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name	publisher(developer)	year	description	platform
Circuit's Edge	Infocom (Westwood Studios)	1990	The player assumes the role of Marîd Audran, a private detective. The game is set in "The Budayeen", an entertainment/criminal quarter in an unnamed city somewhere in the Mideast that is a seedy reflection of modern-day New Orleans. While running a series of errands/"business deals" for "Saied the Half-Hajj", a friend of Marîd's, Marîd is framed for the murder of a man named Kenji Carter. Although Marîd's influential patron Friedlander Bey clears him with the local police, Bey asks him to look into Carter's death. Doing so leads Marîd deep into the criminal underworld of the Budayeen.* [90]* [87]* [49]* [33]* [1]* [52]*** [37]	MS-DOS
Day of the Tentacle	LucasArts	1993	[media=youtube]Xz3Aw5qLcOs[/media]***Can be run on modern systems using ScummVM: [[link:http://www.scummvm.org/]] [cjlee001]	MS-DOS
Day of the Tentacle	LucasArts	1995		Mac OS Classic
Day of the Tentacle Remastered	Double Fine	2016		Windows
Day of the Tentacle Remastered	Double Fine	2016		Mac OS X
Day of the Tentacle Remastered	Double Fine	2016	Of note, this game uses modified versions of the original datafiles from the DOS version. The Scumm engine has been updated to read XML, FSB, MP3, and DXT files (which are how the modified datafiles are stored). This new version of the the Scumm engine runs natively on current Linux operating systems, Windows 7+, and OSX 10.7-10.11. Double Fine provides a bit of software called [url=http://quickandeasysoftware.net/software/doublefine-explorer]Doublefine Explorer[/url] that lets users, among other things, copy out the original datafiles minus the extensions. Thus recreating the DOS version from the modern files (to use with ScummVM, DOSBox, or DOS). All Moai engine or Buddha engine games by Double Fine are compatible with Doublefine Explorer. Of course, the extracted files do not have any of the updated sound, music, graphics, and features of the remastered version. While not properly titled as such, several official descriptions and documentation (including the Steam page) use the title "Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle" and "Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle"	Linux
Final Fight	U.S. Gold (Creative Materials)	1991		Amiga
Final Fight	U.S. Gold (Creative Materials)	1991		Atari ST
Final Fight	U.S. Gold (Creative Materials)	1991		Amstrad CPC
Final Fight	U.S. Gold (Creative Materials)	1991		C64
Final Fight	Capcom	2016		3DS
Final Fight	U.S. Gold	1991		ZX Spectrum
Final Fight	Capcom	1989	[28]***Sometime in the 1990's... Metro City, a well known Crime Capital, has been ruled by violence and death for many years. A fact which the newly elected mayor and former Street Fighter, Mike Haggar, plans to change. At the center of the problem is the huge gang known as Mad Gear. Mad Gear controls all of the major criminal activity in the city. When they learned of Haggar's plans, they took immediate action to bring this new mayor under their control.	Arcade
Final Fight	Capcom	1990	[media=youtube]https://youtu.be/imAydeyAGb0[/media]* [62]* [66]* [142]* [111]* [49]* [62]* [33]* [22]* [66]Japanese version [52] [32]* [37]* [29]* [27]*This by far is the worst port of Final Fight. The graphics and gameplay aren't anywhere near as good as the arcade version, there's no blood, and the 3rd character, Guy, isn't even in this version! Why? Oh, right. Capcom wanted to rip off the SNES consumers by leaving him out and then creating "Final Fight Guy" where you only play as Guy, because Cody and Mike Haggar were, um, "too busy" to go save Jessica LOL. I'm serious. Check out Final Fight Guy's intro, you'll see what I mean. Basically you want to stick to playing either the arcade original in MAME or find a copy of it for SEGA CD, which is the best overall port (and it has Guy in it too!). [AKUMA]*Jessica had it all. She was the daughter of former wrestling star and mayor of Metro City Mike Haggar and girlfriend to Cody Travers, one of the coolest and ughest boys around. But now she has been mysteriously kidnapped! Take to the streets with either Haggar or Cody and fight your way across town, deep into the turf of the Mad Gear Gang. As you cross the town, fight with all your strength to save the one you love. Enjoy unmatched beat ‘em up action in this arcade classic and discover just who is behind the Mad Gear Gang in what may be Metro City's final fight.	SNES
Final Fight	Capcom	1992		X68000
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude	Vivendi (High Voltage Software)	2004	Help Larry Earn a BA in T&A. With gorgeous coeds everywhere, college dweeb Larry Lovage is chasing around more than his diploma. He's trying to live up to the legend of his uncle Larry Laffer, everyone's favorite polyester playboy. It's the next generation of Leisure Suit Larry, with new twists on all the outrageous games and romantic entanglements which made the original such a hilarious hit! Explore a real-time, 3D world filled with sexy and outrageous humor Meet loads of hot babes in 25 interactive locations - check out the girls' dorm, frat house and strip club Prove Larry's got all the right moves with a dozen games like tapper, quarters and whack-a-mole Over 90,000 words of spoken dialogue - you never know what Larry will say next!* [100]* [12]* [96]Amusing but ultimately not very interesting game. Unfortunately I didn't play it for very long (and it was a time long ago, too), so proper review is not possible now.**The basic [b]Magna Cum Laude[/b] was released (only?) in the U.S., "edited" for mature rating (instead of adults only). [b]Uncut[/b] is the same game but unedited, released in Europe. [b]Uncut and Uncensored[/b] is a later re-release in U.S. that is essentially the same as the earlier European release. The difference is apparently that the uncut versions have full frontal nudity and "graphic" sex scenes.	Windows
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude	Vivendi (High Voltage Software)	2004	Magna Cum Laude brings back humor from the most respected funny brand on PC - Leisure Suit Larry. Updated for the 21st century with 3D graphics, engaging conversations, and a fully realized college campus, Larry is back to give gamers some loving. [Aibo]	PS2
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude	Vivendi (High Voltage Software)	2004	Magna Cum Laude brings back humor from the most respected funny brand on PC - Leisure Suit Larry. Updated for the 21st century with 3D graphics, engaging conversations, and a fully realized college campus, Larry is back to give gamers some loving. [Aibo]	Xbox
Nier	Square Enix (cavia)	2010	The Japanese got two versions of Nier, Gestalt and Replicant. In Gestalt the protagonist is a middle-aged man and father of Yonah, the girl, while in Replicant he's a teenager or so and brother of Yonah. Other than some dialog and plot changes to accommodate the difference in age and relation to Yonah, the games are identical. Apparently Replicant version was only released on PS3.***Nothing is as it seems in Square Enix's latest action adventure game, set in a crumbling world plagued by disease and dark, unrecognizable creatures. Players assume the role of the unyielding protagonist, NIER, resolute in his quest to discover a cure for his daughter, who is infected with the Black Scrawl virus. With powerful allies and a mysterious book, NIER encounters things that will confound even the mightiest of warriors.	PS3
Nier	Square Enix (cavia)	2010	Nothing is as it seems in Square Enix's latest action adventure game, set in a crumbling world plagued by disease and dark, unrecognizable creatures. Players assume the role of the unyielding protagonist, NIER, resolute in his quest to discover a cure for his daughter, who is infected with the Black Scrawl virus. With powerful allies and a mysterious book, NIER encounters things that will confound even the mightiest of warriors.	X360
Super Mario Bros. 2	Nintendo;Hyundai (Nintendo)	1988	Mario's back! Bigger and badder than ever before! This time it's a fierce action-packed battle to free the land of Subcon from the curse of the evil Wart. It's up to you, along with Mario, Luigi, Toad and the Princess, to fight your way through bizarre multi-level worlds and find him! This time you've got a brand new kind of power - plucking power - and now anything you find can be a weapon. But beware! You've never seen creatures like these! Shyguys and Tweeters! Ninji and Beezos! And you've never had an adventure like this! Only cunning and speed can save you now...* [62]* [33]* [49]* [64]* [1]* [52]* [27]It is no secret that the US/EU version of Super Mario Bros. 2 was just a slightly edited [game=#156334]Yume Kojo Doki Doki Panic[/game] version, because Nintendo thought the [game=#153349]Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2[/game] version was too difficult for non-Japanese audiences (My personal opinion is that it proved to be too hard for Japanese people as well and Nintendo got a good amount of negative feedback and didn't dare to make that mistake again in the US). Besides the characters some other minor graphical details were improved, but the game stays basically the same. Controls are very good and I think it makes a worthy sequel, more so than similar "black sheep" sequels like [game=#7949]Zelda II The Adventure of Link[/game] or [game=#7648]Castlevania II Simons Quest[/game]. Interestingly this game was also released on cartridge in Japan in 1992 (late in the Famicom life cycle) under the name "Super Mario Bros. USA".**The American and European Version of Super Mario Bros. 2 has its roots in the Japanese game 'Dream Factory: Doki Doki Panic'. It was released in Japan in 1992 as 'Super Mario USA'.	NES

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