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Name: Gargoyle’s Quest
Year Released: 1990
System: Gameboy

If I had a penny for every platformer released on a retro console I’d be a very rich man. The majority of them lacked the quality and polish to keep you entertained and were simply focused on jumping and running, the market was saturated with them. Even during a walk down the game aisle in a shop I would find myself being surrounded by cheap Mario spinoffs created by developers out to make a quick buck. However, among the mountain of excrement that did exist back then there were a few gems that made everything worthwhile, one such game was Gargoyle’s Quest.

Platform: MS-DOS
Developer: John Carmack
Publisher: SoftDisk
Release date: 1990

Introduction
The Catacomb is a two-dimensional adventure and is the second game of its namesake series, having been later renamed from Catacomb II. It followed the original Catacomb, which was a mere 10 levels, but would see the series expand from Catacomb I and II to include Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, Catacomb Abyss, Catacomb Armageddon, and Catacomb Apocalypse. Catacomb 3-D is notable for having introduced the shooting, character-based, first-person view, and is thus considered by many as the ancestor of the FPS genre. The Catacomb returned with a reworked title page, a new creature among the enemy ranks, and most importantly, thirty more fiendishly puzzling and monster-packed levels to conquer within the Palace of Kierlon.

Platform : Commodore 64
Developer : Apex Computer Productions
Publisher : Thalamus Ltd
Release date : 1990

Introduction
In an age where console platforms and game companies can be defined by a specific game character, like Sega’s Sonic, Nintendo’s Mario, Bungie’s Master Chief, it’s not quite as easy to look back to older systems and pin game characters to platforms.
Can you so easily attach a character to say, The Spectrum? Atari 2600? Amiga? Maybe something a little easier perhaps, the Neogeo? Had the Rowland brothers came a little sooner within the Commodore 64′s lifespan or started work on consoles first, there is a good chance that Clyde Radcliffe, the main character in the Creatures series, may have become the Commodore 64′s or even the first real mascot for game consoles!

Creatures, which incidentally stands for ‘Clyde Radcliffe Exterminates All The Unfriendly Repulsive Earth-ridden Slime’ starts on a peaceful island that Clyde and his friends call their home after landing from outer-space.
Things are never going to be that easy, however. Demons already call the island their home and they don’t take too kindly to the appearance of Clyde and company, kidnapping all of Clyde’s friends in retaliation and leaving you with the monumental task of saving them all!