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Solar Crusade, the follow-up to Chaos Control, is a cartoon-movie based science-fiction rail shooter game like Rebel Assault. The player takes on the role of a fighter for the Orbital Defense Force (ODF). At the beginning the ODF thinks that they have defeated their enemies – the Kesh-Rhan, but that was a mistake.

In five chapters, the player has to shoot everything they see on the screen. Some of the enemies leave ammunition or energy-pills on the battle field. In some cases, the player can choose the direction they fly in and may even stumble upon a secret level.

Deserts cover the globe, cities are destroyed, the end of every civilization is near. The few survivors search for drinking water and food. They eat all they can find.

Like a Role-Playing-Game, you travel through the world and meet many computer-played characters. You want to rule the world. But there are other 3 characters with the same aim.

You spend the most game time looking at the map, which takes up several screens. The position of the 4 characters, their occupied conquests, the cities, and the health condition of your character are shown on the map.

The different settlements you can occupy are old factories, camping-grounds or ruins of old mega-cities. The five great cities are opened for all competitors and can’t be occupied. In these cities you cannot fight against your enemies.

Sometimes you meet a human for changing news, items or take them in your party. There are different classes of computer-characters: fighters, engineers or doctors for example. Every character of your party can carry up to 6 items (food, weapons). These items are produced by the settlements you control.

Your favorite soccer team is in the third class, has no money and no future? Take the job as a manager and lead your team in the first division.

Bundesliga Manager Professional is a managerial simulator of soccer. The game simulates the German Bundesliga (first, second and third division) and the German league cup (DFB-Pokal). The teams and players have real names (season 1990).

Up to 4 players can take part. You can transfer players, raise your stadium, deal for advertising, and train your players. The tactics of your team can be set very individual on a small playing field. Also included are match graphics with 3D-animated goal chances.

Other features:

• 36 different injuries
• Newspaper reports after every match
• 5 different skills

Bundesliga Manager Professional is the second installment in the series. A version of the game featuring English/Italian league teams can be viewed here The Manager.

In the year 1876, the followers of the god Azag-Thot created a lot of excitement in Africa. The brotherhood of Marduk and the follower of Anubis fought against the Azag-Thot clan. Great luck that the historian Howard Hawk (you) traveled through Africa and supported the Marduk/Anubis clan against the Azag-Thot.

In this game, you play Howard Hawk, the aforementioned historian. In 15 different areas of Africa he can use his father's old rifle. There are lots of Azag-Thot munchs, cursed spidermen, or other terrible creatures. In every area is at least one occult place where mighty books, broken amulets or magic swords can be found. Only with these goods can the Azag-Thot be defeated.

By your quest you were supported from up to 6 African inhabitants. These are carrying your equipment. By the time you learn some magic that help you to solve your quest.

In Oscar the player controls the eponymous protagonist through seven levels in Hollywood-style areas (Science Fiction, Western, Horror, Cartoons, Dino, Detective and Gameshow), each divided into three scenes. The main goal is to jump and run through the level in order to find... Oscars (yes – the Academy Awards' statues!). If enough Oscars are collected, the level is completed. The player can explore levels in any order he/she wants - they are accessible through a tower of doors that are opened when tasks are completed. During his trip through the stages, the player encounters many enemies that can be avoided by jumping over or killed by jumping on them. The latter, as well as some collectibles, reward the player with power-ups like invulnerability, superjump or Yo-yo gadget that can break down walls.

The Amiga 32CD version adds 2 more worlds while the DSi version adds its own unique world. The SNES version has been truncated to only 4 worlds.

The background story of Fire & Ice is quick to tell: A coyote (you) runs, throwing ice cubes, through various worlds. In the levels, you must jump on platforms and kill your enemies. The enemies (for example, birds and penguins) can be shot with your ice cubes; they become frozen, so you smash them. Sometimes they leave part of a key behind after they're destroyed. The complete key, assembled from all the pieces, opens the door to the next world.

In this "jump & run" you can also get some power-ups. You can find some coyote puppies; these puppies follow you, are invulnerable, and also shoot enemies. In higher regions you find some snow-flakes; enough of these and you get a great snowball for freezing more enemies on the screen.

Boong?!: Die ultimatiefe Fußballsimulation is a German soccer management simulation with graphics in a comic style. The game contains only the German first division and the German cup to compete in.

There are no tactical options to be given to a team, except for the style of playing: fair, aggressive, or brutal. Other tasks the player has are buying or selling players, improving the stadium and finding sponsors.

Prototype is a side-scrolling shooter. Controlling a cutting-edge prototype craft, you must save the world from an alien attack.

The ship has 4 different, always available, weapon systems. This makes the game a little bit more tactical than other shooters. Some enemies leave energy pills. These pills are necessary to upgrade your weapon systems four times.

The game has 5 different (and long) levels, including mountain and forest settings plus another planet.

In Prototype there are no extra lives. You have only one life, but you can always save your game.

You take the role of the leader of an alien race trying to prevail against the corrupt human government.

Build up mining facilities, power stations and storage and production halls. Develop new spaceships, and arm your military. Only by investing sufficiently in research, can you be the winner over the long term! Is it your destiny to restore peace?

The Patrician is set in medieval times, focusing on the trading efforts of the Hanseatic League. You (and up to 3 other players) struggle for money and respectability. You should build up sea routes between the 16 cities in the North and Baltic Sea, and your ultimate goal is to be governor of your hometown. For this you need a lot of money and high respectability. The game ends, when you are elected to Ältermann—the highest rank in this century.

You earn money by buying goods cheap and selling them for higher price. With the profits you can buy new ships (out of 4 different types) or stores.

There are also pirate battles. For these, you can buy weapons for your ships and go with ships from other traders to hunt the pirates.

Great Courts 2 is a tennis game and the sequel to Great Courts. You start the game by creating a player and distributing character points, for instance on speed, forehand, backhand etc. The initial skills are raised after winning a few matches. There are different tournaments to choose from, such as all APT tournaments and the Davis Cup. Prize money is provided by doing well in a tournament. The game supports both single and double matches. In the training mode you can play against a ball machine or against a friend. There are different settings to program the ball machine, for instance to practice a certain type of shot. It is also possible to have matches with one player competing against two.

This is a journey into speed Ladies & Gentlemen ... Fasten your seat belts

BATTLE RACE, the hardest racing series in the known galaxy is waiting about you. Take the challenge and prove that you can beat the best pilots of the universe in a fight over live and death.

But - be careful! Some great careers has found in this hard fight about money and fame a tragical end...

Some features: 24 stages on 4 planets, 30 opponents, 6 different spaceships, LAN for 8 players, Online racing comment

His name is Zool, and he is a gremlin-like creature from another dimension. He is forced to land on the Earth, but his sole goal is to attain the prestigious ranking of a Ninja. To do that, Zool will have to travel through six worlds, each divided into three stages, defeat his enemies, and prove himself worthy of that title.

Zool is a fast-paced side-scrolling platformer. The protagonist can run, jump, climb walls, and shoot enemies. Power-ups for Zool are scattered across the levels. These include life-spending hearts, smart bombs, shields, a more powerful jump-skill, and a twin Zool. This "twin" makes imitates the original's motions a few seconds after he performs them.

In the options menu, the player can change the difficulty and the game speed (two times), the number of continues, and the background music (rock or funk).

Tilt! is a pinball game. The 6 pinballs you can play in the 3D full screen-modus or in the classic 2D scroll-modus. The themes of the pinballs are Science Fiction (Star Quest), Horror (Monster), Racing (Road King), Underworld (Gangster), Fantasy (Myst & Majik) and Fair (Funfair). Every pinball has multi-ball gaming, animations (esp. ball-locks) during the game and intermezzos in the scoring field.

Dime City, a fictitious American town in the last 30 years of the last century, is the scene of this business simulation in the gangster environment. With one of 4 companies you try to reach your aims – being governor and godfather of Dime City. With (bank-)raids, blackmails or prostitution you raise your money. With the money you can buy cars and people for your crime-activities, stocks or immovables. Worth mentioning are the sudden attacks to your competitors. These are little top-down action games.

Saturday - half past 3 p.m. Ideal soccer weather for soccer. The stadium is sold out. The fans are singing the team hymn. You're team is 2 points behind the leader. This is the match of the year for you and your team. The next 90 minutes will decide over success or failure. You have to win if your team want to be next year in the first division. The pressure is mighty. You have to calm your nerves.

You sit on the hottest seat in soccer. You are the manager of your favorite team and have to lead your the team from the amateur division into the European first class.

Hattrick! is another German soccer manager. There are two different modes. The serious and the funny one. The difference you see in the game newspaper reviews.

A dark future forms the background of this action game. At the end of time rules only one powerful syndicate over the world. There are no more rules. Deadly technologies and black magic bounce against the other and tumble the mankind in chaos and destruction. But there is another, a greater danger, a plan with the project name "Paradise", who aims to destroy the planet. There is only a little fighting team who can prevent the apocalypse and fail that project.

In Superstar Ice Hockey you control one of 20 NHL teams. The game has no license so you can't play with the stars. There are 4 groups with 5 teams. After the regular season the best 2 teams of every group are qualified for the playoffs. Worth mentioning is that you are playing always the center - the other players are controlled by the CPU. In the multiplayer mode you can only play friendly games.

With 20000 dollars in your pockets and a cinema with 5 movie rooms you are starting to make a great movie maker career. First you buy some old, real-named movies (for example Star Wars, Evil Dead, etc) for showing them in your cinema. You can fix the prices for the tickets individual. Each movie room can have up to 5 performances a day. When you earned enough money you can do some more interesting things. Producing your own movie. Either you buy a shooting script or you make your own one by clicking some pretended words and choosing a film genre. After this you must select some actors and a director for your forthcoming blockbuster. At least you look for the locality, special effects, film music and more things. After all your movie will be rated by a jury and earns (it is to be hoped) your capital for the next blockbuster.

Action Soccer is a quick and uncomplicated soccer game with two different graphic styles (2D overview and 3D isometric). The 16 teams have 6 skills like speed, strength, shotpower etc.. There are no things like offside, fatigue or tactic. You can play a friendly game, the UBI-Cup, a championship or a tournament. In few options you can change the weather (sun, night, rain, snow) or little tactic (offense, defense, normal). Worth mentioning is also the humorous audio-commentary from Jonathan Pearce and the editor.

A platform game starring the well-known Mistress of the dark popularized by Horror Soft's RPGs, Elvira: The Arcade Game consists of two selectable worlds: fire and ice. After completing them, the player gets access to the third one - the castle. All the levels are huge and have much in common. There are many weapons and power-ups that Elvira can pick up. Elvira will have to kill many different enemies.

Mad News is a German business simulation. You are chief editor of a tabloid newspaper. With spectacular stories you try to increase your paper's circulation (and your account balance). You also can earn money with adverts in your paper. Two other papers are in competition with you.

This is the unofficial sequel to Mad TV.