Unreleased Prototype Games - LaunchBox Games Database

Heart Like a Wheel

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 1.88
Total Votes: 4

1.9

Programmer Jim Collas confirmed that this game was called Heart Like a Wheel and was based on the 1983 movie of the...

HeroQuest

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 17

3.4

HeroQuest, the best-selling role playing game has now been developed into an absorbing fantasy adventure game for...

Hit the Ice: VHL: The Video Hockey League

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 4.42
Total Votes: 24

4.4

The game is a one- to four-player game based on the game of Ice Hockey. It takes place on the Official "VHL" (Video...

Holey Moley

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 1.25
Total Votes: 6

1.2

Each round consists of twenty-five moles. When a mole pops out of his hole, press the corresponding button on the...

Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream

Nintendo Game Boy

Unreleased

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 16

4.0

Kevin's Home Alone again - and this time he's dreaming up an incredible adventure! At least this time Kevin's...

It Came from the Desert

Sega Genesis

Unreleased

Community Rating: 1.88
Total Votes: 12

1.9

It Came from the Desert is an unreleased Sega Mega Drive game developed by Cinemaware, and was due to be published...

Ixion

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 8

4.0

Ixion is a port of the unreleased 1983 Sega coin-op of the same name, Ixion is an interesting game that doesn't...

Ixion

Atari 800

Unreleased

1985

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 1

Ixion is an unreleased arcade game based on Sega Zaxxon hardware, developed by Sega Electronics, set to be...

Jawbreaker

Atari 5200

Unreleased

January 1, 1982

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 2

2.0

You're loose in a candy factory! Quickly move the chomping set of teeth to eat up all the candy bars. Be careful,...

Jeff's Shoot'Em Up

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.33
Total Votes: 6

3.3

This Jeff’s Shoot’Em Up is a tech demo for a top-down shooter in the same vein as Smash TV or Alien Breed, that was...

Jibaku-kun: Zero no Ki no Kajitsu

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Unreleased

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

An unreleased action-RPG based on the Jibaku-Kun manga/anime by Ami Shibata. It is unclear who exactly developed...

John Madden Football

Nintendo Game Boy

Unreleased

1993

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

A cancelled port of John Madden Football '93. Announced in 1993 by Ubisoft.

John Madden Football '93

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 6

4.3

A cancelled port of John Madden Football '93. Announced in 1993 by Ubisoft.

Jump Kun

Arcade

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: 2.70
Total Votes: 5

2.7

Jump Kun is a 1984 prototype run and jump platform game developed by Kaneko. The game has up to two alternating...

Jyanshin Densetsu: Quest of Jongmaster

SNK Neo Geo MVS

Unreleased

June 29, 1994

Community Rating: 2.77
Total Votes: 13

2.8

A RPG-themed strip mahjong game and the spiritual sequel to Taito's "Mahjong Quest"

Kamikaze Saucers

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 2.83
Total Votes: 3

2.8

There was no mention of Kamikaze Saucers on any game list, but Syncro did take out full page ads for the game so...

Kapitan Planeta

Atari 800

Unreleased

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Kitty's Catch

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.55
Total Votes: 11

3.5

Kitty's Catch is a cancelled NES game created by GameTek employee David Wiebenson in his spare time. Wiebenson...

Knight Orc

BBC Microcomputer System

Unreleased

1987

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Knight Orc is a text adventure with graphics. The protagonist, Gringleguts the Orc, swears revenge on all humankind...

Kyphus

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1982

Community Rating: 2.25
Total Votes: 2

2.2

Over the years Apollo has released some strange games. From the airline luggage simulator Lost Luggage to the egg...

Landscape

Atari 800

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Preliminary version of Stealth.

Laser Gates

Atari 800

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 1

Laser Gates is a side scrolling shoot-em-up in the same genre as Scramble. You must blast through gates before you...

Lasercade

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

The first thing you're bound to notice upon booting Lasercade is how nice the graphics look. It's hard to believe...

Lawkeeper

Atari 800

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 1

Unreleased prototype. The game involves a square "jail" in the middle of the screen, with characters running around...

Learn and Play: Blackjack & Solitaire

Nintendo Game Boy

Unreleased

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Prototype of an unreleased poker game by Spidersoft. Possibly a port of Poker Face Paul that appeared on the Sega...

Leisure Suit Larry: Pocket Party

Nokia N-Gage

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 3

3.2

Leisure Suit Larry: Pocket Party is a cancelled point and click adventure that was in development in 2004 by TKO...

Lobo

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.71
Total Votes: 17

2.7

GOT YER FRAGGIN' GAME RIGHT HERE! Galaxies breathe a sign of relief as Lobo passes through. The merciless...

Lobo

Sega Genesis

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.97
Total Votes: 15

3.0

Lobo is an unreleased Mega Drive fighting game developed by Ocean of America. It is based off the DC Comics book...

Looping

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 6

3.7

Based on the obscure 1981 Venture Line coin-op of the same name. It's unknown why Looping was never released since...

Mail Plane

GCE Vectrex

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 3.21
Total Votes: 7

3.2

Mail Plane is an unreleased flight simulator that uses both a standard controller and the Vectrex Lightpen. The...

Man Machine

Commodore Amiga

Unreleased

1989

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

An unreleased platform shooter from Livewires/Electric Software that was set for release in 1989, coded by Adrian...

Mario Bros.

Apple II

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 3.47
Total Votes: 15

3.5

Developed by Atarisoft in 1983, but not released. A prototype version was found, hacked and distributed.

Mazy Match

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 1.50
Total Votes: 2

1.5

Try to reach the symbols at the top of the screen before you run out of energy by walking an invisible path on a...

McDonald's: Golden Arches Adventure

Atari 2600

Unreleased

Community Rating: 1.81
Total Votes: 8

1.8

The existing prototype uses the Tutankham game code. As such, PARKERBROS 83DAVEENGMAN can be found at the very end...

Meebzork

Atari 5200

Unreleased

November 16, 1983

Community Rating: 2.60
Total Votes: 10

2.6

An unfinished prototype game that was originally planned as a shooter but the last available version ends up being...

Meteoroids

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1982

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 2

2.0

This game is the prototype version of Suicide Mission.

Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 20

3.4

Mick & Mack was a McDonald's licensed game developed by David Perry at Virgin Games. It appeared on various Sega...

Mickey's Playtown Adventure: A Day Of Discovery!

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.52
Total Votes: 27

3.5

The game stars Mickey Mouse as he goes on an adventure in Toontown to solve puzzles and riddles involving letters,...

Millipede

Atari 5200

Unreleased

2017

Community Rating: 3.58
Total Votes: 13

3.6

A prototype conversion of the arcade game Millipede. It was completed in 1984 but never released due to Atari...

Mind Maze

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: 1.33
Total Votes: 3

1.3

A game based on ESP? Yes you heard me right, Mind Maze is the first (and only) Atari game to be based on the...

Miniature Golf

Atari 5200

Unreleased

February 10, 1983

Community Rating: 3.71
Total Votes: 12

3.7

Unreleased prototype game by Steve Baker for the Atari 5200. However it was completed and is fully playable. Due to...

Miss Piggy's Wedding

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 5

2.5

Miss Piggy's Wedding was a two-player game created in 1983 for the Atari 2600 console. The game was advertised in...

Missing in Action

Atari 7800

Unreleased

1989

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 12

3.0

Having been shown several years ago at classic gaming events, the Atari 7800 prototype Missing in Action has...

Rap Basketball

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.17
Total Votes: 6

2.2

Rap Basketball is a cancelled sport game that was in development by Motown Records for the Super Nintendo and Sega...

Rayman

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.75
Total Votes: 20

2.8

Rayman is a fictional character and the protagonist of the video game series of the same name, created by Michel...

Rescue on Fractalus!

Atari 7800

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: 1.12
Total Votes: 4

1.1

Jet through the cavernous canyons of Fractalus™--in panormic realism. Your fellow pilots are waiting desperately...

Resident Evil 2

Nintendo Game Boy Advance

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.03
Total Votes: 19

3.0

The GameBoy Advance version of Resident Evil 2 was a tech demo created in 2003 by Raylight Studios, an Italian...

RHI Roller Hockey '95

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.16
Total Votes: 19

3.2

Motion-captured graphics made their first appearance in a hockey game with this Brett Hull license. Al Michaels...

Road Runner II: Wile E's Revenge

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.15
Total Votes: 17

3.1

Wile E's Revenge was the sequel to Road Runner's Death Valley Rally. In this game, you took the role of Wile E...

Robert Byrne's Pool Challenge

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

1992

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 3

3.2

Robert Byrne's Pool Challenge (from here on out referred to as "Cue Stick') was being developed by Odyssey Software...

RoboCop Versus The Terminator

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

1993

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 26

3.4

RoboCop Versus The Terminator is a cancelled NES game loosely based on the 1992 comic book miniseries of the same...

Rocky & Bullwinkle

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 3

4.5

Rocky and Bullwinkle must stop the evil Boris and Natasha from robbing a train full of priceless valuables. While...

Rubik's Cube 3-D

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1982

Community Rating: 2.58
Total Votes: 6

2.6

A 3D unreleased prototype version developed at the same time as the 1982 two dimensional gameplay in the Atari...

Rush Hour

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 10

2.5

Ever been stuck in a traffic jam? Haven't you always wished you could just floor it and zip in and out of traffic,...

S.A.C. Alert

Atari 2600

Unreleased

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Both a NTSC and PAL prototype version have been found and the game appears to be complete. It was originally...

Samurai Shodown V Perfect

SNK Neo Geo AES

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.83
Total Votes: 3

2.8

The 2nd upgraded version of Samurai Shodown V (following Samurai Shodown V Special), the 13th main installment of...

San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Unreleased

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 1

1.0

Unreleased Game Boy Color port developed by Digital Eclipse for 1996 that was cancelled for unknown reasons.

Secret Ties

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

1991

Community Rating: 3.32
Total Votes: 19

3.3

Secret Ties, an unreleased game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, is an English translation of Master Thief...

Shadowhawk

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 4.40
Total Votes: 9

4.4

Shadowhawk is a comic by Image Comics (or rather their sister studio, Shadowline), a studio set up by people who...

Shanghai

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 2

2.0

Released among the Sunsoft Dev Disks was a prototype of Shanghai, which at this point is little more than a...

Shanghai II

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 3

2.5

Two of the Sunsoft Dev Disks contained early demos of Shanghai II for the Famicon Disk System, making up two of the...

Shooter

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 2

3.0

Shooter, a Super Nintendo horizontal space shooter, never actually made it into production but rather served as an...

Shooting Arcade

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1989

Community Rating: 3.62
Total Votes: 4

3.6

Shooting Arcade is one of only two Atari 2600 games to use the Light Gun (Sentinel being the other), but was never...

Sinistar

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: 3.33
Total Votes: 9

3.3

In this unreleased 2600 port of the game, Sinistar, you must fly your ship about, shooting the floating asteroids...

Sinistar

Atari 5200

Unreleased

September 1, 1982

Community Rating: 3.07
Total Votes: 7

3.1

The player pilots a lone spacecraft, and must create "Sinibombs" by shooting at drifting planetoids and catching...

Sky Patrol

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1982

Community Rating: 1.33
Total Votes: 3

1.3

The game was inspired by designer Brad Stewart’s experience with helping a hot air balloon’s ground crew, while he...

Sledge 3D

GCE Vectrex

Unreleased

1985

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 3

4.3

A demo program for the 3-D Goggles. BaronVR described it like this : "The effect is that of a track extending from...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Atari 2600

Unreleased

December 23, 2002

Community Rating: 1.69
Total Votes: 13

1.7

Oh, no! The Evil Queen has created a poison apple and wants to give it to Snow White! We, the seven dwarfs, have to...

Sonic Crackers

Sega Genesis

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.60
Total Votes: 31

3.6

Sonic Crackers is an early prototype build of the game Knuckles' Chaotix, incorporating many of the elements that...

Sound Factory

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 2

4.8

Sound Fantasy was a game planned for release around 1994. An early title for this game was Sound Factory. Sound...

South Park

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

From the deep reaches of space, a horror approaches. Once in a great while, the malevolent forces of the Universe...

Special Tee Shot

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 3

3.7

Speed ManiaX

Commodore Amiga

Unreleased

1991

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Brutal Speed was a racing game planned for the AGA Amiga, briefly previewed in Italian Games Machine magazine issue...

Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.66
Total Votes: 22

2.7

Robert is just an ordinary guy - or so he thought before he received that fateful letter from a relative in...

Spitfire

Atari 5200

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 2.95
Total Votes: 11

3.0

An unreleased prototype 3D space shooter developed in 1983 and similar to Zaxxon. The game was only partially...

Sport Goofy

Atari 5200

Unreleased

June 15, 1983

Community Rating: 2.86
Total Votes: 7

2.9

An unreleased prototype for the Atari 5200, based on the classic 80s Disney short cartoons of the same name . You...

Spot Goes to Hollywood

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.14
Total Votes: 7

3.1

Spot Goes to Hollywood was an early 3D style platform. Although it came out on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive and...

Squoosh

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 2

2.5

Squoosh is an unfinished prototype of an action game from Apollo. From it's appearance, it seems to have something...

Star Heritage

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 1

2.0

The developer gave up trying to find a publisher for this game. "Star Heritage is a quest game where player becomes...

Star Trek

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Unreleased

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 1

4.5

An early prototype of the unreleased Star Trek for the Nintendo Game Boy Color. Possible proof of concept demo,...

Star Wars

Sega Genesis

Unreleased

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 9

4.0

Originally developed for the SNES by LucasArts in 1992, Super Star Wars was the very first Star Wars title to grace...

Stargate

Atari 5200

Unreleased

January 5, 1984

Community Rating: 3.72
Total Votes: 9

3.7

An unreleased prototype port of the popular Williams game Stargate. The sequel to Defender and much like the...

Steven Seagal is The Final Option

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 2.92
Total Votes: 20

2.9

Steven Seagal is a legendary runner, but commanders dislike his loose style and contempt for rules. His partner...

Super DK!

ColecoVision

Unreleased

1982

Community Rating: 3.90
Total Votes: 4

3.9

Super Donkey Kong for ColecoVision is a hacked version of the enhanced game made for Coleco's Adam computer....

Super Donkey Kong Junior

ColecoVision

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 3.80
Total Votes: 10

3.8

Donkey Kong Jr. was originally released in the arcades in 1982 as a sequel to Donkey Kong. In this game, Mario...

Super Full Metal Planet

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.20
Total Votes: 5

3.2

Super Full Metal Planet is an early SNES game by Infogrames. It is based off a French board game called Full Métal...

Super Pac-Man

Atari 5200

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: 3.60
Total Votes: 15

3.6

In a very good unreleased adaptation of one of the lesser-known Pac-Man sequels, Super Pac-Man for the Atari 5200...

Super Pac-Man

Atari 800

Unreleased

1984

Community Rating: 3.80
Total Votes: 5

3.8

Super Pac-Man is the third title of the Pac-Man series of games, released in Japan on August 11, 1982 and North...

Super Shadow of the Beast

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.15
Total Votes: 36

3.2

Shadow of the Beast for SNES was never officially released. It's a port of the Amiga game, Shadow of the Beast by...

Superman: Battle for Metropolis

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Unreleased

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Developed by Neon Studios and slated to be published by Infogrames, this game was canceled after failing to impress...

Sutte Hakkun GB

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Unreleased

Community Rating: 4.17
Total Votes: 3

4.2

Sutte Hakkun GB is a Puzzle game developed by Nintendo, which was cancelled before it was released.

Sweat! The Decathlon Game

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 1.75
Total Votes: 6

1.8

Sweat! is an unreleased game that was to be Starpath's version of Activision's Decathlon for the Supercharger...

Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 4

3.9

Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle was a planned title to be published by GameTek. Based on the fictional character by...

Telepathy

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 2.12
Total Votes: 4

2.1

Telepathy is one of two known prototype games that were developed for Atari's failed Mindlink controller. The...

The Adventures of Dr. Franken

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

1993

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 24

2.5

Franky, one of the many creations of Dr Von Frankenbone, has awoken to find his love, Bitsy, has vanished....

The Alligator People

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 3.23
Total Votes: 24

3.2

You are lost in the deepest part of the jungle. Six of your friends have fallen under the spell of the Alligator...

The California Raisins: The Grape Escape

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

1990

Community Rating: 3.47
Total Votes: 30

3.5

Cancelled. In the single-player side-scrolling action game the player controls a California Raisin through five...

The Dukes of Hazzard

Atari 2600

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 2.35
Total Votes: 13

2.3

Dukes of Hazzard is a driving game with an overhead perspective, based on the popular television series of the same...

The Fairyland Story

Nintendo Entertainment System

Unreleased

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

The Fairyland Story puts the player in control of Ptolemy the witch, who must make her way through 101...

The Flintstones' Keyboard Fun

Mattel Intellivision

Unreleased

1983

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 5

4.1

It's fun to learn keyboard skills when The Flintstones and their friends are your teachers. Now everyone can enjoy...

Unreleased Prototype

Heart Like a Wheel

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1983

1.9

HeroQuest

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3.4

Hit the Ice: VHL: The Video Hockey League

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4.4

Holey Moley

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1983

1.2

Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream

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4.0

It Came from the Desert

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1.9

Ixion

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1984

4.0

Ixion

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1985

Jawbreaker

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January 1, 1982

2.0

Jeff's Shoot'Em Up

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3.3

Jibaku-kun: Zero no Ki no Kajitsu

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5.0

John Madden Football

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1993

5.0

John Madden Football '93

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4.3

Jump Kun

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1984

2.7

Jyanshin Densetsu: Quest of Jongmaster

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June 29, 1994

2.8

Kamikaze Saucers

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1983

2.8

Kapitan Planeta

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Kitty's Catch

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3.5

Knight Orc

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1987

Kyphus

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1982

2.2

Landscape

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1984

Laser Gates

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1984

Lasercade

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1983

3.5

Lawkeeper