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Game » consists of 5 releases. Released September 1975
Precursor to the recent spate of Western Themed games. Featured player as sheriff protecting a town from bandits and even had an undertaker to clean up the bodies.
Released in 1984, Hydlide was the first open-world action RPG. It was the first on-foot, fully-scaled, open-world game, and introduced innovations such as a health-regeneration mechanic. It influenced the action RPG genre as well as The Legend of Zelda franchise.
A single-screen shooting game for two players written by John P. Shay and published by Solar Software for the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 16.
Save the last human family and blast as many robots as you can in this classic dual-joystick shooter from Williams Electronics.
Released by Sega in 1981, Space Fury was the first video game to feature colour vector graphics. It also featured ship power-ups.
Released by Namco for arcades in 1980, Rally-X was the first scrolling open-world video game, and the first open-world driving/racing game.
Atari's bestselling game of all time, Asteroids was one of the most influential releases of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. One of the first space shooters, it was the inspiration for many of the dual stick shooter games of the modern era, Geometry Wars chief among them.
1979 arcade shooter by Nintendo where the player must fight sixteen surrounding desperadoes. A precursor to Donkey Kong, it was designed by Genyo Takeda, with assistance from Shigeru Miyamoto, working on his first video game. Possibly the first run & gun shooter, it also introduced the damsel-in-distress trope to gaming as well as continuous background music.
Space Invaders, released in arcades by Taito in 1978, is one of the most influential and successful video games of all time, laying the foundations for most shooters and action games that followed. It revolutionized the game industry and has become a pop culture icon.
An arcade shooter released in 1977. Midway released the game in North America as Boot Hill, while Taito released the game in Japan as Gunman. The game was a sequel to the 1975 hit Taito/Midway arcade shooter Gun Fight.
The earliest known video game based on the sport of boxing. Developed and released by Sega, it is currently considered a "lost" video game with no known hardware remaining and no successful preservation effort.
Colossal Cave (also known as Adventure, ADVENT, or Colossal Cave Adventure) is one of the first text-based adventure games.
It's a standoff between two gunslingers in the surreal, two-tone world of the video game west. Players blast away cover and try to defeat their opponent more often than they're defeated before the time expires.
An arcade light-gun shooter released by Kasco in 1975, this was the first holographic 3-D game.
Wild Gunman is a light gun shooter by Nintendo. There were two versions of the game: a 1974 FMV arcade game, and later a 1984 NES game developed by Intelligent Systems; the latter uses the NES Zapper to draw, aim and shoot the opponent.
A sports game released by Taito in 1974. A landmark title, it was notable for being the first video game to use sprites, and the first to represent human characters. It was licensed to Midway as TV Basketball in the United States.
The first 3D flight simulator game, released by Sega in 1970. It was an electro-mechanical arcade game, using video projection to display a 3D game world on screen. It features free-roaming, first-person flight shooting gameplay. It was the first flight simulator game, the earliest first-person shooter, the first open-world game, and the first action-adventure game.
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