Front Page Sports: Football (1992)
Genres:Sport, Simulator
Story:The first release in Sierra's Front Page Sports series.
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I had this on the original wishlist for years, and there were LOTS more votes there. Caught in licensing hell from Dynamix -- this game did a phenomenal job of letting you play coach/GM without the $$ hassles. It had a variety of player ratings, allowed you to design plays (to add to an extensive library) and required a level of game-planning since you couldn't access ALL the plays in a given half. Players aged, were injured, retired, and you replaced gaps in your roster with both a 6-round draft and free agent draft of released players. Multiple camera angles to view the action, choices to control the players or just watch them execute (my preferred) and it auto-provided highlights from all the games for that week. Summarized season stats with category leaders, etc., which could be exported. For years I had a data base with the stats from my 12-year career league. The first edition only had randomized players as it had no official licenses, but it didn't matter. You felt such ownership in your team and the players. I could go on and on..... It's notoriously difficult to run in DOS-Box but I miss it EVERY football season. Later versions, like Pro added real players for a year or two, but then Dynamix folded and this engine disappeared as Madden took over the landscape.
Shin Megami Tensei IIFifty years have passed since the hero of Shin Megami Tensei followed the neutral path, defeated the leaders of Law and Chaos, and founded a state where followers of both ideologies could live freely. But his reign of freedom doesn't last long. The Messian faith gains power, expanding the Cathedral into a new enclosed environment named Tokyo Millennium. The Gaians rise up, but their rebellion is repressed by the Messians' elite warrior class, the Temple Knights. People flock into the encapsulated city, submitting themselves to the strict hierarchy imposed by the Messian Center, where only the privileged living in the Center district are safe from demonic assaults.
A few years later, a retired arena fighter Okamoto rescues a man named Hawk, who was fighting for his life against a demon. He trains him to fight in the arena of the Valhalla district, hoping that he would win the tournament, which will grant them both citizenship in the Center district. When Hawk succeeds, he is brought before a Messian bishop, and learns the shocking truth about his own origins and the role he is supposed to play in the grand scheme of events. A new battle for a better future begins.
Shin Megami Tensei II retains all the gameplay features of the previous game. The player is able to summon demons, fuse them to create more powerful ones, make them participate in battles, talk to random enemies and receive information from them, etc. The combat is turn-based, and the player explores the complex, maze-like dungeons from a first-person perspective view. Like in the first game, the Law, Chaos, and Neutral alignments play an important role: during the course of the game, the player will have to make choices that influence the alignment of the protagonist, steering the storyline into different directions.
New features include a "magic succession" system, which allows demons to carry over their original magic spells when they are fused into new ones, a few additional spells and abilities, and the possibility to play at the casino and win unique items.Fantasy Thriller Warfare Science fiction
Metaltech: EarthsiegeA Western Style Mech game that takes its bows from the Battletech Franchise, but paved the way for many sequels and spin-off games.Science fiction
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EliteElite is a space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984. Elite's open-ended game model, and revolutionary 3D graphics led to it being ported to virtually every contemporary home computer system, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history. The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite".
Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden line removal. It added graphics and twitch gameplay aspects to the genre established by the 1974 game Star Trader. Another novelty was the inclusion of The Dark Wheel, a novella by Robert Holdstock which gave players insight into the moral and legal codes to which they might aspire.Open world Action Science fiction Sandbox Business
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Set in Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear universe (it actually rivals the Battletech universe in complexity, though not nearly as famous), this game requires 3D accelerator with its "Dark" 3D engine. The gears are capable of very human-like movements, such as kneeling, crawling, and jumping.Action Science fiction
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Matched against a batch of ruthless rivals, you’ll have to act quickly; to build the key routes that will rake in the cash. Build stations, airports, docks and a linking road, rail, air and ship network that will move passengers, mail or goods to the most lucrative destination. As the years roll by you’ll have the chance to buy more advanced and faster vehicles and vessels; if you can afford them!
The Deluxe version brings the several improvements over the standard edition.Business
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In Quick Games you are a black ant colony competing with a red ant colony for food and territory. Your goal is to defeat the red ants and take over your home turf - the local patch of ground in the backyard. Your task will be complicated by marauding spiders, voracious ant lions, torrential rains, crusing human feet and merciless lawn mowers.
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In Experimental Games, you are a human playing and experimenting with ants. Your tools let you build walls and barriers to run ants through mazes, add food, add ants, dig of fill in holes, test ants' reactions to various trail marking and alarm chemicals, and play with insecticide.Educational
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