In this VIC-20 game from 1983, busy store detective Barney Bootlace must appease the shop manager by running around the shop floor dealing with various problems, from dealing with lost property and children, to apprehending shoplifters and even dealing with planted bombs!
A maze game where the player controls a caterpillar, traversing branches of a tree and eating leaves. The leaves obscure various junctions in the maze, so you are not sure if you’re going to hit a dead end until you munch the leaf.
Enemy bugs are hunting you as you navigate the levels, but there is a power up you can collect that works like the power pills in Pac-man and allows you to chase and eat the enemies for a short time.
As an explorer you have to avoid a red dinosaur as you try to get from the left of a huge cavern and traverse 27 screens to the right. As you move through each screen, various obstacles must be avoided such as falling rocks, lava and birds. If you dawdle for too long, the dinosaur appears behind you and chases you until you make it to the end of the screen. There are also treasures to collect and if you get six in a row without dying you receive a bonus. On the last screen, you need to try and trap the dinosaur in a cage.
Earth is in trouble from the Black Wizard Velnor, as he has finally found the tomb of Grako to turn himself into a demon. Time is short as he prepares for the change and so instead of sending a huge army to stop him, you have been chosen for this quest. You have arrived at Mt. Elk and you must enter the mountain and find Velnor hidden in the Goblin Labyrinth to stop his evil plan.
The Wizard of Akyrz is the eighth game in the Mysterious Adventures series. The player begins in the royal palace, where the king asks him to save his daughter from an evil wizard. If the player should succeed, his reward will be priceless.
Horror House is the very first graphical adventure game published by Nihon Falcom in 1983. The title was created by a student of Kindai University named Fujio Fujimori who had previously had several games published inside the pages of Japanese computer magazines like I/O Magazine, RAM and others at the time. Horror House would be the first in a trilogy of games released by Falcom that were classified as "occultic mystery adventure" games with Horror House Part II releasing in December and Monster House releasing the next year in 1984.