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Consuming mass quantities for points. Avoid the purple pickle at all costs, just like in real life.
Xevious is one of the first vertical scrolling shoot-em-up arcade games.
An adaptation of Astrosmash for the Atari 2600 platorm
A space ship rockets from planet to planet to pick up pairs of aliens.
David's Midnight Magic is one of a series of early digital pinball simulations that was originally released on the Apple II.
Sinistar is a space shooter that revolves around the destruction of a malevolent world-eating star known as Sinistar. Being a twitch-based game, it rewards quick reflexes over tactics, strategy, or problem-solving.
Save the last human family and blast as many robots as you can in this classic dual-joystick shooter from Williams Electronics.
A 2D side-scrolling platformer with a main character that resembles Alex Kidd. He has a giant fist that is, and he uses it to defend this haunted House from none other than Dracula. It was originally the 1982 arcade game Monster Bash.
Q*Bert's goal is to hop around an isometric pyramid structure in order to change all the colors of the pyramid's surfaces to the same color.
Millipede is the 1982 sequel to Centipede, adding more enemies, ecology behavior, and more gameplay variations, as well as offensive options for the player
Travel through time and shoot biplanes, fighter jets and alien spacecraft in this 1982 shoot 'em up from Konami.
Half video game, half pinball game! In order to earn Power Pellets and other goodies in the "video" part of the game, itself based on the original Pac-Man, Baby must earn them in the integrated pinball table.
You play as Tron, making your way through a deadly maze, dodging bits and circuits. Arguably one of the worst games to "grace" the Intellivision.
When Mario finally defeats and captures Donkey Kong, it is up to Donkey Kong's son, Donkey Kong Junior, to rescue him.
Drive a six-wheeled rover as you traverse the surface of the moon, jumping over holes and gunning down enemy ships.
Dig dug is an arcade game released in 1982. The objective is to kill the underground monsters by either squishing them under a rock through the tunnels you create or by popping them using your weapon directly.
A sequel to the arcade classic featuring Pac-Man's feminine counterpart. The game is notable for having a variety of mazes as opposed to the single maze design in the original game, as well as bonus items that wandered through the mazes rather than appearing just in the center.
Blast a never-ending onslaught of meteors, missiles, and UFOs out of the sky as a laser battery commander.
Pinball simulator for the Atari 2600
Fantasy shooter where players clear maze-like dungeons of monsters
Zaxxon is an arcade shooter developed by Sega, along with assistance from Ikegami Tsushinki. When it was first released, Zaxxon's isometric projection was considered ground-breaking and original, giving players the sense that they were playing in 3-D.
Kaboom! is a fast-paced action game, where the player must successfully catch bombs in a series of three stacked buckets.
Mouse Trap is a game inspired by Pac-Man, where the player attempts to eat all of the cheese without being caught by the cats roaming the board.
Vanguard is a scrolling shooter that allows players to shoot in multiple directions in space. The player spends their time avoiding obstacles and shooting enemies in order to replenish their quickly dissipating fuel supply.
Turbo is an early racer released by Sega in 1981, using a third-person rear-view racer format nearly a year before Pole Position. The ColecoVision port featured a racing wheel and gas pedal peripheral to simulate the arcade experience of the original.
Centipede is a vertical shooter in which you must destroy centipedes and other bugs before they reach the bottom of the screen and destroy you.
Control Jumpman (later known as Mario) and save his girlfriend, Pauline, from the evil barrel-tossing gorilla known as Donkey Kong. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, this was the game that set the template for the platformer genre.
Players pilot a flying saucer, destroying anti-spacecraft guns. Every time players lose a ship, the new ship flies down from the extra-life display. The game was featured in a high-score contest where the prize was a free t-shirt.
Gorf is a multi-mission fixed shooter featuring five screens. Each of these five missions has its own distinct enemies and rules of play.
Berzerk is an arcade game released in 1980 in which the player must escape a maze filled with evil robots.
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