Age of Empires (AoE) is a history-based real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. The game uses the Genie, a 2D sprite-based game engine. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an ancient civilization by advancing it through four ages (the Stone, Tool, Bronze, and Iron Ages), gaining access to new and improved units with each advance.
JumpStart Kindergarten is a grade-based JumpStart game released by Knowledge Adventure in 1997. It teaches a kindergarten curriculum. It is an updated version of JumpStart Kindergarten (1994), and in 2002 it was succeeded by JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten.
Sid Meier's Gettysburg! is a real-time tactical computer game designed by Sid Meier, the co-founder of Firaxis Games, that was released in 1997 by Electronic Arts. In 1998, Gettysburg won the Origins Award for Best Strategy Computer Game of 1997. It was followed by Sid Meier's Antietam! in 1998.
The game allows the player to control either the Confederate or Union troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. It can be played as single scenarios, or as a campaign of linked scenarios, either recounting the original history or exploring alternative possibilities.
The engine was also used for the Napoleonic game Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle (as was a modified version for Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory), both by BreakAway Games.
The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.
The third part of BS Fire Emblem Archanea Senki-hen (BS Fire Emblem: Akaneia Senki-hen).
It is a turn-based tactical RPG set in the fantasy world of the Fire Emblem universe. It is based on the engine for the January 1994 Super Famicom release, Fire Emblem: Monshou no Nazo, and the gameplay is largely the same. Gameplay involves the tactical movement of character units through a map grid in order to defeat the opposition militarily.
In the first of three adventures - created in association with the Jane Goodall Institute - Jubilee, a bicycle-riding chimpanzee, leads children on a journey to learn about global concerns. Along the way, children search for hidden objects, meet characters called "Just-Me's", discover interesting facts and play games to restore six troubled environments to their natural state. Learn about the effects of acid rain and too much pollution. Snorkel to inspect a coral reef or sing in the swamp. Play "Truth or Siberia" with Boris the Bear and Syd the Tiger or "Stash the Trash" at a city dump where the garbage just keeps coming! A Things To Do List, experiments and web addresses for eco-friendly sites are included in a companion journal.
With over 200 animated sequences and original music videos, Jubilee's Journey is a great way to introduce environmental issues while teaching children ages 6 and up, how to make a difference in the world around them.
A PC gem boasting beautiful visual effects and four different worlds (Desert, Underwater City, Ice Caves and Futuristic Metropolis) comprised of massive, beautifully crafted 3D-modeled levels and rendered graphics.
Actua Soccer 2 or sometimes Actua Soccer 98 due to its capitalization on the 1998 FIFA World Cup was one of the many football titles released to capitalize on the 1998 World Cup, and once again included national teams, but a more polished engine (optimized in the PC version for 3D graphics cards), (in some versions) the full Italian Serie A league, and a new "scenario" mode assured good sales and mostly positive reviews. It also included a team creator mode, which enabled the player to make up to 128 custom teams. Barry Davies was joined by Trevor Brooking on the commentary, and the game featured England football team captain and striker Alan Shearer not only on the cover, but also providing interviews about the game in the press. Michael Owen and Simon Tracey provided motion capture for the players. The game also featured menu music and a cameo appearance from Welsh rockers, Super Furry Animals, which could only be activated after entering a cheat code. Actua Soccer 2 was also bundled with Creative Technology's Vo
The Vault Dweller is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California in order to retrieve a water chip to replace the broken chip of Vault 13, their home, which they are the first person to ever leave. The player will engage in Western RPG character building and turn-based tactical combat while getting to know settlements and factions of people, mutants and ghouls through branching dialogue trees.
This installment of Shiawase Usagi abandons the heroines of the two previous games in favor of characters curiously named after Neon Genesis Evangelion heroes: the protagonist is called Shinji, the love interests Misato and Asuka, etc. The plot, however, has little to do with that of the anime series: the hero is a young man who is watching a porn movie and decides to get some real "action". Afterwards, it becomes a series of sexual encounters, which proceed depending on the player's choices.
Being a visual novel, the game can develop into different directions story-wise. The only gameplay consists of deciding where to go and/or what to do. Depending on the player's decisions, the story will be concluded with various endings, "happy" as well as "bad".
Ninja JaJaMaru-kun: Onigiri Ninpou-chou Gold is an Action game, developed by Atelier Double and published by Jaleco, which was released in Japan in 1997.
Power Stakes Grade 1 is a Sports game, developed by TOSE and published by Aques, which was released in Japan in 1997. Horse Racing (US) or horseracing (UK) is an equestrian sport that has been practiced for millennia. It is inextricably associated with gambling. The common sobriquet for Thoroughbred horse racing is The Sport of Kings.
Horse racing is an equestrian sport and major international industry, watched in almost every nation of the world. There are three types: "flat" racing; steeplechasing, i.e. racing over jumps; and harness racing, where horses trot or pace while pulling a driver in a small, light cart known as a sulky. A major part of horse racing's economic importance lies in the gambling associated with it, an activity that in 2008 generated a world-wide market worth around US$115 billion.
Japan conducts more than 21,000 horse races a year in one of three types: flat racing, jump racing (races over hurdles), and Ban'ei Racing (also called Draft Racing).
There are a total of thirty racetracks in Ja
Moonlight Syndrome is a horror-themed adventure game developed and published by Human Entertainment for the PlayStation in October 1997. An entry in the company's Twilight Syndrome series, the game was directed and co-written by Goichi Suda.
Spectral Force is the first in a long series of tactical role-playing games. This is a war simulation game set in "Neverland", where humans, gods, and the demon clans each wage war over the continents for their own visions of unity.
Every year, during the prestigious all-girls' school Ryouran Academy's culture festival, a fighting tournament is held, with representatives from each of the school's clubs duking it out to determine what the school's priorities for club funding will be for the next year. Naturally, the more athletically-inclined clubs tend to place higher than the culturally-inclined ones, with the Chemistry Club in particular suffering from a humiliating string of losses in the tournament prelims...
Enter one Asuka Honda, scouted in middle school by the current Chemistry Club president and subjected to a year's worth of Training from Hell in order to be the Chemistry Club's secret weapon. Making it past the prelims, Asuka enters into the final tournament, where she and a host of girls all vying to improve their club's standings will face off.
NHL POWERPLAY '98 offers all the NHL teams. Not only are real NHL teams with real NHL players available, but several Olympic teams also make an appearance. The graphics are also one of the many strong points here polygonal player models move exceptionally well and possess some realistic animations, including high-sticking swipes and some hard-hitting body checks. Basically, if you've seen it in a real NHL game, chances are you'll see it in NHL POWERPLAY '98. You can also take on a friend in the Versus mode to see who's the king of the ice.
Su-27 Flanker: Squadron Commander's Edition is a combat flight simulator that puts players in control of the Soviet-designed Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet. This comprehensive package combines the base game with its mission pack expansion, while adding technical improvements including enhanced AI behavior, a strategic AWACS view, and a random mission generator. Players can create their own scenarios through an upgraded mission editor or engage in pre-made combat situations that showcase the aircraft's capabilities.