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PlayStation (console)
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The PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The console was released on 3 December 1994 in Japan,9 September 1995 in North America,29 September 1995 in Europe, the console was the first of the PlayStation lineup of home video game consoles. It primarily competed with the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn as part of the generation of video game consoles. The PlayStation is the first computer entertainment platform to ship 100 million units, in 2000, a redesigned, slim version called the PSone was released, replacing the original grey console and named appropriately to avoid confusion with its successor, the PlayStation 2. In 1999, Sony announced the successor to the PlayStation, the PlayStation 2, which is compatible with the PlayStations DualShock controller and games. The last PSone units were sold in winter 2004 before it was discontinued in March 2005. The inception of what would become the released PlayStation dates back to 1986 with a joint venture between Nintendo and Sony, Nintendo approached Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on, tentatively titled the Play Station or SNES-CD. A contract was signed, and work began, Kutaragi was nearly fired by Sony because he was originally working with Nintendo on the side without Sonys knowledge. It was then-CEO, Norio Ohga, who recognized the potential in Kutaragis chip, Ohga kept Kutaragi on at Sony, and it was not until Nintendo cancelled the project that Sony decided to develop its own console. This was also to be the used in SNES-CDs, giving a large degree of control to Sony despite Nintendos leading position in the video gaming market. The product, dubbed the Play Station was to be announced at the May 1991 Consumer Electronics Show, yamauchi decided that the contract was totally unacceptable and he secretly cancelled all plans for the joint Nintendo-Sony SNES CD attachment. After the collapse of the project, Sony briefly considered allying itself with Sega to produce a stand-alone console. The Sega CEO at the time, Tom Kalinske, took the proposal to Segas Board of Directors in Tokyo, Kalinske, in a 2013 interview recalled them saying that’s a stupid idea, Sony doesnt know how to make hardware. They don’t know how to make software either, why would we want to do this. The federal judge presiding over the case denied the injunction and, in October 1991, however, it is theorized that only 200 or so of these machines were ever produced. However, Sony decided in early 1993 to begin reworking the Play Station concept to target a new generation of hardware and software. As part of process the SNES cartridge port was dropped. Early advertising prior to the launch in North America referenced PSX
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PlayStation models
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A number of models of Sonys PlayStation video game console were produced. The PlayStation went through a number of variants during its production run, from an external perspective, the most notable change was the gradual reduction in the number of external connectors from the back of the unit. This started very early on with the original Japanese launch units, the SCPH-1000, released on December 3,1994, was the model that had an S-Video port. Also, the first models had problems with function and developers had to use another function instead. The CD player also included reverberation effects unique to those systems until the release of the PS one in 2000 and this model was followed by the SCPH-550x and exclusive PAL SCPH-5552 units, released in April 1997. Starting with the SCPH-550x series, PAL variants had the power, originally, the PlayStation was supposed to have provision on Video CD support, but this feature was only included on the Asian exclusive SCPH-5903 model. New to the SCPH-700x series was the introduction of the Sound Scope - light show music visualizations and these were accessible by pressing the Select button while playing any normal audio CD in the systems CD player. While watching these visualizations, players could add various effects like color cycling or motion blur. These were seen on the SCPH-700x, 750x, 900x, the final revision to the original PlayStation was the SCPH-900x series, released in May 1999. These had the hardware as the SCPH-750x models, except the parallel port was removed. It also incorporated a modified version of the menu design previously used only on PAL consoles. The later revision was functionally identical, but reduced manufacturing cost by moving to more highly integrated chips. There were also debugging consoles - these were generally in blue or green cases, although there were some special production units that were grey. The debug units were designed to be as close as possible to retail consoles, the reason for the two different case colors was a hardware change that Sony had made fairly early in the PlayStation production cycle - the original machines were built using Rev. They also used VRAM to store the video data - the later models used Rev, C silicon and SGRAM - although the two chipsets had very similar performance, they were not identical - the Rev. Because this made the two machine types quite significantly different from other, you had to test your title on both of them before submitting it. The blue debugs had the old silicon and the green ones had the new silicon, in 1997, Sony released a version of the PlayStation called the Net Yaroze. Naturally, the Net Yaroze lacked many of the features the full developer suite provided, programmers were also limited by the 2 MB of total game space that Net Yaroze allowed
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PlayStation 2
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The PlayStation 2 is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation, and is the installment in the PlayStation lineup of consoles. It was released on March 4,2000 in Japan, October 26,2000 in North America, November 24,2000 in Europe and it competed with Segas Dreamcast, Microsofts Xbox, and Nintendos GameCube in the sixth generation of video game consoles. Announced in 1999, the PlayStation 2 was the first PlayStation console to offer backwards compatibility for its predecessors DualShock controller, the PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time, selling over 155 million units, with 150 million confirmed by Sony in 2011. More than 3,874 game titles have been released for the PS2 since launch, Sony later manufactured several smaller, lighter revisions of the console known as Slimline models in 2004 and well on, and in 2006, announced and launched its successor, the PlayStation 3. Sony unveiled the PlayStation 4 console the following month on February 20,2013, Sony announced the PlayStation 2 on March 1,1999. The Dreamcast itself launched very successfully in North America later that year, soon after the Dreamcasts North American launch, Sony unveiled the PlayStation 2 at the Tokyo Game Show on September 20,1999. Sony showed fully playable demos of upcoming PlayStation 2 games including Gran Turismo 2000 and Tekken Tag Tournament – which showed the consoles graphic abilities, the PS2 was launched in March 2000 in Japan, October in North America and November in Europe. Sales of the console, games and accessories pulled in $250 million on the first day, directly after its release, it was difficult to find PS2 units on retailer shelves due to manufacturing delays. Another option was purchasing the console online through websites such as eBay. This allowed the PS2 to tap the large install base established by the PlayStation – another major selling point over the competition, later, Sony added new development kits for game developers and more PS2 units for consumers. The PS2s built-in functionality also expanded its audience beyond the gamer and this made the console a low cost entry into the home theater market. The PS2 remained as the only active sixth generation console for over 6 months, before it would face competition from rivals, Nintendos GameCube and Microsofts Xbox. While the PlayStation 2 theoretically had the weakest specification of the three, it had a start due to its installed base plus strong developer commitment. Sony also countered the Xbox by temporarily securing PlayStation 2 exclusives for highly anticipated games such as the Grand Theft Auto series and Metal Gear Solid 2, Sons of Liberty. Sony cut the price of the console in May 2002 from US$299 to $199 in North America, making it the price as the GameCube. It also planned to cut the price in Japan around that time and it cut the price twice in Japan in 2003. In 2006, Sony cut the cost of the console in anticipation of the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony, unlike Sega with its Dreamcast, originally placed little emphasis on online gaming during its first few years, although that changed upon the launch of the online-capable Xbox
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Capcom Generations
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Capcom Generations is a series of five video game compilations produced by Capcom for PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Each volume contains three or four games from a series or game genre and were ported directly from their original arcade versions. Each disc also contains a collection mode featuring history, tips, artwork, character profiles, arranged music, the PlayStation versions of the games also featured support for the DualShock controller. In Japan, the series was released individually with 5 discs, the 16 games in the series were later collected in the Capcom Classics Collection based on their Capcom Generations versions. Capcom Generations, Wings of Destiny features the first three games in Capcoms 1940s series of Shoot em up,19421943, The Battle of Midway 1943 Kai, Midway Kaisen Capcom Generations, Chronicles of Arthur features the first three titles of the Ghostsn Goblins series. Ghostsn Goblins Ghoulsn Ghosts Super Ghoulsn Ghosts Capcom Generations, First Generation features four of Capcoms first five titles, vulgus SonSon Pirate Ship Higemaru Exed Exes Capcom Generations, Blazing Guns features three run and gun-style Shoot em up games. In the German version, this disc was removed completely and it contains the first three versions of the original Street Fighter II. A Collection mode is featured where the player can view strategies, character profiles. Each game features an Arcade, Versus and Training mode, upon completing a games single-player mode, an option is unlocked to give the player a choice between the original CPS soundtracks and an arranged version. After completing the mode of each game at least once. The Super Vs. Mode allows two players to compete against each other by selecting between characters from any three versions of Street Fighter II in the compilation, if the player completes a games single-player mode without using continues, a CPU Battle mode is unlocked. CPU Battle allows the player to battle any CPU opponent at the games highest difficulty, if the player manages to defeat the CPU opponent, the games staff roll will instantly play
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Mercs
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Mercs, originally released as Senjō no Ōkami II, is a 1990 top-down run and gun arcade game developed and published by Capcom for the arcades. It is a followup to the 1985 Commando and it was followed by Wolf of the Battlefield, Commando 3 in 2008, a downloadable game. The arcade version of the game had up to three players available for play, the players are members of a covert mercenary team known as the Wolf Force. The team is composed of Joseph Gibson, Howard Powell, and their objective is to rescue a former President from rebels in the fictional African country of Zutula, which is administered by an apartheid government. The game has six levels, plus the level where the objective is to rescue the president from the Hercules Transport. The controls consist of a joystick and two buttons, a Normal Attack and the Megacrush Attack. The player can upgrade their default gun into an Assault Rifle, a Shotgun, the Megacrush button will detonate a bomb that kills all on-screen enemies. However, the Megacrush Attack has limited uses which the player can replenish by picking more Megacrush bombs. In certain stages, the player can pilot enemy vehicles, a Mega Drive version of Mercs was produced by Sega, which was first released in Japan on September 27,1991, with subsequent releases in North America and Europe. Unlike the arcade version, the Mega Drive version of Mercs only allows for a single player, home computer ports of Mercs were also released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1991 by U. S. Gold. These conversions of the game were handled by Tiertex, Tiertex also developed the Sega-published Master System version that was released in Europe and Brazil. The original arcade version of Mercs, along with Commando and Gun. Smoke, are included in the volume of the Capcom Generations compilations released for the PlayStation. The Genesis version was released by Capcom for the Wii Virtual Console in North America on February 9,2009 and this re-release is listed under the title of Mercs, Wolf of the Battlefield, to tie in with the earlier Wolf of the Battlefield, Commando 3. The Genesis version is on the Retrobit Generations Plug and Play along other Capcom, Irem, Jaleco, Mercs at MobyGames Mercs at SpectrumComputing. co. uk Mercs @ Game Kommander
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Captain Commando
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Captain Commando is a 1991 futuristic side-scrolling beat em up game originally developed and published by Capcom as a coin-operated video game, and later ported to several other platforms. It was the seventeenth title produced for the companys CP System hardware, the game stars the titular superhero who was originally conceived as a fictional spokesman used by Capcom USA in the companys console games during the late 1980s. Captain Commando He is the leader of the Commando Team, besides his powerful mind and strong body, he also uses his Energy Gloves, whicn can shoot mighty bolts of fire and electricity. His killer technique is the Captain Collider, striking the ground with his Energy Gloves causes an electric shock which kills everyone around him. Captain Commandos dash attacks are Captain Cannon which torches the enemy with a blast of flame, Captain Commando also can grab his opponent and kick their stomach or throw their whole body. Mack the Knife The Mummy Commando is an alien from outer space. As weapons he uses sub-sonic knives that melt any enemy he hits and his killer technique is the Spinning Attack. Spinning round like a top, his bandages lash his enemies like whips, macks dash attacks are Double Trouble which sticks his enemy with both knives and Sky Assault which is an airborne version of Double Trouble. Mack also can grab his enemy and either stick or throw them, macks name comes from the Bertolt Brecht song of the same title. Ginzu the Ninja The Ninja Commando is a trained ninja and successor to Bushin-ryu Ninpo. His razor-sharp sword is capable of cutting an opponent in two and his killer technique is his Smoke Bomb. After creating a screen around his body, the smoke explodes. Ginzus dash attacks are Iaizuki which pierces several enemies at once, Ginzu can grab his opponents and either kick their stomach or do a shoulder throw or overhead throw. He is the character who is able to throw shurikens to his opponents. Baby Head The Baby Commando is a super genius infant who fights using a robot of his own design and his robot is both strong and quick. His killer technique is his Knee Rocket which launches a missile from the knee which are constantly manufactured within the robot. Captain Commando follows the same gameplay established in Capcoms previous beat-em-up Final Fight, the arcade version allows up to two, three, or even four players simultaneously depending on the games settings. The player can select any of the four commandos as their character, with each player controlling a different character
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Rampage Through Time
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Rampage Through Time is the fourth game in the Rampage series, released in 2000. Its predecessor is Rampage 2, Universal Tour, and it is followed by Rampage, in the game, seven previous Scumlabs monsters and one new one use a time machine to rampage through time. The world is again rebuilding after the events of Universal Tour, to clean up the mess quicker, Scumlabs invent a time machine to send people back in time to fix the mess without having to do it in the present. Unfortunately, the monsters, who have made it back to Earth, appear. They begin terrorizing the past, present, and future, messing up the time stream, later, a UFO-like craft is created to stop the monsters but it fails. Eventually, the monsters are finally stopped for good, in Campaign Mode, each timezone consists of four stages. The first three consists of traditional Rampage gameplay, in that you must destroy all the buildings in each city while avoiding attacks from enemy forces, Campaign Mode is only playable with one player, but the CPU will randomly select two other monsters to oppose you in that timezone. After each city is destroyed, all three monsters are awarded stars for inflicting the most damage on buildings, people, and each other, the fourth stage is a multiplayer minigame that varies with each timezone, usually as a parody of games such as Asteroids or Breakout. In Campaign Mode, the player must win these minigames in order to continue with the main game, the stars earned in the Rampage stages are also translated into extra points for the minigames, making it important to earn as many as possible to increase the chances of winning. The game received unfavorable reviews according to the aggregation website GameRankings
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Rampage 2: Universal Tour
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Rampage 2, Universal Tour is the third game in the Rampage series. It is a sequel to Rampage, World Tour. George, Lizzie, and Ralph have been captured, returned to their normal size, George is held captive in New York City, Lizzie is imprisoned in Tokyo, and Ralph the Wolf is stored in London. However, Scumlabs, who has just rebuilt their facilities in Salt Lake City, players choose one of the three original monsters to rescue. The player then uses the characters in the part of the world where the rescuee is held and they work as a collective to break buildings, eat people, and destroy cars and this creates competition among players. When a player frees George, Lizzie, or Ralph, then become playable characters. Once all the monsters are rescued, aliens begin to invade the Earth leaving the monsters the only ones who can save the planet that they just helped partially destroy, a news channel covers all the destruction caused by the monsters. At the end of the game, it is revealed that the aliens have a news program, each level in Rampage 2, Universal Tour consists of buildings which the player is able to destroy. When the player has dealt enough damage to a building, it will collapse in on itself, sometimes, miscellaneous objects and power-ups are revealed in the buildings upon being damaged, and can assist the player if used. When every building in a city has been destroyed, the game will advance to the next level. Around every five or so levels, a mini-game is available for the player to play, some of the cities that are featured in each level include landmarks from their real-world counterparts. For example, London, UK, features the Tower of London, in Washington, D. C. the White House, and the U. S. Many of the alien planets are named after real-life Earth cities. The Game Boy Color and Nintendo 64 versions received mixed reviews, while the PlayStation version received unfavorable reviews, craig Harris of IGN criticized the PlayStation version as being dull and repetitive, although stating that it was better than its predecessor, Rampage World Tour. Rampage 2, Universal Tour at MobyGames
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Mario Andretti Racing
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Mario Andretti Racing is a video game that was released in 1994 on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. It was a title in the newly created EA Sports line. The game was produced by famed sports game developer Scott Orr as part of his collaboration with Richard Hilleman in the creation of EA Sports. Race driver Mario Andretti personally guided the development of the AI used by the drivers in stock cars, Indy style open wheel racing. The games greatest innovation was the presence of different physics and AI for three kinds of racing in one cartridge, another game starring Andretti, called Andretti Racing, was released for the Sega Saturn, PlayStation in 1996, and for PC in 1997. In 1996 EA Sports released a game called Andretti Racing, the game was released to good review including PSExtreme Magazine calling Andretti Racing is the most realistic and exciting racing game on the PlayStation. The game was released on the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC
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Battle Hunter
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Battle Hunter, known in Japan as Battle Sugoroku, Hunter and in Europe as The Hunter, is an anime-styled tactical role-playing game, released for the PlayStation in 1999. It was released in Japan as part of the SuperLite 1500 series of budget games, in the years after a major world war, the few scientists remaining on Earth set out to develop a formula to protect humanity from extinction. To be successful they require vital information from the ruins of cities around the world, the story revolves around the player getting jobs from the shop owner to recover relics of interest from dungeons. Eventually the player compete against a secret organization known as B PHS for the target relics. Gameplay centers around hunting and retrieving relics in a represented by a randomly generated grid. Four hunters are present in the dungeon, with the computer controlling any hunters that are not controlled by the players. Before entering a dungeon, the player are given a mission to retrieve a key hidden in one of the treasure boxes in the dungeon. Other treasure boxes contain other relics, but only the key relic is required to win any one mission, the player has 3 options, moving, attacking and resting. When creating a hunter, players are given 11 initial ability points to spend on Movement, Attack, Defense, each hunter begins the game with 5 cards drawn randomly out of a deck of 100. Other players are able to see each others hands at all times. Cards can be used at different times throughout the game for different effects, blue and Yellow cards can be used on the map or in combat, but Red and Green cards can only be used in combat or on the map, respectively. They range from +1 to +3 and E, there are only 2 blue E cards in the deck. When used on the grid map, blue cards increase the hunters movement range for that round. If an E card is used, it will warp the hunter directly to the exit, when used in combat, they increase the hunters ability to escape from battle for one round. If an E card is used in combat, it will result in success in escaping. Yellow cards affect defense and evasion and they range in value from +3 to +9, as well as A, and D. If used on the grid map, the cards increase the hunters ability to avoid traps by a percentage of the cards value x10. For example, a yellow +3 will grant a 30% chance of evading a trap, both D and A cards will grant total trap protection, increasing the rate to 100%
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Blast Chamber
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Blast Chamber is a video game released on PC, Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn. In the single game, the player navigates through 40 different cube-shaped puzzles. The player must collect a crystal orb and drop it off in the reactor before time runs out or the player explodes and must start over. The game places emphasis on the ability to kick the walls of the cube at certain points which causes the entire chamber to rotate. Obstacles range from platforms, to spike pits, to giant fans, in addition, some kickers are placed on some walls to mislead the player. There are even some flashing platforms that rotate the chamber 180 degrees when the player jumps on them. Once the crystal is dropped off in the reactor, the moves on to the next level. After each level, the player is awarded 100 points for each second remaining on their timer, for every 10,000 points, the player gains an extra life. If the player makes it through all 40 chambers without using any cheat codes, if even one cheat code is used, the player is prompted the message, You made it. Single player mode is always Red Player and this mode has up to four computer-controlled or human players face off against each other in 1 of 20 different chambers. The winner is the last one alive at the end, each player has C4 strapped to their suit with a timer continuously counting down. However, when a player possesses the crystal, that players Kill Clock freezes until they put it in a reactor or lose it by being pushed or falling. Each player has a small pyramid holochamber assigned to them in which they can bring a crystal that is dropped at the beginning of the level to extend the amount of time on their timer. The other players try to grab the crystal, by pushing its bearer. Alternatively, a crystal can be dropped in a different players chamber to cut off time from their timer, how much time is gained or lost when a crystal is placed in a reactor depends on the difficulty. Also, on Conflagration or Thermonuclear difficulty, if a player blows up and another player is standing too close, both players are blown up simultaneously. Once an orb is dropped off into a chamber, falls on spikes, falls in a pit, or blows up via the Crystal Bomb powerup, another one will appear. This mode is similar to Eliminator Mode, except that there is a fixed amount of time that the game will go on for
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Blaze and Blade: Eternal Quest
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Blaze and Blade, Eternal Quest is a multiplayer action role-playing game developed by T&E Soft for the PlayStation and PC. It is the first in the series, and the one released outside Japan. Blaze and Blade is a hack and slash action RPG with a emphasis on puzzle solving. The game allows for characters to be created with one of eight classes, the PlayStation version supports multiplayer capabilities as both the MultiTap and cable link are supported. Adventurers come across an ancient lithograph during their travels, supposedly very valuable, to do so, the adventurers dive into more dungeons to collect magical gems which in legend fit into the inset of the lithograph. Old Man MurrayReview on Blaze and blade Review by IGN GameSpy Review
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Radical Entertainment
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Radical Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian video game developer based in Vancouver, British Columbia and a subsidiary of Activision. The studio was founded in 1991 by industry veterans Rory Armes and Dave Davis and it is best known for developing three games in the Crash Bandicoot franchise, and the Prototype series of games. Studio head Dr. David Dave Fracchia left the company in May 2014, Radical Entertainment most recently contributed to Destiny in 2014. Radical Entertainment was founded in 1991 by Rory Armes, Dave Davis, the studio primarliy developed Nintendo Entertainment System ports and adaptions of other video games, peaking at eight projects in 1994. Between 1997 and 1998, serveral employees left the studio to form Barking Dog Studios, in 2003, Radical Entertainment opened a development division,369 Interactive, which was set to develop multiple titles based on the CSI franchise, in partnership with Ubi Soft. Although Radical Entertainment developed few titles for Vivendi Universal Entertainment, the titles gained massive success, Radical was also given the license to continue development of the Crash Bandicoot franchise which was also published under Sierra Entertainment. Radical took over the development of Crash Tag Team Racing from Travellers Tales, the critical and commercial success of Crash of the Titans spawned one more sequel, Crash, Mind over Mutant, which managed to both critically beat its predecessor as well as commercially. During the development of Crash, Mind Over Mutant, Radical began working on its first original IP, in 2008 it was announced that Vivendi Games and Activision were to form Activision Blizzard. The merger changed the mood of Radical and made it more like a first-party developer, at the time of the merge Radical was working on three different projects, one was an unnamed project and the other two were Crash, Mind Over Mutant and Prototype. After the merger took place, about half of Radicals staff was cut under Activision Blizzards restructuring and this resulted in the cancellation of the unnamed project while development of Crash and Prototype were unaffected. Crash, Mind Over Mutant was the last games to be published under the Sierra Entertainment label, nevertheless, Activision is given credit within the video game. Prototype was published only underneath the Activision label, however, when Radical Entertainment experienced layoffs which resulted in over 60 people losing jobs, the project was cancelled by Activision. At the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, Radical announced Prototype 2, Radical Entertainment released the first details for Prototype 2 in an interview with EGMi. In the same interview revealed that they halted the development on an unknown game, possibly the rumoured Crash Bandicoot title. However, other candidates for the game were rumored to be an unknown Spider-Man game. This title was revealed to be cancelled. In January 2011, an artist posted video showing the cancelled Jason Bourne game called Treadstone. The game was cancelled when the Bourne license was reacquired by Ludlum Entertainment, to celebrate the release of Prototype 2, Radical Entertainment revealed that, to coincide, they were releasing RadNet
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Brian Lara Cricket
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Brian Lara Cricket is the first in a series of cricket games to be endorsed by Brian Lara. There have been games in the series, Brian Lara Cricket 96, Brian Lara Cricket 99, Brian Lara International Cricket 2005. Brian Lara Cricket was released on the PC in 1994 for DOS and Sega Mega Drive, the game was also rereleased in 1999 under the Codemaster Classics brand for Windows. The Mega Drive version spent 10 weeks at number 1 in the UK games charts during the summer of 1995, the game is a rebranded version of Graham Gooch World Class Cricket. The game supports one to four players and has three modes of difficulty and it also features real player names such as Dion Nash, Michael Slater and Brian Lara. The player can choose to either a one-day game or a Test match. There are three types of bowling in the game fast, spin and swing. Fielding can be manual or automatic, Brian Lara Cricket has pseudo-3D graphics which appears to make the perspective change when playing the game. The sound effects in the game are digitised, the game included the NVR save feature which allowed games to be stored using a battery to supply power to the memory inside the cartridge. It also claims to have hundreds of frames of animation for each sprite, Brian Lara Brian Lara Cricket series Codemasters Codemasters official website Brian Lara Cricket at AllGame Brian Lara Cricket at MobyGames
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CART World Series
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CART World Series a game for the PlayStation, published and developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and released on September 16,1997. CART World Series is based on the Championship Auto Racing Teams open-wheel racing series and this game is licensed and features many notable drivers from the late 1990s, such as Greg Moore, Al Unser Jr. and Paul Tracy. The game also features 10 authentic tracks as well as realistic handling, players can compete in a full years worth of races competing for points in each race or in simple single races. There are two modes, arcade and simulation. Arcade mode allows re-spawning of damaged vehicle parts, in Simulation mode, all damage is permanent for the race. The game supports the analog controller, the play can make many modifications to a cars performance. The player can, adjust the tires to fit the road, as well as gear ratios. Moving the front of the car down or slanting the wings may enable the player to find a combination of speed. During simulation mode races, the tires will wear down. In addition to the drivers and cars, ten official CART tracks have been included – each modeled after its real-life counterpart. Tracks span the United States and are located in Cleveland, Michigan, Long Beach, each features realistic dynamics and road handling in an attempt to create a believable racing experience. In Season Mode, the player take part in a series of races, for which the player must qualify and race. This game also features 2-player split screen mode or a Link Cable, CART World Series at IGN CART World Series at MobyGames
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Crash Bash
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Crash Bash is a party video game developed by Eurocom and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was also the final Crash Bandicoot in the series to be published by Sony Computer Entertainment, Crash Bash is the fifth installment in the Crash Bandicoot series. It is the first Crash Bandicoot game not to be developed by Naughty Dog, the last game released for the PlayStation console, the games story centers on a contest of minigames held by Aku Aku and Uka Uka to decide whether good or evil is the strongest. Crash Bash is a party game for up to four human or computer-controlled players, the game features several rounds of minigames in which the goal is to defeat opponents by reducing their health to zero or otherwise knocking them out. The last player standing wins the round, and the first player to win a set number of wins the game. The main mode of play in Crash Bash is the Adventure Mode, the player must win every collectible in each arena before advancing to the next. An arena boss minigame is unlocked when the player accretes a set amount of collectibles, minigames include races and other player elimination games. The premise of the plot is an argument between Aku Aku and Uka Uka over whether good is stronger than evil. They decide to hold a team-based contest, the game was designed by Mark Cerny. The music is composed by Steve Duckworth, the game received positive reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Human Tornado of GamePro noted that the collection of minigames were built for four simultaneous players, shawn Sparks of Game Revolution praised the solid graphics, amount of minigames and great multiplayer. Doug Perry of IGN concluded that the game was unoriginal and shallow, ryan Davis of GameSpot described Crash Bash as neither particularly bad or good. Crash Bash at Eurocom The official Crash Bash website
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Crash Team Racing
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Crash Team Racing is a kart racing video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. Crash Team Racing is the installment in the Crash Bandicoot series. It is the first Crash Bandicoot game in the racing genre, the games story focuses on the efforts of a ragtag team of characters in the Crash Bandicoot series, who must race against the egomaniacal Nitros Oxide to save their planet from destruction. In the game, players can take control of one of fifteen Crash Bandicoot series characters, during the races, offensive and speed boosting power ups can be used to gain an advantage. Crash Team Racing was praised by critics for its gameplay and graphics, an indirect sequel, Crash Nitro Kart, was released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and N-Gage. Crash Team Racing is a game in which the player controls characters from the Crash Bandicoot universe. While racing, the player can accelerate, steer, reverse, brake, hop or use weapons and power-ups with the controllers analog stick. Two distinct forms of crates are scattered throughout the tracks and arenas of Crash Team Racing, Crates with question marks on them hold power-ups and weapons, which can be obtained by driving through and breaking apart the said crates. When the player collects a weapon or power-up, it appear in a box at the top of the screen. The player can activate the weapon or power-up to wreak havoc on the racers or supplement the players own performance. Fruit Crates carry Wumpa Fruit that increase the speed of the kart and strengthen the players weapons. A crucial maneuver in Crash Team Racing is the slide, the player executes the slide by holding down one of the shoulder buttons to perform a hop. While sliding, the Turbo Boost Meter on the corner of the screen fills up. At the same time, the exhaust gas from the players kart turns black, to get a speed boost, the player quickly presses the opposite shoulder button while the Turbo Boost Meter is red. The player can execute three speed boosts in a row during a slide, with the third speed boost being more powerful than the previous two. If the player waits too long into the slide for a boost, the kart back-fires. Aside from power slides, speed boosts can be obtained by gathering hang time when leaping over gaps in the track, the longer the player is in the air, the bigger the speed boost will be when the kart lands. Crash Team Racing features 5 racing modes, Adventure, Time Trial, Arcade, Versus, in each mode, the player selects 1 from 8 characters to control
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College Slam
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College Slam is a college basketball video game published by Acclaim. Many gaming critics accused it of being a thinly veiled repackaging of NBA Jam and it includes most major Division I colleges, but there are many, such as the University of Tennessee, the University of Notre Dame, and Mississippi State University, that are not included. The player can play tournaments, a season, or a single game and it was released for the Super NES, Genesis, Game Boy, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and PC. Each team starts out by picking any two out of five players to play with during the game, during timeouts, and at half-time, the player has a choice to make substitutions. When a player makes two baskets in a row, the announcer says Hes heating up, and if he makes three baskets in a row without the team scoring, he says Hes on fire. Which makes it easier to score, in the season mode, the player can pick from 44 teams, and then play a 20-game season against quality competition. In the tournament mode,16 teams compete for a chance to win the national championship, the player also has the ability to edit teams and players. Like NBA Jam before it, the gameplay is goofy, but yet competitive as players can easily make full-courts shots off and on, occasionally the college ball players can get struck by lightning as they dunk. The two sports reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the PlayStation version scores of 6.0 and 5.5 out of 10 and he scored it 2 out of 5 stars
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Destruction Derby Raw
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Destruction Derby Raw is a video game for the PlayStation and is the third installment of the Destruction Derby series. It was developed by Studio 33 and was first released in 2000, the game was released after Destruction Derby and Destruction Derby 2. Raw was added to the PlayStation Platinum Range on 15 February 2002, the following are the modes in the game, In Wrecking Racing, there are 25 tough and gruelling real race-tracks to race and to demolition. The objective is to destroy or wreck the other competitors while racing, for which points are earned, in nearly every race, there are 19 competitors, although some races have 15 competitors. Points are earned according to placement, with the winner gaining 1000 points, first runner up earns 900 points. No race points are earned if the player finishes outside 9th place, in every race, there is a required points section. This means that in race, there is a require points. Only those players earning more than the number of points in a race passes the stage. Smash 4 $ means Smash for cash, an all new mode where cars have to be purchased and upgraded. This mode is the same as Championship, the objective is to collect money by winning races and then use that prize money to upgrade better, faster cars in order to win more advanced cars with which to race. To begin with, not all vehicles are immediately affordable, race success will win rewards with which players can start buying more powerful vehicles, the races are divided into different skill levels and different types of cars, with the harder races carrying higher the prize money. Once a new Championship begins, you need to equip your garage with a car, during the championship, the player can adopt a strategy of adding more cars to his/her garage with the prospect of upgrading each car differently. He/she can then select a car most suitable for the next race, the cost of a car will be directly proportional to its performance and every car that can be bought will have performance commensurate with price. To join a race, youll need to select a car that meets the requirement of having all damage cars repaired. The game ends when the cars are all destroyed and has insufficient money to purchase another racer. Battle has the real mode, and has a total of 4 modes as following, Assault is team mode. There are 2 vehicles per team and your partner is a CPU-controlled armour-plated Hummers, which are very strong, the aim is to prevent the other CPU cars from attacking your team mate, while simultaneously trying to slow down your opponents Hummer. The Hummers are difficult to manoeuvre, and their speed may be difficult to control, players may resort to head-on collisions, but these will cause damage to vehicles, if a car is destroyed, a player will no longer be able to help his/her team-mate
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Devil Dice
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Devil Dice is a video game for the PlayStation. It was originally created by developer Shift on the homebrew Yaroze platform, released in 1998, it is one of only a handful of games to make the leap from the Yaroze to commercial release. The game is a million-seller and a version was released as a PlayStation Classic game for the PlayStation 3. A sequel, Xi Jumbo was released on the original PlayStation in Japan, the Jumbo Mode gameplay changes were integrated into Bombastic on the PS2. A version Xi Little also appeared on the Wonderswan Color, a PSP version, Xi Coliseum, was released in Japan on March 9,2006. This version includes support for ad hoc wireless play between up to five players, Bombastic, for the PlayStation 2, is the second sequel to Devil Dice, and incorporates all play modes from previous releases. Devil Dice is a puzzle game, where the player controls a small devil that runs around a grid covered in large dice. The player can both stand atop dice, and stand on the ground, when standing on the dice, the player can move from die to die, or can roll a die in the direction he or she runs, revealing a different face as the die rotates. Creating a group of adjacent dice with identical pips—the size of which must be at least the number of pips—causes those dice to slowly sink into the field before disappearing, chain reactions are possible by adding additional dice to a sinking set. Different types of dice are available in some modes, with different properties to make the more challenging. The game features the following modes, Battle - Pits the player against a computer opponent. Puzzle - Mode in which players must solve puzzles using only a number of steps or moves. Solving a whole row of puzzles allows players access to a picture that they can play on in Battle mode, trial - The standard arcade-style mode, where the objective is to remove as many dice as possible before the grid completely fills with dice. Wars - A frenzied multiplayer mode, supporting up to four computer opponents. Players damage each other as they complete chains, with the last devil standing becoming the winner, Devil Dice at GameSpot Devil Dice at IGN
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Fantastic Four
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The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1, which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium. As the first superhero team title produced by Marvel Comics, it formed a cornerstone of the companys 1960s rise from a division of a publishing company to a pop culture conglomerate. Since their original 1961 introduction, the Fantastic Four have been portrayed as a dysfunctional, yet loving. Breaking convention with other comic book archetypes of the time, they would squabble, the Fantastic Four have been adapted into other media, including four animated series and four live-action films. According to Lee, writing in 1974, Martin mentioned that he had noticed one of the published by National Comics seemed to be selling better than most. It was a book called The Justice League of America and it was composed of a team of superheroes, if the Justice League is selling, spoke he, why dont we put out a comic book that features a team of superheroes. Determined to carve a career for myself in the nowhere world of comic books, Lee concluded that, For just this once. Lee said he created a synopsis for the first Fantastic Four story that he gave to penciller Jack Kirby, Kirby turned in his penciled art pages to Lee, who added dialogue and captions. Kirby claims he came up with the idea for the Fantastic Four in Marvels offices, Kirby also sought to establish, more credibly and on numerous occasions, that the visual elements of the strip were his conceptions. He regularly pointed to a team he had created for rival publisher DC Comics in the 1950s, F you notice the uniforms, theyre the same. I always give them a skintight uniform with a belt, the Challengers and the FF have a minimum of decoration. And of course, the Things skin is a kind of decoration, the chest insignia of a 4 within a circle, however, was designed by Lee. The characters wear no uniforms in the first two issues, given the conflicting statements, outside commentators have found it hard to identify with precise detail who created the Fantastic Four. Comics historian R. C. Harvey believes that the Fantastic Four was a furtherance of the work Kirby had been doing previously, but Harvey notes that the Marvel Method of collaboration allowed each man to claim credit, and that Lees dialogue added to the direction the team took. Wells argues that it was Lees contributions which set the framework within which Kirby worked, and this made Lee more responsible. Comics historian Mark Evanier, an assistant to Jack Kirby in the 1970s, says that the considered opinion of Lee and Kirbys contemporaries was that Fantastic Four was created by Stan. No further division of credit seemed appropriate, the release of The Fantastic Four #1 was an unexpected success
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Hogs of War
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The game is set in a First World War-era where anthropomorphic pigs engage in combat. Play proceeds in a fashion, with 3D graphics, vehicles, a career-based single-player mode. The tune for the game is John Philip Sousas Liberty Bell March, the design of the game is discussed in the book The Game Makers Apprentice, which is co-authored by the lead programmer of the game and has a foreword by one of the games designers. The gameplay of Hogs of War is a turn-based tactics game where players take turns controlling individual members of their squad of hogs to engage in combat with the opposition, similar to Worms. Other hazards include bodies of water that, while they can be swam in, is damaging to nearly all types of soldiers, if a teammate is knocked into water by an opponent, they will automatically swim to the nearby shore line. While difficult, it is possible to knock hogs off the map resulting in instant death. If all health is gone and the player is on land, each squad member can be assigned a class type where they have immediate access to certain weapons and abilities. Despite the classes, any hog can pick up and use any weapon or ability if found in a crate that can be found across each map or dropped from blimps. Bunkers and MASH tents also provide protection but without weaponry. At the start of each campaign, the player chooses their nation, the main objective for the player is to conquer all five regions of the world map with each region containing five missions against each opposing nation. At the start of the campaign, the squad is made up of grunts who have little maximum health. Hogs, however, can be promoted as the player progresses through the campaign by earning medals, a single medal is given upon completion of a mission and five with every region conquered, with additional medals given if all squad members survive and any others collected during the missions. First promotion opens up the four classes with the choice to pursue one and develop further, for example espionage begins with scout before being promoted to sniper. While all classes are distinctive, after enough promotions, all can eventually be promoted to a commando class that specialises in all weapons and abilities. If a hog is killed during a mission they can return for the next mission. If, however, three die, one will be permanently lost, and two lost if four die, along with their promotions, in single player mode a significant difference exists in the versions of the game as presented on PlayStation and PC. The six nations include the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the UK is represented by Tommys Trotters who are clothed in green and wear standard British issue First World War helmets. They are based on the British Expeditionary Force and are portrayed as either incredibly posh or hooligan like, France is represented by the Garlic Grunts who are clothed in dark blue and wear army caps
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International Track & Field
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International Track & Field is a 3D update of Konamis Track & Field series, in which up to four players compete in eleven different Olympic events. The game was released for the PlayStation and the arcades in 1996, the arcade version was released only in Japan as Hyper Athlete. In 2008 the game was released on PlayStation Network, all six events from the first game, 1983s Track & Field, are included, but only three events are taken from the sequel, Hyper Sports. International Track & Field uses the control system of its predecessors. The two sports reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly both gave the game a 7 out of 10 and he particularly noted the easy to learn but difficult to master gameplay, fiercely competitive multiplayer, and dramatic animations. IGN praised the graphics as awesome
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International Track & Field 2000
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International Track & Field 2000 is a track and field game for PlayStation in 1999 and Nintendo 64 in 2000. It was released in Europe under the name International Track & Field, Summer Games, versions were also released for the Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and Game Boy Color as ESPN International Track & Field in North America and Europe. In Japan, Famitsu gave the PlayStation version a score of 30 out of 40, International Track & Field 2000 at MobyGames ESPN International Track & Field at MobyGames ESPN International Track & Field at MobyGames
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International Superstar Soccer Pro 98
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International Superstar Soccer Pro 98 is a football video game which follows International Superstar Soccer Pro developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The Japanese version was re-released in 1999 as Winning Eleven 3, the English commentary for the game is provided by Tony Gubba. Although it lacked FIFPro licence, it featured Italian striker Fabrizio Ravanelli along with German goalkeeper Andreas Koepke, the cover of the Nintendo 64 version featured Colombian player Carlos Valderrama, and the game featured license from Reebok to use their logos in adboards and the Chilean kits. It is impossible to lose the match by accumulating too many red cards, after the third red card only yellows are shown. The Nintendo 64 version is called International Superstar Soccer 98, and was developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka as a different game. The list of teams has been extendend to 54, the number of players in each team has been extended to 18. Slide bar allowing to adjust game speed has been introduced, formation mode can be entered in any time during the match. New games mode - All Star Match and Training, player Name Editor has been implemented in Game Options. The choice of difficulty and game length allowed in other game modes than Exhibition Mode, five new stadiums and five difficulty levels. During the International Cup mode ball turns colour to blue which resembles the ball used in the 1998 FIFA World Cup - Tricolore The features six different game modes, modes existing in previous version have been developed and the two new have been added. Exhibition Mode, a match game against computer or another player with a choice of difficulty, stadium, weather and match length. It was also possible to play with another player or with computer against computer, Computer versus computer option was available as well. League Mode,16 international teams participate in playing either half or full season with a free choice of teams. Cup Mode, mainly focused on emulation of FIFA World Cup with the group draw as in FIFA World Cup 1998. This mode also included local cups like European Cup, Asian Cup, African Cup, North American Cup and South American Cup, Konami Cup was the one with the more adjustable settings like the number of teams and tournament basis. It is also possible to try to qualify for the World Cup, All Star Match, a friendly match game between the World Stars Players and European Stars Players. Penalty Kick Mode, two take a five penalty kicks to select the winner. In case of a draw, they undergo sudden death round, Training, practice of shooting free kicks and corner kicks with a selected team
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NBA Hangtime
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NBA Hangtime is a basketball video game developed and published by Midway and released in arcades in 1996. Home versions were released for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, SNES, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, a version for Game. com was cancelled. Hangtime was the basketball game by the original development team behind the NBA Jam series. The title was changed due to the NBA Jam name being acquired by Acclaim Entertainment, acclaims NBA Jam Extreme was released the same year as Hangtime. Features introduced in Hangtime included character creation, alley oops, a software update known as NBA Maximum Hangtime was released for the arcades later in the life cycle. A sequel, NBA Showtime, NBA on NBC, was released in 1999, the gameplay is largely the same as the Midways NBA Jam games, with some additions. Created players can be more powerful as players earn additional attribute points by winning games. The game retains many of the rules of NBA Jam, Tournament Edition, including the two-on-two match ups, statistics tracking, legal pushing. Additions to the gameplay include spin moves, alley oops and double slam dunks - a slam dunk performed after one member in the middle of a dunk passes to the other member. Alley-oops and double dunks can trigger the new team fire mode in both team members are on fire. Each team now has five members of the roster to choose from, the original arcade version features team rosters from the 1995-96 NBA season, while the home console versions feature team rosters that were accurate to the 1996-97 NBA season. The player can select any of the 29 NBA teams and match them in four quarters of NBA basketball. Just as in the NBA Jam games, the game can keep track of the teams a player has beaten using a players created ID, optionally, the player can load their created player. Players using their ID face off against a series of NBA teams, starting with the Vancouver Grizzlies, after beating all 29 teams, the player faces off against a number of secret characters. New to the game is a combination lock feature. Similar to the Kombat Kodes in Mortal Kombat 3, the feature allows players to enter codes on the Match Up screen that alter the games appearance and/or gameplay, the initial arcade version and the home versions included an NBA trivia quiz at the end of each game played. The theme song Whatcha Gonna Do. and Get Up, Get Up were produced by rapper M-Doc of Indasoul, computer and Video Games dubbed Hangtime the real, and quite worthy, successor to NBA Jam TE. The graphics improvements were lauded, as were the new features, moves, the home ports received mixed reviews
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NBA Hoopz
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NBA Hoopz is a basketball video game by Midway. This game is a descendant of NBA Jam and NBA Hangtime, Hoopz was the only 3-on-3, arcade-style basketball video game available during the 2000–01 NBA season. Rather than 5 on 5 action like professional play, this game features 3 on 3 play, using players from the NBA, each player chooses a guard, forward, and center from the teams NBA roster for the first half and can make substitutions for the second half. NBA Hoopz is a game and not meant to be realistic, players can jump twenty or thirty feet in the air, dunk the ball from 20 feet away. Fouls are only called on flagrant pushes, foul shots are rare, in addition, after a player makes three consecutive shots he becomes on fire which allows him to make almost any shot as well as goaltend without penalty. The PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast versions accommodate up to four players and these teams sported the uniforms they had in the 1997-98 NBA season instead of the ones they had in the 2000–01 NBA season. NBA Hoopz at Eurocom NBA Hoopz at MobyGames NBA Hoopz at MobyGames
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NBA Jam Extreme
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NBA Jam Extreme is a 1996 basketball arcade game by Acclaim Entertainment based on the 1996–97 NBA season. After Midway Games released two NBA Jam games, Acclaim, the publisher of the versions of NBA Jam. NBA Jam Extreme was the first Jam game from Acclaim, as well as the first edition of the game to use 3D graphics, in contrast, Midways competing NBA game NBA Hangtime featured 2-D visuals similar to the previous Jam games. Extreme also features longtime sports broadcaster Marv Albert doing commentary instead of original commentator Tim Kitzrow, new to the game is the Extreme button, essentially a super version of the series trademark Turbo button. The game was used as the basis for a PlayStation demo game based on the NBAs 2Ball competition, Acclaim released a series of follow-ups to Extreme, most of which were more traditional basketball simulations. NBA Jam Extreme features many of the top players from the 1996–97 NBA season, rosters accurate as of September 11,1996, with some notable omissions. Chief among them were Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Shaquille ONeal, Jordan and ONeal had contracts with Electronic Arts that resulted in the Jordan game Chaos in the Windy City and ONeal appearing in Shaq-Fu and the NBA Live games. Barkley had signed a deal with Accolade to appear in its Barkley Shut Up, the home versions of NBA Jam Extreme received largely negative reviews from GameSpot. Matt Rubenstein wrote that the graphics compared favorably to those in Midways NBA Hangtime, however, he criticized the slow pace of the game and loading time and scored the game 6.1 out of 10. Josh Smith heavily criticized the visuals as blurry and unclear, choppy and awkwardly animated. While he did offer praise for the special features and sound effects. He gave the game a 4.9, poor rating, in a review for the Sega Saturn version, Game Revolution also faulted the game for not making much progress beyond the original NBA Jam, as well the loading time, giving the game a C-. List of NBA video games NBA Jam Extreme at MobyGames
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NBA Jam (1993 video game)
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NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game published and developed by Midway in 1993. It is the first entry in the NBA Jam series, the main designer and programmer for this game was Mark Turmell. Midway had previously released such sports games as Arch Rivals in 1989, High Impact in 1990, the gameplay of NBA Jam is based on Arch Rivals, another 2-on-2 basketball video game. However, it was the release of NBA Jam that brought success to the genre. The game became popular, and generated a significant amount of money for arcades after its release. In early 1994, the Amusement & Music Operators Association reported that NBA Jam had become the highest-earning arcade game of all time. A key feature of NBA Jam is the nature of the play – players jump many times their own height. There are no fouls, free throws, or violations except goaltending and this means the player is able to freely shove or elbow his opponent out of the way. Additionally, if a player makes three baskets in a row, he becomes on fire and has unlimited turbo and increased shooting precision. The on fire mode continues until the team scores, or until the player who is on fire scores 4 additional consecutive baskets while on fire. The game is filled with eggs, special features and players activated by initials or button/joystick combinations. For example, pressing A five times and right five times on any Genesis controller would activate Super Clean Floors and this feature would cause characters to fall if they ran too fast or changed direction too quickly. And players can enter special codes to unlock players, ranging from US President Bill Clinton to Hugo the Charlotte Hornets mascot. On the arcade machine, there is also a tank game that allows the player to run around a 3D wireframe field. In order to access this mode, however, the player must be able to toggle the on/off switch located behind the machine, while the game was powering back on, the player holds Up and all buttons on player 1 and Down and all buttons on player 2. The original arcade version of NBA Jam features team rosters from the 1992–93 NBA season, more up-to-date rosters were available in subsequent ports released for the Sega CD, Game Boy, and Game Gear in 1994. Midway did not secure the license to use Michael Jordans name or likeness, another notable absence from the home versions is Shaquille ONeal, who was in the arcade version as a member of the Orlando Magic. New Jersey Nets guard Dražen Petrović and Boston Celtics forward Reggie Lewis, a limited edition version of the game with an additional team composed of Gary Payton and Michael Jordan was developed primarily for Jordan and Paytons personal use
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NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC
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NBA Showtime is a basketball video game by Midway. A descendant of NBA Jam and NBA Hangtime, Showtime is modeled after the NBA presentations on NBC, a newer Gold version for arcades features another roster update from later in the 1999-2000 season. Showtime was also featured in a game cabinet along with NFL Blitz 2000. Midway followed up the game with the console exclusive NBA Hoopz, the home versions have Shaquille ONeal as cover athlete. The game features similar to its predecessors NBA Jam and NBA Hangtime. Rather than typical 5 on 5 action, this game features 2 on 2 play with the ability to pick two players from any NBA teams starting line-up for the first half and can choose again for the second. The game introduces personal fouls for each shove on another player, after a number of fouls the opposing team gets a free throw. The game retains the standard on fire feature. Play otherwise is similar to NBA rules, the arcade version accommodates up to four players, as do the home versions produced for the Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast. As with the previous NBA Jam and NBA Hangtime games, the game contains many secret characters, the arcade version features the Universal Monsters Frankensteins monster, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon as secret characters. The game-time commentary is particularly varied and colorful for basketball games of that period, as well as With the silky smooth move. The original announcer from NBA Jam, Tim Kitzrow, returned, Jon Hey produced all the sound, music and script save for the NBC basketball theme Roundball Rock by John Tesh. At the time, the music was influenced by 2Pac and Dr. Dres California Love and Master Ps Make Em Say Uhh. and previous NBA Themes written by Jon Hey for NBA Jam and NBA Hangtime. The N64 version does not feature a back button, having every button advance through the menus, NBA Showtime at Eurocom NBA Showtime, NBA on NBC at MobyGames NBA Showtime at The Arcade Flyer Archive
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Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed
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Need for Speed, Porsche Unleashed, released as Need for Speed, Porsche 2000 in Europe, Need for Speed, Porsche in Latin America and Asia, is a racing video game released in 2000. It is the installment in the Need for Speed series. Unlike other NFS titles, Porsche Unleashed centers on racing Porsche sports cars, the game is noted for its extensive information regarding Porsche and its cars. Unlike the previous four Need for Speed games, Porsche Unleashed was not released in Japan, need for Speed, Porsche Unleashed gives the player the opportunity to race Porsche cars throughout a range of tracks located in Europe. The cars were studied in detail in terms of driving mechanics in order to create a realistic simulation, the premise of the game remains largely the same compared to previous games in the series, driving and racing sports cars. However, the only offers Porsches. The handling of the cars was improved, and the player can customize their cars drawing from a catalog of different Porsche-parts. Although the game retains the police chases from Hot Pursuit and High Stakes, apart from the vast number of cars and spare parts, the game also features many historical videos and pictures of Porsche vehicles, as well as written information. Quick Race - Players can drive in standard races at a location of their choice, time Battle Chase Capture the Flag Knockout - The driver in last position is eliminated after each event until there is only one driver remaining. Players can participate in Multiplayer modes across the Internet, LAN, Factory Driver puts players in the role of official Porsche test drivers. Players are given various tasks such as performing 360 degree spins before being able to sign with Porsche. Players will need to deliver cars and take part in races after being signed on to Porsche and they also need to beat challenges from other test drivers, such as slaloms through parts of tracks, or test cars from the teams mechanic. The Factory Driver in the PC version greatly differs from the PS1 version, in the Evolution mode players purchase and race cars in a series of tournaments and club meeting events. Each is divided into three eras, Classic Era, Golden Era, and Modern Era, Players start from the introduction of the Porsche 3561100 to the debut of the Porsche 911 Turbo. Most tournaments differ in difficulty level, the fee for entry, as in previous Need for Speed games, Porsche Unleashed includes two standard modes that had been featured in previous Need for Speed games, Quick Race and Multiplayer. New additions in the game include Evolution and Factory Driver modes, as the player wins in tournaments, the time goes by and the new cars appear. Online play is the strength of PU, where a loyal. This game features different tracks, all set in Europe such as Corsica, Autobahn, Côte dAzur
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V-Rally 2
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V-Rally 2 is a rally racing video game and the sequel to V-Rally. It was succeeded by V-Rally 3, much like with the first game, V-Rally 2 was released under different titles in all countries. The PlayStation version is known in Europe & Japan as V-Rally 2, Championship Edition and in North America as Need for Speed, the Windows versions was known as V-Rally 2, Expert Edition. The Dreamcast version was released in Europe under the V-Rally 2, Expert Edition name and in North America. The game features rally cars that competed in the 1999 World Rally Championship season, there are over 80 original tracks which represent all of the rallies of the 1999 season, excluding Greece and Safari. The championship mode follows the example of Rallying with different stages in the rallies featured in the game. V-Rally Trophy and Championship Mode Feature Three Distinct Championships, European, World, weather conditions like snow, rain, and rallying in daytime, sunset and night are included. There is also an editor where the player designs his/her own rally tracks. There is Multiplayer mode which supports up to 4 Players, the PlayStation version of the Game Features Support For DualShock Analog Controllers. The game met with positive reviews, allgame gave a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and gave praise for being an exciting rally game from start to finish. GameSpot gave a rating of 7.9 out of 10, IGN gave a high rating of 8. V-Rally V-Rally 3 Infogrames page Need for Speed, V-Rally 2 at MobyGames
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Pong
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Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games and the first sports arcade video game. It is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade games such as Computer Space came before it. The game was manufactured by Atari, which released it in 1972. Allan Alcorn created Pong as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Bushnell based the idea on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, which later resulted in a lawsuit against Atari. Surprised by the quality of Alcorns work, Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney decided to manufacture the game, soon after its release, several companies began producing games that copied Pongs gameplay, and eventually released new types of games. As a result, Atari encouraged its staff to more innovative games. The company released several sequels that built upon the gameplay by adding new features. During the 1975 Christmas season, Atari released a version of Pong exclusively through Sears retail stores. It was also a success and led to numerous copies. The game has been remade on numerous home and portable platforms following its release, Pong has been referenced and parodied in multiple television shows and video games, and has been a part of several video game and cultural exhibitions. Pong is a sports game that simulates table tennis. Players use the paddles to hit a back and forth. The aim is for player to reach eleven points before the opponent. Pong was the first game developed by Atari, after producing Computer Space, Bushnell decided to form a company to produce more games by licensing ideas to other companies. The first contract was with Bally Manufacturing Corporation for a driving game, soon after the founding, Bushnell hired Allan Alcorn because of his experience with electrical engineering and computer science, Bushnell and Dabney also had previously worked with him at Ampex. Prior to working at Atari, Alcorn had no experience with video games, to acclimate Alcorn to creating games, Bushnell gave him a project secretly meant to be a warm-up exercise. Bushnell told Alcorn that he had a contract with General Electric for a product, in 2011, Bushnell stated that the game was inspired by previous versions of electronic tennis he had played before, Bushnell played a version on a PDP-1 computer in 1964 while attending college
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Poy Poy 2
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Poy Poy 2, known in Japan as Poitters Point 2, Sodom no Inbou, is a 1–4 multiplayer action game, developed by Konami for the PlayStation. It was released in 1998, and is the sequel to Poy Poy, the gameplay is the same as in Poy Poy, though it features more powers and moves, as well as different characters and arenas. The characters use gloves, each with unique powers to aid gameplay, there are three game modes, PoyPoy Cup is a single player campaign, where the player chooses a character and progresses through tournament stages, earning gold. They can use their winnings to purchase or upgrade gloves, as well as purchase drinks which give the player a temporary upgrade for an event, upon completing the championship multiple times, the player is given the opportunity to face the boss characters. Upgrading gloves requires the player to use that gloves particular ability a set number of times, occasionally a dark figure will appear, offering to sell a special glove to the player. Party Play is used for both Single and Multiplayer, where the up to four players can set up a battle on whatever stage they choose. Team Battle can only be played one or two players. The player are made into a team and compete with other AI teams to score as many points as possible. They play seven matches, and when they are finished, a bonus is added to the PoyPoy Cup gold count. The players are given points for direct hits, collecting lucky gold hearts, first place gets 12 points, Second place gets 6, Third place gets 4 and Fourth place gets 2. This is also one of the few PlayStation games that cant run on a PlayStation 2, despite each character having recommended gloves to use, the player is free to choose whichever they like. Poy. * Stage Killers* Stage Kali* Only accessible thru Poy. Poy. Cup when certain conditions are met
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Quake II
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Action Quake 2 is a mod for the video game Quake II created by The A-Team. Action Quake 2 was developed to recreate the look and feel of a movie, having a fast pace. It features many maps recreating realistic settings, such as city streets and office buildings, with a range of weapons. Action Quake 2 is essentially a version of deathmatch and team deathmatch in which most of the elements have been modified to some degree. Damage to extremities such as a shot to the leg with any weapon will cause damage, with a then unique style of play, realistic weapons and fast pace, Action Quake 2 became one of the most popular Quake II mods. The mod caught the attention of id Software in June 1998,1, Extremities, a commercial add-on product for Quake II. Members of the development team would go on to work on titles such as Action Half-Life. There are two modes of gameplay in Action Quake 2, Deathmatch and Teamplay. In Deathmatch, spawn points are distributed over most of the map, the map changes when one of two conditions is met, either the timelimit is reached, or the fraglimit is reached. By default each player spawns with only the MK23 pistol, staying alive is rewarded with more frags for each player killed. In Teamplay, players are split into two teams and play is round based, players select one primary weapon and one item to use, in addition to the default pistol and knife. The teams spawn on opposite sides of the map, and are let loose to kill each other. If one team eliminates the other, they win the round
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Sled Storm
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Sled Storm is a series of snowmobile racing video games published and developed by Electronic Arts and released in North America on July 31,1999 and in Europe on August 11,1999. It gained critical acclaim due to its concept of being one of the first snowmobile racing titles. The series currently consists of two games, both of which are named simply Sled Storm, the game features snowmobiles, stunts and fourteen snow-covered courses consisting of slippery slopes, inclement weather and treacherous cliffs. Six racers were selectable from the outset and two more were unlockable, each of which had different snowmobile handling attributes, the game had purchasable upgrades for the riders snowmobiles which can improve handling, acceleration, among other things. A trick feature was implemented which was performed by using two shoulder buttons in combination with the direction pad. Whatever combinations of buttons were used would affect what trick was used and it was also possible to multicombo on higher jumps to gain an even higher score. After defeating the mountain races you can unlock the storm sled which is a thin, quick, Sled Storm offers two forms of racing for both multi-player and solo competition, Championship and Quick Race. Quick Race allows you to jump right into the game on any of the available courses unlocked during the Championship Mode. Players can choose their alter ego from a pool of characters, each with his or her own sled rated in five areas, top speed, acceleration, handling, stability and tricks. Once a player has found the character, he or she can set the number of laps, time of the race. Championship Mode involves competing in a series of races that can earn you money as well as open up additional tracks, two types of championship racing are awaiting you, Open Mountain and the Super SnoCross. The Open Mountain Championship involves straightforward racing down alpine terrain as you try to finish first to receive a cash prize, the Super SnoCross involves racing strictly for points as you string together tricks off the motocross-inspired courses. Earn enough points and youll be able to unlock additional characters to play as, Sled Storm also features a Time Trials mode, which has you racing as fast as you can in order to earn a spot on the leader board. Once players have finished the Time Trials, there are a number of features to help tailor the game to individual preferences. After completing a few circuits, youll be able to mix, the AI can also be tweaked by toggling Catch Up Logic, meaning the CPU-controlled racers will move faster once you pass them. Finally, the perspective can be set to either a portrait or landscape view to offer more or less of the screen while racing. Players can also save unlocked characters, upgraded sleds and circuit progress using a card with one block free. The game includes support for the DualShock Analog Controller to offer both analog control as well as vibration feedback while racing, in addition, the included soundtrack features songs from the likes of Rob Zombie, Econoline Crush, Uberzone, E-Z Rollers and Dom & Roland
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Speed Freaks
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Speed Freaks, is a racing video game for the PlayStation for up to two players. The game involves racing around a variety of tracks while using weapons, including items that make the racers speed increase, missiles. The game was developed by Funcom and released in Europe in September 15,1999, Speed Freaks is a kart racing game featuring several single and multiplayer modes. During the game, players control of one of nine characters. During a race, the viewpoint is from behind his or her kart. The goal of the game is to finish a race ahead of other racers. Icons marked with question marks are arrayed on the race tracks, pick-ups, such as missiles and slime, allow racers to hit others with the objects, causing them to spin and lose control. A kart that obtains the stealth mode pick-up is temporarily invulnerable to attack, lines of speed boost tokens are found on the tracks. By running through these tokens, a kart collects them and fills cells on its speed boost bar, the player can use accumulated speed boost to increase speed at a faster rate than under normal acceleration. Speed Freaks has three single player modes, Tournament, Single Race and Time attack, in Tournament one player races against five computer-controlled characters in a series of four races called leagues. There are three leagues available, titled Easy, Medium and Hard, initially only the Easy league is available, by finishing this league, the Medium league is unlocked, which in turn unlocks the Hard league when finished. In order to continue through a league a position of third or higher must be achieved in each race. If a player finishes in fourth to sixth position, the race must be retry – at the cost of one of a number of retries – until a placing of third or above is achieved. Points are accrued by finishing in the top three positions in a race, first to third place receive ten, seven and five points, computer controlled characters are also awarded three points for fourth place and one point for fifth place. The racer with the highest number of points all four races have been completed wins the league. Winning all of the races in a league one of Three Challenges. In each challenge a player races against one computer-controlled character in a single race, in single race mode, players compete against five computer-controlled characters at a track of the players choosing from those that are present in Tournament mode. In time attack mode, players race against the clock through the tracks that are present in Tournament mode
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Syndicate Wars
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Syndicate Wars is the third video game title in the Syndicate series, created by Bullfrog Productions in 1996. It was released for DOS and the PlayStation, with a Sega Saturn version also fully developed, Syndicate Wars presents a followup to the events in Syndicate taking place 95 years later. Corporate decisions are facilitated through a number of AI entities connected through a communications network. Some of the newly liberated persons, dubbed unguided citizens, choose to engage in an armed insurrection, the Unguided appear in early missions as random antagonistic elements, but over time form a well-organized militia. Viral damage to the global network causes disruption to Syndicate coordinations, the London station, as the headquarters of the EuroCorp syndicate, attempts to regain authority via direct intervention by the games signature quartets of heavily armed agents. Harbinger was their first step in demolishing the existing world order, Syndicate Wars preserves the isometric view of Syndicate, while adding rotation and pitch controls over the view. Control over ones agents is largely the same as the previous games, being based on a combination of keyboard. Agents may be commanded singly or in groups, with instructions to assume positions, pursue or attack NPCs, collect items. Agents may be set to behave passively, acting only when commanded, or to react to threats through control of brain and this often allows the player to formulate a strategy and plan routes through the map. The armament of those forces, however, is known only by comparison to other recently encountered forces. The relatively simplistic combat mechanics of Syndicate Wars do not provide much scope for sophistication in infantry tactics, some missions however require multiple objectives to be completed simultaneously, and therefore require the team to be split up into pairs or even individual agents. The selection of weapons in Syndicate Wars are quite similar to those in the previous games, the weapon of choice for the early game is the minigun, chosen for good range and damage properties. This is later supplemented by long-range rifles, medium-range Gauss guns, other, more specialized weapons also appear. There is no ammunition per se, instead, all reusable items draw power from a portable micro-fusion reactor carried by each agent, sustained use depletes a shared stored energy pool, which is gradually replenished. In general, the more effective the weapon, the energy it requires. At later stages of the game, management of this recharging time becomes a significant element of combat tactics, the Persuadertron from the first game also re-appears, now with three models. Persuadertrons are hand-held mind control devices which enslave persons nearby, an upgraded version referred to as the Persuadertron 2 is available when playing as EuroCorp as the game progresses. Persuaded persons follow the agent holding the persuadertron until one or the other is killed and they will also collect dropped weapons and fight on behalf of the persuadertrons wielder, albeit with limited effectiveness
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Tales of Destiny
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Tales of Destiny is a role-playing video game originally developed by Telenet Japans Wolf Team as the second main title in Namcos Tales series. Originally released for the PlayStation in Japan in December 1997, an English version was made available in North America in September 1998. Its producers gave it the characteristic genre name RPG of Destiny, a remake for the PlayStation 2 was released in November 2006, which was followed by an updated version called Tales of Destiny Directors Cut in January 2008, both exclusive to Japan. The remake was given its own unique genre name by its producers as RPG called Destiny. Taking place in a world, the game follows the story of a young man named Stahn who comes across a sentient sword named Dymlos. Eventually, he and his friends must unite against evil forces seeking use a relic from an ancient war. The PlayStation version of Tales of Destiny was mostly well-received, selling over a million copies worldwide, the game uses an enhanced version of the Linear Motion Battle System that debuted in the first game of the series, Tales of Phantasia. Battles take place on a 2-D plane where characters and enemies act in real time, melee and ranged attacks are executed in real time, with spell casting requiring a chanting time that increases directly with the complexity of the spell being cast. When the chanting of a spell is complete, game-time temporarily stops as the animation is carried out and damage is assigned. Special melee and ranged attacks do more damage or have more hits than normal attacks, also, the battle system rewards the player with extra experience for stringing together multi-hit combos. Certain spells can also be taken off the casting list for computer-controlled allies. At any one time, the AI is controlling the characters in the party that the player is not directly commanding, taking general strategic orders into consideration when acting. The player controls one character directly at a time, but can switch to other characters and this menu system enables the player to use items, spells, or special attacks on the fly in battle. Also, the system allows the use of general commands given to the entire party during battle. In the past, a comet crashed into the world, throwing dust clouds into the sky and shrouding the world in cold, at about the same time, the inhabitants, the Aethers, discovered a new form of energy from the meteorites core, which they named Lens. Combining this with research, the people were able to create cities in the sky. Unfortunately, only a few were chosen, leaving the rest of the people to remain on the bleak surface of the planet. These people became known as the Erthers, over time, the skys inhabitants became known as the Aetherians and their Aeropolis cities
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Tales of Eternia
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Tales of Eternia, known as Tales of Destiny II in its original North America release, is a role-playing video game published by Namco as the third main title in their Tales series. Initially released for the PlayStation in November 2000 in Japan, an English version was released in North America in September 2001. It was developed by members of Telnet Japans Wolfteam, who had worked on its predecessors Tales of Phantasia. The games producers gave it the characteristic genre name RPG of Eternity, a port was released for the PlayStation Portable handheld in Japan in March 2005, and the PAL region in February 2006. Tales of Eternia was mostly well-received during its release. It would later inspire a 13-episode anime co-produced by Production I. G loosely based on the games plot, the game plays similar to other Tales games, following the precedent set by previous role-playing video games in general as well. An overworld map is used to navigate from one location to another in the fictional world. Additionally, city merchants will exchange Gald, the in-game currency, progress can be saved at any time - a first for the series, and the player can also learn recipes throughout the game, using them to cook status-enhancing or healing food out of combat. Battles with enemies are done through the Linear Motion Battle System, movements and attacks are done in real-time, with the fighting being compared to the Street Fighter series. Much like its predecessors, Tales of Eternia gives the player a large degree of control over computer-controlled allies and the techniques they use. Since the player directly controls one character at a time, all other characters are governed by the general rules of AI behavior set by the player before. During battle, the player can switch which character he or she is controlling, the action can be paused to use different menus for things such as item. The games menu screens can be used to organize and uses items, creates new magic spells, develops battle strategies, changes character equipment, and views character statistics. Selected features from the screen, such as item use. The game follows Reid Hershel as he tries to prevent the Grand Fall, specifically, the Grand Fall entails the violent collision of twin planets Inferia and Celestia. The two planets, face one another, separated by the Orbus Barrier, the Aurora War, an ancient conflict that set Inferia against Celestia over two thousand years ago, continues to generate persistent mistrust between the two groups. The Orbus Barrier has shown recent signs of weakening and possible due to the actions of an unknown external force. The journey takes Reid across both planets, as he seeks out those responsible for movement towards the brink of annihilation
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Tales of Phantasia
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Tales of Phantasia is a role-playing video game originally developed by Wolf Team. It is the first title in Namcos Tales series, the game was written and programmed by Yoshiharu Gotanda, designed by Masaki Norimoto, and scored by Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura and Ryota Furuya. The character designs were created by manga artist Kōsuke Fujishima, a short anime series based on the game, called Tales of Phantasia, The Animation, was released in 2004. LMBS contains a pause menu during battle which lets the player select a spell or item, as in some fighting games, it is possible to assign items or combination moves to specific buttons as shortcuts for quick actions. As opposed to most other turn-based systems where the controls the individual actions of every party member, in LMBS. Other characters in the party can be set to mode, active mode and attack. For the titles that allow multiplayer, the party characters can be controlled by other human players. Cress Albane, the character of Tales of Phantasia, is a 17-year-old swordsman from a small village who grew up with his best friend Chester. A natural warrior who learned the way of fighting from his father, he is otherwise an earnest and he is voiced by Takeshi Kusao in the Japanese version, Robert Tsonos in the English Game Boy Advance version. Chester Burklight is a 17-year-old archer and Clesss hometown friend, highly devoted to his friends and family, he has a one-track mind and a tendency to rush into situations without thinking of the consequences. He is voiced by Takeshi Kusao in the Super Famicom version, Kentarou Itou for all other Japanese appearances, Mint Adenade is a 17-year-old priestess and daughter of a famous cleric. She commands powerful healing magic and possesses a sense of duty and courage that overwrite her otherwise quiet. She is voiced by Satomi Koorogi in the Super Famicom version, Junko Iwao in all other Japanese versions, Lester is a 29-year-old man with exclusive knowledge of spirits. With the aid of rings, he is able to summon spirits after defeating them. He lives with a woman named Mirald Rune, who helps him with research into magic and he is voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue in all Japanese versions, and Peter von Gomm in the English Game Boy Advance Version. Arche Klein is a 17-year-old half-elf magic user and she uses a broomstick both to fly and to wield as a weapon, and is characterized by a bright, airy personality that masks her years of discrimination due to her mixed heritage. She is voiced by Mika Kanai in all Japanese versions, Suzu Fujibayashi is an 11-year-old ninja and the granddaughter of her villages chief. Originally a non-playable character in the Super Famicom version, and become a playable character from the PlayStation version onwards
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Team Buddies
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Team Buddies is a shooter video game released for the PlayStation on 15 September 2000. It was developed by Psygnosis Camden Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe, one fine and sunny day in the land that Buddies roam, there was a great and mighty disco in a tent. This tent would bob up and down with the music, all of a sudden, a large, flat, grey, flying THING blocked out the sun and began to drop crates. These crates were filled with all sorts of goodies such as Uzis, inevitably, chaos broke out and the buddies became segregated according to colour. The Buddies continue to battle for supremacy across the world until they reach temples similar to Aztec designs in the jungle. It is revealed here that the craft in the sky was actually the world of the Baddies. The Baddies dropped crates in order to conflict in the Buddies. The game is a mix of Worms humour and a typical real-time strategy game, central to the games theme is the ability of a team of buddies to stack crates in a 2×2×2 pad located in their starting area. The battle toys created are based on the world, and there are eight original worlds. Most vehicles can carry two crates, but larger vehicles can carry three, the player can swap between any of the buddies under his or her control in order to make use of that particular units powers or weapons. In addition to a pad, each starting point has a large base building which can be attacked and destroyed. If a base is destroyed, the pad for that team can no longer be used. A team without a base is also unable to build new weapons, a typical map will have various crate drop areas, where the crates used to build weapons and team-mates fall from the sky. Most crates in the game are yellow with red borders, Team Buddies also supports split-screen multi-player for up to four players. There are several different game types in multi-player, A straightforward game type in all the members of all opposing teams must be eliminated to win. If there are two or more players and three or more players overall, the rabanete option can be turned on. In this mode, the last member of a completely eliminated team remains in play as a slow-moving, if the ghost walks into the smoking boots of a recently killed unit, it is resurrected and can continue to stack crates and attack enemies. Around the map are domination points, which can be anything, from ankhs to trees, holding a domination point for 5 seconds gives a team a point, multiple domination points grant multiple points, and the first team to reach the required amount of points wins
