Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo The game is a sideways-scrolling adventure, where Miyamoto Usagi has to defeat opponents in sword fights, and also have encounters with other characters, for example priests, who usually carry a cane and utter Zen Buddhist koans. Usagi is often attacked by bandits and enemy ninja. These opponents frequently […]

Firefly Beat the system! The story so far… Like a virus (a plague?), an evil army begins to expand. Uncaring, uncontrolled, unstopable? Mankind is all but extinct, the earth long since destroyed. A mechanical (manical?) empire spans the heavens. Huge chrome colonies clutter the solar system. Home?… not for the crew of the interstellar starship […]

Tetris Mirrorsoft, 1987 For the very few people who don't know how to play Tetris: Blocks of different shapes drop from the top of the screen into a box. Each block is made up of four small squares arranged to make a larger square, an L-shape or a column. As the blocks fall they can […]

Bobby Bearing The Edge, 1986 Bobby's family live in Technofear, a land of the future made of steel, and inhabitated by things of steel. Bobby and his brothers had been warned on many, many occasions not to venture into the Metaplanes outside their home, and to give them credit they'd been pretty good about it. […]

Silent Service MicroProse Software, 1987 Silent Service is a detailed simulation of World War II submarine missions in the Pacific. It places you into the role of submarine captain, presents you with the same information, problems and resources available to an actual sub captain. Included are numerous scenarios, options and play variations. Five detailed battle […]

Witch's Cauldron Mikro-Gen, 1985 Forsooth, thou art a bumpkin. Thou heedest not my warnings, and thus didst incur the wrath of the Wicked Witch Hazel. And verily didst she caste a spell, and now thou hast the like unto a TOAD. Shouldst thou desire to regain thy human form, thou must seek out spells and […]