In this action game published by Solar Software the player has to guide fearless Jim through the 5 screens of jungle hazards to rescue Jane from the cannibals cooking pot.
Nebula is a game of strategic galactic conflict. Players take the role of emperors attempting to expand and control star systems. The inhabitants of the systems are forced to serve their emperor but imperial conquest has its risks. War with other empires is inevitable. Unrest, revolution and plague beset the struggling empires.
As Pedro (A Mexican gardener), you must protect your plants from various animals that try to eat them, by building a wall around your plants or jumping on the animals. Any plants eaten can be re-planted.
The Hundred Acre Wood was populated with characters from A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh series of short stories.
Each character had lost an item of value to them and wanted the item returned. The player moves through the Hundred Acre Wood and collects the missing items then returns them to their rightful owners. Only one item can be carried at a time, so picking up one item means leaving behind of whatever item is currently being carried. Some screens have interactive sub elements. For example: you could "climb" Pooh's tree and see the limb where he kept his honey pots safely out of the reach of flood waters (a reference to a scene in the Disney animated movie "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"and Chapter 9 of A.A. Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh.). The game has no animation in the mode of a traditional Quest game such as King's Quest. Rather, the Hundred Acre Wood existed as a grid of connected static screens. Players move between the screen using the arrow keys and can only move North, South, East or West. The m
Sasa, is an arcade video game released for the MSX1 in 1984 and later for the Family Computer titled as Astro Robo SASA in 1985.
This video game involved obtaining capsules with an 'E' on them, sometimes suspended by balloons. The main character could only use bullets to propel himself, and when the bullet count reaches 0, the game ends. A player can also lose bullets by colliding with an enemy, the other player, or the other player's bullets.
"Richard Petty's Talladega is a racing game where you get to take the super speedway as you race against king Richard Petty and 18 top pro drivers. After trying to qualify for a pole position, you use strategy to plan your pit stops, draft leading cars to pick up time and save fuel and be prepared for yellow caution flags." --mobygames.com
Bug Byte's Turmoil is a platform game where Mick The Mechanic steals the sheik's cars, collecting oil while avoiding Arabian bodyguards. Through 26 screens with hazards like springboards and disappearing walls, Mick's goal is to pour oil into the grid, gradually revealing and increasing the value of the hidden cars. Special bonuses can be obtained by collecting tools.
Duck Shoot recreates the classic fairground shooting gallery experience in a digital format. Players control a gun at the bottom of the screen, aiming to shatter six plates positioned at the top while navigating four rows of moving targets in between. The game challenges players to balance their primary objective of breaking plates with the opportunity to score bonus points by hitting other moving objects. Adding to the challenge, ducks periodically swoop down, depleting the player's limited ammunition if they reach the bottom. A special duck traversing the top of the screen can restore shot plates if it completes its journey, introducing a strategic element to the gameplay. The game continues until the player exhausts their ammunition, which is visually represented by a bar beneath the gun, creating a constant tension between accuracy and resource management.
Bouncing Babies is a computer game developed in 1984 by Dave Baskin for MS-DOS. The player is in control of a two-man team of fire fighters who rescue babies thrown from the windows of a building in flames into a bouncing stretcher and safely into an ambulance.
1984 - Funnels & Buckets is a shareware math-based educational title developed and published by Data Sage. The gameplay entails popping mathematical problems before they fill one of your four buckets. If you answer the problem correctly you will be rewarded points and the equation will be eliminated. Filling the bucket with wrong answers will end the game. Players can choose from six different game speeds, and math problems include multiplication; division, addition, and subtraction.
Stonkers is controlled either using keyboard or joystick. In the game, the player controls infantry, artillery, tank, and supply-truck units. Combat units consume supplies over time and the player must use the supply units to replenish them. Supply units are unloaded while a ship docks at the player's port. Information about ongoing events is displayed in a ticker tape on the bottom of the screen.
Ad Astra is an early into-the-screen 3D space shoot 'em up. Your craft is viewed in front of you, with the first task being to dart in between the planets which hurtle towards you. Once this is passed, the serious business of shooting down the enemy craft begins. These shoot at you from a distance, and your angle of attack varies depending on the angle at which you are flying into the screen, in a sort of trick-3D.
Landmines (shoot these before they disintegrate towards you) and flying saucers (which don't shoot at you, but must be shot several times), before the task of noting down a code to enable you to progress to the next moon, from which the whole task begins again with increased difficulty. The game keeps track of how long you have been playing each game, as well as a high score.