PLATFORMS
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
One of the most popular and influential games of the 1980’s, Pac-Man stars a little, yellow dot-muncher who works his way around to clear a maze of the various dots and fruit which inhabit the board. Pac-Man’s goal is continually challenged by four ghosts: The shy blue ghost Bashful (“Inky”), the trailing red ghost Shadow (“Blinky”), the … Continue reading “Pac-Man”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Android, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, BlackBerry, Commodore 64, FM-7, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Intellivision, MSX, NES, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PC Booter, PC-6001, PC-8000, PC-88, PC-98, Palm OS, PlayStation 4, Sharp MZ-80B/2000/2500, Sharp MZ-80K/700/800/1500, Sharp X1, Sharp Zaurus, TI-99/4A, VIC-20, Wii, Wii U, Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, Xbox One, ZX Spectrum, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
The Bungeling Empire has stolen a huge cache of gold from its rightful owners, and your mission is to infiltrate its treasury and recapture it. This entails progressing through 150 screens of platforms, ladders and ropes. The Empire has sent robotic guards down to protect the gold, and contact with any of these will cost … Continue reading “Lode Runner”
Year: 1983
Platforms: Amstrad CPC, Android, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, DOS, FM-7, J2ME, MSX, Macintosh, NES, PC Booter, PC-6001, PC-8000, PC-88, PC-98, SG-1000, Sharp MZ-80K/700/800/1500, Sharp X1, VIC-20, Wii, Wii U, Windows Phone, WonderSwan, ZX Spectrum, iPhone
Theme: Platform, Puzzle elements
Develop your tiny village to a grand medieval empire with a thriving economy and happy villagers! Find spots for mining ore, harvest the crops of your farms and collect coins as taxes from your folk. Build jousting fields, taverns, marketplaces and beautify your city with impressive statues, magnificent monuments and lush gardens. But there are … Continue reading “Townsmen: A Kingdom Rebuilt”
Year: 2012
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Tizen, Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox One, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Simulation, Strategy / tactics
Rather than a straight port or an emulated title, this version of the 1993 Sonic CD game is a completely redone version for modern platforms and based on a fanmade Retro engine. The original version was released for the SEGA CD and later also ported to Windows. This version supports a whole host of more … Continue reading “Sonic CD”
Year: 2011
Platforms: Android, Ouya, PlayStation 3, Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Oxenfree is an adventure game with supernatural elements set on Edwards Island, an old military island. Five teenagers travel there by boat to hang out and spend the weekend. The blue-haired Alex is the main protagonist and she is a good friend of Ren, a talkative stoner. She brings along Jonas, her new stepbrother who does … Continue reading “Oxenfree”
Year: 2016
Platforms: Linux, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Windows Apps, Windows Phone, Xbox One, iPad, iPhone, Xbox Cloud Gaming
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure
Dark Quest is a turn based fantasy role playing adventure game where players assume the role of a mighty barbarian on his epic quest to destroy the forces of the evil sorcerer and save the land from evil. An evil sorcerer has appeared in the lands, he has built a dungeon in the nearby village … Continue reading “Dark Quest”
Year: 2013
Platforms: Android, Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
The events of the game take place in the early 1990’s. The player takes control of Carl Johnson (C.J.), who had moved to Liberty City in order to distance itself from his past as a member of a gang in his home city, San Andreas. But the past catches up with him in a way … Continue reading “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas”
Year: 2004
Platforms: Android, Fire OS, Macintosh, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Windows Apps, Windows Phone, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Racing / driving
Theme: Quick Time Events (QTEs), Shooter