Legend Entertainment 1990
Genre: Adventure
Rating: 5/6
Language: English
Licence: Commercial
System: PC

Whenever Steve Meretzky is listed as designer of a game, you can be fairly sure it'll involve girls. In some cases more, in some cases less. In Spellcasting, it's definitely 'more'. Much more.

Virgin 1990
Genre: RPG, Strategy
Rating: 5/6
Language: English
Licence: Commercial
System: PC

King Arthur is dead, and you, sir Constantine, are the only hope of reuniting England and avoiding the arrival of the dark age in which the roman empire has succumbed. Your knight and their deeds will be your tools for this, as your words should be backed up to show yours is the right path.

Accolade 1990
Genre: Action, Strategy
Rating: 5/6
Language: English
Licence: Commercial
System: PC

This is a mix of strategy and space shooter, a well-balanced and with variety, albeit somewhat small, game where you try to conquer a region of space, attacking with real-time dogfights.

Really, the game is more about those fights than about strategy. Both factions, the Ur-Quan Hierarchy (alien slavers) and the Alliance of Free Stars (good guys) have seven different ships, ranging from small scouts to big destroyers.

Disney 1992
Genre: Simulation, Action
Rating: 5/6
Language: English, Deutsch
Licence: Commercial
System: PC

Stunt Island is one of the most original games in existence! To write a comprehensive text about it would be completely impossible because of the sheer mass of features and the fact that they are all cross-linked. So I'll just describe the individual parts. Basically, you're working in the film business. Your main job is stunt pilot. Hollywood owns a complete island to shoot these scenes: Stunt Island. Here you can find different scenarios ranging from a farm to a metropolis and from desert to mountains. Even some sites like the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz have been imitated! Depending on which surroundings are needed for the particular movie, the stunts are shot in another corner.

Mindscape 1990
Genre: Sport, Simulation
Rating: 5/6
Language: English
Licence: Commercial
System: PC

'Stunts' is a great and very action-packed racing simulation. You don't race against a bunch of other drivers but instead your main goal is to survive the numerous stunts each track has to offer, although you can still compete against a computer controlled car.

Nintendo 1994
Genre: Action
Rating: 5/6
Language: English
Licence: Commercial
System: SNES

At first: this game is no remake of the NES classic "Metroid". It is true that it takes place at the same locations especially at the beginning, but it is several years later than part 1 and 2.

Konami 1999
Genre: RPG
Rating: 5/6
Language: English, Francais, Deutsch, Japanese
Licence: Commercial
System: Game Boy

You wake up in a deserted isle, during a storm the ship where you was sank and now that you are alone and lost you should learn how to survive.

Survival games usually have two main points, getting food and water and making tools, both here are key points of the game.

Infocom 1984
Genre: Adventure
Rating: 5/6
Language: English
Licence: Commercial
System: PC

Yet another case of murder in yet another feudal mansion. And yet another time, it's up to you to solve the case before time runs out. Only this time, there's a twist to the usual procedure: You're not the police detective called to the scene of crime, but the main suspect. It all began with an invitation from Veronica Ashcroft to her annual Halloween costume party. What a chance to write an article for your paper about this event of the high society!

SSI 1989
Genre: Strategy
Rating: 5/6
Language: English
Licence: Commercial
System: PC

Sword of Aragon is one of the most underrated games ever. This game has the full right to be listed among the top ten games of all times, yet I have never seen it listed at all. At a time when games offer flashy graphics and very simplistic and inadequate gameplay, Sword of Aragon shines as an immortal gem. This game does not require the same level of graphics and sound to be interesting: it combines complex economy, diplomacy and tactical combat in one neat package, reinforced by a very simple interface. It offers very complex and lengthy gameplay, yet the learning curve is very low. Overall, the game, is the pure essence of excellent design end execution.

Bullfrog 1993
Genre: Strategy, Action
Rating: 5/6
Language: English
Licence: Commercial
System: PC

The future. Several syndicates control different regions of the world, and there's a war between them. You must take the role of one of the organizations and perform a variety of tasks to "capture" the regions one by one until you control them all.