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Fantasy World Dizzy-
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AdventureCodemastersCPC1989
 

Dizzy's third adventure takes place in a land of dragons and the like. It also features the rest of the Dizzy clan, the Yolkfolk. They will provide you with more puzzles to solve. Your mission is to traverse the platform world, find 30 hidden coins, and ultimately rescue daisy. Various puzzles will hinder your progress, but they are all fairly logical and can be solved quite easily.

See: Bubble Dizzy, Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy Down the Rapids, Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk, Fantasy World Dizzy, Fast Food, Kwik Snax, Magic Land Dizzy, Panic Dizzy, Spellbound Dizzy, Treasure Island Dizzy
 
Fantavision-
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PuzzleSCEIPS22000
 

Can you put on a good fireworks show? Such is the objective in Fantavision. As the camera lazily swings around nighttime cityscapes, coloured rockets are launched into the play field. It is your task to make them explode by zipping your cursor around and selecting three or more like-coloured missiles and then pressing the detonator. Any fireworks left too long will fizzle out and decrease your energy meter; lose this, and it's game over. Different styles of firework provide the graphical beauty, and wildcards, combos, and other such bonuses aim to add variety to play.

 
Fast Food-
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PacmanCodemastersCPC1989
 

Dizzy takes on Pacman in an arcade game that seems him eating his way through 30 single-screen mazes. Unlike Pacman, the maze isn't filled with dots. Instead, there are a few items of food which move around the maze according to their own personality (!?). Out to stop you are up to four ghosts, and in your defence are powerups like the Shield or a bottle of ketchup. After every three levels, you are treated to a nice little animation of Dizzy getting one over on the ghosts.

See: Bubble Dizzy, Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, Dizzy, Dizzy Down the Rapids, Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk, Fantasy World Dizzy, Fast Food, Kwik Snax, Magic Land Dizzy, Panic Dizzy, Spellbound Dizzy, Treasure Island Dizzy
 
Fatal Frame-
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Survival HorrorTecmoPS22001
 

The American release of Project Zero.

See: Project Zero
 
Final Fantasy IV-
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RPGSquareSNES, PlayStation, GBA1991
 

Cecil, Dark Knight in the service of the kingdom of Baron and captain of its airship fleet the Red Wings, is troubled. Why has he been ordered to take by force the powerful Crystals from the other kingdoms? After he is forced to leave Baron for questioning the king, you play Cecil as he undertakes a journey to discover the source of the corruption, uncovering details that will play havoc with his personal life and those of his acquaintances: his best friend and Dragoon Knight Kain, his girlfriend Rosa the white mage, and several other worthy souls he encounters along the way.

See: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2
 
Final Fantasy IX-
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RPGSquarePlayStation2000
 

It's the evening of Princess Garnet Til Alexandros' sixteenth birthday, and she is making her escape from the castle to see how normal people live. Coincidentally, the theatre group Tantalus has planned to kidnap her, so they both end up getting what they want. Now outside her kingdom, she and her kidnapper are on the run from her crazed mother who will seem to stop at nothing to get her back. As war is declared and the Queen initiates devastating attacks on innocent cities, a mysterious stranger watches from atop a silver dragon...

A "return to form" for the Final Fantasy series, restoring such classic elements as MP, moogles, equipment and the four character battle. The gameplay as a whole hasn't changed since day one, with you leading cute little characters across the world and through a storyline, talking to townsfolk and getting ambushed by monsters. Graphically, it's still 3D characters (super deformed, unlike VIII's realistic ones) on pre-rendered backdrops, with the pseudo-realtime battles in full 3D. Characters are once again of a fixed class, learning their specific abilities from certain equipment and each bringing their own style to the fights.

See: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2
 
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions-
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RPG, PortSquare EnixPSP2007
 

An updated port of the original Final Fantasy Tactics for the PlayStation, with a graphical rejig to fit it to the handheld screen, a few new characters (including Balthier from FFXII), adjusted mechanics and thankfully retranslated localisations.

See: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2
 
Final Fantasy VI-
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RPGSquareSNES, PlayStation1994
 

Join Terra, a young girl with the mysterious power of magic in a world that has long forgotten it in favor of machinery. When she is rescued from the clutches of the evil Empire, her benefactors whisk her to the resistance group the Returners. Now she must choose: shrink from battle and stay safely hidden, or use her powers of magic and fight for all that's right and good?

See: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2
 
Final Fantasy VII-
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RPGSquarePC, PlayStation1997

The global hypercorporation Shinra, Inc. are mining mako energy from the land and using it for power. They are on a quest for the Promised Land, a place made entirely of mako. Sephiroth, skilled swordsman and ex-Shinra, is also an the same quest, but for entirely personal reasons. The resistance group Avalanche believes that mako is the source of life, and will go to any lengths to stop the Shinra. A mysterious flower girl seems to hold the key to understanding the mako and unlocking the forgotten history of the world.

Enter Cloud, main player character among a cast of nine in an RPG which sees them trying to solve the mysteries and save the planet from destruction. The polygonal cast walk around pre-rendered townscapes and a 3D overworld, conversing with NPCs to further the storyline. Battles, which occur both randomly and in set pieces, are played in an active turn-based 3D environment, with each side taking turns to attack or use magic. Materia stones can be bought or found to give characters special abilities in combat, and they can become stronger with experience or new equipment. There is also the occasional sub-game, such as Chocobo Racing or snowboarding.

See: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2
 
Final Fantasy VIII-
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RPGSquarePC, PlayStation1999
 

The elite mercenary group SeeD is sent all around the world in order to keep the peace, and stoic swordsman Squall is about to become one of its newest members. To join, he must accomplish his test assignment and free the town of Dollet from Galbadian occupation. However, he is destined to fall in love with his employer Rinoa, and together they will discover that there is a much more sinister force at work in the world.

Final Fantasy VIII keeps much in common with its prequel, with pre-rendered backgrounds and more realistic character models. Turn-based battles crop up at random, and the occasional boss monster makes an appearance to tie in with the story. The concept of equipment has gone, replaced instead with the ability to remodel weapons out of other items and increase a character's statistics by "junctioning" magic to them. Magic itself is in limited supply, too, with it being drawn from enemies and stocked for later use.

See: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2

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