Made at the height of the “interactive movie” boom in the computer game industry, Phantasmagoria is notable for being one of the first games to use a live actor (Victoria Morsell) as an on-screen avatar.
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Panzer General is a computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations in 1994 and set in World War II.
This is the original (rare) DOS version of one of the best wargames ever!
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Disney’s Aladdin was based in the motion picture of the same name and was released in 1992.
The game was awarded Best Genesis Game of 1993 by Electronic Gaming Monthly. They also awarded it Best Animation. Mega placed the game at #12 in their Top Mega Drive Games of All Time. The SNES version sold over 1.75 million units worldwide. Need I say more?
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Star Wars: TIE Fighter, a 1994 space flight simulator/space combat computer game, is the sequel to Star Wars: X-Wing, and the first game of the series that puts the player on the side of the Galactic Empire.
TIE Fighter is regarded by many as the best title in the series and one of the most successful space flight simulator games.
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The 7th Guest, produced by Trilobyte and released by Virgin Games in 1993, is an interactive movie puzzle adventure game. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac.
The game received a great amount of press attention for making live action video clips a core part of its gameplay, for its unprecedented amount of pre-rendered 3D graphics, and for its adult content. In addition, the game was very successful, with over two million copies sold, and is widely-regarded as a killer app that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives. Bill Gates called The 7th Guest “the new standard in interactive entertainment.
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Space Quest II was listed number four in Sierra’s Top 5 Bestsellers. Therefore it can be assumed Space Quest II sold over 100,000 copies, thus earning the coveted SPA (Software Publishers Association) Gold Medal.
Infamous Adventures announced that they were remaking Space Quest II in the style of past VGA remakes.
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EcoQuest 2 was published in 1993 and is designed to teach children about the importance of environmental ethics. Back then, even educational games were fun!
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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Serrated Scalpel is an adventure game developed by Mythos Software and published by the American computer game company Electronic Arts for DOS in 1992.
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The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game series which was developed by Silicon & Synapse (later Blizzard Entertainment). The first game, The Lost Vikings, was released in 1992 by publisher Interplay Entertainment for DOS, Amiga, Sega Mega Drive and SNES among others. The game is considered a classic of puzzle/platform game genre and was critically acclaimed by press.
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1-0 Soccer Manager was made by an unknown producer called Wizard Games of Scotland, Ltd. Like the game, they are rather unknown, but this game, is one of the best soccer manager games ever made!
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