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Fish! is a text adventure created by the British game studio Magnetic Scrolls. It was published in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS and other platforms by Rainbird.
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Elite is a famous space flight and trading sim created by David Braben and Ian Bell for the BBC Micro. The game was published by Acornsoft and Firebird and released for several home computers starting in 1984.
Year: 1988 Genre: Simulation
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Menace is a side-scrolling space shooter created by DMA Design originally for the Amiga. Psygnosis published it in 1988. The game was ported and released for the Commodore 64, Atari ST, and DOS one year later.
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Police Quest II: The Vengeance is an adventure game released in 1988 as a sequel to Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel. The game was created by Jim Walls for Sierra On...
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Speed Buggy (Buggy Boy in the UK) is an arcade racing game created by Tatsumi, initially released in 1985. From 1987 to 1988, several home computer versions were created, including...
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Mega Man 2, known in Japan as Rockman 2, is an action platformer created by Capcom in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was the second title in the Mega Man series a...
Year: 1988 Genre: Platformer
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Speedball is a video game created by The Bitmap Brothers based on a violent futuristic sport and probably inspired by the 1975 sci-fi movie Rollerball. Initially developed for Amig...
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California Games is a sports game developed by Epyx and Westwood and published by Epyx in North America and by U.S. Gold in Europe. The game was released in 1987 for Apple II and C...
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Impossible Mission II is the sequel to the first Impossible Mission game. It was developed by Novatrade Software and published by Epyx in 1988 for the Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, and others.
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Bomb Jack is an arcade platform game released by Tehkan in 1984. It was ported to Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1986, and to the Amiga and Atari ST in 1998. The game was never ported to PC.
Year: 1988 Genre: Platformer
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Street Fighter is a fighting game created by Capcom and released initially as an arcade in 1987. It is the first chapter of the fighting series that became popular thanks to the sequel, Street Fighter II.
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Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny is the fifth entry in the role-playing video game series Ultima. It was released initially in 1988 for DOS, Apple II, and Commodore 64, later followed by other platforms.
Year: 1988 Genre: Role Playing
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F/A-18 Interceptor is a 3D combat flight simulator developed by Intellisoft and published by Electronic Arts for the Amiga systems in 1988. The game that allows the player to man a...
Year: 1988 Genre: Simulation
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