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A PC Booter game that is heavily inspired by Mr. Do. The game tasks players with digging through dirt to collect emeralds while avoiding enemies.
Players locate pieces of a trident while playing alternately as a dolphin and a seagull.
An educational game designed to replace or supplement real-life frog dissection in classrooms.
Tim Martin's Spelunker is regarded by some as one of the most obscenely difficult games of all time.
A surreal space shooter from Sierra.
Strawberry Shortcake Musical Match-ups is a puzzle game on the Atari 2600.
A train management simulator released for early home computer platforms.
Players climb ladders and traverse platforms to get collect beverages, all while avoiding police officers.
As Robbie the Robot, players must protect a plant from various insects.
One of the first games from Electronic Arts; players 'teach' musical worm-like creatures to move around a grid.
Players dive underwater in order to search for pearls.
The goal is to steal dinosaur eggs in this Frogger-style game where players have to navigate a screen of obstacles from bottom to top and back again.
A shoot 'em up for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore C16. The game was inspired by the arcade / Atari 2600 game, Phoenix.
Players fight mechanized alien bugs in this Atari 2600 shooter.
A helicopter action game for the Dragon 32/64.
Players control a snake like pipe. The goal is to eat all the pellets on screen in order to get the highest score possible. Players must do this while avoiding being hit by enemies.
Players hop around a pyramid of plates to change their colors in this Q*Bert-inspired game from Sierra.
An MS-DOS game similar to Centipede.
Frostbite was written by Steve Cartwright who also wrote Barnstorming, Megamania, Plaque Attack, and Seaquest and released by Activison in 1983 for the Atari 2600. The goal is to jump on moving ice flows to build an igloo before the temperature drops below 0 while avoiding all manners of wildlife.
Sir Graham has been given the task to return three royal items to King Edward of the kingdom of Daventry. If he can return all three items, Sir Graham will become the next king of Daventry.
An adventure game created by Yuji Horii and published by Enix in 1983 where the player controls a detective solving a murder mystery. The title helped establish the template for the Japanese adventure genre, which many other titles would imitate and build upon.
Nintendo's classic arcade hit. Players attempt to eliminate enemies while avoiding fireballs and collecting coins.
This Donkey Kong influenced game is about a man who has to defuse the bombs that were planted by terrorists.
A game with a text interface and optional graphics. Players must locate the missing Princess Sabrina while surviving the hostile land.
An educational game for the Atari 2600.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is an adventure game based on the film of the same name. Its major commercial failure is considered an important factor of the Video Game Crash of 1983 and the collapse of Atari, Inc.
A Pac-Man clone written by John P. Shay and published by Solar Software for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 16 / PLUS 4.
Written by Dan Illowsky and Michael Abrash this game is a Pac-Man variant and sequel to Snack Attack.
A Space Invaders clone written by Michael Abrash and published by Datamost for the PC.
A shoot'em up based on Namco's arcade game Galaxian, where the player controls a spacecraft at the bottom of the screen moving left or right, destroying aliens above.
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