
1994
Video Cube: Space
1994
This is a form of jigsaw. The player is presented with a square representing one side of a cube. This square is broken into elements (smaller squares) each of which is one face of a smaller cube. The object is to rotate all the elements until they form a picture, at which point the still picture becomes a short animated/video clip, and to repeat the process for all six sides of the video cube. Completing all six sides completes a level in the game, there are eighteen levels and they are timed – run out of time and it’s game over.Super Qube Hopper
1994
Super Qube Hopper
1994
Super Qube Hopper is a single player, shareware, Q*bert style game in which the player has to bounce Qubey around the screen changing all the blocks to a target colour. Naturally there are baddies trying to stop Qubey in his quest and contact with these will cost a life, the player has two lives in the shareware version of the game but in the registered version they have four lives and gain another life for every five thousand points scored. The game is mouse or joystick controlled, has sound and voice effects and a high score table. It occupies a fixed sized window on-screen within which the game plays. The game also comes with a level construction set.Jigsaw Puzzle
1994
Shariki
1994
Shariki
1994
Shariki (Russian: Balloons) is the original match three game. It was developed by Russian programmer Eugene Alemzhinym for DOS in 1994. The goal of the game is to gain progressively higher scores by matching three or more balls of the same color in a line (vertical or horizontal), by swapping adjacent balls. Each swap must result in a match. Matched balls are then removed, and new ones drop from the top to fill the gaps. The game is over when no more matches are possible in the game field.Puyo Puyo Tsuu
1994
Puyo Puyo Tsuu
1994
The object of this head-to-head puzzle game is to clear your grid of falling patterns, called puyos, by forming chains of four or more same-colored puyos in a straight line or one of several geometric patterns. What makes this a challenging two-player contest is the fact that when you clear a chain of puyos from your grid, it drops a random piece of filler onto your opponent’s grid. The more puyos you clear, the more you fill your opponent’s grid, and if you can clutter up his grid enough to fill it to the top, you’ve won the game. An intriguing backstory makes this an amusing experience for one or two players.Man Overboard!
1994
Man Overboard!
1994
S.S. Lucifer: Man Overboard! is a platform game released for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear in 1994. Originally developed by Zeppelin Games for the Commodore Amiga, it was ported to Sega's consoles by Odysseus Software and published by Codemasters. Non-Sega versions of the game are called Sink or Swim, and the working title for the Sega versions was simply Man Overboard!. The game has you play as Kevin Codner, rescue mariner extraordinaire tasked with saving passengers from the S.S. Lucifer. Similar to Lemmings, this requires guiding the passengers to an exit by interacting with the environment. If the player takes too long the room will be flooded. Neither the Mega Drive or Game Gear versions of S.S. Lucifer: Man Overboard! were released in North America or Japan. They remained exclusives for Europe and Australia.Yoshi no Cookie: Kuruppon Oven de Cookie
1994
Yoshi no Cookie: Kuruppon Oven de Cookie is a cuisine focused re-release of the original Yoshi's Cookie, exclusively for the Super Famicom. While the gameplay is identical, the game also adds cooking advice and recipes concerning the Kuruppon Oven from Panasonic. Only 500 copies were released in Japan, and the game was not available in other territories. It currently fetches a very high price on the Japanese retro game market.Stargate
1994
Stargate
1994
star 4.3Based on the movie of the same name, a mystical circular portal called a "Stargate" has been uncovered. In attempting to unlock its secrets, its power is unlocked creating a passageway to a different world named Abydos. A special forces team is sent to the new world to investigate but is soon ambushed and its supplies taken including a powerful nuclear bomb. As Colonel O'Neil, a variety of objectives must be met starting with the recovery of supplies and the finding of other teammates, including civilian archaeologist Daniel Jackson. Once regrouped, O'Neil must lead the attack on the god, Ra and escape back to Earth before the power of the nuclear bomb can be unleashed on this new world. The game is a side-scroller platform adventure. The player controls O'Neil on a variety of objectives and is armed with a rifle weapon and grenades. Embarking through desert, caverns and nomad towns... eventually to the palace of Ra.Laser Light
1994
Laser Light
1994
Laser Light is a game that challenges and teases your mind. Bending lightbeams to hit the target may sound easier said than done. You must plant your tools in the correct locations to score the highest points. But watch out for the obstacles! Some may have catastrophic results. Don't forget to keep an eye on the time counter, you're only given a specific amount of time before the laser automatically fires.10 out of 10: German
1994
Gulp!
1994
Gridders
1994
Gridders
1994
The player is cast as a boy named Zack, who's only goal is to reach the basement of an evil corporation in order to destroy it, but first he has to get through 36 levels of death in order to reach it.Tetris
1994
Tetris
1994
A remaster of Nintendo's Tetris released in the Tetris & Dr. Mario bundle. The game was later released standalone once on the Nintendo Gateway System.Bomberman Panic Bomber
1994
It is a "falling blocks" puzzle game based on the Bomberman franchise. The goal of the game is essentially to cause your opponent to lose by causing their gameplay field to fill to the top with objects. You do this by causing chains of bombs to explode, sending useless rubble over to your opponent's field, which they must then remove themselves. Bombs are earned by causing chains of three identical blocks to disappear. Bombs can only be blown up with an explosion from a lit bomb, which falls from the top of the screen every so often. If the player causes enough damage, they can eventually earn a giant bomb, which will remove a large amount of debris from the playing field, and cause their opponent a good deal of trouble. The game's regular story mode revolves around Bomberman's hunt for the Golden Bomber statue. During his trek, he fights against several different odd characters, like Drifty the balloon, or Cecil the tiger. However, all that can really be earned from playing through this mode is a harder difficultPuyo Puyo Tsuu
1994
Dossun! Ganseki Battle
1994
A falling block puzzle game in a pseudo-medieval fantasy setting that pits two characters against each other in an abstract form of combat that is quite similar to games like Columns. Combining at least three matching symbols in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line does not only clear them off the screen, but also deals damage to an opponent. This means that players do not only have to keep their game area clear, but also pay attention to their characters health bar. Once a block touches the top of the screen or the health bar is diminished the game ends. There are four different icons that have different effects when combined: Books, swords and rocks deal damage to an opponent by attacking with fireballs, dragons or swords. Bottles heal a certain amount of health. Purple blocks have no effect, but clog up the screen nonetheless. Chain reactions result in particularly powerful attacks or place one or more grey blocks inside the opponents area. They can be destroyed just like ordinary blocks, but they always stSuper Tetris 3
1994
Super Tetris 3
1994
Super Tetris 3 is yet another version of the famous soviet puzzle game. However, despite what the title may suggest, contained within are actually four different versions of Tetris: Tetris Classic, Familiss, Sparkliss, and Magicaliss. Tetris Classic, of course, is the basic version of the game, which comes with an endless mode and a 25-line "standard" mode. Familiss, as the name might suggest, is a family mode for up to four players simultaneously. Sparkliss, meanwhile, is very similar to Bombliss from Super Tetris 2, only with a medieval fantasy theme and different explosion patterns. Sparkliss includes both a stage mode and a puzzle mode. The most unique mode is Magicaliss, which has never shown up on any other version of Tetris. In Magicaliss, pieces come in three basic colors, and by rotating the piece, the player can choose between them. Creating a line entirely out of one color will clear all blocks on the screen of that color. There are also grey pieces, which can only be cleared by creating a line made entPac-Attack
1994
