1990

The rotoscoping in an interesting approach to this top down shooter, but ultimately makes the gameplay too clunky and mostly a novelty in this execution.

I really like the art style here it's just a shame it plays slower than molasses rolling down a hill.

It plays like a 5-zone air hockey game. Pretty neat concept with decent visuals and serviceable sound design. Probably more fun with other players than the AI though.

More fun to play than Populous and another prototypical RTS game in many respects. It still suffers from the over designed menu interface.

The usual Jeff Minter visual noise combined with old school top down shooting.

A polished version of the original game with visual enhancements and a few gameplay changes like some additional enemies. I'd recommend this one over the original for someone wanting to try the game.

A middling fighting game featuring a handful of martial arts.

It's a very involved sim that apparently came with a 100+ page manual. The interface is relatively clean, but this is one of those games that will probably only appeal to the hardcore fans of the genre.

1990

Rally-X style gameplay with decent visuals and sound design. As usual with these top down games, there's just no sense of speed to them when all you can see is five feet of road ahead of you, and the rest of the gameplay elements don't make it any more exciting.

A solid interface combined with good visuals and decent police investigation story.

A Battlezone style tank shooter. Nothing very interesting here and somewhat clunky.

A sci-fi tunnel shooter with some puzzle mechanics to keep things more interesting than some of its contemporaries.

A solid puzzle-platformer with nice visuals.

Cartoonish visuals and a boppy soundtrack don't make up for the mediocre platforming and combat.

A great set of race settings to tune the gameplay to your liking is this game's strongest component. Sound design is also solid, and the music tracks are equally good. The gameplay is typical parallax style of the time so it doesn't really push the genre forward much in that regard, and the single dumbest issue here is that half the game is taken up by a screensaver.