I've got the secret, I've got the key to another way

Environmentally speaking, Fire & Ice features two prominent scenarios lodged at either end of the temperature scale, yet also more moderate ecological habitats that sit somewhere in between these two bipolar extremes. Fire and Ice (subtitled The Daring Adventures of Cool Coyote), aside from being climatically jarring for those of us susceptible to chilblains, is a traditional platformer escapade that entails killing meanies to recover the individual components of keys required to make progress.

Adding a soupcon of subtlety to the proceedings, Cool Coyote can encapsulate enemies in an icy straightjacket, subsequent collisions shattering their mini prisons in a manner reminiscent of Bubble Bobble's joyous bubble-trapping function. Tiny puppy followers can be gathered to bolster our ice-powered pellet projectiles. Whilst blindly attempting to track Cool Coyote's route through the territories, they zap enemies in synchrony with their esteemed leader of the pack.

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You left me with everything, Knowing it would never be enough

Precocious super-tyke, Ruff Rogers, has lost his marbles, yet nothing is going to stand in the way of retrieving them. Not even gargantuan, mechanical end-of-level bosses. Initially armed with a heavy-duty sub-machine gun, edgy '90s attitude and cool quiff, his fate is looking progressively sunny. While Ruff 'n' Tumble's plot is flimsier than a soggy sherbet saucer, thankfully the gameplay is rock-solid, rivalling the most impressive action-platformer shooters the consoles of the era had to offer.

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Hydra and seek

An abundance of glowing praise was heaped upon Gods from day one, though over the years a more dichotomous spread of opinion appears to have emerged, slathering it in Marmitey confusion. Gods no doubt nails the desired emblematic Greek mythological ambience through its masterfully illustrated environments and sprites, and certainly has fans and detractors alike nodding along to its physiologically unforgettable 'Into the Wonderful' intro screen track. That title is a literal statement of fact. Where the delirious dream rips apart at the seams begins with the sluggish, unresponsive controls, plodding pace and insane difficulty curve. If you can manage to tame the lumbering beast despite these incumbrances it's absolutely fantastic... and you're likely a pro-gamer with a gleaming trophy cabinet to prove it.

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Sweet dreams are made of this

Offering Flight of the Amazon Queen as evidence, Interactive Binary Illusions demonstrated that Lucasarts and Adventuresoft weren't the only game developers capable of producing immersive, witty and beautifully illustrated point and click adventures. Released in 1995, several years after most of the titles in this genre we'd consider classics, Flight of the Amazon Queen is temporally poised to plant astute allusions to pop-culture we know and love, and serendipitously, also learn from some of the mistakes its forerunners made along the way.

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