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1,500 | Beverly Hills Cop is a video game developed by Tynesoft and published in 1990. The story is loosely based on the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop. The player controls Axel Foley in four distinct sub-games: a side-scrolling action game, a driving game, an overhead view shooter, and a first person shooter | Beverly Hills Cop (1990 video game) |
1,501 | Bigfoot is a racing video game released in July 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed by Beam Software and published by Acclaim. The game was advertised by the legendary monster truck of the same name in the cartoon segment of the 1990 television show, Video Power, titled The Power Team | Bigfoot (video game) |
1,502 | Bimini Run is a third-person shooter video game for the Sega Genesis. It was developed by Microsmiths and published by Nuvision Entertainment in 1990. Bimini Run allows two player to traverse a wide scrolling environment on objective based missions | Bimini Run |
1,503 | Bio-ship Paladin, known in Japan as Space Battleship Gomora (宇宙戦艦ゴモラ, Uchū Senkan Gomora), is a 1990 horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by UPL and distributed by Sammy Corporation for North American manufacture. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive. While the game is essentially a standard horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, it has an innovation that makes it unique in the genre | Bio-ship Paladin |
1,504 | La Secte Noire (English: The Black Sect) is a classic French adventure game developed and published by Lankhor. It was originally released in 1990 for the Amstrad CPC platform, and later reimagined and re-released as Black Sect in 1993 for various platforms, including DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST.
Gameplay
In La Secte Noire, players take on the role of a protagonist who embarks on a mission to infiltrate a mysterious sect's premises and recover a stolen grimoire (book of spells) | Black Sect |
1,505 | Blood Bros. is a 1990 arcade game developed and published by TAD Corporation in Japan and Europe, and later published in North America by Fabtek. It is a spiritual sequel to the 1988 game Cabal, with almost identical mechanics | Blood Bros. |
1,506 | Blue Max: Aces of the Great War is a 1990 video game published by Three-Sixty Pacific.
Gameplay
Blue Max: Aces of the Great War is a game in which a flight game involves World War I aerial combat.
Reception
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1,507 | Blue's Journey is a side-scrolling platform game released by Alpha Denshi in 1990 on SNK's Neo Geo MVS arcade system and their AES home system. It was ported to the Neo Geo CD in 1994. It was rereleased on the Wii's Virtual Console in Europe on November 9, 2007, followed by North America on November 12, 2007 | Blue's Journey |
1,508 | Bomberman is an action-maze video game originally developed and published by Hudson Soft for the PC Engine in Japan on 7 December 1990 and later in North America for the TurboGrafx-16 by NEC in 1991. Belonging to the Bomberman franchise, it is a re-imagining of the first game in the series starring White Bomberman on a quest to rescue Lisa, the kidnapped daughter of his inventor Dr. Mitsumori, from the castle of Black Bomberman while defeating evil monsters and villains that work for him | Bomberman (1990 video game) |
1,509 | Bonanza Bros. (sometimes written Bonanza Brothers) is a 3D-style, 2D side-scrolling stealth action game developed and released by Sega in 1990. It is one of the earliest arcade games powered by the Sega System 24 arcade system board | Bonanza Bros. |
1,510 | Borench (ボレンチ, Borenchi) is a 1990 arcade puzzle video game developed and published by Sega.
Gameplay
Borench is played in an isometric perspective, and the player's goal is to roll a ball downwards towards a goal, as the screen scrolls up. If the ball reaches the top of the screen, the game ends | Borench |
1,511 | Boxing (ボクシング) (known in North America as Heavyweight Championship Boxing) is a boxing video game, developed by Tose and published by Tonkin House which was released in 1990.
Once the player chooses a boxer, the other challengers must be defeated in order to gain the title. Points can be distributed and re-distributed on the fighter's health meter, stamina, and how fast he moves around in the ring | Boxing (1990 video game) |
1,512 | Boxyboy, Sōkoban World in Japan, is a puzzle video game released for the Turbografx-16 home video game console, published by NEC in 1990. This game is an adaptation of Sokoban, released on several home computers in the United States and Japan in the 1980s, including the NEC PC-8801 and IBM-PC and compatibles. In this game, the player must push crates or boxes around a warehouse, trying to get them to the proper storage location | Boxyboy |
1,513 | Breach 2 is a science fiction strategy video game developed by Omnitrend Software in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Breach, and was itself followed by Breach 3 in 1995. The game is set in the universe of Omnitrend's Universe and Rules of Engagement, and is compatible with both Rules of Engagement games | Breach 2 |
1,514 | BSS Jane Seymour: Federation Quest 1 is a 1990 science fiction role-playing video game published by Gremlin Graphics for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. For the North American release and DOS release in Europe, the game was co-published by Gremlin and Konami, and renamed to Spacewrecked: 14 Billion Light Years from Earth.
Plot
Federation has dispatched the player to salvage the derelict Biological Survey Ship (BSS) Jane Seymour | BSS Jane Seymour |
1,515 | Bubble Dizzy is an arcade style action video game developed by the Oliver Twins and published in November 1990 by Codemasters for the Amstrad, Spectrum, MS-DOS, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Amiga.
Gameplay
The game involves Dizzy being forced to walk the plank of a pirate ship and from the sea bed use bubbles to float back to the surface and dry land. Like Dizzy Down the Rapids, this game derived from a mini-game found in The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy | Bubble Dizzy |
1,516 | Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday is a role-playing video game set in the Buck Rogers XXVC universe. It was published in 1990 by Strategic Simulations for MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and Amiga. A Sega Genesis version was released in 1991 | Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday |
1,517 | The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, known in Japan and on the title screen as Happy Birthday Bugs (ハッピーバースディ・バッグス) and in Europe as The Bugs Bunny Blowout, is a platform video game developed and published by Kemco for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990.
Plot
It is Bugs Bunny's 50th birthday anniversary. However, his friends, who were not invited, feel envious and decide to prevent Bugs from getting to his birthday party | The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout |
1,518 | Burai Fighter is a shoot 'em up video game developed by KID for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was released in North America by Taxan in March 1990, Europe by Nintendo and Australia by Mattel in 1990, and Japan by Taito on July 20, 1990. The game was also ported to the Game Boy and retitled as Burai Fighter Deluxe, and was released in Japan on June 27, 1990, in North America in January 1991 and in Europe in 1991; this port eventually wound up on the Game Boy Color as Space Marauder, originally released in Japan as Burai Fighter Color, as the original Game Boy version is not compatible with the later models | Burai Fighter |
1,519 | Burning Angels (バーニングエンジェル) is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Naxat Soft for the PC Engine in 1990 only in Japan.
Gameplay
Gameplay consists of 7 stages, and the game allows for simultaneous co-op play. The game also allows for horizontal or vertical screen view | Burning Angels |
1,520 | Cadaver is an isometric action-adventure game by the Bitmap Brothers, originally released by Image Works in August 1990, for Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS. A Mega Drive version was planned but never released. In the game the player controls Karadoc the dwarf | Cadaver (video game) |
1,521 | California Games II is a sports video game released by Epyx for MS-DOS in 1990. Versions were published for the Amiga, Atari ST, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, then the Master System in 1993. This game is a sequel to California Games | California Games II |
1,522 | The California Raisins: The Grape Escape is a California Raisins video game developed by Radiance for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Capcom planned to publish the game in 1990 but its release was canceled due to the California Raisins' dwindling popularity because of the decline in raisin sales in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Gameplay
In the single-player side-scrolling action game the player controls a California Raisin through five stages in an effort to rescue the band and their band's musical notes that were stolen by the gang of jealous musicians | The California Raisins: The Grape Escape |
1,523 | Captain Comic II: Fractured Reality is the 1990 sequel to the 1988 MS-DOS platform game The Adventures of Captain Comic. The game was created by the same author as the original, Michael Denio, working at Color Dreams, and was published by ComputerEasy. The game adds a save/continue feature, four-way scrolling, and new movement types (e | Captain Comic II: Fractured Reality |
1,524 | Captain Skyhawk is a scrolling shooter video game developed by Rare and published by Milton Bradley Company. The game was released in North America in June 1990 and in Europe the next year for the NES. It was also released for the PlayChoice-10 arcade machine | Captain Skyhawk |
1,525 | Captain Tsubasa Volume II: Super Striker (キャプテン翼（つばさ） II スーパーストライカー, Kyaputen Tsubasa II: Sūpā Sutoraikā) is a continuation of the "Cinematic Soccer" series of games that started on the Famicom. Released in 1990 by Tecmo, this game is similar to its predecessor but with some slight graphical improvements. It was the last Tsubasa game to be released on the Family Computer, since the series transitioned to the Super Famicom two years later | Captain Tsubasa Vol. II: Super Striker |
1,526 | Captive is a science fiction role-playing video game released by Mindscape in 1990. In the style of Dungeon Master, it uses pseudo-3D realtime graphics from a first-person perspective. It was released for Amiga, Atari ST, and, in 1992, MS-DOS | Captive (video game) |
1,527 | Carlos Sainz: World Rally Championship is a 1990 racing video game co-developed by the Spanish companies Zigurat Software (previously known as Made in Spain) and Arcadia Software, and published by Zigurat for Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum. Featuring Spanish rally driver Carlos Sainz and themed around rallying, the game pit players with races across various locations to qualify for the next couse in the World Rally Championship and modify characteristics of the Toyota Celica to accommodate each courses.
Carlos Sainz: World Rally Championship was created in conjunction with Sito Pons 500cc Grand Prix by most of the same team at Zigurat who worked on licensed sports titles such as Paris-Dakar (1988) and Emilio Sanchez Vicario Grand Slam with co-developer Arcadia, serving as their final release prior to abandoning the video game industry | Carlos Sainz: World Rally Championship |
1,528 | Carrier Air Wing, released in Japan as U. S. Navy (ユー・エス・ネイビー, Yū Esu Neibī), is a 1990 side-scrolling shooting game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom | Carrier Air Wing (video game) |
1,529 | CarVup is a platform game published by Core Design in 1990. The game, which is based on City Connection, was available for the Amiga and Atari ST.
Gameplay
The gameplay involves controlling a cartoon-like car called Arnie, jumping from platform to platform and avoiding enemies | CarVup |
1,530 | Castle Master is a 1990 video game by developer Teque Software Development and published by Incentive Software. It was released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC. A compilation was released also in 1990 that contained the original and the sequel, Castle Master II: The Crypt | Castle Master |
1,531 | Castle of Deceit is a side-scrolling platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1990 by Bunch Games. The player takes control of a wizard trapped in a castle with only one spell to defend himself.
Gameplay
Plot
Phfax, a mystic being, and wielder of the Emerald Magic, consented to offer his life to protect the stones of Rune | Castle of Deceit |
1,532 | Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is a 1990 platform game developed by Sega and released for the Mega Drive/Genesis. An 8-bit version of the game was later released for the Master System and Game Gear. The game follows Mickey Mouse on a quest to save Minnie Mouse from the evil witch Mizrabel | Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse |
1,533 | Catacomb is a 2-D top-down third-person shooter created, developed, and published by Softdisk. It was originally created for the Apple II, and later ported to the PC. It should not be confused with The Catacomb, which is the second game in the series (originally named Catacomb II, but later renamed) | Catacomb (video game) |
1,534 | Centurion: Defender of Rome is a turn-based strategy video game with real-time battle sequences, designed by Kellyn Beck and Bits of Magic and published by Electronic Arts. Originally released for MS-DOS in 1990, the game was later ported to the Amiga and the Sega Genesis in 1991. Centurion shares much of the concept and feel with Beck's earlier game Defender of the Crown (1987) | Centurion: Defender of Rome |
1,535 | Challenge of the Ancient Empires!, also known as Ancient Empires is an educational computer game created by The Learning Company in 1990 for both MS-DOS and Macintosh. It is designed to improve history, logic, and problem solving skills in children ages 7 to 10 (or 10 and up, according to the box art seen to the right).
Challenge of the Ancient Empires! is an adventure game whose objective is to obtain the artifacts hidden in each of the four regions | Challenge of the Ancient Empires! |
1,536 | Challenge of the Dragon is an unlicensed game developed and published by Color Dreams in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Plot
Times were once serene in the lush lands of Lorin, long before technology and evil. The evil necromancer Demiwind has appeared | Challenge of the Dragon |
1,537 | Champions of Krynn is role-playing video game, the first in a three-part series of Dragonlance Advanced Dungeons & Dragons "Gold Box" games. The game was released in 1990. The highest graphics setting supported in the DOS version was EGA graphics | Champions of Krynn |
1,538 | Chess Champion 2175 (known in North America as Checkmate) is a 1990 chess video game developed and published by Oxford Softworks. It was published in North America by Interplay Entertainment. The game is a successor to Chess Player 2150 | Chess Champion 2175 |
1,539 | Chess Simulator is a 1990 chess video game developed by Oxfordshire-based Oxford Softworks and published by Infogrames for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. Oxford Softworks' previous chess program, Chess Champion 2175, was released only a few months before Chess Simulator. Chess Simulator is part of Infogrames' Simulator series, which includes Dames Simulator, Bridge Simulator, Billiards Simulator, and an unreleased Pinballs Simulator | Chess Simulator |
1,540 | Chew Man Fu is a 1990 action video game developed by Now Production and published in Japan by Hudson Soft and in North America by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16.
Chew Man Fu was created by Now Production, an Osaka-based game development company founded in 1986 by Toshiaki Awamura, who would later work on future projects such as Adventure Island II and Rolling Thunder 3. First released on the TurboGrafx-16, the game has since been ported for mobile phones, with new visuals and level design, and re-released through digital platforms like the Virtual Console and the Japanese cloud gaming service G-cluster, in addition to being included on the PC Engine Mini console | Chew Man Fu |
1,541 | Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers is a platform game developed and published by Capcom based on the Disney animated series of the same name. Originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan and North America in 1990, it came to Europe the next year, and was ported to the Nintendo PlayChoice-10 arcade system. It sold approximately 1 | Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (video game) |
1,542 | Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Adventures in Nimnul's Castle (also spelled without an "s" as "Adventure in Nimnul's Castle" on the title screen) is an action video game developed by Riedel Software Productions and co-published by Hi Tech Expressions and Walt Disney Computer Software based on the Disney animated series of the same name. The game was released in March 1990 for MS-DOS.
Gameplay
Adventures in Nimnul's Castle is an action game where the player must guide the chipmunk characters Chip and Dale through nine levels while avoiding enemies and obstacles | Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Adventures in Nimnul's Castle |
1,543 | Chocks Away is a flight simulation game for the Acorn Archimedes. It was written by Andrew Hutchings and published by The Fourth Dimension in 1990. The game is loosely set in the First World War, though many elements are simplified and anachronistic | Chocks Away |
1,544 | Circuit's Edge is a video game developed by Westwood Associates and released by Infocom in 1990. It is based on George Alec Effinger's 1987 novel When Gravity Fails. The game is a hybrid interactive fiction/role-playing video game; it contains a window of text, a graphic window for depiction of the player's current location, and various menus and mini-windows for character statistics and other game functions | Circuit's Edge |
1,545 | Cisco Heat: All American Police Car Race is a 1990 racing video game developed and published in arcades by Jaleco. Players control a police squad car racing against computer-controlled vehicles. The goal is to finish each race in first place | Cisco Heat |
1,546 | The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy, also known as simply Edward Randy, is a 1990 action video game developed and released by Data East for arcades worldwide in 1990. Set during the 1930s in a European region, where an elderly scientist escapes from a Nazi-like army under the leadership of general "Dark Ogre" after being manipulated for his research on a secret mass destruction weapon, players assume the role of Edward Randy on an adventure to rescue the scientist's granddaughter Charlotte, who holds a prism stone that is a key piece for the enemy. Headed by Terra Diver producer Minoru Sano, the game was created by most of the same team that would later work on several projects at Data East | The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy |
1,547 | Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie is a 1990 arcade adventure video game developed by Impact Software and published by Ocean Software on Atari ST and DOS. It is based on Clive Barker's movie Nightbreed, which in turn is based on Barker's novella Cabal. It was originally supposed to be part of a trilogy, alongside Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game and an ultimately-unreleased RPG | Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie |
1,548 | Cloud Kingdoms is a puzzle game published by Millennium Interactive for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS in 1990. The player controls Terry, a green bouncing sphere, on a quest to recover his magic crystals that have been stolen by Baron von Bonsai. To do so, he must travel through the eponymous Cloud Kingdoms, avoiding enemies and hazards while collecting all of the crystals within the game's time limit | Cloud Kingdoms |
1,549 | Code Name: Viper, known in Japan as Ningen Heiki Dead Fox, is an action-platform video game developed by Arc System Works and published by Capcom in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The player takes control of a special forces operative who must combat a drug syndicate in South America.
Plot
The player takes the role of Kenny Smith, code name "Viper", an agent of the 98th Special Forces | Code Name: Viper |
1,550 | Coloris is a puzzle video game released in 1990 for the Amiga. It was published by Avesoft, a distributor of freeware and shareware disks. Coloris is very similar to Sega's Columns, which itself is a variant of Tetris | Coloris |
1,551 | Colossus Chess is a series of chess-playing computer programs developed by Martin Bryant, commercially released for various home computers in the 1980s.
History
Bryant started Colossus Chess in 1983, using his White Knight Mk 11 program, winner of the 1983 European Microcomputer Chess Championship, as a basis. It was developed on an Apple II, but was first commercially released for Commodore 64 as Colossus Chess 2 | Colossus Chess |
1,552 | Columns (Japanese: コラムス, Hepburn: Koramusu) is a match-three puzzle video game released by Sega in 1990. Designed by Jay Geertsen, it was released by Sega for arcades and then ported to several Sega consoles. The game was subsequently ported to home computer platforms, including the Atari ST | Columns (video game) |
1,553 | Columns II: The Voyage Through Time (erroneously labeled as A Voyage Through Time on the Switch release) is a 1990 puzzle video game released by Sega, as the sequel to Columns. It was released in Japan for the Sega System C. A port was included in the compilation Sega Ages: Columns Arcade Collection released for the Sega Saturn in Japan in 1997 | Columns II |
1,554 | The Combatribes is a 1990 beat 'em-up game released for the arcades by Technos Japan Corp (the developers of Renegade and Double Dragon). A home version for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was also released in 1992. The game centers on three vigilantes (identified as cyborgs in the SNES port) who must fight against numerous street gangs in futuristic New York City | The Combatribes |
1,555 | Combo Racer is a Sidecar video game developed by Imagetic Design and published by Gremlin Graphics in 1990. The game uses an isometric view and the player has to change gear manually. It contains a training mode, a normal game mode and a track editor | Combo Racer |
1,556 | Command HQ is a real-time strategy world domination game. It was released in 1990 by Microplay Software and was created by designer Danielle Bunten. Tommo purchased the rights to this game in 2013 and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015 | Command HQ |
1,557 | Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons is a three-part episodic side-scrolling platform video game developed by Ideas from the Deep (a precursor to id Software) and published by Apogee Software in 1990 for MS-DOS. It is the first set of episodes of the Commander Keen series. The game follows the titular Commander Keen, an eight-year-old child genius, as he retrieves the stolen parts of his spaceship from the cities of Mars, prevents a recently arrived alien mothership from destroying landmarks on Earth, and hunts down the leader of the aliens, the Grand Intellect, on the alien home planet | Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons |
1,558 | Compati Hero is a video game series published in Japan by Banpresto and Bandai Namco Entertainment that began in 1990 and features 16 crossover teams between Ultraman, Kamen Rider (also known as Masked Rider) and Gundam. Characters from other franchises have also been featured in some of the initial games, as well as in the Compati Sports series, such as Mazinger, Getter Robo, Devilman and Godzilla.
It was the first video game series to involve a crossover between animated giant robots and live action tokusatsu heroes from different established franchises | Compati Hero |
1,559 | Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator is a turn-based government simulation game designed by David J. Eastman and published by Virgin Mastertronic in 1990 for DOS, Atari ST and Amiga (with extended graphics).
The game is set in 1997 | Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator |
1,560 | Conquest of the Crystal Palace, known in Japan as Matendōji (魔天童子(まてんどうじ), "Demon Heaven Boy") is a 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System platform game developed by Quest and published by Asmik Corporation of America (subsidiary of J:COM).
Story
Years prior to the events of the game, the Kingdom of the Crystal Palace was conquered by an evil being named Zaras, who crowned himself king. Only Zap, a dog who served as a Keeper of the Crystal Palace, and Farron, the kingdom's infant prince, managed to escape | Conquest of the Crystal Palace |
1,561 | Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail is a graphic adventure game released in 1990 by Sierra On-Line. It was the first game in the Conquests series designed by Christy Marx and her husband Peter Ledger. The only other game in the series was 1991's Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood | Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail |
1,562 | Corporation (released as Cyber-Cop in North America) is a video game for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS, later ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis. It was developed for Core Design by Dimension Creative Designs by Bill Allen with graphics and design by Kevin Bulmer.
The PC and Sega versions were published by Virgin Games | Corporation (video game) |
1,563 | Cosmic Fantasy (コズミック・ファンタジー, Kozumikku Fantajī) is a series of role-playing video games created by manga artist Kazuhiro Ochi, published by Telenet and developed by subsidiary LaserSoft from 1990 to 1994. It consists of four games (the last one being split in two installments) for the PC Engine CD console. The first two games were re-released as Cosmic Fantasy Stories, an upgraded compilation for the Sega CD developed by Riot | Cosmic Fantasy |
1,564 | Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel is a graphic adventure computer game for the Macintosh computer line (Plus, SE, SE/30, II Series, Classic, LC) created by Cyan, Inc. It was published in 1989 and won the 1990 Mac User's Editors' Choice Award for the "Best Recreational Program" category. Spelunx, Cyan's next title, was made with a similar style of gameplay | Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel |
1,565 | Cosmo Tank is a video game published by Asuka Technologies and developed by Atlus. It was released in 1990 for the Game Boy; with most of the gameplay programmed as a 2D shooter with some levels resembling that of a 3D shooter video game.
All the 2D levels were designed by Masami Satō while all the 3D levels were designed by Hidehiko Harada | Cosmo Tank |
1,566 | Countdown is a point-and-click adventure game released by Access Software for MS-DOS in 1990. The game was re-released on GOG. com on 26 July 2021 | Countdown (video game) |
1,567 | Crazy Sue is a 2D platform game, which was first released in 1990 in issue 1 of the Amiga Fun magazine by MC Publications. In the game the player takes the role of the little girl named "Crazy Sue", who must defeat the evil "Wizard of Doom".
The game spawned a sequel, Crazy Sue Goes On | Crazy Sue |
1,568 | Creatures is a platform game for the Commodore 64 computer developed by Apex Computer Productions and released in 1990. The game was made by two brothers who were founders of the company, John Rowlands (programming) and Steve Rowlands (music and visual design). It was later ported by WJS Design for Atari ST and released in 1992 and to the Amiga in 1993 | Creatures (1990 video game) |
1,569 | Cruel is a solitaire card game based on Perseverance. Cruel became popular when it was published as video game for Microsoft Windows by Microsoft in 1990 as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows 3. 0 | Cruel (solitaire) |
1,570 | Crystalis is a 1990 action role-playing action-adventure video game produced by SNK for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The original Nintendo Entertainment System version has been re-released via the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows (via Steam), and Xbox One.
The game begins with a young magician awakening from the cryogenic sleep he was placed in by the villains of the Great War before nuclear war rained down in the year 1997 | Crystalis |
1,571 | Crystals of Arborea is a medieval fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Silmarils, and released in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. The game is a precursor to the Ishar trilogy, a series also produced by Silmarils, and together they were re-distributed as the Ishar Compilation in 2009.
Gameplay
The game is set upon the island kingdom of Arborea, the remnant of a world all but destroyed | Crystals of Arborea |
1,572 | Cutie Suzuki no Ringside Angel (キューティー鈴木のリングサイドエンジェル, "Cutie Suzuki's Ringside Angel") is a 1990 Japan-exclusive Sega Mega Drive video game about female professional wrestling. It features the famous female Japanese wrestler Cutie Suzuki.
As the first video game based on women's professional wrestling for the Sega Mega Drive, it played a pivotal role in establishing women as protagonists in 16-bit video games, predating Alisia Dragoon by two years | Cutie Suzuki no Ringside Angel |
1,573 | Cyber Core is a 1990 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Alfa System and published in Japan by Information Global Service (IGS) and in North America by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16. Set in the year 2269 where Earth has been overrun by an alien race known as Hyper Insects, the player controls a Chimera bio-fighter craft, piloted by the enforcer Rad Ralph (Kato Melange in the Japanese version) in order to fend off the invaders and reclaim the planet. Similar to Dragon Spirit, Ralph has a projectile weapon for destroying air-based enemies and a bomb for destroying ground-based enemies | Cyber Core |
1,574 | Cyber Knight (サイバーナイト, Saibā Naito) is a science fiction PC Engine and Super Famicom role-playing video game that combines sci-fi space exploration with strategic robot combat. This game is intended for experienced role-playing gamers only. The random encounters are high even for a Japanese role-playing game with a mid-to-late 1992 Super Famicom release date (e | Cyber Knight |
1,575 | The Cyber Shinobi (also known as Shinobi Part 2) is a side-scrolling hack and slash produced by Sega that was released for the Master System in 1990. It was the third Shinobi game for the console (including Alex Kidd in Shinobi World) and served as a futuristic sequel to the original Shinobi. The game was released in Canada, Europe, Australia and Brazil, at a time when the Master System was discontinued in other markets | The Cyber Shinobi |
1,576 | Cyber-Lip is a run and gun video game released in arcades by SNK in 1990 for the Neo Geo MVS. It was released for the Neo Geo AES home console in 1991.
Gameplay
Gameplay consists of battling through large numbers of enemies, collecting power-ups and defeating several end-of-stage bosses | Cyber-Lip |
1,577 | Cybergenic Ranger: Secret of the Seventh Planet is a computer game developed by Symtus in 1990 for MS-DOS.
Plot
In Cybergenic Ranger: Secret of the Seventh Planet, the player was launched out of a spacecraft by his parents to save him from certain death by renegade robots, and saved when someone gave him cybergenic enhancements. The character thus becomes the Cybergenic Ranger, to battle the renegade robots that killed his parents | Cybergenic Ranger: Secret of the Seventh Planet |
1,578 | Daedalian Opus (冒険!パズルロード, Bōken! Pazuru Rōdo, Adventure! Puzzle Road) is a puzzle game for the Game Boy and was released in July 1990.
Gameplay
The game is essentially a series of 36 jigsaw puzzles with pentominos that must be assembled into a specific shape. The puzzles start off with rectangular shapes and simple solutions, but the puzzles quickly grow more complex, with odder shapes like a rocket ship, a gun, and even enlarged versions of some of the pentominoes themselves | Daedalian Opus |
1,579 | Damocles is a video game developed by Novagen in 1990. It is the second game in the Mercenary series.
Gameplay
Once again, the player is stranded on a planet, Eris, with an inoperable spacecraft | Damocles (video game) |
1,580 | Danan: The Jungle Fighter is an action/platform-adventure game for the Master System in Brazil and Europe in 1990. The name is taken from a fictional character, Danan, set in an unknown wooded civilization.
Gameplay
The game borrows elements from multiple game genres, such as hack 'n slash action, vertical and horizontal platforming; non-linear level designs; an elaborate plot mostly untangled by talking to NPCs; item collection, summons (animal aid); levelling up | Danan: The Jungle Fighter |
1,581 | Hyper Combat Unit Dangaioh (破邪大星ダンガイオー, Haja Taisei Dangaiō) is a Japanese anime OVA series produced and animated by AIC and Artmic and released in Japan in 1987. Dangaioh featured character designs by creator Toshiki Hirano, mechanical designs by Shoji Kawamori, and animation direction by Masami Ōbari.
Plot
Brought together by the mysterious Dr | Dangaioh |
1,582 | Dark Seal (ダークシール) and Dark Seal II (ダークシール II) are isometric role-playing beat-'em-up video games released for arcade by Data East in 1990 and 1992 respectively. The first game was localized in English under the title Gate of Doom and the second one as Wizard Fire.
Gameplay
The players control characters from an isometric perspective and must traverse levels while fighting enemies, avoiding traps, and collecting items as well as spells | Dark Seal |
1,583 | DarkSpyre is a 1990 video game produced by Event Horizon Software (later known as DreamForge Intertainment) for MS-DOS. It was released the following year for the Amiga. Darkspyre is a dungeon crawl style role-playing game | DarkSpyre |
1,584 | Darwin's Dilemma is a personal computer game released in 1990 for the Macintosh and Sharp X68000 platforms. It was developed by André Ouimet and published by Inline Design.
Darwin's Dilemma is a puzzle game in which the goal is to match creatures together | Darwin's Dilemma |
1,585 | Das Boot: German U-boat Simulation is a submarine simulator game designed by Paul Butler & Rick Banks and published in 1990 for Amiga and MS-DOS systems by Three-Sixty Pacific. It was inspired by the 1973 novel of the same name and its film adaptation.
The player takes command of a German Type VII U-boat and plays missions against the Allies which involve combat against aircraft, anti-submarine warships, and other submarines | Das Boot (video game) |
1,586 | Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Beam Software and published by Data East, released in 1990 exclusively in North America.
Gameplay
The player takes the role of Dash Galaxy, a space scout who has been captured by a hostile civilization thousands of light years from earth. The game, through a shifting perspective, contains action gameplay elements | Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum |
1,587 | Days of Thunder is a 1990 NASCAR racing simulation video game loosely based on the 1990 movie Days of Thunder. The game utilized elements from the movie, using a movie license from Paramount Pictures for its graphical elements, plot, and music soundtrack. It was released for the PC, the NES, the Game Boy, and many other formats | Days of Thunder (1990 video game) |
1,588 | Dead Heat Scramble (デッドヒート スクランブル) is a 1990 Game Boy arcade racing video game that was released in North America and Japan.
Summary
Players must choose between a dune buggy, a sand rail vehicle, and the incredible off-road truck. All races are strictly against the clock while the driver navigates through blockades on the road and other drivers that want to defeat the player | Dead Heat Scramble |
1,589 | Death Race is a vehicular combat video game developed by American Game Cartridges for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and published in 1990. It is a remake of a 1976 video game of the same name.
Death Race is one of three games that American Game Cartridges published for the NES | Death Race (1990 video game) |
1,590 | Decision at Gettysburg is a 1990 video game published by Tiglon Software.
Gameplay
Decision at Gettysburg is a game in which a strategic simulation involves the battle of the American Civil War.
Reception
M | Decision at Gettysburg |
1,591 | Deep Dungeon (ディープダンジョン) is a series of role-playing video games developed by HummingBirdSoft. The first two installments were released on the Family Computer Disk System by Square's label DOG; the third one was released on the regular Family Computer by Square directly and the final one by Asmik.
Games in the series
Madō Senki
Deep Dungeon: Madō Senki (ディープダンジョン 魔洞戦記, lit | Deep Dungeon |
1,592 | Deliverance: Stormlord II (also known as Deliverance: Stormlord 2) is a 1990 platform game developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1990 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum as a sequel to the 1989 game Stormlord. Its remake for the Amiga, Atari ST, and Macintosh, titled Deliverance, followed in 1992.
Gameplay
Similar to the first Stormlord game, there are fairies to free and monsters to mash all the while avoiding the platform traps | Deliverance: Stormlord II |
1,593 | Design Your Own Railroad is a 1990 video game published by Abracadata.
Gameplay
Design Your Own Railroad is a game in which a railroad hobbyist can build a model railroad and run simulations.
Reception
Russell Sipe reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "In summary, if you are a model railroader/rail fan you will find this product a very enjoyable extension of your chosen hobby (but be sure to get version 1 | Design Your Own Railroad |
1,594 | Designasaurus is an educational game created by Ezra Sidran and published by Britannica Software. It was released for Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. The game is about creating a custom dinosaur and helping it survive | Designasaurus |
1,595 | Destination Earthstar is a futuristic, first-person and side-scrolling, space shooter game developed by Imagineering and published by Acclaim for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Plot
Two hundred years ago, a random number of Earthlings were captured for slave labor. They eventually earned their freedom and the privilege to live amongst the aliens as equals | Destination Earthstar |
1,596 | Devil's Crush is a pinball video game developed by Compile for the TurboGrafx-16 and released in 1990. The second installment in the Crush Pinball series after Alien Crush, the game has an eerie occult theme with skulls, skeletons, and demons. It was later followed by Jaki Crush and Alien Crush Returns | Devil's Crush |
1,597 | Dexterity, known as Funny Field (ファニーフィールド) in Japan, is a puzzle game by SNK that was released for the Game Boy in 1990. It is a game that consists of a square floor covered in seven rows and eight columns of tiles (56 tiles in total). The goal of the game is to flip all of the light tiles into dark tiles | Dexterity (video game) |
1,598 | Dick Tracy appeared video game tie-ins for the motion picture:
The Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy games, developed by Realtime Associates and published by Bandai.
The Genesis and Master System games by Sega.
A video game (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and GX-4000) developed by Titus France and published by Walt Disney Computer Software | Dick Tracy (video game) |
1,599 | Die Hard (ダイ・ハード, Dai Hādo) is the name of three video games, one released for the Commodore 64 in 1990, one released for the TurboGrafx-16 in 1990 and the other for the NES in 1991 by Activision (not to be confused with the earlier DOS video game created by Dynamix in 1989). Its gameplay is based on the 1988 film of the same name. During the game, the player rescues hostages and battles with terrorists from a top view perspective at Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles | Die Hard (video game) |
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