SpongeBob SquarePants in Bikini Bottom Bowling Personal Rating: Previous Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2007 Main Title - Next - Button Genre Element: Point-of-View: Theme: Storyline: Camera: Player Mode: Developer: - Button Publisher: - Button Game Engine: Button Maximum Resolution: Native Display Ratio: Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: RAM: GPU: HDD: OS: DirectX: Media Support: Previous Next

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated Personal Rating: Previous Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2020, June 23 Main Title - Next Platform Game Button Genre Element: Point-of-View: Theme: Cartoon Comedy Storyline: Camera: Player Mode: Developer: Purple Lamp Studios Button Publisher: THQ Nordic Button Game Engine: Button Maximum Resolution: Native Display Ratio: Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: RAM: GPU: HDD: OS: DirectX: Media Support: Previous Next

Dead Space: Aftermath Personal Rating: 1/1 Related Game: Release Date: Running Time: Dead Space Ignition 2011, January 25 90 min Style: Traditional Animation, Computer Animation Genre: Science Fiction Horror Production: Film Roman, Pumpkin Studio, Starz Media Producer: Ellen-Goldsmith Vein, Joe Goyette Director: Mike Disa Writer: Brandon Auman, Chuck Beaver, Joe Goyette, Mike Disa Voice actor: Character Gwendoline Yeo : Isabella Cho Christopher Judge : Nickolas Kuttner Ricardo Chavira : Alejandro Borges Curt Cornelius: Nolan Stross Peter Woodward : Lead Interrogator Dead Space: Aftermath is set in 2509, shortly after the events of Dead Space and just before the events of Dead Space: Ignition . The story follows the interrogation of four survivors from the USG O'Bannon, who were sent to the remains of the planet Aegis VII to investigate the fate of its colony, discovering a fragment of an artifact called the Marker which triggers an outbreak of reanimated mutated corpses dubbed "Necromorphs". Wikipedia contributors. "Dead Space: Aftermath." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia . Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 11 Dec. 2023. Previous Next

Interactive story (or narrative adventure games) are those graphic adventure games that allow for branching narratives, with choices made by the player influencing events throughout the game interactive story Narrative adventure games are those that allow for branching narratives, with choices made by the player influencing events throughout the game. While these choices do not usually alter the overall direction and major plot elements of the game's story, they help personalize the story to the player's desire through the ability to choose these determinants – exceptions include Detroit: Become Human , where players' choices can bring to multiple completely different endings and characters' death. These games favor narrative storytelling over traditional gameplay, with gameplay present to help immerse the player into the game's story: gameplay may include working through conversation trees, solving puzzles, or the use of quick time events to aid in action sequences to keep the player involved in the story. Though narrative games are similar to interactive movies and visual novels in that they present pre-scripted scenes, the advancement of computing power can render pre-scripted scenes in real-time, thus providing for more depth of gameplay that is reactive to the player. Most Telltale Games titles, such as The Walking Dead , are narrative games. Other examples include Sega AM2's Shenmue series, Konami's Shadow of Memories , Quantic Dream's Fahrenheit , Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls , Dontnod Entertainment's Life Is Strange series, Supermassive Games' Until Dawn , and Night in the Woods . Wikipedia contributors. "Adventure game." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 28 Nov. 2023. List of Interactive Story Games Title Image Release Date Platform Rating Game Version Origin Title Shenmue 1999.12.29 DreamCast, PS4, XBO, Win - main title N/A Shadow of Memories 2001.02.22 PS2, Xbox, PSP, Win - main title N/A Fahrenheit 2005.09.16 PS2, PS4, Xbox, X360, Lin, Mac, Win, And, iOS - main title N/A Heavy Rain 2010.02.18 PS3, PS4, Win - main title N/A The Walking Dead 2012.04.24 PS3, PS4, X360, XBO, NS, PSV, Ouya, Fire HDX, Mac, Win, And, iOS - main title N/A Beyond: Two Souls 2013.10.08 PS3, PS4, Win - main title N/A Life Is Strange 2015.01.30 PS3, PS4, X360, XBO, NS, Lin, Mac, Win, Stadia, And, iOS - main title N/A Until Dawn 2015.08.25 PS4 - main title N/A Night in the Woods 2017.02.21 PS4, XBO, NS, Lin, Mac, Win, iOS - main title N/A Detroit: Become Human 2018.05.25 PS4, Win - main title N/A A Memoir Blue 2022.03.24 PS4, PS5, XBO, XSX, NS, Win, iOS 2.0 main title N/A As Dusk Falls 2022.07.19 XBO, XSX, Win 3.5 main title N/A

SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge Personal Rating: Previous Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2013, October 11 Main Title - Next Platform Game Button Genre Element: Point-of-View: Theme: Cartoon Comedy Storyline: Camera: Player Mode: Developer: Behaviour Interactive Button Publisher: Activision Button Game Engine: Button Maximum Resolution: Native Display Ratio: Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: RAM: GPU: HDD: OS: DirectX: Media Support: Previous Next

SpongeBob's Boating Bash Personal Rating: Previous Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2010, March 2 Main Title - Next Racing Game Button Genre Element: Point-of-View: Theme: Storyline: Camera: Player Mode: Developer: ImPulse Games Button Publisher: THQ Button Game Engine: Button Maximum Resolution: Native Display Ratio: Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: RAM: GPU: HDD: OS: DirectX: Media Support: Previous Next

SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge Personal Rating: Previous Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2001, September 20 Main Title - Next Platform Game Button Genre Element: Point-of-View: 2.5D Theme: Cartoon Comedy Storyline: Camera: Player Mode: Developer: Clinax Group Button Publisher: THQ Button Game Engine: Button Maximum Resolution: Native Display Ratio: Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: RAM: GPU: HDD: OS: DirectX: Media Support: Previous Next

SpongeBob Krusty Cook-Off Personal Rating: Previous Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2020 Main Title - Next - Button Genre Element: Point-of-View: Theme: Storyline: Camera: Player Mode: Developer: - Button Publisher: - Button Game Engine: Button Maximum Resolution: Native Display Ratio: Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: RAM: GPU: HDD: OS: DirectX: Media Support: Previous Next

Microsoft Windows Citizen Sleeper Personal Rating: Previous Button Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2022, May 5 Main Title Microsoft Windows Next Tactical Role-playing Game Button Genre Element: Escape Room, Dice Game Point-of-View: 2D Camera: Unidirectional and Circular Movement Player Mode: Single-player Storyline: Linear, Multiple Endings Theme: Cyberpunk Developer: Jump Over the Age Button Publisher: Fellow Traveller Games Button Game Engine: Unity Button Maximum Resolution: - Native Display Ratio: - Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: 64-bit RAM: 4 GB GPU: DirectX 11 HDD: 2 GB Media Support: - OS: Windows 7 64-bit DirectX: 11 Citizen Sleeper is a captivating science fiction story settled on a heavy damaged space station called The Eye . The mysterious space station is isolated somewhere in deep space, inhabited as much as humans and artificial intelligence. Living on The Eye , means a hard life with a lot of drama. It proves to be a place too small for too different characters wich interact and give rise either to conflict or profound friendship. Here you find discrimination, a fierce struggle for surviving, a small local economy with an import and export market, different factions with their own agendas, and more drama. The playable character is a " Sleeper ", a human whose mind has been digitized and has been put into a robot body to be controlled by the Essen-Arp corporation. He decide to break free from his masters and escapes on a freighter which brings him to The Eye . Here is where it starts his real fight for surviving and freedom. Your main objective is to survive on The Eye , your new home, build up your own connections and, eventually, leave the place. To accomplish that you have to run different jobs to maintain your robotic body in a good condition and to make your way to the final destination. Reception: Metacritic score: 82 / 100 (PC), 83 / 100 (NS), 85 / 100 (XSX) Destructoid score: 9 / 10 Eurogamer appreciation: Recommended Game Informer score: 9 / 10 Nintendo Life score: 8 / 10 Nintendo World Report score: 8.5 / 10 PC Gamer (US) score: 80 / 100 RPGamer score: 3.5 / 5 The Guardian score: 4 / 5 TouchArcade score: 4.5 / 5 Reviewers praised Citizen Sleeper 's writing, with a number of reviewers remarking on the well-drawn characters found in the game. The Guardian 's Lewis Packwood called the writing "gloriously evocative and compelling" and noted that the picture that is painted in the game feels "intriguing and unique." Polygon 's Alexis Ong called the game's ability to remove the player from chasing concrete objectives as part of the plot its "greatest strength." Critics praised the game's streamlined mechanics. Eurogamer 's Chris Tapsell described the game's mechanics as creating a "wonderful elegance" in a positive review. Personally I like the game story very much, with its complexity and logical settings. The characters are various, with a rich personality and a complex backstory. The missions feel too easy to fulfill, all you need is a lucky roll of dices. I praise the characters design but the rest of the graphics aren't so impressive. This is my personal score for each department of the game: Gameplay: 2.5 / 5 Story: 3.7 / 5 Characters: 4 / 5 Video: 1.2 / 5 Audio: 3 / 5 UI: 2.2 / 5 Wikipedia contributors. "Citizen Sleeper." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia . Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 1 Nov. 2023. Related Multimedia Tabletop RPG: Cycles of the Eye (2023) Soundtrack: Citizen Sleeper OST (2022) Art Book: Citizen Sleeper: Design Works (2023) Previous Next

Microsoft Windows As Dusk Falls Personal Rating: Previous Button Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2022, July 19 Main Tile Microsoft Windows Next Interactive Story Button Genre Element: N/A Point-of-View: Full-motion Camera: Cinematic Player Mode: Single-player, Multiplayer Storyline: Linear, Multiple Endings Theme: Crime Drama Developer: Interior/Night Button Publisher: Xbox Game Studios Button Game Engine: Unity Button Maximum Resolution: 2560x1440 Native Display Ratio: - Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 RAM: 16 GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 980, 4 GB HDD: 67 GB Media Support: - OS: Windows 7 v1903 64-bit DirectX: ? The story begins in 1998 in the desert of Aizona and is divided in 2 parts: " Book One - Collision " and " Book Rwo - Expansion ". Two american families are involved in this story. One is Walker family having Vince , his wife Michelle , the six-year-old daughter Zoe , and Vince 's father Jim . The other are Bear and Sharon Holt and their boys Tyler , Dale and Jay . In Book One of the game you will take decisions in behalf of Vince Wlaker and Jay Holt . Vince is an aircraft engineer and is fired from his job in Sacramento after a technical fault led to some deaths. Despite having warned the owners of the fault, Vince is under pressure to take the blame in exchange for money. Eventually, his entire family, including his father who's suffering from a brain tumor, decides to move to St Louis, Missouri. Jay Holt , the other main protagonist, is the youngest boy of the Holts which are revealed as a dysfunctional family kept in poverty by their gambling addict father Bear . The gameplay of As Dusk Falls revolves around interactive storytelling, as well as novel techniques used to gauge consensus among players for pivotal narrative decisions when playing co-operatively in its multiplayer modes. Its narrative is a multi-generational story about "two families whose trajectories collide in the Arizona desert in 1998." Reception: Metacritic score: 77 / 100 (PC), 77 / 100 (XSX) Electronic Gaming Monthly score: 4 / 5 Game Informer score: 8.75 / 10 GameSpot score: 9 / 10 GamesRadar+ score: 4 / 5 IGN score: 9 / 10 PC Gamer (US) score: 80 / 100 RPGFan score: 86 / 100 Shacknews score: 8 / 10 The Guardian score: 4 / 5 Video Games Chronicle score: 2 / 5 Many critics lauded its storytelling, art style, voicework, co-op mode, and the emotional impact of narrative choices offered to players, whereas criticism was directed mainly towards its climax and clunky controls. Due to other reasons I played only the Book One of the game but I made a promise to myself to find another occasion to make a full or even a perfect run of the game because As Dusk Falls worth all the time spent. Maybe doesn't have the best gameplay and the graphics are average because those are not the main concern for a game of its kind. After all it's a interactive story and the best part of the game is obviously the story. Also the game deserves to be praised for its audio department with an accurate sound, very good voice actors and a high quality score music. Here is my personal rating for each department of the game: Gameplay: 2.5 / 5 Story: 5 / 5 Characters: 3.5 / 5 Video: 2 / 5 Audio: 5 / 5 User Interface: 3.2 / 5 Wikipedia contributors. "As Dusk Falls." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia . Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 8 Dec. 2023. Related Multimedia Soundtrack: As Dusk Falls Original Soundtrack (2022) Previous Next

Graphic adventures are adventure games that use graphics to convey the environment to the player graphic adventure Graphic adventures are adventure games that use graphics to convey the environment to the player. Games under the graphic adventure banner may have a variety of input types, from text parsers to touch screen interfaces. Graphic adventure games will vary in how they present the avatar. Some games will utilize a first-person or third-person perspective where the camera follows the player's movements, whereas many adventure games use drawn or pre-rendered backgrounds, or a context-sensitive camera that is positioned to show off each location to the best effect . The first known graphical adventure game was Mystery House (1980), by Sierra On-Line, then at the time known as On-Line Systems . Designed by the company's co-founder Roberta Williams and programmed with the help of her husband Ken, the game featured static vector graphics atop a simple command line interface, building on the text adventure model. Roberta was directly inspired by Colossal Cave Adventure as well as the text adventure games that followed from it. Sierra continued to produce similar games under the title Hi-Res Adventure. Vector graphics gave way to bitmap graphics which also enabled for simple animations to show the player-character moving in response to typed commands. Here, Sierra's King's Quest (1984), though not the first game of its type, is recognized as a commercially successful graphical adventure game, enabling Sierra to expand on more titles. Other examples of early games include Sherwood Forest (1982), The Hobbit (1982), Yuji Horii's The Portopia Serial Murder Case (1983), The Return of Heracles (which faithfully portrayed Greek mythology) by Stuart Smith (1983), Dale Johnson's Masquerade (1983), Antonio Antiochia's Transylvania (1982, re-released in 1984), and Adventure Construction Set (1985), one of the early hits of Electronic Arts . Source: Wikipedia contributors. "Adventure game." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 May. 2023. Graphic Adventure sub-genres : Interactiv Movie Live Interactive Movie Point-and-click Adventure Escape the Room Real-time Adventure Visual Novel Walking Simulator List of Graphic Adventure Games Title Image Release Date Platform Rating Game Version Origin Title Mystery House 1980.05.05 Apple II - main title N/A Transylvania 1982 Apple II - main title N/A Sherwood Forest 1982 Apple II - main title N/A The Hobbit 1982-11 ZX Spectrum - main title N/A Masquerade 1983 - - main title N/A The Return of Heracles 1983 Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodpre 64 - main title N/A The Portopia Serial Murder Case 1983-06 PC-6001 - main title N/A Adventure Construction Set 1984 Commodore 64 - main title N/A King's Quest 1984.05.10 IBM PCjr - main title N/A A Space for the Unbound 2023,01,19 NS, PS4, PS5, XBO, XSX, Win 2.9 main title N/A Colossal Cave 2023.01.19 ,PS5, XSX, NS, Lin, Mac, Win, Meta Quest 2 1.7 remaster Colossal Cave Adventure Tails: The Backbone Preludes 2023.02.02 Win 2.2 main title N/A

Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system and was made available for download via MSDN and TechNet, as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users via the Windows Store, and to Windows 7 users via Windows Update microsoft windows 10 Developer : Microsoft OS Family : Microsoft Windows NT Release Date : July 29, 2015 Platforms : IA-32, x86-64, ARMv7, ARMv8 User Interface : Windows shell (GUI) Editions: Baseline editions: Home , Pro, Pro for Workstations Organizational editions: Enterprise, Enterprise LTSC, Education, Pro Education Windows 10 , a major release of Microsoft 's Windows NT operating system, was made available for download via MSDN and TechNet, as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users via the Windows Store , and to Windows 7 users via Windows Update. Windows 10 receives new builds on an ongoing basis, which are available at no additional cost to users. Windows 10 received generally positive reviews upon its original release. Critics praised Microsof t's decision to provide the desktop-oriented interface in line with previous versions of Windows , contrasting the tablet-oriented approach of Windows 8 , although Windows 10 's touch-oriented user interface mode was criticized for containing regressions upon the touch-oriented interface of its predecessor. Critics also praised the improvements to Windows 10 's bundled software over Windows 8.1 , Xbox Live integration, as well as the functionality and capabilities of the Cortana personal assistant and the replacement of Internet Explorer with Microsoft Edge. Windows 10 is the final version of Windows that supports 32-bit processors (IA-32 and ARMv7 -based) and devices with BIOS firmware. Its successor, Windows 11 , requires a device that uses UEFI firmware and a 64-bit processor in any supported architecture (x86-64 for x86 and ARMv8 for ARM). DirectX 12 : Windows 10 includes DirectX 12 alongside WDDM 2.0. Unveiled March 2014 at GDC, DirectX 12 aims to provide "console-level efficiency" with "closer to the metal" access to hardware resources, and reduced CPU and graphics driver overhead. Most of the performance improvements are achieved through low-level programming, which can reduce single-threaded CPU bottlenecking caused by abstraction through higher level APIs. The performance gains achieved by allowing developers direct access to GPU resources is similar to other low-level rendering initiatives such as AMD's Mantle, Apple's Metal API or the OpenGL successor, Vulkan. WDDM 2.0 introduces a new virtual memory management and allocation system to reduce workload on the kernel-mode driver. Xbox One integration : Windows 10 brings more updates to the Xbox app introduced in Windows 8 . Games from the Xbox One can be streamed to any Windows 10 device excluding smartphones. Game Bar and Game: DVR : Windows 10 introduces the Game Bar , which provides screenshot and video capture functionality for Windows games. Users can invoke the game bar, record gameplay, or take a screenshot using the appropriate keyboard shortcuts. Windows 10 can also continuously capture gameplays in the background; this allows the user to request that the last few users defined moments of gameplay be saved to the hard disk. This is useful if a user wants to save and/or share a moment of gameplay but did not think to explicitly record it beforehand. The Game Bar was later upgraded into a larger overlay, which now features "widgets" windows for functionality such as the user's Xbox friends list, audio settings, and system performance information. Gaming : Windows 10 provides greater integration with the Xbox ecosystem. Xbox SmartGlass is succeeded by the Xbox Console Companion (formerly the Xbox app), which allows users to browse their game library (including both PC and Xbox console games), and Game DVR is also available using a keyboard shortcut, allowing users to save the last 30 seconds of gameplay as a video that can be shared to Xbox Live , OneDrive, or elsewhere. Windows 10 also allows users to control and play games from an Xbox One console over a local network. The Xbox Live SDK allows application developers to incorporate Xbox Live functionality into their apps, and future wireless Xbox One accessories, such as controllers, are supported on Windows with an adapter. Microsoft also intends to allow cross-purchases and save synchronization between Xbox One and Windows 10 versions of games; Microsoft Studios games such as ReCore and Quantum Break are intended as being exclusive to Windows 10 and Xbox One . Windows 10 adds native game recording and screenshot capture ability using the newly introduced Game Bar . Users can also have the OS continuously record gameplay in the background, which then allows the user to save the last few moments of gameplay to the storage device. Source: Wikipedia contributors. "Windows 10." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 4 May. 2023. System Configuration CPU: 1 GHz IA-32 architecture with support for PAE, NX and SSE2 x86-64 architecture with support for PAE, NX, SSE2, CMPXCHG16B, PrefetchW and LAHF/SAHF RAM: 4 GB Maximum RAM Supported: IA-32: 4 GB x86-64: Windows Home: 128 GB Windows Education & Pro: 2 TB Windows Pro for Workstation & Enterprise: 6 TB GPU: DirectX 12, WDDM 1.3 Display: minimum 800x600 Storage: minimum 32 GB Input Device: keyboard & mouse, multi-touch display List of Windows 10 Games Title Image Release Date Game Version Origin Title Genre Rating Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition 2019.11.14 remaster Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings real-time strategy 3.9 A Memoir Blue 2022.03.24 main title N/A interactive story 2.0 Endling: Extinction Is Forever 2022.07.19 main title N/A survival game 3.0 Cult of the Lamb 2022.08.11 main title N/A rogue-like 3.6 Colossal Cave 2023.01.19 remaster Colossal Cave Adventure graphic adventure 1.7 A Space for the Unbound 2023.01.19 main title N/A graphic adventure 2.9 SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake 2023.01.23 - - platform-adventure game 3.1 Raiden IV x MIKADO remix 2023.02.03 - - shoot 'em up 1.8 Pharaoh: A New Era 2023.02.15 - - city-building game 1.9 Rogue Spirit 2023.03.07 - - rogue-lite 1.8 Baldur's Gate III 2023.08.03 main title N/A role-playing game 4.6

Windows 95 is the first operating system in the 9x family, it is the successor to Windows 3.1x microsoft windows 95 Developer : Microsoft OS Family : Monolithic Kernel Release Date : July 14, 1995 Platforms : IA-32 User Interface : MS-DOS, Windows shell (GUI) Editions: Windows 95: Chicago (retail, OEM) Windows 95 Plus!: Frosting Windows 95 SP 1 Windows 95 OSR 1 (OEM) Windows 95 OSR 2 (OEM) Windows 95 OSR 2 USB: Detroit (OEM) Windows 95 OSR 2.1 (OEM) Windows 95 OSR 2.5 (OEM) Windows 95 is the first operating system in the 9x family, it is the successor to Windows 3.1x. Windows 95 merged Microsoft 's formerly separate MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows products, and featured significant improvements over its predecessor, most notably in the graphical user interface (GUI) and in its simplified "plug-and-play" features. There were also major changes made to the core components of the operating system, such as moving from a mainly cooperatively multitasked 16-bit architecture to a 32-bit preemptive multitasking architecture, at least when running only 32-bit protected mode applications. It was designed to be maximally compatible with existing MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows programs and device drivers while offering a more stable and better performing system. Windows 95 introduced numerous functions and features that were featured in later Windows versions, and continue in modern variations to this day, such as the taskbar , notification area , and the "Start" button . It is considered to be one of the biggest and most important products in the personal computing industry. Source: Wikipedia contributors. "Windows 95." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 24 Jun. 2023. Recommended System Configuration CPU: i486 with maximum 2.1 GHz RAM : 8 MB Maximum RAM Supported: 480 MB GPU: Windows 95 OSR 2 / 2.1: DirectX 2.0a, Open GL 1.1 Windows 95 OSR 2.5: DirectX 5, OpenGL 1.1 Display: minimum 800x600 Storage: minimum 32 GB List of Windows 95 Games Title Image Release Date Game Version Origin Title Genre Rating Raiden II 1993-10 main title N/A shoot 'em up 1.5

An action role-playing game (Action RPG, ARPG) is that game which incorporates elements from both genres role-playing game and action game action role-playing games An action role-playing game (Action RPG, ARPG ) is that game which incorporates elements from both genres role-playing game and action game . The main difference betweeb an action RPG and a classic RPG is the combat system. The action RPG use a real-time combat system similar to hack and slash or shooter games , where the player has a direct control over the character. Still, an ARPG , like any other classic RPG , focus on specific elements such an improving status of character's attributes, skills, abilities through accumulated experience over time, an inventory of personal items and a set of equipped gear with different characteristics meant to help the player's avatar. The Tower of Druaga was one of the first RPGs which made use of game elements specific to an action RPG . It was released in June 1984 by Namco for Namco Super Pac-Man Arcade system. In the same year, inspired or not by The Tower of Druaga big success in Japan, pther two games with action RPG elements were launched in Japan: Dragon Slayer (10 Sep) and Hydlide (13 Dec). Anyway there are more debates about which one was the first ARPG in history. AllGame listed the following games released prior to 1984 as action RPGs : Temple of Apshai (1979) and its sequel Gateway to Apshai (1983), Beneath the Pyramids (1980), Bokosuka Wars (1983), and Sword of Fargoal (1983). Jeremy Parish of USgamer claimed that Adventure (1980) was an action RPG . He also argues that action RPGs were popularized in Japan by The Tower of Druaga . Falcom's Dragon Slayer , created by Yoshio Kiya, is "the very first action-RPG ever made" according to GameSetWatch. Shaun Musgrave of TouchArcade notes that Adventure lacked RPG mechanics such as experience points and permanent character growth, and argues that Gateway to Apshai is "the earliest game I'd feel comfortable calling an action-RPG " but notes that "it doesn't fit neatly into our modern genre classifications", though came closer than Bokosuka Wars released the same year. Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton claimed that the Intellivision games Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1982) and Treasure of Tarmin (1983) were action RPGs . According to John Szczepaniak, it "cannot be overstated how influential Hydlide was on the ARPGs which followed it". He also mention in its book The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers Vol 2 that "Courageous Perseus is one of the earliest if not the first Action-RPG ". Source: Wikipedia contributors. "Action role-playing game." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Mar. 2023. List of Action Role-Playing Games Title Image Release Date Platform Rating Game Version Origin Title The Tower of Druaga 1984-06 Namco Super Pac-Man - main title N/A Dragon Slayer 1984.09.10 PC-8801 - main title N/A Hydlide 1984.12.13 PC-6001, PC-8801 - main title N/A

SpongeBob's Truth or Square Personal Rating: Previous Release Date: Game Version: Platform: Button 2009, October 26 Main Title - Next Platform Game Button Genre Element: Point-of-View: Theme: Cartoon Comedy Storyline: Camera: Player Mode: Developer: Heavy Iron Studios Button Publisher: THQ Button Game Engine: Button Maximum Resolution: Native Display Ratio: Recommended PC Configuration: CPU: RAM: GPU: HDD: OS: DirectX: Media Support: Previous Next