This batch runs from arcade-bright shooters and tank battles to survival-horror islands, canal racing, and a very strange prison sport. A few of these games lean hard on replaying missions or chasing better runs; others are at their best when you slow down and learn the layout.

Abu Simbel Profanation Deluxe

the cursed temple remake keeps Johnny Jones unarmed, making every jump past traps, enemies, and spike-lined corridors feel deliberate. Its redesigned temple art and adjustable lives or checkpoint options sit alongside the famously harsh platforming route.

Alien Front Online

the Earth-versus-alien tank war lets players pick a side and choose among light, medium, and heavy vehicles for its battles. The Dreamcast microphone was built into its 4-on-4 matches, while each faction also has a 30-mission campaign with branching paths.

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

the Shadow Island investigation splits its island mystery between Edward Carnby’s combat-focused route and Aline Cedrac’s puzzle-heavy search. Manual aiming, scarce ammunition, save medallions, and pre-rendered corridors give the action a properly uneasy rhythm.

Aqua GT

the canal powerboat circuit sends racers through London, Amsterdam, and New York waterways in Championship, Arcade, and split-screen modes. Five starting boats lead to further unlocks, and the courses change between high and low tides as well as day and night.

Armada

the starship resistance campaign combines open-sector travel with distress calls, patrols, escorts, and fights against bio-mechanical attackers. Credits and experience go into weapons, shields, propulsion, and crew improvements, so a captain can shape a ship around a preferred combat style.

Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes

Sarge’s portal war moves between toy-scale battlefields and oversized real-world spaces, where firecrackers, insects, and robots become hazards. Its 14 levels arm Sarge with weapons from sky rockets to spray cans, and the portal idea carries into local multiplayer ambushes.

Ball Breakers

the rolling prison arenas puts a wrongly convicted synthetic contestant on a sphere instead of legs, then makes momentum, braking, drifting, and boosts central to survival. Pursuit, Powerball, King of the Hill, and Run the Gauntlet give the ten facilities very different demands; which event would make the best head-to-head challenge?

Bang! Gunship Elite

the Arikhan gunship sorties favors immediate dogfights against Sektar fighters and Morgoth warships rather than elaborate command systems. Supply drops and destroyed enemies yield weapons and shields, while missions include freighter escorts, asteroid ambushes, chokepoint holds, and station strikes.

Bangai-O

the sibling mecha assault makes its identity through two firing styles: Riki’s homing missiles and Mami’s ricocheting shots. Fruit drops feed power-ups, while the all-direction blast turns crowded screens of pirates and projectiles into a spectacular escape route.

Blue Stinger

the Dinosaur Island emergency lets Eliot Ballade and Dogs Bower approach the island’s mutants differently, with Eliot’s mobility contrasting with Dogs’s heavier arsenal. Seven zones, respawning enemies that drop spendable coins, and optional rescues make its biotech facilities and jungle routes feel built for return trips.

Which would you put on first for a retro action night: Alien Front Online’s faction tanks, Bangai-O’s ricochet chaos, or Blue Stinger’s monster-filled island?