Rugrats: Search for Reptar is the first video game based off of the popular Nickelodean television series. The game follows the main character of the cartoon Rugrats, Tommy Pickles, who has lost eleven pieces of a twelve-piece jigsaw puzzle featuring the cartoon dinosaur Reptar. It is a 3D platform game which requires players to control several of the main characters in order to accomplish the goals through fourteen levels that are accessed when players pick up certain objects and also has bonus levels with Reptar bars. The levels can be played in any order, but the more difficult levels have to be unlocked to be playable.
The levels that players explore are mostly based on episodes from the cartoon, such as "Chuckie's Glasses", and contain various pieces of the Reptar puzzle. The game also has a training and activities mode, as well as a multiplayer mode.
NBA Live 99 is EA Sports' NBA release for the 1998–99 NBA season. Some of the major additions in Live 99 include Practice Mode and multi-season play featuring player development between seasons. Although it did not feature free agency or generated rookies, it would turn out to be the forerunner to Franchise Mode. Live 99 shipped with 1997-98 season rosters due to the NBA lockout of 1998–99 putting a hold on player movements and rookie signings during the summer of 1998.
Featuring St Andrews Links - Old Course, and many new features, Links LS 1999 is a gleaming addition to the Links franchise. Other courses include Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Latrobe Country, and Entrada at Snow Canyon. Multimedia tours of the courses are available for you to enjoy.
A new tournament environment brings crowd galleries to the course. The additions of real-time voice and spectator mode enhance online play. In this version, you can even create your own sound script if you want, adding your own comments to the soundscape.
Grand Prix Legends (nicknamed GPL) is a computer racing simulator developed by Papyrus Design Group and published in 1998 by Sierra Entertainment. At the time of its release, it simulated the 1967 Formula One season and is considered to be one of the most realistic racing games ever released.
You play as Cyrus, a Redguard in search for his sister, and a mercenary pirate. After receiving a letter from your old friend and Nord captain Tobias about your sister's disappearance, you sail to Stros M'kai, your sister's home, and site of the final clash between the Redguard Crowns and the Empire. The game begins when you arrive at the port.
Hero is a college student who attends university in Tokyo. He lost father at young age and now lives with mother, father-in-law and sister-in-law Mariko.
A strange letter arrived from Mariko's pen friend Keiko who spends summer vacation on a "September Island (Ku Tsutou)".
"Strange events have been happening, please come quickly. I'm scared".
Hero used to visit this island together with his deceased father and together with Mariko they set off to help Keiko.
Keiko was supposed to work as maid in a western mansion, but only three mansion owner daughters are found there.
Test Drive Off-Road 2 follows the path set by 1997's Test Drive: Off-Road as you drive across twelve courses (based on six locales: Morocco, Hawaii, Mojave, Santa Cruz, Switzerland and Wales) in your quest to win races on the World Tour. This time twenty vehicles are available to choose from, but before you can get behind the wheel, you'll have to purchase them with credits earned from winning races.
Some of the licensed vehicles include a Hummer, Dodge Ram, Jeep Wrangler, Ford Explorer, Jeep Cherokee, Range Rover, Ford F-150 and a Dodge T-Rex. The World Tour consists of five events divided by class: Hummer, Safari, SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle), Truck and Military. Each class has you competing against five similar vehicles in a series of races, where you'll need to place within the top three in order to advance to the next track.
A racing game in the purest sense of the word, Running Wild pits six bipedal animals against one another in a footrace across six diverse environments (two of which must be unlocked), with the sole aim of being crowned the fastest animal on the planet.
The menagerie of racers includes Mei-Ling the panda, Gwynn the rabbit, Brazz the zebra, General the mountain ram, Coronado the bull, and Boris the elephant. The courses, taking place in remote locations such as the arctic, jungle, and desert, are littered with hazards and power-ups to both aid and hinder your progress. The former is made up of a plethora of obstacles such as pipes, ice and lava pits, thorn patches, and other such impediments, many of which must be cleared using your animal's innate jumping ability.
The power-ups provided allow characters to fly; turn into ghosts in order to avoid obstructions; transform the course into mud or ice or even increase in size in order to squash any competitors in their path. Speed strips are scattered about the locales
Psygnosis hits back with Formula 1 98 not only providing a new game engine and features but also developer Visual Science. Formula 1 98 also sports a real 1998 FIA licences insuring real tracks, cars, racers, teams, more detailed statistics and other F1 lifelike aspects.
Visually Visual Science have managed to tweak field depth and reduce pop up while providing the same detailed, fast visuals the first two were known for. Players also witness the action from a new cockpit view with realistic driver head animation and new particle effects have been added to heighten realism and crash effects. Also check out startling commentary now not only with famous English commentators but also other languages provide real commentators, certainly a good option for those who prefer non-English commentary.
Cars are also modelled upon 1998 versions with greater attention to detail and advertising while all tracks have been greatly improved likewise. The Interface now features a track map in arcade mode while existing car dynamics
"GORYUZIN ELECTRO" is a board game acknowledged for its quality by the Good Toy Committee in Japan in 1997. Based on the legend of the dragon, you have to compete connecting special frames and see to what extend can you proceed into your opponent's territory. No matter how many times you play, it is a fun game for everyone.
The gameplay is difficult to explain, the goal of the game is to use all of the player pieces or use the ones that the player needs to reach to other part of the board, (for example the player starts in the bottom of the screen and have to reach the top) the harder part is to that before the opponent do it, both players compete to use their pieces to create obstacles that avoid the opponent to reach the other side, using the opening (that is too the closing piece) to close the line and get a point (or more depending of the pieces used).
The game got a challenging gameplay but the difficulty level is really hard.
One of the things that really makes a difference in Umi No Oh! Yah! from the rest of fishing games is that you first select the fishing spot on the map and then you have to drive the boat until those places (there is an auto pilot mode) and we you arrive there you can start to fish.
The game features a story mode and a training mode to learn how to catch a fish. In this game to fish you don't move the rod, you move the boat.
Geometry Duel is a Strategy game which was released in Japan in 1998.
The gameplay is a mix between a first person perspective adventure game with good 2d anime characters and a 3d isometric view (with different camera angles) in the battle mode. The battle mode gameplay is the usual tactical rpg, the player put different units and have to defeats the enemy to win.