Classic Personal Computer (PC) Games

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  • ZangbandTK

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Topi Ylinen & Tim Baker GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Tim Baker Zangband is the excellent but now-discontinued graphical facelift of Zangband, arguably the most popular Angband variant today. Short for Zelazny Angband, Zangband has many more features than most (if not all) other Roguelike…

  • Residents: Freak Show, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jim Ludtke GAME DEVELOPER:Voyager Company GAME PUBLISHER:Voyager Company Copyright 1993, Cryptic Corp. & Warner Brothers The Residents: Freak Show is one of the most unique and compelling CD-ROMs you’ll ever come across, no less because it was based on one of the world’s most eccentric bands.…

  • Bad Day on the Midway

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jim Ludtke GAME DEVELOPER:inSCAPE GAME PUBLISHER:inSCAPE Copyright 1995, Cryptic Corp. & Warner Brothers Bad Day on the Midway is the second and last CD-ROM based on the works of The Residents, one of the world’s most eccentric bands. Designed by inSCAPE, the same company that brought…

  • Assassin 2015

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Rich Karpp GAME DEVELOPER:BlueSky Software GAME PUBLISHER:inSCAPE Copyright 1996, inSCAPE Assassin 2015 is an entertaining 3D action/adventure hybrid that is unfortunately far too short and easy. The description from MobyGames follows: “You are Jack Butcher, a former soldier, and now an assassin working for the government.…

  • Pentagrama

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Toolworks GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Toolworks Pentagrama is a fun beer-and-pretzel turn-based wargame that combines traditional turn-based strategy gameplay with boardgame elements in a very innovative way. The best way to describe Pentagrama is probably to say its your average star-shaped, wooden peg solitaire…

  • A Brief History of Time

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Blasterware GAME PUBLISHER:Blasterware Copyright 1995, Blasterware A Brief History of Time is one of the best CD-ROMs I’ve ever come across, no less because it is based on Stephen Hawking’s groundbreaking book of the same name. One of the few titles from Creative Labs’…

  • Umihara Kawase

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Xing GAME PUBLISHER:Xing Copyright 1994, Xing Umihara Kawase and its sequel Umihara Kawase Shun are two very innovative platformers that were sadly never released outside Japan. Which is a shame, because they are both unique and highly innovative game that will make you wonder…

  • Umihara Kawase Shun

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Xing GAME PUBLISHER:Xing Copyright 2000, Xing Umihara Kawase and its sequel Umihara Kawase Shun are two very innovative platformers that were sadly never released outside Japan. Which is a shame, because they are both unique and highly innovative game that will make you wonder…

  • Catapults

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ariel Jacob GAME DEVELOPER:Global R&D GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Global R&D Catapults is a fun Connect-4 variant for Windows that introduces some interesting features to the traditional concept. There are 2 modes in the game: classic and real-time. In classic mode, two opponents take turns placing…

  • Shin Megami Tensei

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Atlus GAME PUBLISHER:Atlus Copyright 1992, Atlus Shin Megami Tensei (Digital Devil Story in English) is an excellent entry in Atlus’ Megami Tensei, a hugely popular RPG series that was rarely translated or released outside Japan. Originally debuted on the NES in 1987 with Digital…

  • Barbarians

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Teeny Weeny Games GAME PUBLISHER:GT Interactive Copyright 1996, Teeny Weeny Games Barbarians is a lackluster platformer developed by Teeny Weeny Games, who also developed Pocahontas, another lackluster platformer published by GT Interactive. Similar to Enixs excellent console game EVO, the idea here is to…

  • Battalia

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Peter Turcan GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Peter Turcan Battalia is the most recent game designed by Dr. Peter Turcan, a passionate historical wargamer who pioneered the use of realistic 3D terrain and real-time gameplay in computer wargames in the early 1990s. Although the most…

  • Gipf for One

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Kurt Van den Branden & Kris Burm GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, Kurt Van den Branden Gipf for One is an excellent PC version of GIPF, a fascinating abstract board game invented by Kris Burm in 1997. Like the board game, the objective of Gipf…

  • Hexy

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Vadim Anshelevich & Piet Hein GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Vadim Anshelevich Hexy is an excellent Windows version of Hex, a fun but little-known abstract board game I used to play a lot with friends in college. As explained on MazeWorks’ Hex page, the game…

  • LOA2D

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Benjamin Guihaire & Claude Soucie GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Benjamin Guihaire LOA2D is a great computer version of Lines of Action, a fun but little-known abstract board game invented by Claude Soucie and described in the book “A Gamut of Games” by legendary board…

  • Take It Easy

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Heinrich Wolf GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Heinrich Wolf Take It Easy is a solid PC version of a little-known board game of the same name that is published by FX Schmid in Germany. In the game, up to four players (any one of which…

  • Through the Desert

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Reiner Knizia GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Games on Board Through the Desert is a good PC version of Durch Die Wuste, Reiner Knizia’s classic board game of tile placement. (one of the three games collectively known as his tile laying trilogy – the others…

  • Giants of Steel

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Michael Haar GAME DEVELOPER:DIGITAL Nightmares GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1996, DIGITAL Nightmares Giants of Steel is a fun 3D giant robot action game from DIGITAL Nightmares, a small Germany-based developer who released the game into the public domain after selling it for a number of months as…

  • ML Yaht

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bob Lancaster GAME DEVELOPER:MicroLink GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1987, Bob Lancaster Between 1987 and 1990, Bob Lancaster wrote 6 games that he released under the name of MicroLink, a PC user group he belonged to. All the games boast simple, ASCII-character graphics, but the excellent gameplay and…

  • ML Push Your Luck

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bob Lancaster GAME DEVELOPER:MicroLink GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1990, Bob Lancaster Between 1987 and 1990, Bob Lancaster wrote 6 games that he released under the name of “MicroLink,” a PC user group he belonged to. All the games boast simple, ASCII-character graphics, but the excellent gameplay and…

  • ML Shut the Box

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bob Lancaster GAME DEVELOPER:MicroLink GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1989, Bob Lancaster Between 1987 and 1990, Bob Lancaster wrote 6 games that he released under the name of “MicroLink,” a PC user group he belonged to. All the games boast simple, ASCII-character graphics, but the excellent gameplay and…

  • ML Loyd

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bob Lancaster GAME DEVELOPER:MicroLink GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1990, Bob Lancaster Between 1987 and 1990, Bob Lancaster wrote 6 games that he released under the name of “MicroLink,” a PC user group he belonged to. All the games boast simple, ASCII-character graphics, but the excellent gameplay and…

  • ML Crux

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bob Lancaster GAME DEVELOPER:MicroLink GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1991, Bob Lancaster Between 1987 and 1990, Bob Lancaster wrote 6 games that he released under the name of “MicroLink,” a PC user group he belonged to. All the games boast simple, ASCII-character graphics, but the excellent gameplay and…

  • ML Otra

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Bob Lancaster GAME DEVELOPER:MicroLink GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1989, Bob Lancaster Between 1987 and 1990, Bob Lancaster wrote 6 games that he released under the name of “MicroLink,” a PC user group he belonged to. All the games boast simple, ASCII-character graphics, but the excellent gameplay and…

  • Monopoly

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Adam Stevens GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1998, Adam Stevens Monopoly is a great text-only version of the famous Parker Brothers board game that offers many more options than most commercial versions of the game. The most amazing thing is that Adam Stevens, the designer, manages…

  • Star Saga: Two: The Clathran Menace

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Andrew Greenberg & Rick Dutton GAME DEVELOPER:Masterplay Publishing GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1989, Masterplay Publishing One of the most underrated, unknown classics ever made for the PC, Star Saga: Two – The Clathran Menace is the second and unfortunately final in the short-lived Star Saga series…

  • Darkstone

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Paul Cuisset GAME DEVELOPER:Delphine Software GAME PUBLISHER:Gathering of Developers Copyright 1997, Delphine Software If sword wielding, dungeon hacking, and weak enemies are your forte in an RPG, then Delphine Software’s Darkstone just may be the game for you. You are on a quest to reassemble the…

  • Timeline

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Michael Crichton GAME DEVELOPER:Timeline Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:EIDOS Interactive Copyright 2000, Timeline Entertainment Over the years, certain games have become rather large jokes in the annals of computer gaming history (stand and say hello Battlecruiser 3000 AD ..the worst game in history). Eidos and Timeline Entertainment’s Timeline…

  • Virtual U

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Trevor Chan & William Massy GAME DEVELOPER:Enlight Software GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, The Sloan Foundation Virtual U is a unique and realistic university management simulation the first and so far the only game of its kind. Designed to foster better understanding of management practices in U.S.…

  • F1 World Championship Edition

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Chris Johnson & Paul Tankard GAME DEVELOPER:Lankhor GAME PUBLISHER:Domark Copyright 1994, Domark F1 World Championship Edition is an updated version of Lankhor’s Vroom, a highly underrated F1 racing simulation, first released in 1991 in Europe. The game features all 16 circuits on the FIA calendar, while…

  • Navy Strike

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Rowan GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 1996, Rowan Navy Strike is an ambitious flight simulation from Rowan that tries to add elements of strategy in typical flight sim gameplay. The result is an uneven game that will appeal only to veteran flight sim and strategy…

  • Mimi & the Mites

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Unobstructed Reason Corporation GAME PUBLISHER:Unobstructed Reason Corporation Copyright 1995, Unobstructed Reason Corporation Mimi & the Mites is a fun shareware puzzle/action hybrid from the Unobstructed Reason Corporation (probably the best game company name ever). While it looks like a standard side-scroller at first glance,…

  • Fighter Duel

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Jaeger Software GAME PUBLISHER:Philips Media Copyright 1996, Jaeger Software Strategy Plus says it all about this fun dogfighting underdog: “Fighter Duel is an excellent first person stand alone and modem play PC world War II dogfighting simulator. It runs liquid smoothly (except very close…

  • BlackStar: Agent of Justice

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Thomas Vitacco GAME DEVELOPER:Worwyk Software GAME PUBLISHER:Worwyk Software Copyright 1992, Thomas Vitacco BlackStar: Agent of Justice is a mediocre shareware adventure game that squanders decent graphics and puzzles by cramming just about every 20th century stereotype you can think of. Written by heavy metal musician Thomas…

  • GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:GeoWorks GAME PUBLISHER:GeoWorks Copyright 1993, Breadbox Released in 1993, version 2.0 of GEOS features bug fixes and a new color scheme (predominantly gray instead of dark cyan). Still very much ahead of its time, GeoWorks (now New Deal) improved the OS and bundled applications…

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Oh!X & Isawo-Kikuchi GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Oh!X & Isawo-Kikuchi sion2000 is a neat 3D first-person space shooter from Japan. The objective is simple: shoot everything in sight. Although it’s an arcade shooter, the control resembles a flight sim game in that pressing UP…

  • Dungeons of Daggorath, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Douglas Morgan GAME DEVELOPER:DynaMicro GAME PUBLISHER:DynaMicro Copyright 1982, DynaMicro In the annals of computer RPGs, just about everyone who has been gaming since the 1980s will cite the triumvirate of Ultima–Wizardry–Might & Magic as the pioneers of the genre. But as usual as in other fields…

  • Stoked Rider

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Bongfish GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Bongfish Stoked Rider is a freeware “work in progress” snowboarding game being developed by Bongfish. Although billed as “demo,” Stoked Rider is packed with features that supercede most other freeware snowboarding games, including the ability to perform many tricks…

  • Twisted! Deluxe

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Ray Dunakin GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Ray Dunakin Twisted! Deluxe is an updated, full-color version of Twisted!, an excellent shareware adventure game for the Macintosh by Ray Dunakin. The original Twisted! was a fun text-adventure-with-graphics game coded with World Builder, a now-discontinued adventure game…

  • Millennium Auction

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Rosenbloom GAME DEVELOPER:Eidolon GAME PUBLISHER:Eidolon Copyright 1994, Eidolon One of the most unique computer games ever made, Millennium Auction is a fascinating “auction simulation” that is set in the year 2006, but it could very well have been at modern-day Christie’s it seems that the…

  • Dogma

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Anonymous Dogma is a Japanese fighting game that suffers a bit for being not completely finished. For some reason, the development stopped, so we have only a single background, a single BG music (though it’s quite a good one),…

  • Conquest: Frontier Wars

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jamie Wiggs & Arvee Garde GAME DEVELOPER:Fever Pitch Studios GAME PUBLISHER:UBI Soft Copyright 2001, UBI Soft Games like Homeworld reinvented the real-time-strategy genre by making the setting a previously untapped localespace. It wasnt long before other developers, and publishers, would realize the potential of such a…

  • Clandestiny

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Graeme Devine & Rob Landeros GAME DEVELOPER:Trilobyte GAME PUBLISHER:Trilobyte Copyright 1996, Trilobyte Scary spooks abound in Trilobyte’s ghoulishly delightful Clandestiny. Andrew MacPhiles has just inherited the family castle in Scotland. Being the coward he is (it runs in the family you see), he doesn’t want to…

  • Traitor’s Gate

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Nigel Papworth GAME DEVELOPER:DayDream Software GAME PUBLISHER:Dreamcatcher Interactive Copyright 2000, Daydream Entertainment Codename: Raven. Your mission: Infiltrate the Tower of London and swap the crown jewels with fakes in order to prevent a war. This sets the mood for Daydream’s Traitor’s Gate, a suspenseful yarn that…

  • Tanktics

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:DMA Design GAME PUBLISHER:Gremlin Copyright 1999, Gremlin It’s quirky, it’s fun, and it’s baaaaad. As you could expect from the same team that designed Lemmings series (DMA Design, which was bought out by Gremlin), Tanktics is a uniquely designed and fun to play strategy…

  • Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen, The

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Louis Saekow GAME DEVELOPER:Arxel Tribe GAME PUBLISHER:Red Orb Entertainment Copyright 1999, Arxel Tribe Arxel Tribe serves up an interesting, albeit loose adaptation of Wagner’s famous opera “The Ring Cycle” which in turn was based on the Legend of the Nibelungen. The game is set a few…

  • GeneRally

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Hannu R?bin? GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Hannu R?bin? The freeware racing game GeneRally, just like Slicks ‘n’ Slide, is great fun. Its exciting, fast and twice as fun with friends, everything you’d expect from this type of game. But GeneRally goes a step beyond…

  • Changoo 4

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:HQ Team GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, HQ Team Changoo 4 is the fourth and best entry in the Changoo series, fanmade games based on Crayon Shin-Chan, an excellent humorous manga (and now anime) series that is wildly popular in Asia but is rarely known…

  • Isin-Densin Zero

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Grafix GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2000, Grafix Isin-Densin Zero is yet another excellent vertical shooter from Japan’s rapidly growing freeware scene. You know the drill by now: excellent graphics, smooth gameplay, and a lot of cool ship designs. The game goes above and beyond most…

  • Actraiser

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    From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Quintet GAME PUBLISHER:Enix Copyright 1991, Enix Actraiser is a fun action/strategy hybrid from Quintet/Enix for the SNES. You play the role of a god who is trying to reclaim the earth from evil beings and make it habitable for your people. Similar to EVO…