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There are few games more important to Nintendo’s history than Donkey Kong. Had it not been for the struggling toy company’s decision to let Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi convert its failing Radar Scope arcade machines into something more appealing, Nintendo may very well have bowed out of the video game market and we’d never … Continue reading “Donkey Kong”

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE The year is 2084. The future has turned out much darker than anyone could imagine. First, there was the Nanophage. A digital plague that killed thousands upon thousands of those who chose to augment their minds and bodies. Then came the War, leaving both the West and the East decimated and … Continue reading “Observer: System Redux”

The Mines of Mordor was written and developed by Scott Cunningham for the TRS-80 and published by Electronic Imaginations in 1979. Mines of Mordor is a surprisingly addictive turn-based dungeon crawler. The game is completely text-based and uses ascii characters to depict the dungeon. There are no class or character choices other than coming up … Continue reading “Mines of Mordor”

Demons begins by having you choose a character class. The amazing thing is that there are 14 different character classes to choose from. In seven of the classes the gender is male and in the other seven female.  Demons is turn based and the objective is to traverse an overland map and acquire as much … Continue reading “Demons”

Commonly considered the first Japanese-made game with role-playing elements, Dragon and Princess involves a quest of a party of adventurers who is requested by the king to exterminate bandits and eventually rescue the princess from the clutches of a dragon. Gameplay-wise, the game is for the most part closer to the adventure format than to true role-playing. … Continue reading “The Dragon & the Princess”

Dirty Harry is based on the popular Clint Eastwood movie character of “Dirty” Harry Callahan (rather than the specific movie “Dirty Harry”), a cop famous for his use of a .44 magnum for doing away with evildoers, and for his catchphrase, “Go ahead, make my day.” In fact, the game begins with a digitized sample of … Continue reading “Dirty Harry”

Digger T. Rock, a brave little miner who dares to dig where no shovel has gone before! He just loves to uncover underground wonders. And he dreams of discovering a buried city bursting with golden treasures and ancient relics. On this very morning, deep within a craggy, slippery cave, Digger stumbles upon a half-hidden sign … Continue reading “Digger T. Rock: Legend of the Lost City”

It is Dig Dug’s job to protect 72 different tropical islands from his arch rivals, Pooka and the fire breathing Fygar. Played from an overhead point of view, Dig Dug now has two weapons at his disposal; the first is an air pump and the second is a drill. The pump can be used to … Continue reading “Dig Dug II: Trouble in Paradise”

John McClain decides to visit his wife Holly in Nakatomi Plaza, only to discover that she is taken hostage on the 30th floor, along with a bunch of other hostages. The main terrorist, Hans, is after the money locked away in a safe on the 30th floor. His hacker, Theo, is slowly breaking the locks … Continue reading “Die Hard”

Dungeons of Daggorath is a dungeon crawler which has rudimentary magic, character building, and combat elements, like a Wizardry-style RPG, while also using a text parser like a graphic adventure. The top part of the screen is dominated by a first-person view of the dungeon, while the player enters his/her commands at the bottom. Verb … Continue reading “Dungeons of Daggorath”