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Lock 'n' Chase was an arcade game developed and published by Data East in 1981. It was seen as Data East's answer to Namco's Pac-Man.
A tactical maze shooter released by Sega in 1981. It has a mixture of vertical scrolling run & gun shooting and maze digging.
Golf is simplified version of the sport it is based on.
Akalabeth is an early fantasy roleplaying game with wire frame graphics and both first-person and top-down views. It was developed by Richard Garriot (a.k.a. Lord British) and is considered the precursor to the Ultima franchise.
Stealth sequel to Manbiki Shounen, with improved tile-based graphics, innovative voice synthesis, and female protagonist.
Berzerk is an arcade game released in 1980 in which the player must escape a maze filled with evil robots.
Boxing for the Atari 2600 is a simple game which shows a top-down view of two boxers in a ring. It was one of the very first games created by Activision, a company formed by a number of disgruntled former Atari employees.
Tranquilizer Gun is an arcade game released by Sega in 1980, and ported to the Master System in 1983. The goal is to sedate animals and get them to a vehicle before they wake up. It was included as a bonus game in the Dreamcast release of Dynamite Cop!.
A vertical-scrolling shoot em up, released in 1980.
Heiankyo Alien is a 1979 maze game originally developed and released for the NEC PC-8001 and for for arcades. It is the first "trap 'em up" game and the first game to feature a digging mechanic.
Cutie Q is an arcade game released by Namco in 1979. It is the third in a loose trilogy of pinball-esque games developed by Toru Iwatani prior to his development of Pac-Man.
Manbiki Shounen is widely credited as being the first stealth game. It was developed by Hiroshi Suzuki and debuted in November of 1979.
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.
Computer Othello is a 1978 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. It is one of their earliest arcade video games along with Block Fever. It was possibly the earliest arcade video game based on a board game, Reversi/Othello.
An arcade racing game from Taito.
Street Racer was a launch game for the Atari 2600. It was also released under the Sears Telegames series under the title of Speedway II.
Indy 500 uses the Atari 2600's driving controllers, giving players complete control of their car.
Hop in an armored tank and wage war with strategic ground tactics - or take to the skies and dogfight against modern jets and bi-planes. Crush your enemies!
Inspired by cult film Death Race 2000, Death Race was a controversial 1976 arcade game and a far less controversial 1990 NES game.
A racing game released by Taito in 1976. It is a simultaneous two-player version of Tomohiro Nishikado's 1974 arcade game Speed Race.
Gun Fight, also known as Western Gun, is a 1975 arcade shooter. Set in the Wild West, Western Gun was the first on-foot shooter, introduced human combat, was the first open-world action-adventure video game, and the first real-time tactical cover shooter. Gun Fight was also the first microprocessor video game.
A racing game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released by Taito in 1974, also known as Racer or Wheels. It was one of the first driving video games, and was groundbreaking for innovations such as vertical scrolling, sprites with collision detection, and driving wheel controls.
Tumblebugs is a fast paced puzzle game where the objective is to shoot balls (bugs) into one or more matching coloured rows. Remove all the coloured balls before they reach the destined hole in the ground.
Clonk 2: Debakel is the sequel to the action strategy game Clonk. However, unlike the first game, in Clonk 2, there is a "campaign layer", which is a 2-4 player hexmap TBS. This release is German-only. Corresponding English release, Clonk 2 APE, omitted the campaign layer.
Decker is a computer matrix hacking game for Windows. Decker is based on the concepts explored by William Gibson's Neuromancer and the Cyberpunk genre.
Playing as Dylan Doug, you must rescue your kidnapped butler Groucho in the Castle of Illusions. Armed with a gun, you must defeat waves of enemies in order to reach your goal.
It is the year 2000 and the United States has fallen to a biological plague and a limited nuclear war turning surviving cities into strongholds held by what is left of society. With a team, you must roam these highways and discover a cure before it is too late.
As the legendarily manly John Dudebro and his plucky sidekick Habemus Chicken, players must fight the sinister forces of the SkullPro Army, lead by Armando Pesquali and Commander Limpwrist, in this comedic dual-joystick shooter designed by members of the NeoGAF online community.
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