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Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers is the third instalment of the Fatal Fury spin-off series Real Bout. In addition to being one of SNK’s better fighting games, it also has one of the best box arts of all time.

LucasArts Archives Volume 1 is a budget package which features three of the company’s best adventure games on CD-ROM: Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which really made it one of the best deals of all time. As a bit of a sweetener, the company threw in a 3 level demo of Rebel Assault, and a CD filled with demos of various other LucasArts games.

Doom II: Hell on Earth is the follow up to the one of the most influential games of all time, and while it seems like it is treading familiar ground, the devil is in the detail. Doom II‘s levels are much larger and more intense, and the combination of these larger areas with the more dangerous enemies makes for a more challenging game.

It’s kind of sad to think about it, but Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the last universally praised Sonic game. Sega really threw everything they had at the sequel – it was a joint development effort between Japanese and American development teams. It was bigger, better looking, had a great soundtrack and some of the best momentum based platforming you’ll ever see. It was the #1 best selling game on the Mega Drive and Genesis, and may still be the best selling title in Sega’s catalogue.

Fade to Black is the follow up to the popular Flashback. It’s an interesting beast – one of the first 3D third person shooters. However, at that point, developers were still trying to figure out how to make 3D games play well – and Fade to Black is fiddly and clunky.

This ad is a simple teaser for the home versions of Mortal Kombat 4, perhaps the most maligned entry in the series. Eurocom did a pretty admirable job bringing the game to the PSX and N64, but they weren’t working with the best of material to begin with.

The Dex Drive was an accessory released in PlayStation and Nintendo 64 versions which allowed users to back up their memory card / memory pak saves to a PC and share them with friends and post them online. Being from the late 90s it uses a clumsy serial interface, but they’re still quite sought after.

There was something of a football game explosion in the early days of the PlayStation. Psygnosis got in there with their own take on the great game with Adidas Power Soccer.

The Army Men series of games were generally on the nose, but were big earners for 3DO back in the day. One can assume that ads like this one helped to make Sarge’s Heroes one of the more successful ones, because the game is a mess of muddy graphics and subpar 3rd person shooting action.

G-Darius is the fourth entry of the series. While it doesn’t feature the multi-screen spanning play of the first two games in the series, it is the first to be presented with 3D polygonal graphics, and adds a new beam duel system.