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Grand Theft Auto dos

Grand Theft Auto, popularly known as GTA, is a 2D open-world action game developed by DMA Design and published by BMG in 1997 for PC. At the end of that same year, it would see the light in the Playstation 1.

Year: 1997 Genre: Action

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The Great Giana Sisters amigacommodore-64amstrad-cpc

The Great Giana Sisters is a 2D platformer inspired to Super Mario Bros (you might say "clone"). It was developed by Time Warp initially for the Commodore 64/128, in 1987, then ported to Amiga and Atari ST in 1988.

Year: 1988 Genre: Platformer

2d c64 original game clone commodore 64 hop and bop jumper platformer public domain side-scrolling

Xenon 2: Megablast amiga

Xenon 2: Megablast is a vertical-scrolling space shooter designed by the Bitmap Brothers. It was originally produced for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1989 and later converted to the PC, Sega Master System, and other platforms.

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

2d aliens cyborgs shooter space flight v-scrolling shoot-em up vertical-scrolling

The Incredible Machine dos

The Incredible Machine, released in 1993 by Sierra On-Line, is one of the most original puzzle games ever created for personal computers. Designed by Kevin Ryan and produced by Jef...

Year: 1993 Genre: Puzzler

2d flip-screen puzzle strategy puzzler rube goldberg machine

Contra nesmsx

Contra is a run-and-gun style platformer developed by Konami and published by Erbe Software in 1987. It was released in arcades and on ZX Spectrum and Amstrad PC to start with. The...

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

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The Lost Vikings amigagame-boy-advancegenesissnes

The Lost Vikings is a puzzle platformer created by Silicon & Synapse (former name of Blizzard Entertainment) and published by Interplay in 1993. It was released for SNES, Genesis, DOS, and Amiga.

Year: 1993 Genre: Puzzler

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Pinball Dreams amiga

Pinball Dreams is an arcade pinball simulator developed by Digital Illusions and published by 21st Century Entertainment in 1992 for Amiga only. In the following years it was ported to PC, Atari ST, SNES, Game Gear and Gameboy.

Year: 1992 Genre: Arcade

2d amiga original game arcade bat and ball hotseat multiplayer pinball

Blackthorne snesdos

Blackthorne is a cinematic action-platformer developed by Blizzard Entertainment and originally released in 1994 for the SNES. The same year, the game was released for MS-DOS. The SEGA 32X and Macintosh versions arrived later.

Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer

2d cinematic platformer fantasy platformer snes original game

Operation Wolf amiga

Operation Wolf is a rail-shooter arcade released by Taito in 1987. It was ported to many home platforms, including Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Atari ST, Amiga, and more. Roy Ad...

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

2d coin-op conversion disaster first-person military rail shooter shooter

Master of Magic dos

Master of Magic is a fantasy turn-based strategy game created by Simtex and published by MicroProse in 1994 for MS-DOS. In this turn-based 4X strategy game, which some defined the ...

Year: 1994 Genre: Strategy

2d 4x fantasy strategy turn-based

1943: The Battle of Midway amiganes

1943: The Battle of Midway is a shoot 'em up developed and published by Capcom for arcade machines in 1987. Later on, the title was ported to several computers and consoles such as...

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

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R-Type amigamsxpc-enginesega-master-system

R-Type is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up arcade created by Irem in 1987. The graphics design was inspired by H. R. Giger's artwork for the Alien movies. It was ported to several home...

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

2d arcade coin-op conversion freeware h-scrolling shoot-em up science fiction shooter side-scrolling

Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle dos

Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle is the fourth game in the Commander Keen series and the first in the second series "Goodbye, Galaxy". Developed by idSoftware, it was released in 1991 for MS-DOS.

Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer

2d hop and bop platformer science fiction

Kirby's Adventure nes

Kirby's Adventure is a platformer developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo in 1993 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This colorful platform game represents the se...

Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer

2d cartoon parallax scrolling platform-adventure platformer side-scrolling