Flat, two-dimensional graphics, usually constructed of pixels. Not three-dimensional.
Alone In The Dark 2 is a suitably frantic, scary and chilling sequel to 1992’s Alone In The Dark.
Part two came out just over a year after the first game, in 1993, and French developer Infogrames made it bigger and more challenging than the first game.
There are countless versions of Another World – Delphine Software‘s 1991, sci-fi masterpiece – but the Megadrive version (shown here) is arguably the best of them.
Known as “Spiderbot” in North America, Arac is an unusual and interesting platform action game where you control a spider-like robot (called Arac) who can capture enemies and adopt their characteristics.
Developed by Quintet for Enix in 1990, ActRaiser is a hybrid side-scrolling hack and slash platform game, with an overhead ‘God game’ type section.
HAL Laboratory‘s Adventures of Lolo 3 is a fantastic, cute and extremely playable puzzle game, first released for the Nintendo Famicom in Japan in 1991 (actually December 26th 1990, but we’ll say 1991).
I remember playing and reviewing this PC MS-DOS game when it first came out in 1994.
Al-Qadim: The Genie’s Curse is a more ‘action-oriented’ TSR role-playing game, compared to many of the other ‘Gold Box’ TSR RPGs of the time (and there were lots – courtesy of SSI and US Gold). ‘RPG Lite’ you could call it.
Novagen released the Atari ST version of Encounter in 1991.
The Amiga version of Encounter was first released in 1991 (a full seven years after the original release) by Novagen Software.
Paul Woakes‘ classic first-person ‘tank’ shooter Encounter was released simultaneously on the Atari 800 and C64 in 1983.
Paul Woakes‘ classic first-person shooter on the Commodore 64, Encounter, wowed gamers back in 1983 when it was first released.
The King of Grabs 