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Stars of television and cinema, and now stars of their own video game. Join Moe, Larry & Curly (in no particular order) who must collect $5000 to try and save an orphanage and the young children who live there from the evil banker, all while keeping pie out of their face. Featuring platform level designs … Continue reading “The Three Stooges”

Unlike the original Tetris, Tetris 2 has you clearing the field of blocks in a different way. Each play field starts with different colored dots (in this case black, gray and white), with one of each color flashing. The blocks are made up of the same three colors, and by matching blocks of the same color over the … Continue reading “Tetris 2”

The original commercially-licensed version of Alexey Pajitnov’s classic Tetris puzzle game. Geometric shapes fall from the top of a playfield to rest on the bottom; fit the pieces together, and the line they form disappears. If the pieces don’t form lines and eventually stack up to the top of the playfield, the game is over. … Continue reading “Tetris”

Baldor’s Castle is an early roleplaying game for the VIC-20. The player explores the halls of Baldor’s Castle from a top-down perspective, while collecting gold and defeating monsters. The character can fight with their sword or use arrows against a variety f monsters, and a map is available to help guide the player. The player has … Continue reading “Baldor’s Castle”

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin Cartridge is a first-person dungeon crawler. It features gameplay elements such as hidden doors, magical weapons and a versatile inventory (which requires you to keep yourself fed and rested, otherwise you’ll lose health). It also features up to 256 randomly-generated levels of the maze (depending on which of the … Continue reading “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin”

King Ogreth of the Basam Empire has invaded your country and either captured or turned into rocks and trees all your soldiers. You, king Suren, are left completely alone. In a desperate attempt, you decide to walk to king Ogreth’s castle and to defeat him. You hope you’ll be able to find some way to … Continue reading “Bokosuka Wars”

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”

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”

Dragon Quest is a dungeon crawler that has you exploring 90+ rooms in search of treasure. There is supposedly supposed to be a princess to rescue but alas I was unable to find the princess after much exploration. I probably spent more time with this game than I should have but the completist in me … Continue reading “Dragon Quest (1983)”

Dragonsbane is a maze-based RPG game with basic text interaction, played from a 1st person perspective. The main scenario is a dungeon maze packed with monsters and creatures, containing the traditional RPG elements – potions, weaponry, armours, shields and food. There are 172 rooms and 40 monsters in the dungeon. The player’s abilities are characterized … Continue reading “Dragonsbane”