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Games by Year of Release: 1997

PC*Bert dos

PC*Bert is an excellent and faithful freeware clone for the PC of Q*Bert, one of the most famous arcades ever created. Q*Bert was developed in 1982 by Gottlieb and is still one of the most famous videogames characters.

Year: 1997 Genre: Arcade

arcade clone coin-op conversion

The Reap windows

The Reap is a futuristic shoot 'em-up created by Housemarque in 1997 for Microsoft Windows. The scrolling is isometric, like the famous arcade Zaxxon, but the game features 3D modeled levels with high-quality rendered graphics.

Year: 1997 Genre: Shooter

3d rendering aliens isometric science fiction shooter

War Planets: Age of Chaos dos

War Planets: Age of Chaos is a sci-fi real-time strategy game set in the War Planets universe created by the toy company Trendmasters. The game, created by Trendmasters itself, was...

Year: 1997 Genre: Strategy

aliens licensed real-time rts science fiction strategy war

Alien Terminator dos

Alien Terminator is a sci-fi side-scrolling shooter created by Flair Software and published by Golden Zone for PC in 1997. One year before, the game was released on the SNES with the name Realm.

Year: 1997 Genre: Shooter

platform-shooter post-apocalyptic run and gun science fiction side-scrolling snes

C-Dogs dos

C-Dogs is the sequel to Cyberdogs, with an improved gameplay and the addition of a campaign editor..

Year: 1997 Genre: Shooter

shooter

Enemy: Tempest of Violence amiga

Enemy: Tempest Of Violence is a platformer action-adventure created by Anachronia for the Amiga and published originally in 1997. The developer released an improved version, called...

Year: 1997 Genre: Action

2 players action-adventure amiga original game co-op flip-screen freeware platformer

Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II dos

Halls of the Dead: Faery Tale Adventure II is the sequel to the 1987 RPG The Faery Tale Adventure created by MicroIllusions. The sequel was developed by The Dreamers Guild, a stu...

Year: 1997 Genre: Role Playing

action-rpg fairy tale fantasy isometric rpg sword and sorcery

Jane's Combat Simulations: Longbow 2 windows

Jane's Combat Simulations: Longbow 2 is a helicopter simulation game developed by Origin Systems and released by Electronic Arts in 1997 for PC. As you can imagine, it is the seque...

Year: 1997 Genre: Simulation

helicopter simulation vehicular combat simulator war

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain windows

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain was developed by Silicon Knights and published by Crystal Dynamics. It was first released for the PlayStation in 1996. The Windows port was made by Semi ...

Year: 1997 Genre: Action

action-adventure action-rpg dark fantasy fantasy horror rpg elements top-down vampires

Worms: The Director's Cut amiga

Worms: The Director’s Cut is the sequel to the original Worms. It was developed by Team17 and published by Ocean Software in 1997. It was created exclusively for the Amiga with an AGA chipset.

Year: 1997 Genre: Shooter

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onEscapee windowsamiga

onEscapee is an action-adventure created by Invictus and published by Sadeness Software in 1997 exclusively for the Amiga. The decision to invest two years in developing an Amiga g...

Year: 1997 Genre: Action

action-adventure aga aliens amiga original game cyberpunk flip-screen freeware hand-drawn animations

Arkanoid: Doh It Again snes

Arkanoid: Doh It Again, released for the SNES in 1997, is a modern reinterpretation of the classic arcade game Arkanoid. The original game, released in 1986, was itself an evolution of Atari’s legendary Breakout.

Year: 1997 Genre: Arcade

arcade breakout flip-screen paddle snes original game

X-COM: Apocalypse dos

X-COM Apocalypse is the third entry into the X-COM series, developed by Mythos Games and published by MicroProse for DOS and Windows in 1997. Apocalypse utilizes the same Cityscape...

Year: 1997 Genre: Strategy

aliens real-time science fiction squad management strategy tactical-rpg turn-based strategy

Backyard Baseball windows

Backyard Baseball is a baseball game created by Humongous Entertainment and released for Windows and Macintosh in 1997. It's the first of a long series of successful titles, the last one of which was released in 2015.

Year: 1997 Genre: Sports

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