Milton Bradley

3D Crazy Coaster

3D Crazy Coaster

GCE Vectrex - Released - January 1, 1983

Climb aboard the Crazy Coaster and get ready for a roller coaster ride more dangerous and exciting than any you experienced before! The magic of the Vectrex 3-D makes your ride so real...you'll feel yourself leaning with the G-force! You control the movements of the passenger in the lead car as he plummets down the spectacularly steep hills and careens around the gravity-defying curves of the Crazy Coaster. Will you be able to keep his arms raised throughout the ride without sending him flying off into space?!

Abadox: The Deadly Inner War

Abadox: The Deadly Inner War

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - December 15, 1989

Your home planet of Abadox has been swallowed whole by the deadliest menace in space! Its name: Parasitis. Its prey: All surrounding life forms. Its goal: To feed on the entire Universe! You are Second Lieutenant Nazal, the only surviving warrior of The World Alive Force. Parasitis has crushed The Force's attack ships and consumed a hospital ship — with the beautiful Princess Maria still on board! Your Mission: Blast your way inside Parasitis' gruesome body and battle your way to its Core. Hurry! Princess Maria may still be alive! Hurtle down Parasitis' throat, blast through its cellular walls! Fend off vicious, bloodthirsty organisms with guided missiles and lasers in Six Stages of Internal Combat! Kill each Stage's guardian monsters so you can reach the Core! Destroy Parasitis, rescue Princess Maria and save the Universe!

Armor Attack

Armor Attack

GCE Vectrex - Released - January 1, 1982

Maneuver your jeep through the streets and alleys of an occupied town. Hide from the enemy tanks behind buildings and launch your own surprise attack! Improve your chanceof survival by playing with an ally. But beware of the deadly helicopter flying overhead... no place is safe from this treacherous enemy.

Cabal

Cabal

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - 1989

The player assumes the role of an unnamed commando trying to destroy several enemy military bases. The player's character is seen from behind and initially starts behind a protective wall (the wall can get damaged and shattered by enemy fire). The player must use a limitless ammunition gun and a limited number of grenades to fend off enemy troops and damage the base. An enemy gauge at the bottom of the screen depletes as foes are destroyed and certain structures (usually the ones that collapse when destroyed, rather than simply shattering) are brought down. At the successful completion of a level by fully depleting the enemy gauge, all the remaining buildings onscreen collapse and the player progresses to the next stage. Boss fights, however, start from the beginning if a player dies. (A feature criticised by many players. It can be circumvented, however, if two players play simultaneously and at least one stays alive at a given moment.) Power-ups appear from time to time, being released from objects destroyed onscreen. Some power-ups give special weapons: One of them is an extremely fast machinegun and other one is an automatic shotgun with a slightly lower firing rate, but has a larger crosshair, allowing it to strike a wider area with each shot. Others grant extra grenades or additional points. Two players could play this game, cooperatively, simultaneously. The arcade cabinet is a standard upright. Each player uses a trackball to move the player from side to side, and move the crosshairs about the screen. On later board revisions, a joystick was installed instead with an optional sub-pcb for use with a trackball. With a trackball, rolling (an invincible movement during which the player could not attack) is done by pushing the trackball to maximum speed.

California Games

California Games

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - June 1, 1989

Get ready for the gnarliest, most radically awesome sports events under the sun! They're six of California's hottest games. Geared for daredevils - and guaranteed to get your adrenaline pumping! First, pick your sponsor. Then tackle the heavy competition in surfing, rollerskating, BMX bike racing and more. Take risks to score high, 'cause wimps wipe out! Trophies are awarded for single events and overall competition! So grab your gear and go for it. You'll be up to your jams in awesome action. And you just might walk away with first prize!

Captain Skyhawk

Captain Skyhawk

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - June 1, 1990

No one noticed when they landed, and now it might be too late to stop them! In remote corners of the globe, alien invaders are draining Earth's energy and "feeding" it to their space station. When the power drain is complete, the aliens plan to vaporize Earth with a deadly laser blast. You're Captain Skyhawk - the only person who can stop them! Climb aboard your hi-tech F-14VTS jet - fully equipped with the latest in deadly weapons. A unique spy satellite viewer lets you see your entire plane as you battle alien forces over amazing gridscape graphics. Whether you're soaring over mountains at Mach 3 or floating in hover mode, your F-14VTS will measure up to any challenge! When you run out of firepower, just rocket up to your space station and load up with Phoenix missiles, Hawk bombs and more! The final challenge is still to come. You must destroy the dreaded alien space station! Fire up your afterburners, Captain! It's time to fry some aliens!

Championship Baseball

Championship Baseball

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1983

Championship Baseball is one of the few TI games that requires the MBX Expansion System sold by TI and Milton Bradley. It uses voice recognition, the special MBX joysticks (which has three axis and multiple buttons), and the special MBX keypad peripheral to issue plays and instructions to your team. This is a two-player game. There is no one-player option against the computer. The player at bat uses the joystick to control batting and running, and the fielding player uses voice recognition and the keypad to control the pitcher and fielders. Pitches vary by speed (fast, medium, or slow) and type (fastball or curveball). When fielding, the player speaks the name of the fielder or pitcher to indicate which position should try to catch and throw the ball.

Connect Four

Connect Four

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1979

Just like physical forms of Connect Four, the object of the game, whether in one or two-player mode, is to get four checkers in a row either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The player(s) drops checkers at the top of a 7 column by 6 row playing area, trying to get the needed four-in-a-row either against a second player or the computer. Winning requires strategy both to be able to achieve a four-in-a-row, but also to ensure that the computer or human opponent doesn't get four-in-a-row first.

Digger T. Rock: The Legend of the Lost City

Digger T. Rock: The Legend of the Lost City

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - December 1, 1990

You control the title character, who is searching for treasure hidden in various caverns. Digger has multiple tools which are found and can be used to explore and uncover new areas. A timer in the game represents the time remaining until the door to the next level closes, but the timer can be reset by standing on a special pillar. Monsters such as moles and mosquitoes seek to kill the protagonist. The game is notable for the animation of the character's death, which shows a presumably time-lapse view of his body decaying with only his helmet remaining. It is noted among the most difficult games on the NES.

Extra! Extra!

Extra! Extra!

Apple II - Released - 1984

The player is a reporter at a local news agency, and their job is to find out the important facts of a story including, who, what, when, where, when, and how. To do this, the player receives a message via teletype and then must call the appropriate people or organization to put the story together. Once the facts have all been placed on the player's notepad, by choosing keywords from the available clues, the story can be submitted to the editor.

Honey Hunt

Honey Hunt

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1983

Honey Hunt is a simple children's game. The player moves the bee from the hive onto open flowers in order to gather nectar. Then, the player returns the nectar to the hive to make honey. The bee, however, has various enemies trying to destroy the bee causing the player to lose a life. The enemies include spiders with sticky spider webs, dragonflies, and bee assassins. The hive is the safety zone for the player. To escape from enemies, the player can move off the edge of the screen and then reappear on the opposite edge while enemies cannot accomplish this maneuver. The player also has to be wary of the honey-hungry bear who attempts to steal honey from the hive. In moving the bee.

I'm Hiding

I'm Hiding

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1983

The player uses either voice commands or MBX console overlay buttons to select items based on shape, color, and size in this game of Hide 'N Seek. The goal is the find the special bug that's hiding behind specific items in a paint box.

Jordan Vs Bird: One on One

Jordan Vs Bird: One on One

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - August 3, 1989

Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls and Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics were the only two players in the game, which allowed the player to participate in a one-on-one basketball game. Mini-games included a slam dunk contest (utilizing Jordan) and a three-point contest (utilizing Bird). Mega placed the game at #7 in their list of the 10 Worst Mega Drive Games of All Time.

Marble Madness

Marble Madness

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - March 1, 1989

It drove you bonkers in the arcades. Now this mixed up marble marathon is ready for your Nintendo! The challenge is to roll your marble into the hidden Goal Line on 6 treacherous 3-D raceways. Every corner is a cliffhanger. And every second counts! Each raceway is a unique maze of tricky terrain and marble menaces. Can you stay in control as you hunt for the goal? You teeter up, down and around narrow ramps and ridges. Sneak past hungry Marble Munchers. Battle nasty steelies for the right of way. Its enough to make you lose your marbles! Beat the clock in the battle against time. Or fight a friend's marble to the finish! Either way you play, you'll be on the edge to the very last ledge!

Meteor Belt

Meteor Belt

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1983

A belt of multicolored meteors separates your outpost from your enemy's. Your goal is to destroy the hostile ships and outpost before your enemy destroys you. Send a purple satellite deep into enemy territory with your deflector beam. You can even launch your own protective barriers, turning them into deadly "ship-hunting" drones.

Mine Storm

GCE Vectrex - Released - 1982

The game begins with a large enemy ship dropping mines onto the field as an ominous jingle plays, and moves from the top to the bottom of the screen, where it disappears. The player's ship starts in the middle of the field with 5 lives. Numerous mines then start popping up. The player must destroy all of the mines in order to progress to the next minefield. All of the mines can be destroyed with one shot, or hit with the player's ship, costing the player a life. There are 4 types of mines. This game came programmed onto the Vectrex.

Simon

Simon

Nintendo Game & Watch - Released - 1978

Simon is an electronic game of memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, working for toy design firm Marvin Glass and Associates, with software programming by Lenny Cope. The device creates a series of tones and lights and requires a user to repeat the sequence. If the user succeeds, the series becomes progressively longer and more complex. Once the user fails or the time limit runs out, the game is over. The original version was manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley and later by Hasbro after it took over Milton Bradley. Simon was launched in 1978 at Studio 54 in New York City and was an immediate success, becoming a pop culture symbol of the 1970s and 1980s.

Space Bandits

Space Bandits

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1983

Androids, space plunderers from a distant planet, have stolen Earth's valuable energy crystals and have hidden them in a 3-dimensional tunnel. It's up to you to recover these crystals and return them to Earth, so order can finally be restored.

Spitfire Attack

Spitfire Attack

Atari 2600 - Released - 1983

Shooting game. The game was sold with the Flight Commander controller. In this game, you are an American fighter pilot. Your mission is to shoot down enemy planes, shoot enemy ammo dumps (they look like little black houses) and enemy anti-aircraft guns (they kinda look like sundials). If you fly down too long, you will get a low altitude warning. If you don't correct, you will crash. You can also be shot down by anti-aircraft guns and enemy planes. Push left and right to go those directions but push up to go down and down to go up. Push the fire button to fire machine guns.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

GCE Vectrex - Released - 1982

Welcome, Captain Kirk, to your command of the starship Enterprise. Your mission is to seek out and destroy the enemy Klingon Mothership. Travel through nine sectors of space, each more difficult, or take a shortcut through the Black Hole. Be careful...the Klingons and Romulans are hiding in space, waiting to destroy you at every turn!

Super Scrabble

Super Scrabble

Nintendo Game Boy - Released - March 1, 1991

With all that Super Scrabble has to offer, even the most traditional Scrabble player will smile with delight. Watch the computer scan its 40,000+ word dictionary! ZOOM to any part of the game board for a close-up view. Think your opponent's trying to pull a fast one? CHALLENGE the word! Stuck trying to use your letters? Use the DUMP option to replace them! 5 skill levels and 4 different playing options make every game a mind-bending challenge!

Superfly

Superfly

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1983

Superfly pits you, a housefly, against all the baddies of the fly world. These spiders don't know what they are messing with as you are no ordinary fly, but Superfly! The object of the game is to advance through various levels blasting away at all the creatures on the screen before they can devour you. As Superfly, you have the option to use two different ranges of firepower, either a short or a long-range shot. Spiders have to hatch from their eggs and evolve before being able to attack you.

Survival Run

Survival Run

Atari 2600 - Released - 1983

In this game you have entered some underground caverns on another planet. As you try to navigate your way through, you must destroy enemy space ships and force fields. You move the target reticle by moving the joystick and fire weapons by pressing the red button. You can see the ships coming in the distance but if they get too close they will fire on you, causing you to lose energy. If you see a force field, you will see a square to the right. Shoot the square to disable the field. If your ship hits the field, you lose energy. You gain energy when you destroy a ship or disable a force field. Use the map on the top of your screen to determine which path to take, left or right. If you choose the wrong path or run out of energy, the game is over.

Terry Turtle's Adventure

Terry Turtle's Adventure

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1983

Terry Turtle's Adventure is designed to teach young children, between 4 to 8 years old, simple programming skills. It uses the Milton Bradley add-on MBX system. Using either the buttons on the MBX overlay on the MBX console or voice commands using the MBX headset, children direct the movements and activities of Terry Turtle. Commands include left, right, move, one step, multi-step, hint, eat, dig, swim, and climb. By combining these commands, younger children will begin to understand basic programming steps.

Time Lord

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - September 1, 1990

It is the year 2999, and warriors from the planet Drakkon are launching a savage attack on Earth. Their weapon: a powerful time travel device. Their objective: to control us by changing the course of our history. To win this war, we must meet the Drakkons on a unique and dangerous battleground: our own past! You are a fearless fortune-hunter, hired by desperate scientists for an experimental journey into the 4th dimension. Your code name is Time Lord. Your mission: blast into the past to save the present from certain doom! Battle the aliens in four historical time zones. Search for weapons sent back by the scientists - and decide when to use them. Solve puzzles to collect the mysterious Orbs that hold the secret of time travel. Be cautious yet quick, Time Lord. You have one short year to free history or be history! And the evil Drakkons have all the time in the world...

Web Wars

Web Wars

GCE Vectrex - Released - April 1, 1983

The player slips into the role of Hawk King. His mission is to search the Web of Fantasy for certain legendary creatures and collect them all. The Hawk King is controlled in a third person perspective, flying through the Web. The 20 creatures that can be captured are protected by drones, which can in turn be destroyed with the blaster weapon. Other actions the player can take is speeding up or slowing down the Hawk King, and extending a rod to capture a rare species once the player encounters one. After a creature has been successfully captured, the player enters the trophy room though a portal, which displays all captured creatures. If the player proves unsuccessful after two attempts however, they will have to face the Cosmic Dragon, at which point the only defence the player has left is avoiding its deadly fireballs.

World Games

World Games

Nintendo Entertainment System - Released - March 1, 1989

Get ready - get set - get psyched! The World Games are here! And you're a star athlete in this awesome international competition! Go for the gold as you challenge the world's best athletes on their home turf! Leap from the treacherous cliffs of Acapulco. Go stomach-to-stomach with a 400-pound Japanese sumo wrestler. Jump barrels on an icy lake in Germany. And pump heavy iron in the Soviet Union. Travel to Scotland for the amazing caber toss! Then to Canada for frantic footwork with log rolling lumberjacks. Ski the slalom on the snow-covered French Alps. And ride the meanest, orneriest bull in the U.S.A.! Return home with enough gold medals and join the World Hall of Fame! 8 International Events: - Cliff Diving - Sumo Wrestling - Bull Riding - Barrel Jumping - Log Rolling - Slalom Skiing - Cabe Toss - Weight Lifting

Yahtzee

Yahtzee

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1979

Yahtzee for the TI-99 home computer system shares similarities with the regular dice-based game of Yahtzee with some unique differences. When the game begins, the option is presented to play either a one or two-player game. In one-player mode, the player plays against the computer. Two-player mode allows for two people to play against each other. A unique option that the TI-99 version offers at the beginning of either one or two-player modes is to play regular mode, where each player rolls their first roll as normal, or challenge mode, where each player starts off with the same 5 dice on the first roll. After each roll of the dice, the player selects which dice to keep, and rolls the remaining dice. Each player or the computer player takes up to three rolls of the dice and selects which space on the scorecard to place the points. At the end of each game, the player or computer player with the highest point total wins.

Zero Zap

Zero Zap

Texas Instruments TI 99/4A - Released - 1979

Ping! Bang! Boing! Do you have what it takes to become a pinball wizard? Find out in Zero Zap, where the excitement of the real thing comes into your home!

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