Adventure was the first action-adventure game on a video console, the first to contain a widely-known Easter egg, and the first to allow a player to have a stash of items, which required the player to select which one to use at any given moment, usually through keyboard or joystick input. Adventure allowed the player … Read more
Frenzy is the sequel to Berzerk and gameplay is similar. You are chased around a maze of rooms by various robots and your player must avoid their lasers and shoot them back to destroy them. There’s only so much time the player can stay in a room before a “Robot Attacks” occurs and a smiley … Read more
Here’s an off-the-wall demolition game that you design yourself! This amazing Nintendo Programmable game lets you design your own building, place obstacles wherever you want them, and then blow everything to smithereens! You can play the game as designed by Nintendo, or you can be the game designer and build a different maze of barriers … Read more
When there’s something strange in your neighborhood …who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters for your Atari 2600! With a $5,000 loan from the bank, you’re out to start your own ghostbusting business. You make money by catching ghosts and must earn more than $10,000 before the dangerous psychokinetic (PK) energy emissions reach critical mass.
The first game in Sierra’s Police Quest franchise. This game introduces Sonny Bonds, a Police Officer based in the fictional town of Lytton, California. His adventures lead him to the dangerous drug lord, Jessie Bains. In Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel, you play as rookie patrol Officer Sunny Bonds as he tracks … Read more
Following the defeat of the evil triad in the previous three Ultima games, the world of Sosaria changed beyond recognition: continents rose and sank, and new cities were built, heralding the advent of a different civilization. Unified by the reign of the benevolent monarch Lord British, the new world was renamed Britannia. Lord British wished … Read more
Dragon’s Lair is a laserdisc video game published by Cinematronics in 1983 as the first game in the Dragon’s Lair series. In the game, the protagonist Dirk the Daring is a knight attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe who has locked the princess in the foul wizard Mordroc’s castle. It featured … Read more
The goal of the game is to retire with as much gold and land as possible, as many ranks/titles as possible (Colonel, Admiral, Marquis, Duke), and a wife. Finding long lost relatives helps too. You accomplish these goals by plundering cities, capturing and sinking enemy ships, getting in good with governors to receive titles, learn … Read more
An evil being known as Ligar is about to conquer the land of Argool. Such is his power that no living creature dares to cross paths with him. But the legendary warrior Rygar rises from his grave to restore peace and justice. Armed with his famed weapon Diskarmor, Rygar begins to traverse the vast lands … Read more