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An educational puzzle adventure game, designed to encourage children's reading skills and problem solving.
Designed by Yoshio Kiya and released by Nihon Falcom in 1983, this was possibly the first action RPG. It introduced real-time combat, sci-fi elements, a persistent open world with day-night cycle, and survival mechanics. This was a precursor to Falcom's seminal action RPG franchise, Dragon Slayer.
A treasure-hunting maze game where Sindbad (also known as Sinbad the Sailor) must search for treasure in multi-layered, isometric-like, levels. While doing so, he must avoid enemies, which Sindbad can hold-up by digging holes or using the environment.
A single-screen platformer from Jaleco.
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.
A first-person maze game where players attempt to collect jewels while evading a ghost.
One of Koei's first games, Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku (団地妻の誘惑, "Housewife Temptation") was an early adventure RPG with adult content and dating sim elements.
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.
In 1983 Fox Video Games, Inc. released M*A*S*H, a game based on the popular movie and TV series.
Walk forward and take out the opposition in this early arcade run & gun shooter from Taito.
The second game in the series starring Horace. This time, he's off skiing.
Guide a jungle man through multiple dangers to rescue the heroine in this 1982 Taito arcade game. One of the first side-scrolling platformers, it was the first game with a ducking mechanic. Game graphics and name were changed to "Jungle Hunt" after the Burroughs estate sued Taito for infringing upon "Tarzan" copyrights.
Launch title for the Epoch Cassette Vision. The goal of the game is to chop down trees while avoiding bird droppings.
Released by Taito in 1981, Alpine Ski was an early multi-sport game focusing on extreme sports, specifically winter sports. It was a vertical-scrolling game that involved maneuvering a skier through multiple events: a downhill ski course, a slalom racing course, and a ski jumping competition.
Released by SNK in 1980, it was an early shoot 'em up that featured human characters on foot instead of vehicles, spacecraft, or aliens. The player character faces off against multiple shuriken-throwing ninjas and along the way faces several bosses, such as a flame-shooting shinobi.
An adventure game designed by Roberta and Ken Williams. Although the game itself is entirely text based, it was the first adventure game to feature graphics. The game places players locked inside a mansion, tasked with finding a way out.
A text adventure originally created in 1979 on a Cambridge University mainframe computer.
An early arcade game by SNK, putting players in control of an old-fashioned woodcutter as they chop down trees while avoiding snakes, wild boars, bird droppings, and falling tree branches.
Frogs is a single player game where the player controls a jumping frog.
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.
An early first-person shooting arcade game released by Sega in 1969. It resembles a first-person light-gun shooter video game, but is in fact an electro-mechanical arcade game that uses rear image projection to produce moving animations on a screen.
A pornographic adventure/RPG developed by Active Software in 1994.
A browser based platform game.
Get ready to ride the roller coaster of your dreams in Ultimate Ride!
A game that lets players train, groom, and take care of a pony as a virtual pet.
An Indie Puzzle Platformer about an old man who goes on a "space vacation" but crash lands on an uncharted planet and has to find all of his ship's parts in order to get back home.
Command & Conquer, originally known as Command & Conquer Generals 2, was a free-to-play real-time strategy game developed by Victory Games. The game was officially cancelled on October 29th, 2013.
A game where players mix together elements with the goal of finding all possible combinations.
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