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This point-and-click adventure game follows Simon, an unwilling teenage hero on his quest to save the wizard Calypso.
A DOS puzzle-platformer from Moonlite Software.
The first game in the Lunar series, and the second highest selling Sega CD game of all time, Lunar tells a story of love, betrayal, and redemption.
Play as fairies Tam and Rit in this Arcade action platformer developed by Jaleco.
Pu-Li-Ru-La is an absolutely insane arcade beat em up. It was released by Taito in 1991.
A DOS-based puzzle platformer in which you play a fairy godmother.
Slightly Magic is an adventure game from Codemasters for multiple 8-bit platforms.
The sequel to The Adventures of Captain Comic, a side-scrolling platformer on the PC.
A side-scrolling action/platformer/shooter for the NES, featuring a witch named Francesca. Released first in Japan under the name Magical Kids Doropie, on December 14th 1990.
The evil wizard Mordack has taken the castle and royal family of Daventry, and are holding them prisoner. As the only member of the royal family left behind, King Graham must help his family and return the castle.
Snoopy's Magic Show is a puzzle game for the Gameboy featuring Snoopy and Woodstock.
The Final Fantasy Legend is the English title given to the first game in the SaGa series. In this game, a group of adventurers journey to the top of a mysterious tower.
Little Nemo is based on a film based on a comic strip from the early 20th century. In it, a young boy from London named Nemo is summoned to the kingdom of Slumberland; a fantasy realm filled with strange creatures and dream-like locations.
Ultima VI is the final entry in the Age of Enlightenment. Its icon- and text-based interface was new to computer RPGs at the time.
Willow is a game based on the movie of the same name.
A fantasy adventure game for early Windows operating systems, Castle of the Winds was notable for its randomly generated dungeons, which were populated by monsters "borrowed" from Dungeons & Dragons, which was possible thanks to its simplistic graphics.
A side-scrolling platform game, famous for being unfairly difficult, originally developed for the Commodore Amiga, and later ported to other systems.
Captain Comic was one of the first side-scrolling platformers developed for PC.
Shadowgate is an adventure game where the player must travel through Castle Shadowgate solving its riddles and puzzles to succeed whilst avoiding numerous perils.
Phantasy Star is an 8-Bit console RPG released for the Sega Master System. Featuring hours of story-driven dialog, first person dungeon exploring and an epic quest, Phantasy Star spawned numerous sequels and spinoffs.
Inspired by Rogue, NetHack is an ASCII-based RPG in which the player must navigate the Mazes of Menace in search of the Amulet of Yendor for his deity.
A young boy explores a huge overworld filled with enemies and dungeons to find and rescue Princess Zelda from the evil Ganon.
An adventure game involving a knight trying to restore the inadvertent effects of a spell gone wrong.
A DOS adventure/RPG based on Wagner's Ring saga and Germanic mythology.
Wizardry II continues the story arc that had started with the first game. After Werdna's defeat, a new threat arises to disrupt the peace of the kingdom. A party of adventurers must explore a dungeon filled with danger to recover the armor of the Knight of Diamonds.
The first chapter of what would become one of the defining series for PC-based RPGs, this instant classic pit a group of adventurers against the evil wizard, Werdna, in a quest for an amulet that they must retrieve for Trebor, the Mad Overlord.
Zork II, Infocom's second game, is a treasure hunt in the vein of its predecessor. Still in the Great Underground Empire and armed with your brass lantern and elvish sword, you must find ten treasures while dealing with the capricious Wizard of Frobozz.
Created by computer gaming pioneer Richard Garriott, a.k.a. Lord British, Ultima was one of the first computer role playing games and it set many standards for the genre.
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