Commodore 128
Community Rating: 3.50 Total Votes: 5
A compilation of thirteen of Gazette's best 128 programs, including utilities, games, and applications. Titles:...
Commodore 64
Community Rating: 4.38 Total Votes: 26
Players take turns removing pieces from the board. Remove as many as you like as long as those pieces are taken...
Community Rating: 4.41 Total Votes: 23
The player has to remove all the cards on the board. To do this, mark cards of the same color, the total of which...
Commodore VIC-20
Community Rating: 3.72 Total Votes: 9
Released in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1984/12 (Issue #18), the goal of the game is simply to make it through the maze,...
Community Rating: 3.29 Total Votes: 17
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Published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1988/04 (Issue #58). The year is 1992. Since the days of the Stanley Steamer,...
Community Rating: 4.15 Total Votes: 10
Published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1984/06 (Issue #12), as well in Keypunch's Strategy Games, and in Europe by Wicked...
Community Rating: 4.25 Total Votes: 10
COMPUTE! 1983/10 (Issue #41). In this fast-action adventure game, your mission is to maneuver through the...
Community Rating: 4.33 Total Votes: 6
An educational French language teaching game developed by Michael Quigley and published by COMPUTE! Publications,...
Community Rating: 3.50 Total Votes: 9
A placement game played on the 64 positions in a 3D board with four levels and a four-by-four grid on each level....
Community Rating: 4.11 Total Votes: 9
An educational typing game created by Marc Sugiyama and published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1983/11 (Issue #5). It was...
Community Rating: 3.58 Total Votes: 13
An educational typing game developed by Todd Heimarck for the Commodore VIC-20 and published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette...
Community Rating: 4.69 Total Votes: 8
Published in COMPUTE! 1985/02 (Issue #57) and also in 64'er Spielesammlung #5.a realistic, fast-moving arcade-style...
Atari 800
Community Rating: 4.60 Total Votes: 5
Acrobat is a game developed by Peter Rizzuto and it was from volume 7, issue 2 of Compute! dated February...
Commodore Amiga
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Advanced Laser Chess is a two-player strategy game. It's a more complex version of Laser Chess by the same author...
Community Rating: 4.44 Total Votes: 9
Go head to head in high-speed attack helicopters on a scrolling split-screen display. Requires 2 joysticks and...
Community Rating: 5.00 Total Votes: 3
From Compute! April 1983, a Missile Defense type game. The object of the game of "Air Defense" is to defend your...
Community Rating: 4.45 Total Votes: 10
Published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1985/05 (Issue #23), also in Jim Green PD Disk #53 (1990/08), in Super VIC & C64...
Community Rating: 2.25 Total Votes: 2
Alpha Anxiety is a cross between an educational game and a board/memory game in which you have to find all 26...
Community Rating: 4.43 Total Votes: 7
Alphabet Soup is a simple spelling/grammar game for children. It was developed by Clark & Kathy H. Kidd and...
Community Rating: 2.70 Total Votes: 5
Published in the type-in programming book, "Commodore 64 Games for Kids". This is a collect-em-up inside a mass of...
Community Rating: 4.00 Total Votes: 2
Apple Hunt is a simple collect 'em up game in which your character goes around collecting apples. It was developed...
Blast giant wasps with a mechanical spider as at jumps. a bionic spider (half tarantula, half machine) designed by...
How do you play volleyball Without hands? With your head, of course! Arcade Volleyball" is a one- or two-player...
Arcade Volleyball is a simple, two-player (human or computer) volleyball-like game where you have to, simply...
MS-DOS
Community Rating: 2.83 Total Votes: 11
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An OUTSTANDING ultra-fast machine language game! 15 frantic levels of difficulty! Alien saucers swoop and dive in...
Community Rating: 4.12 Total Votes: 4
Published in the June 1983 issue of Compute! magazine, in it you guide your spaceship, carrying emergency medical...
Of all the Backgammon games for the C64, this is certainly one of them. Originally published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette...
COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1984/11 (Issue #17), 64'er Spielesammlung #5, Super VIC & C64 A2-N01 (January 1985). Beware of...
Community Rating: 1.75 Total Votes: 2
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Bagels is a mastermind game where the player must guess the computer's code and the computer will try to guess the...
Community Rating: 3.50 Total Votes: 1
Bagger is a clone of the arcade classic Tapper. The main difference being that instead of Root Beer or beer, your...
Community Rating: 5.00 Total Votes: 1
A very simple shooter game where you navigate the sky in a hot air balloon and drop bombs on enemy tanks down...
Community Rating: 5.00 Total Votes: 2
Despite its name, Balloon Crazy is not a ripoff of Crazy Balloon, rather it's a knockoff of another arcade game...
Community Rating: 3.00 Total Votes: 1
A type-in game where you have to catch and balance balloons on your head. Pretty much a modified clone of Kickman....
Community Rating: 4.00 Total Votes: 1
Balloon Crazy is a game designed by Ligia Latino for the Commodore 64 in 1992. It was published in COMPUTE!'s...
Barrier Battle is a two player vs only Tron light cycles style game for the Atari 8-bit line. It was developed by...
Basketball Sam & Ed (one title) is a 1-2 player competitive loose interpretation of a basketball game, in which...
Community Rating: 5.00 Total Votes: 4
Bastion is a space shooter similar to the old vector based arcade game Star Castle. It is for 1 or 2 players...
A 2 player only vs shooting game in which you have to shoot BBs/pellets at the other player. Like in the majority...
You are a Guide Bee commissioned by the Queen to take lost bees safely to the flower bed. You will get credit for...
In this type-in game that is somewhat like Amidar, you play this little white "man" who has to go around collecting...
Community Rating: 4.25 Total Votes: 2
Beehive is a 2 player only strategical board game developed for several platforms (including the Atari 8-bit line)...
Daredevil Biker Dave is out to wow the crowd - he's brought his two-wheeled speed demon for a streak of daring car...
Initially released in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1984/04 (Issue #10), and then later in Best of COMPUTE! & Gazette. "Bingo...
Navigate your way through an ever-changing multilevel play field. What makes this game so tough is that it's...
Blox Trot is a 2 player only puzzle game for the Commodore 64. It was developed by Arthur Moore and published in...
Boggler is a board game with some resemblance to Othello/Reversi for 1 or 2 players. It was developed by Gary Braun...
You may already know that the boomerang is a lethal weapon. But the odds are that you don't realize just how lethal...
Community Rating: 3.25 Total Votes: 2
Move over, Pong, there's a new paddle game in town... and it boasts a whole other dimension! While the basic...
Bounty Hunter is an educational U.S. geography game developed by Daniel Aven. It was published in COMPUTE!'s...
Released in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1983/12 (Issue #6); 75 Spill Daratronic. Some games like Space Invaders or...
"Bowling Champ!!" is a straightforward bowling game for one to four players featuring text-based graphics. Players...
Exercise your Amiga's mouse in this fast-paced arcade-style game. Are you ready for 16 levels of arcade action? If...
Airborne carrots and a cloud-hopping rabbit add a dash of whimsy to this joystick-controlled game. It's harvest...
Community Rating: 1.50 Total Votes: 3
Burger Blaster is an arcade shooter with a twist created by Scott D. Ramsay and published in the January 1988...
Burn Rubber (not to be confused with Burnin' Rubber) is a 1984 top-down racing game for the Commodore 64. It was...
An election strategy game that came out in time for the 1984 Election in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1984/08 (Issue #14),...
Community Rating: 4.50 Total Votes: 1
You are the pilot of a new spaceship. You must tet the craft to its limits. You can fly along the canyon and...
In "Canyon Runner" you are a pilot on a mission through a very perilous canyon. You must survive this test. The...
A maze is quickly shown to you and then the fog of war sets in and you can only see the section of the map around...
The basics of the game is to move your character about the maze-like room in search of keys until a door opens,...
Published in Ahoy! magazine 1987/01 (Issue #37), and also in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1994/11. This is a rogue-like...
In this game created by Maurie Yanney and published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1993/01, you're a mouse in this...
Caveman is a single-screen, single player platformer where your goal is to either avoid or beat the attacking...
From Compute!'s Second Book of Atari. Your spaceship hangs poised over a deep cavern, at the bottom of which lies a...
Robert Tsuk invented a game called "Quinti-Maze," wrote a version for the Apple, and won a prize in a BYTE magazine...
Cross over to the other side by stepping on the "cells" However make sure you don't run out of time or step onto...
From volume 9, issue 1 of Compute! #080, dated January 1987. In this explosive strategy game for a variety of...
The age old board game of Checkers or Droughts. Published in COMPUTE! 1983/05 (Issue #36) and as a game of "The Big...
Try to outwit your computer with this fast, multi-level chess program whose intelligence routines are written...
An arcade platformer of the most basic type, created by Steven R. McCloskey and published first in COMPUTE!'s...
Attack chopper vs the aliens. This shooter was created by Mike Sedore and published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1986/08...
Published in Compute Magazine December 1983 Issue 043. You're a chopperoid pilot on a life-and-death mission:...
Chutes is an "avoid 'em" style game played on a grid similar to games like Beamrider or Juno First (minus the...
HOMERUN! NUTS! That's not that great a thing for you as you are the batboy and must climb the structure to retrieve...
Community Rating: 2.00 Total Votes: 4
An arcade collect' em up created by L. L. Beh and published in Compute! Magazine in March of 1983. "Closeout" has...
Community Rating: 3.50 Total Votes: 2
A collect 'em up game in which you have to collect coins. However there are cannons that fire at you and are on...
Colorbot (also known as Robotattack) is a game similar in some ways to Robotron: 2084, but using only one joystick....
In this demonstration game, whose type-in source code is included in the book to demonstrate text adventure game...
COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1994/04, which was a disk-only release and not part of a magazine release.
A game by Mark and Dan Powell and published in Compute! Magazine in February of 1983. Copy Cat is an entertaining,...
Community Rating: 4.67 Total Votes: 6
Published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1987/12 (Issue #54). You battle a host of hostile, militant creatures. The fight...
This was the second and final game in Compute!'s Crossroads series. A fast paced maze shooter with various enemies...
COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1993/12. In the foreign sea, on an unknown island, willing and brave Lords try to conquer the...
Community Rating: 2.50 Total Votes: 2
Published in Compute! Magazine in May of 1983. You'll find that this game is quite a brainteaser. Strategically...
Published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1983/09 (Issue #3). Your universe is being invaded by Demon Stars, which...
COMPUTE! 1984/01 (Issue #44), Super VIC & C64 A1-N2 (July/August 1984) / called "Demoni di Osiris" in the Italian...
An Action game by Steve Stiglich published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1984/11 (Issue #17). Gliding asteroids and a layer...
Community Rating: 1.50 Total Votes: 4
Mankind's last defender is pitted against an endless wave of alien ships, hellbent on destroying the Earth using...
COMPUTE! 1984/08 (Issue #51). Mankind's last defender is pitted against an endless wave of alien ships, hellbent on...
Diamond Drop is a variation of the old Atari Arcade game Avalanche. It is keyboard controlled only. This game was...
COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1985/03 (Issue #21), and in Super VIC & C64 A2-N08 (September 1985). This game may not be the...
Published in Compute! Magazine issue 039 in August 1983. You are a hungry fire-breathing dragon trying to catch...
Published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette 1985/12 (Issue #30). This is an epic retelling of the dungeon of Castle Dunsmore....
Published in the COMPUTE!'s Gazette section of Compute magazine 1992/09. The evil witch Drixella has taken you...
