PLATFORMS
In Alternate Reality: The City, you are one of many people who have been abducted from earth by aliens and transported to an alternate dimension where you are dumped in a strange, yet familiar city. Your quest is to explore the city, and find the clues that will lead you to your captors and help you … Continue reading “Alternate Reality: The City”
Year: 1985
Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, TRS-80 CoCo, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Real-time strategy
In Silpheed, the player pilots a spaceship through levels of increasing difficulty, in a pseudo-3D vertically scrolling field, shooting everything in his path. New weapons will become available as he gathers points, and power-ups are sprinkled throughout the levels. The game is one of the first-ever that used music as a selling point.
Year: 1986
Platforms: Apple IIgs, DOS, FM-7, PC-88, TRS-80 CoCo
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Carmen Sandiego is a master thief who leads the criminal organization V.I.L.E. This organization specializes in stealing the world’s treasures without a trace. Alarmed by this, the A.C.M.E. Detective Agency makes it their personal mission to foil Carmen Sandiego’s plans. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? is a game that tests the player’s knowledge about … Continue reading “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”
Year: 1985
Platforms: Apple II, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis, TRS-80 CoCo
Genre: Educational
Theme: Puzzle elements
Your task in this arcade game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the screen. Both these sections are fraught with a variety of hazards, each of which will kill the frog and cost you a life if contact is made. The road is … Continue reading “Frogger”
Year: 1981
Platforms: Android, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, BREW, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Genesis, Intellivision, J2ME, MSX, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, Odyssey 2, PC Booter, PC-6001, PlayStation 4, SNES, TI-99/4A, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo, Timex Sinclair 2068, Tomy Tutor, VIC-20, Windows Phone, ZX81, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
Cells & Serpents is a roleplaying game for multiple systems. The player explores a series of unending randomized dungeon rooms fighting monsters and looking for treasure. At any time the player can choose to move left, right, or forwards. These can take the player to stairs up, stairs down, a blank wall, corridors, rooms, or doors. … Continue reading “Cells & Serpents”
Year: 1983
Platforms: Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore PET/CBM, Sharp MZ-80K/700/800/1500, TRS-80, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
The Wizard’s City was published by Aurora Software in 1980 for the Ohio Scientific and for the TRS-80 in 1981 by BAP$ Software. The Wizard’s City is a turn-based role-playing game predominantly using a text-based format. There are some graphics that present a side view of your surroundings as you move about. I believe the … Continue reading “Wizard’s City”
Year: 1980
Platforms: TRS-80
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Pitfall Harry returns to adventuring in this “Super” sequel to Pitfall! and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns. Harry’s mission: to recover the famed Raj Diamond, and also to rescue his niece Rhonda and loyal lion sidekick, Quickclaw. Now armed with a gun, Harry must navigate some 270 screens of 8-bit action-platforming. Valuable items will be collected … Continue reading “Super Pitfall”
Year: 1986
Platforms: NES, PC-88, TRS-80 CoCo
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
The private corporation O.C.P. have taken control of the overwhelmed police force of Detroit. In order to deal with an immense crime wave hitting the city, a cyborg law enforcement agent has been created. RoboCop is a side-scrolling action game that consists of six stages. These six assignments include locations at the streets of Old Detroit, … Continue reading “Robocop”
Year: 1989
Platforms: NES, TRS-80 CoCo
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
George, Lizzy and Ralph were just ordinary Americans, until an experiment went wrong, turning them into a Gorilla, Lizard and Werewolf respectively. Following this, the three of them plan to go round destroying buildings, and up to 3 human players can join in. Smashing at the edges of the buildings for long enough will make … Continue reading “Rampage”
Year: 1986
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Browser, Commodore 64, DOS, Lynx, NES, SEGA Master System, TRS-80 CoCo, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
Predator: Soon The Hunt Will Begin is a 2D action game. There are 30 stages in the game, and each one is split up into two modes: Jungle Mode, and Big Mode. In Jungle Mode, the object of the game is to survive the dangers of the jungle while you shoot down guerillas and wildlife using … Continue reading “Predator”
Year: 1988
Platforms: NES, TRS-80 CoCo
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform