A 1981 side-scrolling shooter that featured an eight-direction joystick, a Mayday button that enables slow motion for five seconds, being able to speed up and slow down the ship's forward momentum, and the ability to crash into cavern walls.
After being kicked out in space drifting through the vacuum, by chance, you hit upon the G.F.S. Sorceress. If you could get inside - she would be your only chance of survival.
Players drive a car around a maze collecting greenbacks while being pursued by a number of police cars. Use dollar symbols to make your car invincible and put police cars temporarily out of action. The game uses a continuous loop tape with actual police band radio banter.
The wizard Abosandra has summoned you to recover four magical gems, the
Keys of Acheron. The Abode of the Dragon, Temple in the Jungle, Crystal
Caves, and Shadowland of Kronus each holds one of the Keys. New monsters,
traps and hazards, and treasures add challenge to your quest. The Keys of
Acheron is an Expansion Kit.
Robby Roto is a game that Bally/Midway originally released on its Astrocade-based hardware back in 1981. Other games that ran on this hardware include Gorf, Wizard of Wor, and Professor Pac-Man. The author of Robby Roto is Jamie Fenton, who acquired the rights to the game after it did not do well in the marketplace.
This 1981 vector graphics arcade game is available in both two- and four-player configurations.
A top-down space shooter set within a bounded playfield, where the player maneuvers a ship using rotation, thrust and forward-firing controls (much like Asteroids or Space War). Each stage is populated by autmated drone ships (or by competing players), and dominated by the titular enemy: a moving, rotating space fortress surrounded by a lethal force field.
The buck stops with you!
Here's a business game that puts you in charge of your very own multi-million dollar corporation. You'll get a real taste of power and money, but it's not going to be easy. You'll also have to deal with all the responsabilities and headaches that come with such a prestigious position.
Your decisiveness will be sorely tested: Do you need to form price cartels or engage in cutthroat competition? Can you react to a competitor's advertising "blitz" before you lose the competitive edge? Will you decide to automate your factories in order to cut production costs and risk labor's wrath? How will you handle labor demands during profitable years? What steps will you take when productivity declines during recessions?
The proverbial buck certainly stops with you. But think of the rewards! Do your job right and you may make megabucks!
Developed by two professionals - one in systems simulation and the other with a master's degree in business administration - C&C provides a full range of options, fro
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up similar to the arcade game Defender. Written by Nasir Gebelli and published by Sirius Software for the Apple II computers.
Donkey, often known by its file name Donkey.Bas, is a computer game written in 1981 and included with early versions of the PC DOS operating system distributed with the original IBM PC. It is a driving game in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys. The game was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Neil Konzen.
In Radar Rat Race the player plays the role of a blue mouse, that has to search for cheese in a labyrinth within a certain time. To make it a bit harder, you are followed by several red mice which bring you certain death when you crash into one of them. As the red mice outnumber you, you should take into account that you might get encircled by several mice. A further peril are the black cats, which lure behind some of the corners. Into those also the red mice can run, but they are only delayed by the cat and not killed. With a "Star Screen" - a trace of stars that can be left behind by the blue mouse - you can temporarily disable followers which are too close.
Use thruster control to land the spaceship on the surface of Jupiter. Fuel consumption and speed readings are important for the player to determine how to land the craft. Choose from three landing pads of varying difficulty. Easiest landing pad multiplies the player's score by 2, hardest by 10.
Fly a helicopter into hostile territory to rescue hostages and make some money on the side. The places the player can choose to fly into are Guatemara (Engrish for Guatemala), Cuba, and Panama. Missions are broken down into three different parts. The first part involves flying a helicopter taking out various enemies. The second part has the player flying a super helicopter into the enemies base. The third part has the player taking control of a soldier on the ground taking out enemies in the base. While on the ground, the player can call in help from the copter only for a limited number of times. Also while on the ground the player can rescue hostages.