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This is a GameTek conversion of the ’80s version of the game show Hollywood Squares. Two contestants play a version of tic-tac-toe, with “celebrities” filling in for the squares. The selected celeb is asked a question, answers it, and the contestant must agree or disagree with their answer. A correct guess captures that square. After … Continue reading “Hollywood Squares”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Apple II, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64, DOS, NES
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Game show / trivia / quiz
This game involves the use of the Nintendo Light Zapper, and has, truly, no plot. You are in the police station doing target practice, either with three targets at a time with at least one innocent person, or in an alley with both good and bad targets in windows and walking on the sidewalk. Then … Continue reading “Hogan’s Alley”
Year: 1984
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
High Speed is a conversion of the Williams Electronics pinball game of the same name. The game recreates the pinball table and gameplay from the arcade version and also adds some video game features, such as lightning bombs, attacking enemies, magnetic helicopters, and rust balls which dissolve your flipper. The bottom part of the screen … Continue reading “High Speed”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Pinball
In this snowboarding game, the player goes on various runs completing events on downhill mountains. There are five events in all: Downhill, Slalom, Half-pipe, Moguls and Backwoods. In Downhill the object is to get down the slope as fast as possible. In Slalom you have to guide the board between the gates. In halfpipe, you … Continue reading “Heavy Shreddin’”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Heavy Barrel is a shooter with a top-down view similar to Commando and Ikari Warriors. Terrorists have seized the underground control complex of a nuclear missile site. It is up to the player to infiltrate the installation and eliminate the leader of the terrorist army before they can launch the missiles. To stop the terrorists … Continue reading “Heavy Barrel”
Year: 1987
Platforms: Apple II, Arcade, DOS, NES, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Zeebo
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
In Hatris, the falling blocks of Tetris are replaced by falling hats which are top hats, cowboy hats, baseball caps, derbys, party hats and crowns. The setting is a hat factory, where hats are dropped down from a conveyor belt two at a time and must be stacked on one of six mannequin heads. Once five hats of … Continue reading “Hatris”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Arcade, Game Boy, NES, PC-98, TurboGrafx-16
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Falling block puzzle
This game allows you to play as either the Harlem Globetrotters or their rivals, the Generals, in an exhibition basketball game. The player can choose to have the quarters last from one minute to twelve minutes. Also, if you are playing as the Harlem Globetrotters you are able to pull off special maneuvers such as … Continue reading “Harlem Globetrotters”
Year: 1990
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
In the peaceful town of Carpentersville, some workers known as The Rusty Nailers decide to bulldoze a house that belongs to Harry. Harry is certainly not happy with this, and goes on a rampage, destroying workers that get in his way. As Harry, you can destroy workers in one of two ways: you can smash … Continue reading “Hammerin’ Harry”
Year: 1990
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
The entire solar system is being attacked by the vicious Gyrusians, and it’s up to you to save the day! You will need to fly your spaceship to each of the nine planets and then clear three stages of enemies to rid that planet of the Gyrusians. You start the game with a single cannon, … Continue reading “Gyruss”
Year: 1983
Platforms: Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, NES, Windows, Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Ultizurk is a role-playing game inspired by the classic Ultima series, made by solo developer Robert J. Deutsch who went by the moniker “Dr. Dungeon”. In Ultizurk, the player controls a single pre-made character (there is no character creation) who is summoned by King Eldor to save his realm from the troubles it suffers from. … Continue reading “Ultizurk I: The Grandmaster’s Quest”
Year: 1994
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy