Received: from uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com by s.ms.uky.edu id aa00177; 13 Mar 91 9:26 GMT Received: by uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com; id AA10244; Wed, 13 Mar 91 01:20:14 -0800 Received: by limbo; Wed, 13 Mar 91 00:39:43 pst Message-Id: <9103130839.AA22327@limbo.intuitive.com> From: The Moderator Date: Wed, 13 Mar 91 0:39:39 PST Subject: Digital Games Review Digest, #22 Reply-To: Digital Games Review To: Digital Games Review Digest X-Mailer: fastmail [version 2.02] Digital Games Review Digest, Number 22 Wednesday, March 13th 1991 Today's Titles: Amiga: Battle Command Mac: Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds PC: Eye of the Beholder NES: Star Tropics Destiny of an Emperor Mega Man II Genesis: Strider Monster Lair TG16: Dragon's Curse ** Top and Bottom Games Rating ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lars Bodin Subject: Amiga: Battle Command In the near future, the world is divided between two dominant races. Your mission is to help your race to win the Ultra War between North and South. You are driving a Mauler battle tank in a very realistic 3D world. The landscape is very detailed and the scrolling is very fast and smooth. It only takes a few seconds to load the game and you can then choose your mission, anything from simple escort duty to "Kamikaze" seek-and-destroy. There are 15 different missions, and while it might not seem like a lot, believe me, it will take a lot of time to finish this game! When you have been assigned to a mission, you are flown to the battlefield by a large Stealth Chopper. This animation is very impressive the first time you see it, although the scrolling is not very good compared with the rest of the game. When you have seen this animation a few times, it might get boring to just sit and watch, so you can press the escape key and are immediately transferred to the battle zone, a nice detail. When the game is being loaded you will see a 3D animation of a tank or chopper and hear some real nice intro music. The first time I played the game, I actually didn't play the game for a while - I just sat and listened to the music! When driving around in the landscape, the only sounds you will hear are your engine, gunfire/explosions and enemy planes/choppers. These sound effects are well done and together with the fast graphics it gives a very realistic feeling of "actually being there yourself". Not only the graphics are fast - the game itself is also! It won't take long before you are surrounded by enemies, then you don't have time to fool around aiming your cannon! Fortunately you have a large selection of weapons to choose between: Ground-to-air and ground-to-ground self- seeking missiles, wire-guided missiles, 120 mm. cannon, 100 mm. mortar, cluster bombs etc. It is very important to choose the right weapons for the mission, otherwise you will most certainly fail. However, if you have to destroy a certain building but haven't got any ammunition left, then try to drive around the building in fast circles. The enemy will try to shoot you, but might hit the building instead (you may also be damaged if you are too slow!) The programmers have thought of all details: English, German and French language, you can choose between mouse/joystick at any time in the game, and the game recognizes a second disk-drive so you don't have to change disks when saving a game. That's the way to do it folks. "Battle Command" is not a real tank simulator like "M1 Tank Platoon" but is has a lot of action and strategy and is one of the most playable simulators I have ever seen. If you like fast 3D battle simulations/games, then Battle Command is sure worth buying (if you liked Carrier Command you will love Battle Command). Graphics: 10 Sound/Music: 9 Playability: 10 Difficulty: 9 Overall: 9 Battle Command for Commodore Amiga (Also available for IBM PC and Atari ST) ------------------------------ From: lim@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim) Subject: Mac: Wizardry II: Knight of Diamonds Five years after Wizardry I: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord came to the Macintosh, the next scenario, Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds, has finally been released. You must transfer characters from the first scenario to play this game. Your characters search for pieces of the Knight of Diamonds magical armor in order to ultimately retrieve the Staff of Gnilda. If you've played Wizardry before (on any computer), you'll feel right at home with this version. Wizardry is much easier to play on the Macintosh than on the Apple II where I first saw it. You can use the mouse to navigate the maze and click buttons or use keyboard shortcuts for accelerated play. After five years, many new Macintosh models, and numerous System Software versions, the interface only needed slight changes to be more MultiFinder-friendly. The master disk copy protection scheme has been replaced by a keyword copy protection scheme. Wizardry was one of the earlier role playing games so it isn't very advanced in its graphics, sound, or game play. Sound isn't used for anything besides simple beeps. Game play, especially during combat, is rather simplistic compared to games like Pool of Radiance. Knight of Diamonds does add a number of riddles which make the game more interesting. Some hidden mapping aids are also included but they don't eliminate mapping entirely. The graphics have improved somewhat in Knight of Diamonds. Besides the previous small, plain 3D view of the maze, you now have the option of displaying a view that is about twice as large with more realistic looking rock walls. You'll have to pay more attention in this view because secret doors are a little harder to see. In combat, the pictures of monsters are now animated (they sort of run in place). The new graphics aren't much but they do make the game more enjoyable. One interesting change is in the names of items. Where Proving Grounds would identify an item as "Sword of Slicing", Knight of Diamonds will give it the name "Sword +1". The new names are certainly more D&D like but they don't tell you anything you don't already know. Besides, the old names had more style and flair. Knight of Diamonds also fixes a few bugs/features that let you duplicate items very easily. The difficulty of Knight of Diamonds depends almost entirely on the characters you transfer over from Proving Grounds. Since my party consisted of 1 Ninja, 2 Samurai, 1 Lord, and 2 Bishops who all were level 55 and above and had at least 400 hitpoints, I finished the game in three days without too much trouble. If you have less advanced characters, it will be more challenging. Knight of Diamonds is shorter and easier than Proving Grounds because your characters must have already advanced to a decent level and have decent weapons and armor for you to have defeated Werdna. Thus, it isn't as important to advance levels or find new items in this game. In addition, the maze has fewer levels and there isn't a final showdown at the end. The game does have a couple points that can be frustrating. Fuzzballs are monsters that have a few hundred hitpoints, are very magic resistant, can't hit the side of a barn, and constantly call for reinforcements. If your characters haven't gotten to the point where they can inflict a couple hundred hitpoints in one blow, you will face an endless battle. The last riddle is also very frustrating because the game is nitpicky about the answer. In general, there are better role playing games around. However, if you already have Proving Grounds, I would say this is practically a must buy. Wizardry tends to be addictive. This scenario is enjoyable but much too short to satisfy any Wizardry addicts. Currently, there is a write-in campaign to try to convince Sir-Tech to bring Wizardry III, IV, and V to the Macintosh. Graphics: 5 Sound: 2 Playability: 7 Overall: 5 (7 for Wizardry I owners) Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds, Sir-Tech, for the Apple Macintosh, $49.95 (~$29 mail order) ------------------------------ From: ccastbh@prism.gatech.edu (Brad Hamlett) Subject: PC: Eye of the Beholder Eye of the Beholder is the first in a new AD&D game series by SSI. Eye of the Beholder is based on 2nd edition AD&D rules and has the City of WaterDeep as the setting. The game has a tremendously revamped interface that is highly reminiscent of Dungeon Master for the Amiga. Most of the actions that your characters can perform involve pointing at an item or a dungeon feature and manipulating it on screen...to throw a rock that is lying on the floor, you simply point to it and 'click' on the upper portion of the window. The point of view of EotB is entirely 3-D, unlike previous SSI adventures. Character generation will be familiar to all those who have played any of the AD&D games...even the 'modify character' feature (which allows you to customize a character's stats) is still there. The party of Adventurers consists of a max- imum of 6 characters (4 PCs and up to 2 NPCs that you can find in the maze). Character can choose between 6 classes including Fighter, Mage, Cleric, Thief, Ranger, and Paladin. Since EotB uses 2nd edition rules, demi-humans (Elves, Dwarves, etc.) are not limited to certain levels (i.e. an Elf can obtain lvl 12 fighter -- the max allowed in this game). Everything is the game happens in 'real-time'. while you are looking up that command in the manual, that kobald is having your mage for lunch. Luckily, the game pauses when you select the 'Camp' option. Combat is also handled in real-time. As a combatant attacks, his/her weapon 'greys out' for a short period of time, during which no attacks with that weapon can be made. As characters gain levels, the amount of time that a weapon remains greyed out, decreases. Spells attacks are handled in a similiar manner. Only the front two characters may engage in melee, those in the rear ranks are limited to ranged attacks (Bows, darts, thrown daggers, etc.) and spells. The graphics for EotB are better than average. This is the first SSI adventure to take advantage of full VGA capabilities and it looks very nice. The sound board support for EotB is superb. Every clank, creak, and splash is well done. In fact, sometimes the only way that you know a monster is approaching is because you can hear its footsteps. Even the regular pc speaker sounds add to the game (rather than grating the nerves:). Now for a couple of bad points. One, if you don't have a mouse, the game will be very frustrating. The keyboard response is very sluggish and the graphic intensive interface does not work well with keyboard commands. To make things worse, there is no command summary card for keyboard users. The other bad point is the fact that you must keep the characters well fed. While I have not had a problem with food yet, it takes up valuable space and is just basically a hassle. Overall EotB appears to be a very good game and a welcome change from the standard RPG that SSI has produced thus far. Here's my overall summary on a scale from 1 to 10. Graphics: 9.5 Sound FX: 10 7 w/o a soundboard Playability: 8 5 w/o a mouse Manuals: 7 (lack of a command summary card) Overall: 9.0 (with a mouse and soundboard) 7.0 (without mouse and soundboard) Eye of the Beholder -- for IBM and IBM compatibles. Minimum system requirements: 640K, CGA, Hard Drive or two floppy drives (any combination). The game supports 256 color VGA graphics and the Adlib/Soundblaster sound boards. The game also supports a mouse. Price = $37.99 at Electronics Boutique. [ Note, the system I am running EotB on is a 16MHz 386sx, VGA, mouse, Soundblaster and did influence my review. I did play the game for a while without the mouse and soundboard so I could try to give a more 'balanced' review. Also, I only reviewed the IBM version....the Amiga version may have some peculiarities that will cause it to differ. ] ------------------------------ From: Ed Tecot Subject: NES: Star Tropics Star Tropics is yet another game in the Legend of Zelda genre, you typically alternate between simple puzzle solving and monster bashing. I typically like these types of games; I played Final Fantasy Legend on the GameBoy to completion. However, Star Tropics won't get that kind of attention. Although the puzzle solving is interesting, and the graphics and music are entertaining; the monster bashing portions quickly degenerate into isolated endurance races: If you fail to successfully complete a tunnel (where the monsters live), you're whisked back to the beginning to try again. Star Tropics does provide a save feature. When you begin the game, you register yourself. However, you can't save at any place in the game; instead, saves happen automatically at certain points in the game. Up to three people can have games in progress. I encountered no bugs, but then again, I didn't play very long; my patience was tried by the tunnel in chapter 3. Graphics 7 Music 7 Quality 9 Entertainment 4 Overall 6 Star Tropics, for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Nintendo Corporation ------------------------------ From: Mark and Chris Runyan Subject: NES: Destiny of an Emperor Picture yourself in front of your game system, calmly pondering your next move, weighing various factors such as relative strength of your side versus the computer enemy. Destiny of an Emperor isn't a game that requires near superhuman reflexes to play. Nor does it require that you be a master strategist. It does require that you have a good memory, a bit of aggressiveness, and maybe just a little bit of an instinct for gambling. The concept of the game appears to be that you are in ancient China, controlling a group of characters that is slowly building an army and, in the process, slowly bringing peace to the land by eliminating outlaw warlords. You start with three characters, each which have a set of helpful statistics. As the player, you must guide your characters about the landscape, talking to others you meet (learning necessary information), buying food and weapons at the local villages, and fighting the enemy as you encounter them. You learn to navigate across the landscape between villages, castles, and encampments, exploring each to find necessary equipment, allies, and information. Your army slowly grows as you go. And, once you find the necessary location in a village, you can record your current status, leave the game, and return to your saved state at a later time (only three such histories are kept). This is the closest thing to a role-playing game that I've encountered on a video cartridge. Chris (age: 9) enjoys this game, especially the exploring attribute. He thinks it is fun to get out there and explore, though he does have some trouble remembering to buy provisions for his group, and has often underestimated his enemy and had to retreat and restore his team to full power. He does get a little annoyed with being ambushed in the forest when he is trying to get back to safety. Chris had only one negative comment on the game. He didn't understand why a chain of three characters is shown as the representation for the party, especially because you can have up to seven characters in the traveling party. Chris wanted to know, "Why just three? If they are representing the party, then one would do. And if you want a line of people, then why not represent the entire group?" Mark (age: 30) is addicted to this game for a couple of reasons. First of all, unlike games that are fast-paced and require incredible reflexes, this game doesn't pump up the adrenalin. This means that players don't yell in anger at the screen when it defeats them, nor are the controls abused by trying to jab the proper button. Second, the entire role-playing aspect of the game is appealing, especially to someone who has done a lot of role-playing games. The group that explores can have one to seven characters, each with special attributes, magic, or equipment. The player must determine how to use the abilities of the characters, when to fight, when to accept an ally, and when to acquire new equipment. The memory feature of the cartridge also means that the player does not have to beat the cartridge in one sitting, but can come back to the game over and over. Still, there are some bad points about the game. The biggest one is the requirement that the player keep the manual nearby at all times. Each of the magic abilities (called "tactics" in the game) is named in Chinese. After a while, you remember which do what, but as your characters acquire a new power, you must remember to look it up. This means that you need to have the manual with the cartridge in order to play effectively. It also appears that the writers of the manual and the people that did the text for the game didn't always agree on the spelling of various names. Another problem is that you must be careful and make sure you are responding properly to the various menus. The menu that deals with "items" on a character has four places ("use", "pass", "equip", and "drop"), with the cursor always starting on the first one. If you punch the down button one too many times when trying to get a user to equip himself, you end up dropping an item, and there doesn't appear to be anyway to recover a dropped item. So be very careful in choosing a menu item. Still, taken as a whole, this game is definitely one of the better ones that I've played. While it may not seem nearly as exciting as the jump-and-shoot variety from my description, I assure you that there is more than enough to keep you from being bored. Unlike other games where you must repetitively solve the same problem over and over just to get to the next level, Destiny of an Emperor allows you to keep moving forward, exploring new areas and dealing with new puzzles. I think I'd enjoy seeing more games of this nature from the game writers. Graphics: 7 A wide variety of objects and characters Sound: 8 Background music adds to the game Fun Level: 10 Very addicting game Intuitive Feel: 7 Menu driven, but some usability problems Documentation: 6 Covers basics and required references Overall: 9 You are entertained and your equipment isn't abused. Destiny of an Emperor, for the Nintendo Entertainment System by CAPCOM U.S.A., Inc. ------------------------------ From: zipfel@ihlpm.att.com Subject: NES: Mega Man II Mega Man II is an action packed one player game that combines the best elements of action and adventure styled games. Not quite as "cute-sy" as Super Mario Brothers, yet not so dark as Castlevania, Mega Man II finds an excellent middle ground of humor and suspense that I have never found in another video game. Perhaps the strongest suit of MMII is it's ease of play. The greenist of beginners should be able to enjoy playing this game, while the seasoned veteran will find it challenging in it's entirety. The levels become progressively (if not exponentially!) harder, and the surprises are more and more entertaining/deadly. Highlights: After completing a stage, Mega Man gains a new, and useful weapon. This keeps the game fresh. Also, the continue feature ensures that mistakes do not cost you hours of playing time. Also, it's very cool how Mega Man blinks every few seconds. Lowlights: In the final stage, If you decide to quit, you must begin over at the beginning of the stage. Since there are a number of rather difficult parts to this stage, it is rather time consuming to complete it. Expect to spend at least 5 hours on the final stage alone. Graphics: Same quality as SMB, but with some BIG surprises. Bugs: None that I know of. Music: Decent. Rating: 8.6 (it's got a good beat and I can dance to it) Mega Man II, for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Nintendo Corporation, $40.00 ------------------------------ From: bbacskai@UCSD.EDU (Brian Bacskai) Subject: Genesis: Strider This game looks absolutely beautiful. A great deal of attention was paid to the scenery in this game, and it is a joy to watch. I've only played the arcade version a few times, so I don't know how accurately it compares, but then again, I also don't care. Strider is also available for the NES, although I haven't played it. There is not too much flicker in the Genesis version, except at the very beginning (which is kind of strange- that's not the way to get off on the right foot!) and it doesn't slow down in many places except when the game comes to a complete halt in between certain places (non-critical places, but it is kind of annoying nonetheless.) The animation of Hiryu (?) (the main character and bearer of the mighty plasma sword) is really cool, as he is quite acrobatic, but it is not *really* fluid. I've seen Mickey Mouse for the Genesis and it just doesn't compare. The background music is pretty good, I guess, but nothing special. I have to admit that I usually don't care too much about the background music unless it is *really* good. The sound effects are also nothing special, but also not bad. Nothing too dramatic. The game does have some really nice "real" effects like when you walk or hang from a horizontal vine, your weight drags it down. Or in one scene, you must jump from airship to airship until you get to the mother ship, and the height of ship depends on your weight. That is, if you jump up while on a small airship, the ship lurches upward a bit, and then falls back down when you land on it again. Pretty neat. There is also an interesting scene (a boss) where you are in an anti-gravity chamber or something like that, and you circle around the beast-machine until you destroy it. This is kind of cool, except that I could never really figure out if I was controlling my character or was helpless in flight. It was clever and frustrating at the same time, but I guess I'd have to lean more towards frustrating. Unfortunately, I found the gameplay to be pretty weak. You wield the plasma sword and slash anything that comes near while maneuvering through an obstacle course of sorts. There are "helper" critters that you can pick up to help you on your journey, but they are for the most part worthless and un-exciting. The feel of the character is not very good, and I often found myself cursing at the controller when the character grabbed something I didn't want him to grab, or jumped where I didn't want him to jump. That of course, could just be me-- perhaps I just suck. Anyway, I didn't find Strider excessively fun to play, although it was amusing. I do love (and my friends do as well) the scenery. Actually most of my friends had no interest in actually playing the game, they just wanted to watch me play through the different backgrounds. I finally finished it on the hard setting (and it was hard!) although I did cheat somewhat. The ending kind of pissed me off because I didn't know what the hell was going on. As I said, it is an obstacle course of sorts, so there is a definite path you must take to get to the end of each level. It is not always clear what that path is, so you have to explore a bit. This of course, is usually a good feature of a game, in my opinion, but it was a little frustrating at the last level for me. It also annoyed me that the evil boss at the very end starts emitting fish at you. FISH?? Pretty weird. The fish were recycled from the amazon scened in stage 4, so it was kind of cheap way of reusing critters, but they seemed pretty out of place to me. Overall, this is a decent game, but I'm not sure I'd recommend buying it, especially considering it's retail price. I would however recommend renting it. It's worth it just to see the artwork, and the game is not that difficult (at least until the last level, which is *very* challenging.) graphics 10 playability 5 music 5 overall 6 Strider for the Segan Genesis ------------------------------ From: milton@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Milton W. Kuo) Subject: Genesis: Monster Lair Date: 8 Mar 91 11:08:38 GMT Sega's third installment in the Wonder Boy series of action games is finally available for the Mega Drive after being available only as a CD-ROM game for the PC-Engine. Adapted from the coin-op game of the same name, Monster Lair is an action game where Leo (Wonder Boy) goes through nine different stages fighting snakes, mushrooms, gorillas and other baddies while gathering food to stay alive. At the end of each level, Monster Lair switches to a shooting game where Leo ride a baby dragon and must work his way up to the boss of the level. Monster Lair for me was a much anticipated game since I really enjoyed it at the arcades and felt that the game exibited a good level of orginality in its concept. While the Mega Drive version is missing some levels (I believe the coin-op version had about 14 levels), all of the exciting game play and the fun of the two player simultaneous mode is preserved (Sega should have made this an 8 Mbit game and included all of the levels). The graphics on the Mega Drive version compare very favorably to the coin-op version. The graphics are sharp and the colors are vivid. The only fault I can find with the graphics are on the second level where you fight the snake - the snake moves very choppily. I feel that this is more a fault of the programmers than a limitation of the hardware, though. The weapons you can collect are also exactly like the arcade version and all of the weapons are in this game: the spiral, missile, wide ring, fire ball, beam, and big fire. Another nicety of Monster Lair is in its soundtrack. It is ex- actly like the coin-op version and really complements the game well. Furthermore, even various different sounds the weapons make has been kept. Needless to say, those not too familiar with the arcade version will definitely think that this is the real thing. One of the most interesting aspects of Monster Lair was the abil- ity to have two players play simultaneously. With the two player mode set, one player assumes the role of Leo while the other the role of the princess Prapreel (?). While this feature has been kept on the Mega Drive version, there is a major wrinkle - Sega did a terrible job of programming the control in the two player mode. Probably because of inefficient programming, the game becomes slower and the scrolling of the game becomes choppy. Nonetheless, the game does not flicker in two player mode (thank God) and the "funness" of two-players makes up for the flaw. However, the feature that really made Monster Lair fun is the game's bosses. Each level has a "theme" to it and the boss is in some way related to that theme. For example, one level is in a snowy re- gion of Monster Land and the boss for that level is an ice man. Other bosses are just as creative and the neatest one is easily the slot machine mushroom (!). Sadly though, since some levels are missing, some of the bosses are as well. Maybe Sega will release a Monster Lair Deluxe Edition with the release of the CD-ROM drive. Overall, Monster Lair is a good game to get because of its ori- ginality. With nothing but shooting games coming out, the Mega Drive needs more games like Monster Lair. The lack of dazzling graphics and mind-blowing sound is well compensated for by solid game play and play value. By the way, Monster Lair has one of the nicest packaging jobs I've seen to date. The cover art is beautifully rendered in pastel colors and the color manual explains everything to the game. Sega of America would do well to stop changing the cover art and replacing color manuals with black and white ones. Graphics : 8 (looks almost exactly like the arcade version) Sound : 7 (sounds almost exactly like the arcade version) Gameplay : 6 (two player simultaneous play is really choppy) "Funness" : 8 (9 if not for the missing levels) Overall : 7 (8 if not for the choppiness of the two player mode) Monster Lair, for the Sega Genesis, from Westone (4Mbit Cart) ------------------------------ From: bbacskai@UCSD.EDU (Brian Bacskai) Subject: TG16: Dragon's Curse This is an adventure-quest kind of game where after beating level bosses, you are transformed into a different "hideous" creature. You start as a lizard, then mouse, piranha, tiger, and then hawk. It's cool how different areas of the "world" become accessible to you as you learn to swim or fly or whatever. In fact, some areas are only accessible as one character. For instance, only little mouse-man can fit through tiny openings and walk on the walls and ceilings. You also have to buy or find armor, sword, shields, etc as you go along. Obviously, the better the stuff, the more destructive you are, and the more punishment you can withstand. The graphics in this game are pretty weak. I mean there is absolutely nothing exciting about the look considering that it is for a 16-bit system. The player control is also not very good. To actually swat at something and then wait for the gold coin, or whatever goody is really even a bit tedious. (Please keep in mind that I felt this way about a number of other games of the same genre, e.g. Zelda, Link.) You have to have some coordination for some of the critters or bosses, but for the most part you just kind of slash your way through. (Or else use the boomerangs - my favorite weapon by far!) There are a number of different weapons that you can get from treasure chests or from killing baddies, including fireballs, tornadoes, and thunder, but for the most part they weren't of much use in my quest. The bosses are also kind of weak. Some are very easy to kill, some pretty tough, but all poorly done. No art awards here. But if you're like me and thought that Zelda, Link and Mario were just plain fun to play and if you get a great thrill out of finding that hidden door and refilling your hearts just when you need it, then you'll love this game as much as I did. Technically not impressive, but there are some really clever twists, and an intriguing motivation to play it to the end. For me it was a great thrill to be transformed into the next character, say hawk-man, and then rush to the nearest area that I had noticed earlier in the game, but that only a character who could fly could reach. Ah, the simple joys in life... Overall, if you like action adventure games, then you'll probably like this one. It's not pretty to look at, but it is a lot of fun to play. Graphics 5 Playability 5 Music 6 Overall 8 Dragon's Curse for TurboGrafx 16. ------------------------------ From: erc@radon.berkeley.edu (Eric Ng) Subject: Top and Bottom Games TOP AND BOTTOM TEN GAMES (10 VOTE MINIMUM) Votes Rank Title 14 9.9 Ys Books I And II, CDROM, TG16 18 9.8 Castle Of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, Genesis 23 9.7 Military Madness, TG16 14 9.4 Dungeon Master, Atari ST 19 9.3 Devil's Crush, TG16 31 9.2 Dungeon Master, Amiga 24 9.2 Blazing Lazers,TG16 19 9.2 Turrican, Amiga 32 9.1 Klax, Lynx 18 9.1 Final Fantasy Legend, GameBoy ... 41 5.7 Gauntlet III, Lynx 15 5.5 Ballistyx, Amiga 16 5.3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Nintendo Entertainment System 15 5.0 Super Thunderblade, Genesis 17 4.8 Air Diver, Genesis 11 4.7 Gauntlet, Mac 55 4.3 Altered Beast, Genesis 38 4.2 Keith Courage In The Alpha Zones, TG16 12 4.0 Alleyway, GameBoy 19 3.9 Duck Hunt, Nintendo Entertainment System In this list, games have been rated on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best and 1 being the worst. 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