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A classic game from the Stamper brothers and Ultimate Play The Game.
Déjà Vu is a point-and-click adventure game that draws inspiration from "noir" detective novels that were popular in the 1940s.
A maze-action game developed by John Hopper and published by Cascade Games for ZX Spectrum.
A geopolitical turn-based strategy game set in the '80s Cold War. Take on the role of the US President or the Soviet General Secretary and use diplomacy and brinkmanship to boost your superpower's strength throughout the world. Just don't cause a nuclear war in the process!
One of the most well-known educational computer games, teaching students about the perils faced by cross-country migrants in the 19th century United States. Lead a wagon through the titular trail and reach Oregon, or die trying!
An early fighting game in which players compete against their opponents to score points by delivering proper blows during the match.
Will: The Death Trap II is a video game developed and published by Squaresoft in 1985, for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7 and Sharp X1 computers. Developed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the game was a technical milestone for its real-time animated cutscenes, rendered using animated bitmap graphics, as well as its soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu.
Drive through five cities painting the road and dodging police cars along the way in this early Jaleco Arcade platformer.
Soccer is the seminal soccer game for the NES, it is wholly about soccer.
Released for the arcades by Sega in 1985, this was an early third-person golf game that featured motion controls. A metal swing stick allows players to swing much like normal golfers do, letting players hit the ball as hard or as soft as they wish.
In Colonial Conquest, players take command of one of the six imperialistic powers (Great Britain, France, Germany, U.S., Russia and Japan) during the 1800s. Players wage war, use diplomacy or espionage to gain more power.
Pearl Harbour is a French strategy game for the Amstrad CPC.
An early Japanese RPG released by Hot-B in 1984 that departed from the fantasy themes of most other early RPGs in favour of what is possibly gaming's first sci-fi cyberpunk plot. Set in a post-apocalyptic city, the game revolves around an amnesiac protagonist with psychic powers.
LaserDisc arcade game released in 1984 that was later ported to Sega CD and iOS. Players take to the skies in their Super Cobra attack helicopter to save the world from terrorism.
An educational game released in 1983. Teaches about the USA.
Spider-Man casts you as the web-slinger in a neverending quest to save New York from the Green Goblin. You must swing your way to the tops of skyscrapers to disarm bombs, avoiding attacks by the Goblin and his minions.
One of the first Japanese RPG's, and the first game based on the Mission: Impossible franchise. It was notable for replacing the fantasy setting of traditional RPG's with a modern setting.
Ice Hockey is an ice hockey video game designed by Activision programmer Alan Miller, and published by Activision.
Defend the world's cities from jets, helicopters, and bombers. If you take too long, a nasty MIRV will be launched.
Name the states... and then their capitals in this educational game from Atari.
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.
Football!'s a sport!
An early motorbike racing game developed by Sega and published by Sega-Gremlin in 1976, based on the character Fonz from the TV show Happy Days. Versions of the game are also known as Man TT and Moto-Cross. It uses a pseudo-3D, third-person perspective.
An arcade light-gun shooter released by Kasco in 1975, this was the first holographic 3-D game.
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.
Wild Gunman is a light gun shooter by Nintendo. There were two versions of the game: a 1974 FMV arcade game, and later a 1984 NES game developed by Intelligent Systems; the latter uses the NES Zapper to draw, aim and shoot the opponent.
A first-person arcade racing game released by Kasco in 1968. It was an electro-mechanical game using a form of video projection to display a racing track on a screen. It was a precursor to first-person racing video games.
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