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music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

composer, responsible for the music in many games spanning multiple consoles and personal computers. Most notable is his work from the '' Lotus Turbo Challenge'', '' TFX'', ''

Gauntlet Legends ''Gauntlet Legends'' is an arcade game released in 1998 by Atari Games and Midway Games. It is a fantasy themed hack and slash styled dungeon crawl game, a sequel to 1985's popular '' Gauntlet'' and 1986's '' Gauntlet II'' and marks the fin ...

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Gauntlet Dark Legacy ''Gauntlet Dark Legacy'' is an arcade video game released in 1999. It is the sixth title in the '' Gauntlet'' series, and is an expansion of the previous title in the series, '' Gauntlet Legends''. The expansion adds five new levels, and four new ...

'', ''

Top Gear Top Gear may refer to: * "Top gear", the highest gear available in a vehicle's manual transmission Television * ''Top Gear'' (1977 TV series), a British motoring magazine programme * ''Top Gear'' (2002 TV series), a relaunched version of the or ...

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The Addams Family ''The Addams Family'' is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel cartoons, about half of which were originally published in ''The New Yorker'' over a ...

'' (Game Boy, NES -

Ocean The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. An ocean can also refer to any of the large bodies of water into which the wo ...

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Airborne Ranger ''Airborne Ranger'' is an action game developed and published by MicroProse for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1987 and the Amstrad CPC and IBM PC compatibles in 1988. Ports to the Amiga and Atari ST by Imagitec Design were released in 1989 ...

'' (Atari ST, Amiga -

Microprose MicroProse is an American video game publisher and video game developer, developer founded by Bill Stealey, Sid Meier, and Andy Hollis in 1982. It developed and published numerous games, including starting the ''Civilization (series), Civilizatio ...

) * '' American Gladiators'' (Atari ST, Amiga, Genesis, SNES -

Gametek GameTek was an American video game publisher based in North Miami Beach, Florida known for publishing video game adaptations of game shows in the late 1980s and early 1990s. GameTek was a trade name for IJE, the owner of electronic publishing rig ...

) * ''

Back to the Future Part III ''Back to the Future Part III'' is a 1990 American science fiction Western film and the final installment of the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Stee ...

'' (C64 - Probe - not published) * ''Battlefield'' (C64 -

Atlantis Software Atlantis Software was a London-based United Kingdom, UK video game, computer games Software publisher, publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s. The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in Janu ...

) * '' Boss Rally'' (PC) * ''BSS Jane Seymour'' (PC -

Gremlin Graphics Gremlin Graphics Software Limited, later Gremlin Interactive Limited and ultimately Infogrames Studios Limited was a British software house based in Sheffield, working mostly in the home computer market. Like many software houses established in ...

) * '' Butcher Hill'' (Amiga - Gremlin Graphics) * '' Captain Blood'' (Spectrum -

Infogrames Atari SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment SA) is a French video game holding company headquartered in Paris. Its subsidiaries include Atari Interactive and Atari, Inc. It is the current owner of the Atari brand through Atari Interactive. Bec ...

) * ''Captain Courageous'' (C64 -

English Software The English Software Company, later shortened to English Software, was a Manchester, UK-based video game developer and publisher that operated from 1982 until 1987. Starting with its first release, the horizontally scrolling shooter ''Airstrike ...

) * ''

Championship Manager ''Championship Manager'' is a series of association football, football-management simulation video games, the first of which was released in 1992. The ''Championship Manager'' brand and game was conceived by brothers Collyer brothers (game desig ...

'' (PC -

Domark Square Enix Limited (formerly Domark Limited and Eidos Interactive Limited) is a British subsidiary of the Japanese video game company Square Enix, acting as their European publishing arm. The company formerly owned ''Tomb Raider'', which was in ...

) * ''

Combo Racer ''Combo Racer'' is a Sidecar video game developed by Imagetic Design and published by Gremlin Graphics in 1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched ...

'' (Amiga - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Daemonsgate'' (Atari ST, Amiga, PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Demoniak'' (PC -

Bitmap Brothers The Bitmap Brothers are a British video game developer founded in 1987. The company entered the video game industry in 1988 with the scrolling shooter ''Xenon''. They quickly followed with '' Speedball''. Prior to becoming the publisher of th ...

) * ''DNA Warrior'' (Amiga - ACE) * ''

Double Dragon is a beat 'em up video game series initially developed by Technōs Japan and released as an arcade game in 1987. The series features twin martial artists, Billy and Jimmy Lee, as they fight against various adversaries and rivals. The original ...

'' (C64 Console - Gremlin Graphics) * '' Drakan: Order of the Flame'' (PC -

Psygnosis Psygnosis Limited (known as SCE Studio Liverpool or simply Studio Liverpool from 1999) was a British video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher headquartered at Wavertree Technology Park in Liverpool. Founded in 1984 by Ian Hether ...

) * '' Eek! The Cat'' (SNES - Ocean) * ''

Emlyn Hughes International Soccer ''Emlyn Hughes International Soccer'' (EHIS) is a soccer computer game first released in 1988 by Audiogenic Software Ltd. The game is named after the popular English footballer Emlyn Hughes. It initially appeared on the Commodore 64, with other ...

'' (C64 - Audiogenic Software 1988) * ''Ferrari Formula One'' (C64, Atari ST, Spectrum, PC -

Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the d ...

1990) * ''

Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun ''Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun'' is a video game developed by Gray Matter under developer Chris Gray and published in 1990 by Mindscape. It originally appeared on the 16-bit Atari ST, IBM PC and Commodore Amiga, before later being converte ...

'' (C64, Spectrum, Amstrad) * '' Federation of Free Traders'' (PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Frankenstein ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein'' tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific ex ...

'' (Amiga - Enigma Variations - possibly never released) * ''Gadget Twins'' (Atari ST, Amiga, Genesis, SNES - Gametek) * ''

'' (Atari ST) * ''

'' (Atari ST) * '' Gemini Wing'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad -

The Sales Curve SCi Entertainment Group plc (formerly The Sales Curve Limited and SCi (Sales Curve Interactive) Limited) was a British video game publisher based in London. The company was founded in 1988 by Jane Cavanagh and floated on the stock exchange in 1 ...

1988) * ''Gilbert'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad - Enigma Variations 1989) * ''

Harlequin Harlequin (; it, Arlecchino ; lmo, Arlechin, Bergamasque dialect, Bergamasque pronunciation ) is the best-known of the ''zanni'' or comic servant characters from the Italian language, Italian ''commedia dell'arte'', associated with the city o ...

'' (Amiga, Atari ST -

1992) * ''

HeroQuest ''HeroQuest'', sometimes written as ''Hero Quest'', is an adventure board game created by Milton Bradley in conjunction with the British company Games Workshop. The game was loosely based around archetypes of fantasy role-playing games: the ...

'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad, PC - Gremlin Graphics) * '' Horizon Chase'' (Android, iOS - Aquiris) * ''Horizon Chase Turbo'' (Xbox, PS4, PC, Switch - Aquiris) * ''Horizon Chase 2'' (iOS - Aquiris) * '' The Humans'' (Atari ST, Amiga, PC, Genesis, SNES, Lynx -

Mirage A mirage is a naturally-occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend via refraction to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French ''(se) mirer'', from the Latin ''mirari'', meanin ...

) * ''Icups'' (C64 - Odin Software) * ''

Imperium In ancient Rome, ''imperium'' was a form of authority held by a citizen to control a military or governmental entity. It is distinct from ''auctoritas'' and ''potestas'', different and generally inferior types of power in the Roman Republic an ...

'' (PC - Electronic Arts) * ''

Impossamole ''Impossamole'' is a platform game developed by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. It was released in 1990 and published by Gremlin Graphics. NEC Technologies published it on TurboGrafx-16 the foll ...

'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad, PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Inferno Inferno may refer to: * Hell, an afterlife place of suffering * Conflagration, a large uncontrolled fire Film * ''L'Inferno'', a 1911 Italian film * Inferno (1953 film), ''Inferno'' (1953 film), a film noir by Roy Ward Baker * Inferno (1973 fi ...

'' (PC - Ocean) * '' Jack Nicklaus Golf'' (NES - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Jane's Apache Longbow'' (PC CD Audio - Electronic Arts) * ''Kick Off 2'' (Game Boy, NES - Anco) * ''Kill Team'' (PlayStation, Sega Saturn - not published) * ''Legacy'' (PC - not published) * ''

Lethal Weapon ''Lethal Weapon'' is a 1987 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and co-produced by Richard Donner, written by Shane Black, and co-produced by Joel Silver. It stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover alongside Gary Busey, Tom Atkins, Darle ...

'' (Atari ST, Amiga, SNES - Ocean) * '' Lords of Chaos'' (PC - not published) * '' Lotus 2'' (Atari ST, Amiga - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Marauder Marauder, marauders, The Marauder, or The Marauders may refer to: * A person engaged in banditry or related activity ** Piracy ** Looting ** Outlaw ** Partisan (military) ** Robbery ** Theft Entertainment * ''Marauder'', the second novel in the ' ...

'' (C64 -

Hewson Consultants Hewson Consultants were one of the smaller software companies which produced video games for home computers in the mid-1980s. They had a reputation for high-quality games which continually pushed the boundaries of what the computers were capable ...

1988) * ''

MicroProse Soccer ''MicroProse Soccer'' is an association football video game published by MicroProse in 1988. The original Commodore 64 version was developed by Sensible Software and ported to other systems. In the United States, the game was released as ''Keith ...

'' (Atari ST, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad - Microprose) * '' Mindbender'' (PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Necromancer Necromancy () is the practice of magic or black magic involving communication with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions, or by resurrection for the purpose of divination; imparting the means to foretell future events; ...

'' (Amiga, PC) * ''Nightbreed (RPG)'' (C64, Spectrum, Amstrad - Ocean) * ''Ocean Football'' (Amiga - Ocean) * ''Pegasus'' (Atari ST, Amiga - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Pit-Fighter ''Pit-Fighter'' is a 1990 arcade fighting game by Atari Games which uses digitized live actors. It was Atari's first fighting game. The Japanese arcade release was published by Konami. Home versions were published by Tengen. The graphical ani ...

'' (PC - Domark) * ''Postman Pat'' (C64, Spectrum, Amstrad - Enigma Variations) * ''

Powermonger ''Powermonger'' is a real-time strategy game developed by Bullfrog in 1990 for Amiga and Atari ST, derived from the '' Populous'' engine but presented using a 3-dimensional game map. Gameplay The game features a 3-dimensional game map, althoug ...

'' (PC - Electronic Arts) * ''Premier League'' (Amiga - Ocean) * '' The President Is Missing'' (Atari ST, Amiga -

Cosmi Cosmi may refer to: * Cosmi Corporation Cosmi Corporation (COSMI) is an American computer software company based in Carson, California. Software publishing Cosmi Corporation was established in 1982, founded by George Johnson. The company publish ...

) * ''Privateer Missions'' (PC -

Origin Systems Origin Systems, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. It was founded on March 3, 1983, by Richard Garriott and his brother Robert Garriott, Robert. Origin is best known for their groundbreaking work in multiple genres ...

) * '' Viking Child'' (Atari ST, Amiga, Lynx - Gametek) * '' Ragnarok'' (Atari ST, Amiga, PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Ratpack'' (Atari ST, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad, PC - Microprose) * ''

Redline Redline refers to the maximum engine speed at which an internal combustion engine or traction motor and its components are designed to operate without causing damage to the components themselves or other parts of the engine. The redline of an en ...

'' (Atari ST, Amiga, PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

RoboCop 3 ''RoboCop 3'' is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Frank Miller. It is the sequel to the 1990 film ''RoboCop 2'' and the third entry in the ''RoboCop'' franchise. It stars Robert Bur ...

'' (PC - Ocean) * ''

Rock 'n' Roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm an ...

'' (Atari ST, Spectrum, Amstrad) * '' Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA'' (N64 - Atari) * ''

San Francisco Rush 2049 ''San Francisco Rush 2049'' is a racing video game developed and manufactured by Atari Games for arcades. It was ported to the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, and Dreamcast by Midway Games. The arcade machine was released in 1999; home versions fol ...

'' (N64 - Dreamcast - Midway Arcade Treasures 3 (GC, PS2, Xbox)) * '' Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire'' (Genesis, SNES - Pony Canyon/FCI/Origin Systems) * ''Shadow'' (PC) * ''

Shockway Rider Shockway Rider is an action fighting and shooting game released for the Amstrad CPC, the Commodore 64, and the ZX Spectrum. It was developed by Carter Follis Software Associates and was released in 1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top le ...

'' (Atari ST, Amiga - Faster Than Light) * '' First Class with the Shoe People'' (Atari ST, Amiga, PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Shut It'' (PC - Ocean) * ''

Silkworm The domestic silk moth (''Bombyx mori''), is an insect from the moth family Bombycidae. It is the closest relative of ''Bombyx mandarina'', the wild silk moth. The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of a silk moth. It is an economically imp ...

'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad - Sales Curve) * '' Sleepwalker'' (Amiga CD ROM - Ocean) * ''Soccer'' (Atari ST, Amiga - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Space Crusade ''Space Crusade'' is an adventure board game produced by Milton Bradley together with Games Workshop and was first made in 1990. It was produced in the UK and available in some other countries including Finland, Ireland, France, Spain, Denmark ...

'' (C64, Amiga, PC) * '' Speedball 2'' (PC - Bitmap Brothers) * ''Spider'' (PlayStation, Sega Saturn - Boss Game Studios) * ''

Starglider 2 ''Starglider 2'' is a 3D space combat simulator published in 1988 by Rainbird as the sequel to 1986's ''Starglider''. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and ZX Spectrum. Instead of the wireframe graphics of the original, ...

'' (Spectrum - Firebird) * ''

Stratego ''Stratego'' ( ) is a strategy board game for two players on a board of 10×10 squares. Each player controls 40 pieces representing individual officer and soldier ranks in an army. The pieces have Napoleonic insignia. The objective of the game ...

'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga - Accolade) * ''

Switchblade A switchblade (aka switch knife, automatic knife, pushbutton knife, ejector knife, flick knife, Stiletto, flick blade, or spring knife (Sprenger,Benson, Ragnar (1989). ''Switchblade: The Ace of Blades''. Paladin Press. pp. 1–14. . The sw ...

'' (C64 - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Switchblade 2 ''Switchblade II'' is a 1991 side-scrolling action-platform run and gun video game originally developed and published by Gremlin Graphics in Europe for the Amiga home computers. It is the sequel to the original ''Switchblade'', which was sole ...

'' (Atari ST, Amiga - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Super Cars ''Super Cars'' is a top-view racing game from Gremlin Interactive, who later produced the Lotus series of games. Stylistically, the game is influenced by ''Super Sprint''. There are endless tracks at each of the 4 difficulty levels, which can b ...

'' (NES - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Super Cars II ''Super Cars II'' is a 1991 top-view racing game developed by Magnetic Fields, and published by Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd. The game was available for the Amiga and then the Atari ST. It is the sequel to the 1990 game '' Super Cars''. The g ...

'' (Atari ST, Amiga - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Super Dragon Slayer'' (C64 - Codemasters) * ''Supremacy'' (PC - Probe) * ''Suspicious Cargo'' (Atari ST, Amiga - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Suzuki'' (PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Tank'' (Virtual Boy - not published) * '' TFX'' (Amiga, PC - Ocean) * ''

'' (SNES - Gremlin Graphics) * ''

Top Gear Rally ''Top Gear Rally'' is a 1997 racing video game developed by Boss Game Studios and released for the Nintendo 64. A follow-up to Kemcos original ''Top Gear'' game, it features a championship mode where a single player must complete six seasons o ...

'' (Nintendo 64 - Boss Game Studios) * ''Toyota Rally'' (PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Treasure Trap'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga, PC) * ''

Twisted Edge Extreme Snowboarding ''Twisted Edge Extreme Snowboarding'', released as ''Twisted Edge Snowboarding'' in Europe, is a snowboarding video game released for the Nintendo 64, published by Midway in North America and by Kemco in Japan and Europe. It was released in Japa ...

'' (N64 - Boss Game Studios) * ''Universal Studios Classic Monsters'' (Atari ST, Amiga - Ocean) * '' Utopia: The Creation of a Nation'' (Atari ST, Amiga, PC - Gremlin Graphics) * ''Wayne Gretzky's Hockey 99'' (N64, Atari) * ''

Weird Dreams ''Weird Dreams'' is a cinematic platform game developed by Rainbird Software which was published for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and DOS. A modified version served as the visual component to a phone-in quiz on ITV's ''Motormouth''. The ...

'' (C64, PC - Firebird) * ''

Wheel of Fortune The Wheel of Fortune or ''Rota Fortunae'' has been a concept and metaphor since ancient times referring to the capricious nature of Fate. Wheel of Fortune may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Art * ''The Wheel of Fortune'' (Burne-Jo ...

'' (NES - Gametek) * '' Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi'' (Genesis, SNES - Origin Systems) * '' Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger'' (PC (in flight dialogue) - Origin Systems) * '' Wings of Glory'' (PC - Origin Systems) * '' Xenophobe'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad - Microstyle) * ''Xiphos'' (Atari ST, Amiga, PC) * '' Zone Warrior'' (C64, Atari ST, Amiga - Electronic Arts)

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