The player controls Harry the Ape who is attempting to climb a 150 floor tall office tower. The player can move up, left, and right, as the building scrolls vertically. The player must avoid closed windows, as they offer no handhold, and will cause your ape to fall. As the player ascends, they must avoid a zookeeper on a scaffold, falling bowling balls, earthquakes, and helicopters dropping nets. Occasionally a balloon will float up the left side of the building, and the player can hitch a ride on these to climb faster. The left side of the screen has a progress bar that shows how far the player has climbed the building. The player has one life to climb the building, and if they fall, they must restart.
You are Quick-lizard, a young Aztec coppersmith. You have woken from a strange dream to find that the sun has failed to rise. The only light is the dull glow from the volcano; Condor Mountain. Scared, you rush into the village to find that no one is there. Alone you must interpret your dream and begin your adventure. Where is the sun? Where are the people of the village? As your journey begins strange creatures will appear, sometimes evil and sometimes friendly, but never quite as they seem.
Gyropod is a one or two player shooter for the Commodore 64. The player controls a space ship, the Galaxy Ranger. The ship's mission is to locate and eradicate every planet in an alien system. These planets are defended by waves of fanatical defenders who must be overcome.
You are a private detective and you have been asked to rescue the daughter of a millionaire and your investigation has brought you to a complex of ten tower blocks. Gumshoe is a platform game where a small part of the block is shown and the screen scrolls when you move in all directions. You have to navigate the various floors of the block to find the girl using ladders, escalators which change direction every few seconds and elevators that move up and down various levels but can't be shot from. There are also rubbish chutes and when entered they transport you to another part of the block.
A text adventure with illustrations. Play as a Mafia hit man who was framed for the death of the mob boss's son. How will, you clean your name, how will you survive? Only with cunning and wits!
An illustrated text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. Hitler has obtained Excalibur from the Arthurian legend. Merlin the magician has sent you forward in time to the 20th century to recover Excalibur from Hitler's evil grasp.
There is a girl on the roof of a building and she is about to jump. Hurry to the top of the building by taking the the series of elevators with the right timing to get stop her in time!
Space Warp is a puzzle game in which you control a ship within four boxes that abstractly represent a three-dimensional cube. Your goal is to touch the letters in alphabetical order. There are 9 difficulty levels which adjusts the amount of time given to you to finish the level.
Ten of the best: Educational Programs is another compendium of games for BBC Micro. This compilation contains a bunch of educational games. The collection was released as both a tape and a disk with a copy of the Eletctron User magazine.
You have to save a wise man who is kept prisoner in a deep dungeon by a malevolent Ifreet and who is the only one who can rid the Golden City of said Ifreet.
Square Dancer is a basic pinball simulation for MSX.
The player controls the left and right paddle individually, and attempts to keep the pinball in play for as long as possible with the goal to maximize score.
How deep can you go? In Pitfall you manoeuvre your ship down a seemingly neverending shaft while avoiding the rock edges and disembodied faces. Use the left right keyboard keys to move your ship side-to-side and use the up and down arrows to slightly speed your ship up or slow it down. Hitting rock faces will take points off your hit-points but hitting those creepy floating faces will mean instant death. Your ASCII graphics ship has ten hit points to start with. Five additional points are rewarded as you manoeuvre further down deeper into the shaft every three thousand points. Occasionally you will find a floating star in the depths which will reward you a bonus of two hundred points. There are no multiple attempts down the shaft. Each destroyed ship means you must start all over again.
Youkai Tantei Chima Chima is an arcade game similar to Pac-Man. In this game players will control a cyclops called Chima Chima who will fight against ghosts. In order to defeat the ghosts, Chima Chima shoots bouncing fireballs. These fireballs move together with the protagonist and can kill him so players will need to avoid enemies and have the fireballs explode next to them.
People are suffering, waiting for a helping hand. Christ, only you can save them. A new type of spiritual world game that casts ripples in the desolate action game world. Once you play it, you will not be able to hold back your tears. From the melancholy of its Christian themes, 1984's most emotionally moving work, "Christ: Journey of Love".
Chrith is a simple arcade-style side-scrolling action game where you must literally the touch the lives of people around you. The titular savior must wield a divine staff upon others to bless them, all while avoiding evil beings sent to stop you. You do this across many levels, aiming for a high score.
“Leap over Martian invaders — scale ladders — jump the man traps — rescue “the girl of your dreams” — oxygen pollution and time limited — for SUPERHUMANS only."
Godzilla & the Martians is a 1984 platformer video game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum developed by Neil Streeter of Temptation Software Ltd.