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• Catherine

  Catherine follows the story of Vincent Brooks, who is caught between his girlfriend Katherine McBride, who may be pregnant, and Catherine, a 22 year-old blonde he met at the Stray Sheep, a bar he hangs out at. Since his encounter with Catherine, Vincent has been having nightmares every night. The nightmares are puzzle-platforming sections shaped as tower-like levels in which Vincent must climb to the top by pulling and pushing blocks. While he climbs, the level falls apart, and sheep characters try to shove him back down. Along the way, the player can learn various climbing strategies to adapt to different situations. In some levels, a giant boss tries killing Vincent with a multitude of attacks.
• Catherine

  Catherine follows the story of Vincent Brooks, who is caught between his girlfriend Katherine McBride, who may be pregnant, and Catherine, a 22 year-old blonde he met at the Stray Sheep, a bar he hangs out at. Since his encounter with Catherine, Vincent has been having nightmares every night. The nightmares are puzzle-platforming sections shaped as tower-like levels in which Vincent must climb to the top by pulling and pushing blocks. While he climbs, the level falls apart, and sheep characters try to shove him back down. Along the way, the player can learn various climbing strategies to adapt to different situations. In some levels, a giant boss tries killing Vincent with a multitude of attacks. After (or rather before) the nightmares, Vincent hangs out at the Stray Sheep. In this bar, he can send and receive text messages, drink, talk to people or play an arcade game called Rapunzel (a series of 8-bit-like short climbing levels) until he goes back to sleep. When Vincent has to make choices, a blue and red gauge appears. This gauge indicates whether Vincent is more inclined towards law or chaos, which will influence the game's ending. Apart from the story mode, there is Babel, a special challenge in which one or two players have to climb as high as they can to achieve new records. Babel must first be unlocked by meeting certain conditions in story mode.
• Corpse Party: Book of Shadows

  A series of eight lengthy vignettes expanding and elaborating on the story of the 2011 cult horror classic “Corpse Party.” Join the Kisaragi High students once again as they relive the unearthly horrors of a cursed school, this time armed with future memories in a vain attempt to alter their own grisly fates. Witness, too, several crucial incidents that occurred during or before the previous game’s events then, delve deeper into the mysteries of Heavenly Host as survivors from Corpse Party investigate an even more horrifying location in a desperate search for answers. First-person point-and-click adventure style gameplay, binaural 3D audio with original Japanese voices (including reprisals from all main cast members), dozens of endings, a “Darkening” system that slowly distorts both the game’s visuals and its characters’ decision-making abilities, and a host of unlockable extras make this a must-play for Japanese horror aficionados and series fans alike.
• Crimson Dragon

  Crimson Dragon is a chase-view shooter and a spiritual successor to the Panzer Dragoon series, in theme, in gameplay, but also for returning members of the development team. The story describes how humans have discovered the planet Draco and attempt to capture and control its dragon inhabitants. They build a massive city and reshape the land, but a virus called Crimsonscale quickly decimates the new inhabitants. The city collapses and the remaining humans, called Seekers, create the Icarus Division to commune with the Draco dragons. A hundred years later, humans are able to tame and ride dragons but are still small in number. The player's character starts as a member of the Icarus Division.
• Dark Messiah: Might and Magic

  Dark Messiah: Might and Magic is a first-person action game set in the medieval age so instead of guns you use swords, bows and magic to defeat your enemies. As you progress through the story you obtain skill points which you can invest in one of three skill trees called Combat, Magic and Stealth. How you skill Sareth directly influences the combat in the game. You can either play like an assassin and backstab your enemies to oblivion or make him a perfect sword-fighter who can use different combos to take out his enemies for example. But you can also use your environment to make your kills. There're countless items you can lift up and throw at your enemy or you can light up your arrow on a campfire nearby to inflict more damage. You can also make good use of your foot and kick your enemies off cliffs or kick them into spikes that come out of the wall or use other traps that are scattered in the levels like bringing a statue to a fall. The main innovation in Dark Messiah is the so-called Body Awareness System. This basically means that Sareth is a real part of the world like every other NPC. This makes not only the whole combat more intense because your whole body moves with every sword-swing you make but the NPCs can interact more directly with you. For example a Orc can take you by your neck and throw you through the room.
• DDTank

  DDTank is a free-to-play browser-based action-MMO. Using a turn-based combat system, DD Tank reminds many of Worms 3D in its action. With lots of crazy power-ups, cute, playful visuals, and tons of customization for your avatar, DD Tank might be the perfect fit for an online gamer looking for a quick turn-based battle
• Dead Rising 2: Case West

  Case West is an Xbox exclusive standalone follow up to Dead Rising 2 in which Check Greene has lost the evidence he obtained in the game's main story that proves his innocence in the Fortune City outbreak. In order to re-obtain the evidence, Chuck teams up with the protagonist from the original Dead Rising, Frank West.
• Deadly Premonition

  Greenvale is a small, peaceful town somewhere in the northern United States. The sudden and brutal murder of a young girl draws the attention of FBI agent Francis York Morgan, a man with an unclear past, a split personality named Zach, and a personal interest in cases like this. York comes to Greenvale to assist local law enforcement in solving the murder, whether they like it or not, but things aren't nearly as simple as they might seem at first. Strange red seeds, a mysterious man in a red raincoat, and the secrets held by those in the town...
• Deathsmiles
• Deathsmiles

  Deathsmiles (デススマイルズ, Desusumairuzu) is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade video game by Japanese developer Cave, released in late 2007. It has heavy occult and gothic influences. It is the second Cave shooter to be played using a horizontally-oriented monitor (the first being Progear, followed by Akai Katana). It was the first Cave shooter released in North America on a console, and the first one in Europe. Cave has also released it for iOS. A sequel, Deathsmiles II, was released to Japanese arcades on May 14, 2009. A compilation of both Deathsmiles I and Deathsmiles II was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in Japan on December 16, 2021.
• Defenders of Ardania

  Defenders of Ardania is a tower defense game set in a fantasy setting. The plot premise is quickly told: the player's kingdom is attacked and needs to defend itself.
• Diablo III

  Diablo III is the third instalment in Blizzard's franchise. The plot is set twenty years after the events of Diablo II, when a star falls on the cathedral in Old Tristram (the same cathedral that the hero had to explore down to the depths of Hell in the original Diablo). The hero, one of five classes (Barbarian, Monk, Demon Hunter, Witch-doctor and Wizard), male or female, sets off to investigate the mysterious falling star.
• Diabolical Pitch

  Diabolical Pitch is a fast-paced game controlled exclusively through the Kinect peripheral. Players control baseball player McAllister through a third-person view. After throwing a record-breaking out, he wrecks his throwing arm. Next he has a car accident and ends up at the Queen Christine's Dream Land amusement park where a cow-headed man tells him the only way to get his arm back is to reach the end of the park with a bionic arm.
• Diddy Kong Racing: A Wild Racing Adventure

  Promotional VHS tape distributed by Nintendo to subscribers of Nintendo Power Magazine. Contains a ~9 min promotional video advertising Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo 64. The video is presented as a fictional news broadcast, with a news anchor checking in with his correspondents as they report on dangerous and humorous scenarios from the game as a way to highlight and advertise the game's features. Finally, there is a montage of other Nintendo 64 games promoted at the end of the tape. 0:10 - Diddy Kong Features Segment 5:30 - Rumble Pack Segment 5:45 - Game Tips Segment 7:08 - N64 Game Montage 7:13 - Extreme G 7:19 - International Superstar Soccer 64 7:24 - Star Fox 64 7:30 - Wave Race 64 7:36 - Goldeneye 007 7:40 - Mario Kart 64 7:46 - NFL Quarterback Club 98 7:52 - Star Wars Shadows of the Empire 7:58 - Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey 98 8:03 - Super Mario 64 8:07 - Madden Football 64 8:12 - Mischief Makers 8:17 - WCW VS NWO: World Tour 8:22 - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter Video captured using a JVC SR-VS20 VCR fed through a Panasonic DMR-ES10 to a Black Magic Intensity 4K capture card. Video has been compressed and deinterlaced to 480p for maximum compatibility. Due to this item having been provided as a free promotion, Hit Save has made the video files available on our archive in a compressed format. 480i ProRes captures remain on record. If you are a video game history researcher and would like access to the physical item or the raw files, please contact us. Such requests are approved on a case by case basis at the discretion of the director. Further Reading:
• Disney Planes

  Disney Planes for 3DS
• Disney Universe

  Disney Universe features six worlds based on Disney and Pixar movie properties. The worlds featured are Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice, Lion King, Monsters, Inc., Aladdin, and Wall-E. The worlds are broken up into three sections, with a guest that needs to be freed at the end of each section. Players have to solve puzzles and fight enemies to progress further similar to the gameplay found in Travellers Tales LEGO games. Players need to also collect Mickey Mouse head icons which are used as currency to unlock the worlds and Disney-themed character costumes.
• Disney's Aladdin

  Promotional VHS tape mailed out to Capcom customers in order to advertise the upcoming release of Disney's Aladdin on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in the United States. Total runtime is ~5:15 min, which includes the ~4:30 min Aladdin promo video, as well as a ~0:30 sec advertisement for Capcom's Goof Troop game, also for Super Nintendo. Video produced by Golian Castro Productions. Video captured using a JVC SR-VS20 VCR fed through a Panasonic DMR-ES10 to a Black Magic Intensity 4K capture card. Video has been compressed and deinterlaced to 480p for maximum compatibility. Due to this item having been provided as a free promotion, Hit Save has made the video files available on our archive in a compressed format. Additional Reading:
• Dissidia 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy

  The prequel to Square Enix's 2009 title Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Dissidia 012 also contains the original's story remade to fit the new mechanics. Dissidia 012 tells the tale of the twelfth cycle of the ongoing War of the Gods, and the heroes summoned to the realm for that cycle.
• Donkey Kong Country Exposed

  Promotional VHS tape distributed by Nintendo to subscribers of Nintendo Power Magazine. Contains a ~13 minute promotional video for the Donkey Kong Country Super Nintendo game hosted by comedian Josh Wolf, with a very short teaser for the Killer Instinct SNES game at the end. Features footage of the inside of Nintendo of America, the Nintendo Treehouse, and SNES development prototype cartridges. 0:50: Title Card 1:20: Display of Nintendo fan art 1:44: The Treehouse segment 2:11: The Story segment 3:49: The Game Segment 4:03: Tony Harman shows the Donkey Kong Country prototype board 5:14: Phone call with Tim Stamper 5:40: Donkey Kong 3D model 5:59: Tech Talk Segment 6:30: Diddy Kong 3D model 6:42: Donkey Kong animation 7:15: Hot Tips segment 9:32: Music segment 10:15: Round Table segment 11:26: Outro segment 12:47: Killer Instinct Teaser People featured in order of appearance: Issac Marshall: 0:08, 8:12, 10:28 Armand Williams: 0:10, 0:14, 0:22, 3:50, 10:17 Rich Richardson: 0:13, 0:18, 3:50, 10:12 Henry Sterchi: 0:18, 0:20, 7:11, 10:17 Ken Lobb: 1:18, 9:34 Tony Harman: 1:59, 3:12, 3:50, 6:58 Dan Owsen: 2:14 Tim Stamper (audio only): 5:20 George Zachary: 5:56 Video captured using a JVC SR-VS20 VCR fed through a Panasonic DMR-ES10 to a Black Magic Intensity 4K capture card. Video has been deinterlaced and compressed for maximum compatibility. Due to this item having been provided as a free promotion, Hit Save has made the video files available on our archive in a compressed format. 480i ProRes captures remain on record. If you are a video game history researcher and would like access to the physical item or the raw files, please contact us. Such requests are approved on a case by case basis at the discretion of the director.
• Donkey Kong Country Returns

  Donkey Kong Island awakes to the sound of an unusual hum, the musical beat of a new source of evil calling themselves the Tikis. These unusual characters are turning the animals of the island into slaves for their own food gathering purposes, but unfortunately for them, they've also raided the banana horde of one Donkey Kong! Enraged by another act of greed, the King of Kong and his trusted pal Diddy are out to retrieve the banana's and set everything on the island back the way it should be.
• Dragon Age: Origins

  Four hundred years have passed since the last Blight was successfully prevented by the Grey Wardens. Now once again the fearsome Darkspawn under the rule of the Arch Demon gather and are about to invade the land of Ferelden. The first battleground: the destroyed city at Ostagar, where the Grey Wardens meet the army of Cailan, king of Ferelden, to try and stop the Darkspawn, preventing death and destruction before it has even begun.
• Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

  Dragon Quest IX marks a number of firsts for the series: it is the first title to be initially launched for a handheld system and to have no real random encounters (unless travelling over sea). Instead the player can see the enemies on the map. Even though the game isn't the first main series title in 3D, for the first time all equipable items are visible on the characters models at all times.
• Dragon's Crown

  Dragon's Crown is a 2013 action role-playing game developed by Vanillaware for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. The game was published in Japan and North America by Atlus and in PAL regions by NIS America. A high-definition port for PlayStation 4, Dragon's Crown Pro, was released by Atlus in 2018. Players navigate environments from a side-scrolling perspective, choosing from six character classes to fight in the style of a beat 'em up and acquiring loot through repeated dungeon exploration. The storyline follows adventurers as they journey across Hydeland and become involved in the search for the magical Dragon's Crown. Director and lead artist George Kamitani originally planned Dragon's Crown as a Dreamcast sequel to the 1997 Sega Saturn title Princess Crown. Following Vanillaware's successes with Odin Sphere and Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Kamitani restarted the project. Originally set to be published by UTV Ignition Entertainment, that company's withdrawal from the gaming market led to Atlus taking up the project. Upon release, Dragon's Crown received positive reviews from critics, who praised its gameplay and art style, while the story and repetitive elements drew criticism. The game also generated controversy for its exaggerated character designs and sexualized female characters. It had sold over one million units by September 2017.
• Dragonica Online

  Dragon Saga, also known in some regions as Dragonica Online, is a free-to-play 3D side-scrolling Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game that takes players through the world of El Grego as they try to fight off the forces of the Dark Dragon Elga to save the world from chaos.
• Dreamland Online

  Dreamland Online is a free-to-play 3D fantasy MMOG featuring the usual quests and class system set against the backdrop of a land threatened by the Evil Fog, which brings plagues, and a people fighting back with the help of the Hero Faith, a powerful gift bestowed upon them. The game features cartoony graphics, and plays as a 3D sidescrolling platformer. The game also has player homes and crafting, an elaborate pet system (pets will be able to assist in PvP and quests), and many detailed storyline missions. PvP is a big part of the game as well, with several available modes.