Donkey Kong was Nintendo’s popular arcade game from the early Eighties. My first glimpse of the game was not from the coin-op, but from the miniature version that you can place on a table and play. As with popular arcade games of the time, minor companies began to produce unofficial versions for home computers, and … Read more
The object of the game is to defuse all bombs in a platform-filled screen. Jumpman defuses a bomb by touching it. According to the story, these are placed on Jupiter by terrorists. Jumpman can climb up and down ladders, and of course jump, and there are two kinds of rope each allowing a single direction … Read more
In the future, the world is controlled by corporations rather than governments, and wars are fought in a dream world rather than in reality. The corporations can control dream demons to defeat their foes, but resistance fighters still defy them. The player is one of these resistance fighters hoping to rescue some friends from the … Read more
Super Huey II is a 2D helicopter simulation with different missions, including: Combat missions POW rescue missions Gulf of terror Arctic rescue missions Oil blaze Bermuda triangle The game does not focus on realism, but offers arcade gameplay.
Marble Madness is an isometric platform game where the player manipulates an onscreen marble from a third-person perspective. The player controls the marble’s movements with a trackball, though most home versions use game controllers with directional pads. The aim of the game is for the player to traverse six maze-like, isometric courses before a set … Read more
Children’s educational game in which players control a dinosaur to answer questions. Developed for multiple platforms between 1983 and 1988.
Jinks added a largely new concept to the Breakout type games, offering much freer paddle movement (both horizontally and vertically), a horizontally scrolling screen and the ability to flip the triangular paddle as needed. The objective is to survive on the planet Jinks – an exploration mission on this resource-rich planet has gone wrong. As … Read more
Dragon’s Lair features the hero, Dirk the Daring, attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe, who has locked Daphne in a wizard’s castle. The screen shows animated scenes, and the player executes an action by selecting a direction or pressing the sword button with correct timing. The comedy of the game stemmed … Read more
Skool Daze sets you as Eric, a typical scamp of a schoolboy whose school report is due, and it is so bad that his parents can’t be allowed to see it. This means retrieving it from the headmaster’s safe, by obtaining every piece of the pass-code from the teachers, by hitting each of the shields … Read more