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Educational game in which you need to follow clues in order to find Carmen Sandiego. You will visit a lot of different locations all over the world.
Players scale a mountain whilst a bigfoot rains down chunks of ice at them.
Donkey Kong clone for MicroBee. Probably not licensed, but by that time, King Kong was in public domain.
Mario steps aside to let Stanley the bugman have a go in the third Donkey Kong game.
The sequel to Kim Kim Dan Dan is an underground maze action game.
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.
Alien for the Atari 2600, based on the movie of the same name, is similar to Pac-Man (and oddly, Frogger).
Shark! Shark! is a game where the player must eat fish to grow bigger while avoiding being eaten by sharks.
Space Invaders/Galaxian type game. The box art and story were changed for the European version to fit in with Gerry Anderson's Terrahawks series
Millipede is the 1982 sequel to Centipede, adding more enemies, ecology behavior, and more gameplay variations, as well as offensive options for the player
Stag-Beetle is a maze game developed by Pony Canyon for the Sharp MZ-2000.
Kim Kim Dan Dan was a shoot-'em-up released by dB-Soft for Sharp X1, Bandai Gundam RX-78, and Mitsubishi Multi-8.
An early example of what could be considered an action/RPG hybrid game.
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.
Hunt the Wumpus is a strategy/maze game for the TI 99/4A.
A reworked version of Space Invaders for the Atari 2600. Produced at the request of Coca-Cola in 1983, only 125 copies are reported to exist.
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.
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