Commodore VIC-20
Community Rating: 4.41 Total Votes: 11
Commonly considered the earliest progenitor of first-person shooters (FPS), Battlezone is a 3D tank game initially...
Commodore 64
Community Rating: 4.03 Total Votes: 9
Apple II
Community Rating: 4.32 Total Votes: 13
Battlezone is a first-person tank combat arcade game from Atari, Inc. released in November 1980. The player...
MS-DOS
Community Rating: 2.94 Total Votes: 8
Atari 800
Community Rating: 3.79 Total Votes: 14
The player is represented by a small, "somewhat humanoid head" at the bottom of the screen. The player moves the...
ColecoVision
Community Rating: 3.74 Total Votes: 38
In Centipede, the player is trapped in the Enchanted Forest. Armed with only a magic wand to ward off the forest's...
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The player moves the character about the bottom area of the screen and fires laser shots at a centipede advancing...
Texas Instruments TI 99/4A
Community Rating: 4.33 Total Votes: 3
Mattel Intellivision
Community Rating: 3.63 Total Votes: 16
GET OUT YOUR BUG BLASTER AND SAVE THAT FUNGUS! THE THRILL OF THE ARCADE GAME An insidious invasion of...
Community Rating: 3.96 Total Votes: 11
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Crystal Castles is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. The player controls the character Bentley Bear...
Community Rating: 3.75 Total Votes: 5
Defender is an arcade video game developed and released by Williams Electronics in February 1981. A horizontally...
Community Rating: 4.62 Total Votes: 8
Defender put players in charge of a ship sent to protect mankind from wave after wave of attacking alien...
Community Rating: 3.80 Total Votes: 16
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Defender is a two-dimensional side-scrolling shooting game set on the surface of an unnamed planet. The player...
Community Rating: 3.10 Total Votes: 11
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Defender is an arcade video game developed and released by Williams Electronics in February 1981. A shooting game...
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Dig Dug is a 1-2 player arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth....
Community Rating: 3.91 Total Votes: 22
The objective of Dig Dug is to eliminate underground-dwelling monsters. This can be done by inflating them until...
Community Rating: 4.03 Total Votes: 17
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Atari also obtained the license for home versions of Dig Dug, and released it for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari...
Community Rating: 3.75 Total Votes: 3
Dig Dug is an arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth. Stopping you from...
Community Rating: 3.88 Total Votes: 12
Released in the arcades in 1981, Donkey Kong was not only Nintendo's first real smash hit for the company, but...
Community Rating: 3.95 Total Votes: 10
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Donkey Kong is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. An early example of the platform game genre, the...
Community Rating: 3.98 Total Votes: 18
This is the Atarisoft version of Donkey Kong which is different than the Ocean version on the C64. It must keep the...
BBC Microcomputer System
Community Rating: 4.42 Total Votes: 6
Mario has captured Donkey Kong and placed him in a cage. Junior must now rescue his father from Mario by working...
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Community Rating: 3.28 Total Votes: 8
Galaxian is a shoot 'em up in which the player is at the bottom of the screen, with an arrangement of aliens at the...
Community Rating: 3.81 Total Votes: 34
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Galaxian is an arcade game that was developed by Namco and released in October 1979. It was published by Namco in...
Community Rating: 3.51 Total Votes: 13
The objective is destroy endless 'waves' of enemies. The enemy ships are arranged in a formation at the top of the...
Community Rating: 4.33 Total Votes: 12
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Gremlins is an action game based on the Steven Spielberg movie of the same name. The game takes place just after...
Community Rating: 3.00 Total Votes: 2
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Survival is the name of the game in this alien arena! Never in your wildest dreams did you ever imagine you...
Community Rating: 3.50 Total Votes: 15
In Joust, players take control of a knight with a lance who rides their flying ostrich (or stork, for Player 2) to...
Community Rating: 3.80 Total Votes: 5
Joust is an arcade game developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1982. While not the first game to feature...
Community Rating: 3.93 Total Votes: 11
Jungle Hunt offers four unique adventure experiences, which repeat with greater difficulty once all four have been...
Community Rating: 2.81 Total Votes: 9
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Jungle Hunt is a right-to-left side-scrolling arcade game produced and released by Taito in 1982. It was initially...
Community Rating: 2.50 Total Votes: 3
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Matthew "Matt" Householder programmed this a version of Moon Patrol for the Colecovision in 1984. Unfortunately, it...
Community Rating: 3.15 Total Votes: 10
Moon Patrol is a side-scrolling game where the player must drive a moon buggy from one station on the Moon to...
Community Rating: 4.12 Total Votes: 14
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A straightforward adaptation of Williams' cult arcade classic, Atari's Moon Patrol for the Apple II is a somewhat...
Community Rating: 3.07 Total Votes: 7
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In 1981, a sequel to Pac-Man was introduced in the form of his girlfriend, Ms. Pac-Man. This sequel continued on...
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Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game from the Golden Age. It was produced by Illinois-based Midway Manufacturing...
Community Rating: 3.50 Total Votes: 6
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The gameplay of Ms. Pac-Man is largely identical to that of the original Pac-Man. The player gathers points by...
Tarot cards for the Atari.
Community Rating: 3.29 Total Votes: 25
Pac-Man is an action maze chase video game; the player controls the eponymous character through an enclosed maze....
Community Rating: 3.72 Total Votes: 9
One of the most popular and influential games of the 1980's, Pac-Man stars a little, yellow dot-muncher who works...
Community Rating: 3.11 Total Votes: 19
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PAC-MAN scores points by eating the dots in the maze whilst avoiding the ghosts. Flashing Power Pills are...
Community Rating: 4.40 Total Votes: 24
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The player in Picnic Paranoia controls "George" who attempts to protect a picnic from ants who try to carry off the...
Qualify for the Grand Prix and win the Pole Position, the number one starting spot. Then go flat out to beat the...
Community Rating: 3.63 Total Votes: 10
In this game, the player controls a Formula One race car. The player completes a time trial lap within a certain...
Community Rating: 4.25 Total Votes: 7
Pole Position is a Formula 1 racing game. Enter the Grand Prix, race against other racing cars to achieve the...
Community Rating: 3.69 Total Votes: 7
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The player in Protector II pilots a spacecraft called the Neeedlefighter ship. The goal is to rescue the 18...
Community Rating: 3.13 Total Votes: 7
You are a mutant human, who by some freak of nature has the ability to shoot energy pulses from his body in eight...
Community Rating: 3.00 Total Votes: 3
Robotron: 2084 is a 1982 video Arcade game by Williams Electronics which was ported to a range of home computers...
Community Rating: 2.58 Total Votes: 7
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Acorn Electron
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Infiltrate the lair of the elusive Shadow, shoot and sneak your way through his army of robotic minions, and hunt...
Community Rating: 4.17 Total Votes: 2
Save the humanoids from the impending aliens in the sequel to Defender. The task is still rescuing humanoids before...
Community Rating: 1.91 Total Votes: 12
Originally released as "Slime" by Synapse Software for the Atari 800. Renamed to "Super Storm" and published by...
Community Rating: 3.77 Total Votes: 10
Track & Field is a sports game that allows the player to have an experience based around the Summer Olympic Games....
Community Rating: 4.00 Total Votes: 2
