Retro & Arcade

Atomic Boy

1985. Climb around lattice of pipes to deactivate power switches for main computer while avoiding robots. Jump on generators to send out disrupters and kill robots. Game Play Five level vertically scrolling platformer. Climb around a lattice of conduits while avoiding robots. Kill robots by jumping on generators and sending out disrupters. Each generator has a limited number of disrupter shots. Normal robots can become super robots by passing through generators. Super robots can only be destroyed with (411,355 plays on Internet Archive)

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Internet Arcade: Arabian

1983. You play an adventurous Arabian prince and your goal is to rescue the princess from her palace. In your quest you will sail the seas, crawl in caves and fly magic carpets. Score points on the way for picking up the letters in "A-R-A-B-I-A-N" and get a bonus if they are collected in order. Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs BUG: Pixels are missing from the top of the 5. This is a fault common to the code of the original ROMs on all of the boards both Sun and Atari. Game Introduction Arabian is (414,112 plays on Internet Archive)

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Bank Panic

1984. Bank Panic is an arcade game developed by Sanritsu and manufactured by Sega in 1984. West Bank is a clone of the game, released on several platforms. Game description The player assumes the part of an Old West sheriff who must protect a bank and its customers from masked robbers. The layout of the bank is implicitly a circle with twelve numbered doors and the player in the center. The player can rotate to the left or right and view three doors at a time. The doors will open to reveal a customer (415,500 plays on Internet Archive)

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Champion Baseball

1983. Champion Baseball (チャンピオン ベースボール?) is a 1983 baseball arcade game developed by Alpha Denshi and published by Sega. The game was a sophisticated sports game for its time, displaying the playfield using multiple camera angles, including a close-up shot of the batter and pitcher, and giving players the option of selecting relief pitchers or pinch hitters, while an umpire looks on attentively to make the game calls. The game became very popular in Japanese arcades when released in 1983, at one point (422,847 plays on Internet Archive)

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Bio Attack

1983. Bio-Attack is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Taito in 1983. Here, you control a ship through a human's body while shooting viruses. It was licensed by Fox Video Games, as it is based on the 20th Century Fox film, Fantastic Voyage. 1 Player Start 1 2 Players Start 2 Coin 1 5 Coin 2 6 Coin 3 7 Tilt T P1 Up UP P1 Down DOWN P1 Left LEFT P1 Right RIGHT P1 Button 1 LCONTROL or Mouse B1 P2 Up R P2 Down F P2 Left D P2 Right G P2 Button 1 A (422,992 plays on Internet Archive)

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Paperboy

1984. Paperboy is a 1984 arcade game by Atari Games. The players take the role of a paperboy who delivers newspapers along a suburban street on his bicycle. Paperboy was innovative for its theme and novel controls. The player controls a paperboy on a bicycle delivering newspapers along a suburban street which is displayed in a cabinet perspective (or oblique projection) view. The player attempts to deliver a week of daily newspapers to subscribing customers, attempts to vandalize non-subscribers' home (432,041 plays on Internet Archive)

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Bagman

1982. Bagman is a platform arcade game released by Valadon Automation in 1982. It was also licensed to Stern for U.S. distribution in the same year. This game was also released (in form of unofficial conversions) for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home computer systems in 1984 as Gilligan's Gold; it is known in France as Le Bagnard. Gameplay The objective of the game is to maneuver the bagman through various mine shafts, picking up money bags and placing them in a wheelbarrow at the sur (446,011 plays on Internet Archive)

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Q*Bert

1982. Q*bert /ˈkjuːbərt/ is an arcade video game developed and published by Gottlieb in 1982. It is a 2D action game with puzzle elements that uses "isometric" graphics to create a pseudo-3D effect, and serves as a precursor to the isometric platformer genre. The object is to change the color of every cube in a pyramid by making the on-screen character hop on top of the cube while avoiding obstacles and enemies. Players use a joystick to control the character. The game was conceived by Warren Davis an (453,350 plays on Internet Archive)

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1985. Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom is a 1985 action arcade game developed and published by Atari Games, based on the 1984 film of the same name, the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise. It is also the first Atari System 1 arcade game to include digitized speech, including voice clips of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones and Amrish Puri as Mola Ram, as well as John Williams' music from the film. Gameplay The player assumes the role of Indiana Jones as he infiltrates the lair of the evil Thu (455,891 plays on Internet Archive)

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Mr. Do!

1982. INSTRUCTIONS The object of Mr. Do! is to score as many points as possible by digging tunnels through the ground and collecting cherries. The title character, Mr. Do (a circus clown), is constantly chased by red monsters resembling small dinosaurs, and the player loses a life if Mr. Do is caught by one. The game is over when the last life is lost. Cherries are distributed throughout the level in groups of eight. 500 bonus points are awarded if Mr. Do collects eight cherries in a row without stopp (470,344 plays on Internet Archive)

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The Three Stooges In Brides Is Brides

1984. The Three Stooges, fully titled as The Three Stooges in Brides is Brides on the title screen, is a 1984 arcade game by Mylstar Electronics. It is based on the comedy act of the same name. Gameplay The game features digital voice samples. At the start of the game, up to three players control Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard. Players must help the Three Stooges find their fiancees, Cora, Nora and Dora, who were kidnapped by the Mad Scientist. In all rooms, players must find the three hidden (474,598 plays on Internet Archive)

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Joust

1982. INSTRUCTIONS Joust is a platforming game where the player controls a yellow knight riding a flying ostrich or stork, from a third-person perspective. Using the two-way directional joystick and the button for flapping the ostrich's wings, the player flies the knight amidst the floating rock platforms and above pools of lava; when maneuvering off the screen to either side, the player will continue its path reappearing from the opposite side. The rate at which the player repeatedly presses the butt (484,847 plays on Internet Archive)

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Berzerk

1980. Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter video arcade game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. The player controls a green stick man. Using a joystick and a firing button that activates a laser-like weapon, the player navigates a simple maze filled with many robots, who fire lasers back at the player character. A player can be killed by being shot, by running into a robot or an exploding robot, coming into contact with the electrified walls of the maze itself, or by being touched by (496,913 plays on Internet Archive)

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Astro Blaster

1981. Astro Blaster is a shoot 'em up arcade game released by Sega in 1981. The player controls a ship (bearing a resemblance to the Battlestar Galactica) which can fire and move left or right. The player must continuously monitor the onscreen temperature and fuel gauges; if the ship overheats, its weapon is disabled, and if it is depleted of fuel, the vessel itself explodes. The player must battle through waves of enemies, which attack with varied formations and flight patterns. When a wave is destro (506,857 plays on Internet Archive)

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Defender

1980. Defender is an arcade video game developed and released by Williams Electronics in February 1981. A shooting game featuring two-dimensional (2D) graphics, the game is set on a fictional planet where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Defender was Jarvis' first video game project and drew inspiration from Space Invaders and Asteroids. Williams planned to display the game at the Amusem (694,586 plays on Internet Archive)

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Out Run

1986. 1 Player Start 1 2 Players Start 2 Coin 1 5 Coin 2 6 Service 1 9 Service Mode F2 Gear Shift SPACE or Mouse B2 Paddle Analog Mouse X Paddle Analog Dec LEFT Paddle Analog Inc RIGHT P1 Pedal 1 Analog N/A P1 Pedal 1 Analog Dec None P1 Pedal 1 Analog Inc LCONTROL P1 Pedal 2 Analog N/A P1 Pedal 2 Analog Dec None P1 Pedal 2 Analog Inc LALT Released Sep 25, 1986 Also For Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Gear, Genesis, J2ME, MSX, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, SEGA Master System, SEG (821,650 plays on Internet Archive)

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Floor 13

1992. Also For Amiga Developed by PSI Software Designers Published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc. Released 1992 Genre Simulation, Strategy/Tactics Pacing Turn-based Gameplay Managerial / Business Simulation Narrative Detective / Mystery, Spy / Espionage Description Somewhere in London is a secret organization that is based on the 13th floor of an office building. The sole purpose for this organization’s existence is to keep the current British government in power at any cost - specifically, (12,979 plays on Internet Archive)

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Puyo Puyo 2

1995. Compile Also For Arcade, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, Macintosh, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PC-98, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, SNES, TurboGrafx CD, Wii, Windows, WonderSwan Developed by Compile Published by Compile Released Oct 27, 1995 Pacing Real-Time Perspective Side view Gameplay Falling Block Puzzle Genre Puzzle Interface Direct Control Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Art Anime / Manga Description The follow-up to Puyo Puyo is, like its predecessor, a falling block game (13,036 plays on Internet Archive)

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Defend the Alamo

1994. Developed by Incredible Simulations Platform DOS Published by Incredible Simulations Released 1994 Genre Strategy/Tactics Pacing Real-Time Perspective Top-down Setting Historical Events Description Defend The Alamo is a tactical simulation of the Battle of the Alamo (February 23 - March 6, 1836), a turning point of the Texas Revolution. The player takes command of Texian defenders in Alamo Mission (only a handful of riflemen and cannons), trying to fend off general Santa Anna's Mexican army, whi (13,087 plays on Internet Archive)

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Star Trek - The Next Generation - Trivia

1990. Developed by Micro F/X Software Platform DOS Released 1990 Genre Educational Setting Sci-Fi / Futuristic Description This is a trivia game based on the first three seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. You are presented with questions from a variety of categories, like new characters, places and alien races, and you must supply the answer. To make things interesting, there is a timer on each question that allows you fifteen seconds to answer. The more time that goes by, the lower your bonus (13,114 plays on Internet Archive)

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Serf City - Life is Feudal

1994. Also For Amiga Developed by Blue Byte Software GmbH Published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. Released 1995 Pacing Real-Time Perspective Bird's-eye view Genre Simulation, Strategy/Tactics Interface Point and Select Gameplay City Building / Construction Simulation, Managerial / Business Simulation, Real-time strategy Visual Isometric Description A strategy game with cartoony graphics and an innocent line in humour. At the start of the level you choose a starting point, the intention being to get l (13,119 plays on Internet Archive)

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Populous II - Trials of the Olympian Gods

1993. Also For Amiga, Atari ST, FM Towns, Genesis, Macintosh, PC-98, Sharp X68000, SNES, Windows Developed by Bullfrog Productions, Ltd. Published by Electronic Arts, Inc. Released 1993 Pacing Real-Time Perspective Bird's-eye view Genre Strategy/Tactics Setting Classical antiquity, Fantasy Interface Point and Select Gameplay Real-time strategy Visual Isometric Description Populous II continues the "god game" genre pioneered by Bullfrog's classic Populous . In PII, you're an unproven immortal who must (13,128 plays on Internet Archive)

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[SHC 2021] SNOLF Tournament Edition

2021. It's back, and better than ever! That's right! SNOLF: The Sonic Golf Experience (2019) has been remastered and brought into the modern age with SNOLF: TOURNAMENT EDITION ! Take control of SNOLF, the "Coolest Golf Ball", and snolf your way to victory with golf-like controls! No running and jumping for you - it's full-on bouncy ball action all the way! FEATURES: Exhilirating (frustrating?) golf-style gameplay! Three shot types: Putter, Regular, and Driver! Control your bounce! Infinite lives! Stuc (13,144 plays on Internet Archive)

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Fury of the Furries

1993. Also For Amiga, Amiga CD32, Macintosh Developed by Atreid Concept SA Published by Kalisto Released 1993 Genre Action Gameplay Arcade, Platform, Puzzle elements Perspective Side view Visual 2D scrolling Setting Fantasy Description In Fury of the Furries , you control a cute, round creature called Tiny, who must defeat "the wicked one" who has captured the King, and turned all the Tinies into mindless monsters. Fortunately your Tiny has special powers. It can transform himself into a swimmer, rock (13,145 plays on Internet Archive)

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