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
Tasac is a vertically-scrolling space shoot-’em-up game. The player controls a high-powered space fighter through ten stages, which each consist of several waves of smaller enemies followed by a large boss that must be destroyed. There are several power-ups to increase the ship’s power, but one hit will destroy it causing all upgrades to be lost. … Continue reading “Tasac”
Year: 1992
Platforms: NES, Supervision
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Super Pang is a clone of the arcade game of the same title. The premise is simple: there are balloons bouncing around a room, and you must shoot and destroy them without getting hit. However, it’s not that simple; when shot, the balloons will split into two smaller balloons, and only the smallest size will … Continue reading “Super Pang”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES, Supervision
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
Penguin & Seal is an arcade action game similar to Pengo. The player controls a penguin who must gather gems and deposit them into an igloo while avoiding becoming lunch for the seals wandering nearby. Each stage is filled with blocks, most of which can be destroyed, as well as three gems. The goal is … Continue reading “The Penguin & Seal”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES, Supervision
Genre: Action
Theme: Puzzle elements
Happy Pairs is a tile-matching puzzle game based on the Japanese game Shisenshō. Similar to the well-known Shanghai, the object is to remove tiles from the board in matching pairs until the entire board is clear. Pairs can only be removed if they can be connected by a line with no more than two turns. The game is … Continue reading “Happy Pairs”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES, Supervision
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Tile matching puzzle
Your starship is alive! A metamorphic creature that can transform from a huge flying insect into a metallic destroyer. Face squadron after squadron of alien fighters, marching ever onward towards a final confrontation with an all-powerful enemy. This is basically a scrolling, shoot-it-if-it-moves, action game. As your ship scrolls up the screen, you fire on … Continue reading “Galactic Crusader”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES, Supervision
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Dancing Block is a simple arcade action game starring a sentient cube. This cube has a curious feature: a cannon on one side that can shoot pellets. However, as the cube moves by rotating onto different sides, the cannon will reorient whenever the cube moves. The goal of each stage is to collect all the fruit, … Continue reading “Dancing Block”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES, Supervision
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
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”
Year: 1983
Platforms: Intellivision
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Originating in the arcades, Spy Hunter is a driving action game played from an overhead point of view. Your car is equipped with machine guns to help you get past the numerous enemies out on the road (be careful not to shoot any civilians, though!) Occasionally you will come across a weapons van, and if you drive … Continue reading “Spy Hunter”
Year: 1983
Platforms: Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, NES, PC Booter, Palm OS, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Racing / driving
You are the legendary Red Baron, flying a plane through a horizontal side-scrolling scenery set during World War I. To complete a mission, you simply need to get to the landing spot on the other side without being shot down, but you can gain extra points by destroying enemy vehicles and planes. For huge points, … Continue reading “Sky Kid”
Year: 1985
Platforms: Arcade, Epoch Super Cassette Vision, NES, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii, Wii U
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter