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This sequel to Rainbow Islands sees a return to the gameplay of Bubble Bobble, but with Bub and Bob in their now-human forms. The boys must clear a series of screens of bad guys – who take slightly more esoteric forms than the angry caterpillars from Rainbow Islands – and again pick up a whole … Continue reading “Parasol Stars: Rainbow Islands II”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, Game Boy, NES, TurboGrafx-16, Wii
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
You’re a paper boy. Get on your bicycle. Avoid obstacles on the road, such as dogs, cars, and basically everything you can imagine. Hell, some people shoot cannon balls at you! And you’d better be very sure to only throw papers at the right houses! (and at people, that’s fun 🙂
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, NES, SNES, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
The object of Paperboy is to deliver papers to your customers while inflicting as much damage as possible to the houses of your non-customers. To make things more difficult, numerous obstacles get in your way including construction workers, rogue tires, skateboarders, dogs and cats, cars, and even the occasional tornado.
Year: 1984
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Arcade, Atari ST, BBC Micro, BlackBerry, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, DOS, Electron, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Genesis, J2ME, Lynx, NES, SEGA Master System, Xbox 360, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
Panic Restaurant is a side-scrolling platform game where you play as chef Cookie. The rival chef Ohdove has taken over his restaurant and it’s up to Cookie to reclaim it. It is a fairly basic platform game. You run and jump, and enemies are placed all around to try and stop you. The entire game, backgrounds, … Continue reading “Panic Restaurant”
Year: 1994
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
The goal of Palamedes is to clear the screen which is, line by line, filling up with dice. Players control a small person situated near the bottom of the screen, who can only be moved to the left or right. The number of the dice the person is holding can be changed with the B … Continue reading “Palamedes”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Arcade, FM Towns, Game Boy, MSX, NES
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Cards / tiles
Overlord is a real-time strategic warfare game where the player must manage large standing armies, economic capital, and political stability throughout a number of extra-dimensional star systems. As the dictatorial ruler of the Epsilon Galaxy, the player has obtained complete, indisputable authority. However, during a scientific experiment in hyperdrive technology, Epsilon scientists discovered four “buffer” dimensions, … Continue reading “Overlord”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, NES
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Real-time strategy
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 enemy is unstoppable. They maintain vigilant guard over their front lines! The only way to defeat them is to get behind their lines. But how? By allowing a soldier to get captured, perhaps he could escape and single-handedly defeat the enemy forces in his way. In P.O.W., the player is a soldier who has … Continue reading “P.O.W.: Prisoners of War”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Arcade, NES, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler
Over Horizon is a side-scrolling shooter in which the player has to guide a spaceship through various levels and destroy numerous enemies. The ship’s weapons can be fired in tow directions and defeated enemies sometimes drop power-ups that equip the ship with different weapons and up to two options. There are three different weapons in … Continue reading “Over Horizon”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Othello is a conversion of the board game. Each player tries to fill the game board with as many discs of his color as possible. On each turn the player places a disc on the board by selecting a location where the opponents discs will become trapped between two of his discs. The trapped discs … Continue reading “Othello”
Year: 1986
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Board game, Turn-based strategy