Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel is a platformer developed by Iguana Entertainment and published by Sunsoft. It was only released in North America, Europe and Australia. The game also came out for SNES.
You take control of the eponymous character. The game is a spin-off to the Aero the Acro-Bat series, where Zero is one of the antagonists. In this game, Zero heads to back to his homeland in order to stop an evil lumberjack to cut down all trees.
Zero's main weapon are shuriken of which he has a limited supply. He can throw them horizontally and diagonally. When he is out of shuriken, he fights with his bare hands. Zero can perform a double jump and dash down when in midair. He can also look ahead in all directions which is useful for spotting obstacles and traps.
Helping ghosts of the past.
Dark Sun - Shattered Lands is an RPG developed and published by SSI.
Apparently, Data East was working on ports of the game for Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation, but both ports got cancelled.
The game is based on the Dark Sun campaign setting for AD& D. It takes place on the fantasy world of Athas. Athas was once peaceful and pleasant - until wizards found a way to increase their power by draining the planet's energy. The let to plant life dying, seas evaporating, the sun transforming into a crimson fireball, and Athas becoming a desert world. The wizards then gained control over the land, becoming sorcerer-kings and enslaving most of the population. One of such kings, Tectuktitlay, rules the city-state of Draj. By his orders, hundreds of slaves are sent to a battle arena to find monsters. You take control of a party of four who have also been imprisoned and sent to fight in the arena. Your initial goal is, of course, to escape. However, you learn that Tectuktitlay plans to raise an army in order crush the few remaining independent villages out side the city states. So you need to find a way to bring the villages to unite to be able to fend of the army of Draj.
The game is played from a top-down view. You move only the party leader when you're not in combat. Combat is turn-based and uses the same view. Dark Sun follows the AD&D rules regarding stats, fights, magic etc. You can talk to people via multiple choice dialogues. You often have the option to tasks and conflict in several ways, violently or not violently. The game allows you to create your own party, but there is pre-made party available for a quickstart.
Battle Isle is a strategy game developed by German company Blue Byte and published by Blue Byte (in Germany), Spanish company DRO Soft (in Spain) and French company Ubi Soft (in the rest of the world). It was also released for PC. An Atari ST port is mentioned in the manual, but was probably never released.
Battle Isle is a turn-based hexfield game similar to Nectaris. It has a single player campaign and a two-player versus mode. On each map, you need to conquer your opponent's headquarters. Each turn is divided into two phases: movement and attack. While one party has their movement phase, the other have their attack phase.
Ringworld - Revenge of the Patriarch is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Tsunami Media.
The game is based on the Ringworld novels by Larry Niven, but it is no direct adaption of one of the books.
The Ringworld is an artificial world in space, a giant artificial ring around a sun where the side directed to the sun is covered with soil and is habitable. In the first book, a man called Louis Wu travels to the Ringworld, together with a Speaks-to-Animals (later known as Chmeee), a Kzin, Nessus a Puppeteer, a woman called Teela Brown, and others. Kzin and Puppeteers are aliens. Kzin are violent and militant anthropomorphic cats, while Puppeteers are two-headed, three-legged, vague cross between horses, camels and ostriches.
In the game, you play Quinn, an old fried of Louis Wu. Louis has sent a message to Quinn to help him in case he disappears, and then eventually disappeared. Louis also asked Quinn to warn Chmeee family of incoming danger. When Quinn seeks out Chmeee's family, it turns out that Chmeee has also disappeared. Moreover, Kzin forces arrive to assassinate the whole family. Quinn barely escaped with one of Chmeee's sons. They learn that Louis and Chmeee are probably back on Ringworld, so they set off to search for them, with Kzin on their heels; the Patriarch, leader of the Kzin, has declared Chmeee a traitor and ordered the killing of him and all of his family. The Patriarch also orders the destruction of the Puppeteers' home world. In the events of the first book, it was revealed that the Puppeteers had meddle with the Kzin. They drove them to wage war against the humans several times, and each time they lost. The Puppeteers, who are paranoid and ruthlessly manipulate everything around them to secure their own survival, aimed to engineer the Kzin to be less violent and aggressive by wasting their most aggressive people in the wars against mankind.
Gakkou no Kaidan ("School Ghost Story") is an adventure game developed by Japam Media Programming and published by sega. It was only released in Japan. It was only released in Japan. The game is based of the movie of the same name.
Gameplay is a mix between the gameplay of various Sega Mega CD FMV games and a point-and-click adventure. You search rooms of the school building, using a cursor to find objects to look at. You can find items for your inventory this way. Some items can be used to replenish your courage. You loose courage if you hurt yourself while investigating things or during encounters with ghosts.
During encounters, you have to pass quick time events where you have to press a displayed button fast enough or often enough. If you fail, you loose courage.
Logic has left the building.
Ween - The Prophecy (known as The Prophecy in North America) is a point-and-click adventure game developed by French companies Coktel Vision and MDO, and published by Coktel Vision (in Europe and South America) and Sierra On-Line (in North America). It was also released for Amiga and Atari ST.
You play a young man called Ween who lives in the fantasy Kingdom of the Blue Stones. Ten years ago, the chief wizard of the kingdom, who is also the grandfather of Ween, banished the evil wizard Kraal from the kingdom. Unfortunately, Kraal is now about to come back, gain the power of the kingdom and execute his revenge. Ween's grandfather's power are fading more and more, so he asks Ween to defeat Kraal. Ween must fulfill a prophecy by finding three magic grains of sand and place them in a magic hourglass, and he has only three days to complete his quest.
The game is played from a first-person perspective. Similar to other Coktel Vision adventures, you only navigate through a few screens at a time to find a way to get ahead. Several characters accompany Ween, like the twins Ubi and Orby, and Petroy, and friend of Ween's grandfather. Petroy can be asked to tell anything he knows about an object, which is sometimes needed to solve a puzzle. Ween can also use a flute to call Urm, a fruit vampire bat which was tamed by Ween's grandfather. Urm has magic powers and will help Ween if he is given any kind of fruit.
Impact Racing is a racing game developed by Funcom Dublin, the Irish branch of Funcom. It was released by JVC Musical Industries in Europe, Acclaim in North America, Coconuts Japan in Japan and Wooyoung System in Korea. It also came out for the Playstation.
Air Assault (known as Fire Barrel in Japan) is a vertically scrolling shoot'em up developed and published by Irem. It was only released in the arcades.
We find all ingredients for the elixir and enter the White Tower where we need to create it.
Lands of Lore - The Throne of Chaos an RPG developed by Westwood and published by Virgin Games. It was also released for FM Towns and NEC PC-98.
The story takes place in a fantasy realm simply called the Lands. The kingdom of Gladstone is under attack by the forces of the evil witch Scotia. The situation worsens dramtically when Soctia finally discovers a powerful magic stone in the ruins of a temple. This stone, called the Nether Mask, grants its wearer the ability to shapeshift into any form. When King Richard of Gladstone gets holds of this news, he sends for a champion to go to the Southland and bring the Ruby of Truth which is needed to counter Scotia's power. You take the role of this champion.
The game is a dungeon crawler similar to Dungeon Master or Westwood's own Eye of the Beholder games. Combat is in real-time, movement is fieldwise with 90 degree turns. You do not create your characters. Instead, you choose one out of four characters at the beginning of the game as main the protagonist. Other characters will join you over the course of the story. There are no classes. Each character has three attributes (fighter, rogue and mage) which will increase if you do associated actions often enough.