Most Popular Arcade Games - Page 281
Wabbit
1982
Wabbit
1982
You are a farmer, named Billie Sue, trying to protect your crops. One patch in particular is giving you trouble. It's surrounded by ten holes from which wabbits dart into your field. Scare off the pesky creatures by throwing rotten eggs at them.Tournament Table
1978
ThunderJaws
1990
ThunderJaws
1990
You are a member of an underwater special forces unit and have been selected to infiltrate Madam Q's headquarters and stop her demented plans before she can destroy the worldSuper Toffy
1994
Super Toffy
1994
Super Toffy is an improved version of Toffy, which in turn is a bootleg of the game Dangerous Dungeons with updated sprites. Super Toffy revamps many levels, getting rid of the recycled levels found in Dangerous Dungeons that are the same as other levels with minor changes or just upping the treasure requirement. Super Toffy adds an item that freezes the enemies in place temporarily - though even when they're frozen, you still can't stand next to the goombas (which replace spiders in DD) or the green faces (which replace octopi in DD). Super Toffy also adds artwork between stages - one of them adult-themed (there are robo-nipples on display) but mostly just generic anime art. Finally, unlike DD, there are a couple of score-based extends; you can get up to 5 lives.Strategy X
1981
New Sinbad 7
1983
Gypsy Juggler
1978
Evil Stone
1990
Evil Stone
1990
Evil Stone is an odd game. It's a beat em up, but rather than taking place on a traditional scrolling path, it takes place on grids of floating rocks. Furthermore, it's a beat em up in which the player has no kind of health counter, and can theoretically take an endless number of hits without dying.Clowns
1978
Blocken
1994
SAR: Search and Rescue
1989
When a pioneer spaceship vanishes mysteriously. An investigation reveals that the spaceship crashed near a ravine due to unknown circumstances. Now two SAR (Search and Rescue) operatives are on a mission to find out what happened, and eliminate the alien threat.Hero in the Castle of Doom
1984
The game featured (once again) Quasimodo’s attempts to rescue Esmeralda (or, in this case Ezzmerelda). This one is basically a rip-off of Tutankham (though not a blatant one). Interestingly, the original flyers for the game referred to it as Hero in the “Temple” of Doom and featured the image of an Indiana-Jones-like character, complete with fedora (one wonders if they changed the name and character in an effort to avoid litigation).Fire Ball
1993
Crusher Makochan
1999
Crusher Makochan
1999
An action game that requires series hit of buttons to break obstacles to rescue people.Pirate Ship Higemaru
1984
Pirate Ship Higemaru
1984
The player controls a Norwegian sailor by the name of Momotaro, who must use barrels to defeat the titular pirate crew. Momotaro has no attacks of his own. However, he has the ability to grab barrels, drums, large bags, and various other items which he can throw (either horizontally or vertically) across the screen. Any pirate who stands in the way of a barrel or other object will be hurled off the screen. Barrels that impact the walls of a stage or other barrels or objects will shatter and produce points, while other objects are invulnerable (but do not produce points). Each successive enemy that is hit by a barrel will yield additional points once the barrel is destroyed. In addition, there are also various items hidden beneath barrels in each level which will give Momotaro bonus points. Every floor of the ship has a set number of pirates to be destroyed, as well as a single "Bow", a special pirate that regenerates each time it is defeated. Every fourth level in the game yields a bonus level in which the barrelsKuri Kinton
1988
Kuri Kinton
1988
The player controls a Chinese police officer who has been assigned to infiltrate an underground base to rescue a high-ranking police officer and his daughter, who have been kidnapped by a gang.Lasso
1982
Macho Mouse
1982
Macho Mouse
1982
Macho Mouse is an arcade game which was released by Techstar in 1982; it runs on the hardware first used by Amenip and Centuri for Round-Up (two Zilog Z80s, running at 3.072 and 2.5 MHz, with two General Instrument AY-3-8910s running at 1.536 MHz for audio). The player must use the four-way joystick, to direct the eponymous "Macho Mouse" around a maze, leaving a trail of dots behind him as he goes (like Pac-Man in reverse), and causing images of his head to appear while avoiding cats that will kill him on contact - but as in Konami's Amidar, Macho Mouse can jump by means of a button and stun the cats for a short period of time. Between rounds, there is a "slot machine" similar to that of Chuo Co., Ltd.'s Funny Mouse (later re-released by Taito Corporation, as "Super Mouse").Pioneer Balloon
1982
Pioneer Balloon
1982
Pioneer Balloon was an odd, though enjoyable, game in which the player piloted a hot-air balloon over a southwest landscape while dropping bombs on wagon trains and Native American villages before landing in a fort. The weird part came via the games many anachronistic (or downright bizarre) elements. The “Native Americans” lived in huts and hurled boomerangs (in the Wild West?). An even stranger enemy was a series of killer waterspouts (in the Wild West??). Strangest of all was a stage involving a series of islands populated by hopping-mad giant, yellow apes (in the Wild West???).Gondomania
1987
Gondomania
1987
Arcade game released by Data East in 1987. Top-down shooter featuring rotating joysticks.
