1997

Ignition

Description

Ignition is an action packed racing game viewed from above and slightly behind the player. The cars on offer range from police car and VW Beetle to school bus and truck, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses – trying to win with the bus, which involves blocking everyone behind the hideously slow vehicle for 3 laps, is perhaps the ultimate challenge.

Initially there are 5 tracks available, with practice and single race modes as well as full championship at 3 levels – winning each of the first 2 levels unlocks an extra track. They all have hazards running through them, and sections where you must make a split-second choice between the safer route and the risky but potentially rewarding one. Multiplayer can be done via network or by split-screen – in a break with convention the screen is split vertically rather than horizontally. …

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Nightmare Ned

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Nightmare Ned is a puzzle-solving game presented as a platformer. Players control Ned who comes home from school and finds out through a note that his parents will be late. He uses the freedom to play games, but a thunderstorm frightens him and he goes to sleep. Strange things happen as a mysterious force drags Ned into a nightmare world. There, he can access five portals that lead to different worlds: The Graveyard, The Alcatraz Elementary School, The Medical Nightmare, The Attic, Basement and Beyond, and The Bathroom. These are all based on locations Ned knows in real life and they are connected to his fears. He meets regular characters but also different kinds of monsters. In the Elementary School level for instance Ned interacts with chalk drawings on a blackboard as they come to life. There are also often animated sequences.

To complete a portal Ned has to perform various tasks. His progress is shown through the shadow creatures as there is one in each world. Whenever Ned completes a part, the creature changes and eventually it becomes someone Ned knows from the real world and is connected to his fears. Not all puzzles need to be solved right away, but when a portal is left eight times without using a secret passage directly to another world, the game has a different ending. For a good ending Ned has to face all his fears and wake up unafraid.

The tasks, quests and puzzles can be completed through his platforming skills, including running, jumping and hanging from ledges, and interacting with the environment. Ned can use a yo-yo to attack, or use it to push buttons or interact with creatures and objects. …

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The Oregon Trail – 3rd Edition

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This game hearkens back to the days of the first Oregon Trail, meaning that instead of tons of options that made up Oregon Trail 2, there are significantly less in this installment. There is only one place you can go to (besides the fact you can stop anywhere), which is Oregon City. You can also only have five or so people in your group. You can hunt, and you can fish, which is a new gameplay element. You can also go down the Dalles River in a first-person view (along with floating across rivers.) …

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UEFA Champions League 1996-1997

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UEFA Champions League 1996/97 is a soccer simulation licensed by European soccer association UEFA. It features the 16 teams of the 1996/1997 soccer championship Champions League and additionally 32 other teams which can be played in other fictional championship modes, e.g. a league. Thanks to the license it features the real player names, digitalized photos and the original stadiums.

The matches itself are mostly action oriented. The player can perform several tricks and the standard soccer actions like shooting and passing. The game features several camera angles. …

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Riven – The Sequel to Myst

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After the Stranger has rescued Atrus, the master of “linking books”, from the imprisonment caused by his sons, a new task awaits the hero. Atrus’s wife, Catherine, has been taken by Gehn, his own father. Gehn has appointed himself as the one to rule the Age of Riven, and has driven his world to collapse. Now he holds Catherine hostage on Riven, hoping that his son will restore the book link to the Age and free him from there. The Stranger is requested by Atrus to travel to Riven and find a way to rescue Catherine.

Riven is a sequel to Myst, and is very similar to its predecessor in gameplay style, controls, and visual presentation. The game world is presented as a series of computer-generated still screens; the player explores it in a point-and-click fashion. Interaction with the environment is possible only when said environment is highlighted as a “hot spot”, and is also performed by simple clicking. Like its predecessor, Riven is heavy on puzzles, which rarely include using inventory items, but usually involve understanding and manipulating the complex environments and machinery of the game world. …

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The City of Lost Children

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The City of Lost Children is a PC adventure game based on the French film of the same name. The game was developed by Psygnosis and released in 1997.

The game takes place in a dark and surreal world where a mad scientist named Krank is stealing children’s dreams in order to prolong his own life. The player takes on the role of Miette, a young girl who has escaped from Krank’s clutches and is on a mission to save her friend, a little boy named One.

The game is played from a third-person perspective and features a variety of puzzles and challenges that the player must solve in order to progress through the game’s story. The game’s world is filled with strange and mysterious characters, including a talking flea, a giant cyclops, and a pair of conjoined twins. …

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G-Police

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After a violent interstellar resource war, mega-corporations seize power from the remnants of Earth’s governments and lead humanity’s way into the colonization of space. The last vestige of central authority is in the form of the G-Police (Government Police); an independent agency tasked with keeping order in the colonies. You play as rookie Jeff Slater – a former military pilot going undercover at the G-Police squadron on Callisto, in the hopes of finding the truth behind your sister’s sudden death.

G-Police is an arcade-style helicopter shooter set inside the colony domes on Callisto. You pilot a futuristic close-air-support gunship, and are tasked with engaging ground and air enemies as you uncover a sinister corporate plot. Your ship can hover and turn in a VTOL mode, fire weapons outfitted before each mission, and lock on to objects in the world to both track enemies and scan suspicious cargo. Missions require you to navigate through the skyscrapers and billboards of the various city districts, and complete a number of objectives updated through radio contact with headquarters. There are thirty-six missions to complete. …

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