The Secret of Monkey Island is an adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games. The game spawned a number of sequels, collectively known as the Monkey Island series. Released in 1990, The...
Earthworm Jim is a run and gun platform video game starring an earthworm named Jim in a robotic suit who battles evil. The game was developed by Shiny Entertainment, released for the Sega...
SimEarth: The Living Planet is a life simulation computer game designed by Will Wright and published in 1990 by Maxis, in which the player controls the development of an entire planet...
NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game developed by Midway in 1993. It is the first entry in the NBA Jam series, and was written entirely in assembly language. The main designer and programmer...
Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner in 1989 for the Apple II, that was widely seen as a great leap forward in the quality of animation...
Columns is a puzzle computer game, arcade game and console game with many similarities to Tetris. It was first created in 1989 by Jay Geertsen (not Geertson, as he is erroneously...
Eye of the Beholder is a role-playing game for computers and video game consoles developed by Westwood Studios and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1990 for the DOS operating...
Final Fight is a fighting action game produced by Capcom originally released in 1989 as a coin-operated arcade game. The arcade version was planned by game designer Akira Nishitani...
Sonic the Hedgehog CD , or simply Sonic CD, is a platform game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, developed by a different division at Sega rather than Sonic...
Eternal Champions is a 2D fighting game developed by Sega, and released in 1993. Released during a wave of success of the fighting game, bolstered by the recent successes of Street Fighter...
Shin Megami Tensei is a console role playing game by Atlus that was released on October 30, 1992 on several platforms. It was originally released on the Super Famicom and was...
Night Trap is a video game that was released on October 15, 1992. It was created by Digital Pictures and reportedly cost US$1.5 million to produce. Night Trap was originally developed for...
Theme Park is a construction and management simulation game designed by Bullfrog Productions and originally released in 1994, in which the player designs and operates an amusement park. Like...
The Adventures of Willy Beamish is a graphic adventure game developed by Dynamix, using their newly-developed Dynamix Game Development System . It was published in 1991 by Sierra...
Ecco the Dolphin is an action-adventure video game released in 1992 for the Sega Genesis. The central character, Ecco, is a Bottlenose Dolphin controlled...
Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep is the sequel to the dungeon crawler computer role-playing game Dungeon Master. Released in 1993 in Japan and in 1995 in other countries. It is...
Snatcher is a cyberpunk-themed adventure game published by Konami and originally written and directed by Hideo Kojima. It was first released in Japan in 1988 for the NEC PC-8801 and...
Another World, known as Out of this World in the US, is a 1991 cinematic platformer designed and developed by Eric Chahi. The graphics and box art were designed by Chahi, while the music was...
Streets of Rage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up released by Sega in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It is the first installment of the Streets of Rage series which was followed...
Samurai Shodown, known as Samurai Spirits in Japan, is the first game in SNK's popular series of fighting games. The official story, as given by SNK, is as follows: "Plagues...
Space Ace is a laserdisc video game produced by Don Bluth Studios, Cinematronics, and Advanced Microcomputer Systems . It was unveiled in October 1983, just four months...
Batman Returns is a video game for various platforms based on the movie of the same name. The Sega console versions were published...
Dune, by Cryo Interactive, is one of the Dune computer games. Dune blended adventure with economic and military strategy, and is considered by many the most immersive Dune computer game...
Flashback, released as Flashback: The Quest for Identity in the US, is a cinematic platformer developed by Delphine Software of France, a now defunct company, and published by U.S. Gold in...
Golden Axe is a side-scrolling arcade hack and slash game released in 1989 by Sega for the System 16-B arcade hardware. It is the first game in the series. Makoto Uchida was the primary...