However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

* In 1995 an adventure game based on the series was released called Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity on the PC, with a PlayStation port being released in Japan.

He provided the voice of main character Jake Logan in the PC title, Tachyon: The Fringe, the voice of main character Jake Burton in the PlayStation game Broken Helix and the voice of Magnanimous in Megas XLR.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

Enthusiasts build their systems in order to produce a computer that will out-perform an opponent's computer, thereby " winning " in a contest ; to simply enjoy the best images and effects a new PC game has to offer ; or even simply to obtain the best possible performance at a variety of tasks.

The game was released on multiple platforms, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC as well as Mac OSX and is aimed as a competition to other FPS games such as the Call of Duty and the Battlefield series.

In the Aztec campaign of the PC game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, the player plays as Cuauhtémoc, despite the name Montezuma for the campaign itself, and Cuauhtémoc narrates the openings and closings to each scenario.

As the game is played, each PC changes over time and generally increases in capability.

If resurrection is not possible or not desired, the player may instead create a new PC to resume playing the game.

The Doctor V64 could be used to read the data from a game cartridge and transfer the data to a PC via the parallel port.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

In the 1980s PC game Moraff's World, the Holy Hand Grenade is a usable item that can be found in the dungeon stages.

Id was responsible for some of the biggest technological breakthroughs of video game technology for the PC ( running DOS and Windows ).

As a result, the Id Software team began the development of Commander Keen, a Mario-style side-scrolling game for the PC, once again " borrowing " company computers to work on it at odd hours at the lake house at which they lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.

According to Eurogamer. net, " Id Software has been synonymous with PC game engines since the concept of a detached game engine was first popularised ".

As for Wolfenstein 3D, due to its use of Nazi symbols such as the Swastika and the anthem of the Nazi Party, Horst-Wessel-Lied, as theme music, the PC version of the game was withdrawn from circulation in Germany in 1994, following a verdict by the Amtsgericht München on January 25, 1994.

The series also inspired the PC game " Left Behind: Eternal Forces " and its sequels, " Left Behind: Tribulation Forces " and " Left Behind 3: Rise of the Antichrist ".

In common usage, a " computer game " or a " PC game " refers to a game that is played on a personal computer.

Maxis ' most successful series to date and the best-selling PC game of all time is The Sims ( 2000 ).

* Napoleon Total War, a turn based / real time strategy game for the PC.

A central character in the PC role-playing game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura was named Nasrudin, an Elf wizard who was renowned for his great wisdom.

NetStorm: Islands At War is a real-time strategy PC game, developed by Titanic Entertainment and published by Activision in 1997.

It also received the Award for Technical Excellence from PC Magazine, and the Best Action Adventure Game award by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

Even though Microsoft released a cheap version of Adventure with its initial version of MS-DOS 1. 0 for IBM PCs, Zork I was still a popular seller for the PC, thanks to the superior quality of its writing and packaging.

Since its original release, the PC version of Simon the Sorcerer has remained in-print direct from Adventure Soft.

" During this campaign, a PC game known as Cap ' n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure was released with the cereal to raise a Crunchling and train it to defeat the leader of the Crunchium Thieves in a skateboarding, jumping, or throwing contest.

The initial release is based on the PC version of Sonic Adventure DX despite the game simply being called " Sonic Adventure ".

The DLC package, simply titled " Sonic Adventure DX Upgrade ", has launched alongside the game on XBLA, and PSN, which upgrades the game to include all of the features from the GameCube and PC versions with the exception of the Game Gear games and Dreamcast DLC.

Also released in 1990, Hi Tech Expressions's PC game Chip ' N Dale: Rescue Rangers: The Adventure in Nimnul's Castle saw the Rangers having to rescue Monterey Jack, who is caught in a mousetrap in Professor Norton Nimnul's castle.

Microsoft released a version of Adventure in 1981 with its initial version of MS-DOS 1. 0 for the IBM PC ( on a single sided disk, requiring 32kB of RAM ).

PC Gamer awarded it the " Best Dialogue " award, and it won the " Best Adventure " award at the Golden Joystick Awards in 1995.

There have also been multiple JumpStart games produced for systems other than the PC and Mac ; JumpStart Dino Adventure, a game for the Game Boy Color, JumpStart Wildlife Safari, a game for the PlayStation, JumpStart Pet Rescue, a game for the Wii, JumpStart: Escape from Adventure Island for the Wii, and JumpStart Get Moving Family Fitness, a game for the Wii.

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The Game Gear version has appeared with other titles on Sonic Adventure DX for GameCube and PC and Sonic Mega Collection + for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC.

The Game Gear version was included as an unlockable game in Sonic Adventure DX, released for the Nintendo Gamecube in 2003 and PC in 2004.

The Adventure International games were subsequently released on most of the major home PC platforms of the day, including TRS-80, Apple II series, Atari 8-bit series and Commodore PET.

: Dinotopia Adventure Game for PC ( PC: 1995 )

: Dinotopia: Living the Adventure ( PC: 1996 )

Graeme Yeandle also released an updated version of the CP / M version of PAW for MS-DOS and called it PC Adventure Writer.

Blade Runner received generally positive reviews, won the Interactive Achievement Award for Best PC Adventure Game and was nominated for Best Adventure Game of 1997 by PC Gamer.