Atari ST
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- For emulators, see Atari ST emulators and Emulators on Atari ST.
Even though it was not very popular in the US, the Atari ST computer line was hugely successful in Europe. Not only it was a good game and graphics machine, in some respects rivaling the Amiga, its built-in MIDI support made it very popular among record producers and dilettante musicians.
Games
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Alpha Waves / Continuum | Platformer | No | Perhaps the first fully 3D platformer ever, and one of the first fully 3D games of any kind on a home system. Very abstract (unavoidable with the technology at the time), you have to bounce around 256 rooms and collect tokens under a time limit. It's easy to see this was the likely inspiration to Geograph Seal and Jumping Flash. | 
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Bombuzal | Puzzle | No | Control a blue Zoombini and detonate all of the bombs on each stage without either killing yourself or getting trapped. The different tiles and bomb types make this easier said than done. Also on Amiga and SNES (where it's known as Ka-Blooey). | 
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Dungeon Master | RPG | No | Capstone to the Wizardry/ Bard's Tale type of first-person dungeon crawlers. Combat is timed instead of waiting for everyone to have a turn, so you can run away and monsters can sneak up behind you. Pick a party of up to four pre-gen characters by walking through a gallery, click on the screen to push buttons and throw weapons, drag-and-drop inventory, cast spells one syllable at a time. Roguelike in you start over if you die, but dungeon isn't random so you will remember where traps are. These days there are speed-run competitions. | 
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Eliminator | Rail shooter | No | It's Space Harrier stuck on a road, with surprisingly good scrolling for the stock Atari ST. Collect the power-up crystal to gain new weapons, but be warned you have both limited shields and ammo so you can't just mash the fire button continuously. | 
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MIDI Maze | FPS | No | Attention, shootan fans, this is a true historical landmark: the very first arena FPS of all time (in the modern sense of how the genre is defined). And did you think those MIDI ports were just for music keyboards? No, they used it to network up to 16 machines. Very, very impressive for a 1987 game. Also released for other systems later as "Faceball 2000". | 
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Overlander | Car Combat | No | It's Roadblasters for the Atari ST. Purchase fuel and additional weapons for your car before hitting the road and blowing-up everything in sight as you travel from city to city. | 
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Slap Fight | Shmup | No | Good port of the classic Toaplan shooter. Shoot enemies and collect the stars to activate the power-ups highlighted on the power-up bar ala Gradius. | 
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Sundog: Frozen Legacy | RPG | No | Space trucking to earn money for upgrades and fuel, to find the three macguffins to complete your quest. Operating your spaceship means moving from workstation to workstation for the interfaces. The main game is elite-like star-trekking, but you walk around on foot after you land for some exploring. | 
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Xenon | Shmup | No | The first ever Bitmap Brothers game is now overshadowed by it's flashier and overproduced sequel, but the original is the far better game with hitboxes that make actual sense and decent levels. Swap between the auto-scrolling ship and free-moving tank modes either with the space-key or a quick joystick waggle, each with their own separate powerups but a single shared health bar. If you find the joystick waggle feature annoying and causing inadvertent deaths, then hacks exist which remove it. Also on Amiga. | 
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[edit | edit source]| Fourth Generation | ||
| Consoles | Philips CD-i - Commodore CDTV - Pioneer LaserActive - Sega Mega Drive - SNK Neo Geo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Funtech Super A'Can - NEC TurboGrafx-16 | |
| Handhelds | Bit Corporation Gamate - Nintendo Game Boy - Sega Game Gear - Hartung Game Master - Atari Lynx - Welback Mega Duck - Watara Supervision | |
| Computers | Commodore Amiga - Atari ST - BeOS - Fujitsu FM Towns - Sharp X68000 | |