showing 6 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columns | Sega | 1990 | Drift back in time to ancient Phoenicia and challenge yourself with Columns, an addictive game played by Middle Eastern Merchants centuries ago. In this mesmerizing pastime, tinker with your riches to align glittering jewels across, down, or diagonally. As you line up colors, the gems vanish and more sparklers drop from above. The challenge increases as jewels fall more rapidly. You must quickly align them before the columns reach the top. For additional challenge, try Flash COlumns, where you must make the flashing jewel disappear before your time runs out. With three degrees of difficulty and ten different levels, Columns will challenge a novice to an expert. Three musical backgrounds to choose from. Five types of blocks to manipulate. Two player option puts you head-tohead against a friedn with Gear-to-Gear Cable.***Seriously though, Columns. Yes, there is a fine tradition of games where the player arranges falling things in a desperate bid to make them disappear. It’s as apt a metaphor for life itself as video games have devised. The twist in columns – have you guessed it? – is the frenetic arrangements are all vertical, a metaphor for the chaos of our waking lives, and/or a metaphor for spinning falling gems stuck to one another that vanish if you line them up just so. As is becoming a recurring theme here, Columns also had some fantastic music. | labelimagesubject |
| Pengo | Sega | 1990 | You're the only one who can save the Pengos from the Sno-bees, a gang of ruthless aliens!*** [32]*** [27] | labelimagesubject |
| Super Monaco GP | Sega | 1990 | [22]***Shooting down straightaways and downshifting into neck-wrenching turns, you're in control of the fastest car ever built - the Formula One - customized with your choice of engines, wings, tires and transmissions. You're screaming along 16 of the world's most demanding racetracks at speeds up to 315km/hr... racing against top drivers with endless stamina and skill. So strap on your helmet, fasten your safety belt, and feel the raw power of this piston-pounding test of speed, savvy and endurance. Two-player option lets you race wheel-to-wheel with a friend, using the Gear-to-Gear Cable.***Brazilian version distributed by Tec Toy. Korean version distributed by Samsung.*** [32] | labelimagesubject |
| Twin Tank | ? | 1990 | labelminimizeminimize | |
| Wonder Boy | Sega (Westone) | 1990 | labelimageminimize | |
| G-Loc: Air Battle | Sega | 1990 | Strap yourself into your G-LOC Superplane and destroy the demented Future World Army and their mulit-national death squads. Dive, climb and bank with rapdi-fire guns and missiles blazing. Blast away well-fortified enemy installations, with a constant eye on radar and fuel. Level enemy bases in nine crucial missions. Use points to customize your plane with missiles, fuel tanks, ammunition and armor to make it even more lethal... because anything less than total success is a total disaster! In the two-player mode, play against a friend (enemy?!!) with the Gear-to-Gear Cable.*** [22]*** [63]*** [37]*** [32] | labelimagesubject |
