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The first 16-bit video game, Pole Position was responsible for popularizing third-person psuedo-3D graphics and racing games as a whole.
The Empire Strikes Back for the Atari 2600 was the very first Star Wars game, released in May 1982. It recreates only one scene from the movie: the battle between snowspeeders and AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth.
Catch suitcases flying out of planes, and watch out for bombs.
Chris Crawford-designed simulation of a nuclear reactor. The basis of this model was the nuclear reactor at 3-Mile Island, which had recently suffered a near-meltdown and was probably a direct inspiration for the creation of this simulation.
Mattel's take on the board game Reversi.
Othello for the Atari 2600 is a faithful representation of Reversi
This TI994A game gave you control of a mouse in random mazes. You could choose various gameplay variables such as eating cheese to reveal the exit, or evading cats with different AI attributes such as pouncing and intelligence.
Go for it! Climb to the top of the building as a helicopter awaits! A precursor to the platformer genre, Crazy Climber was the first game revolving around climbing.
3 of them .Ever get stuck on three because you were suspicious of the black key being in the black castle?
Originally called Space Invaders Part II in Japan, this is the first sequel to the coin-munching hit Space Invaders. This game is notable for introducing the concept of a cut-scene.
An arcade racing game from Taito.
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.
A racing game released by Taito in 1976. It is a simultaneous two-player version of Tomohiro Nishikado's 1974 arcade game Speed Race.
Released by Sega in 1974, it was an early first-person light-gun shooter video game, featuring both single-player and multi-player modes.
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.
Parsec 47 is an abstract top-down shooter developed by Japanese game developer Kenta Cho
Journey to the Planets is a space adventure puzzle game for Atari 8-bit computers. In the game the player is lost on an alien planet, and must avoid enemies and solve puzzles in order to get back home.
Maya the Bee: The Great Adventure is a GBA game released only in Europe. It was developed by Shin'en Multimedia and published by Acclaim.
An obscure platformer for the Amiga. Players control peter on his quest through 20 levels in which he much collect hearts to save his girlfriend Daphne.
Players control Brad Stallion as he competes against his arch-nemesis, Dr. Dildo to see who can score with the most females, be they human or otherwise.
A prequel to the grid-based, dungeon crawler RPG Vaporum.
Early-Access Boxing game for PC and PS5.
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