Shanghai is a computerized version of mahjong solitaire. After winning a game, the tiles reveal the three-dimensional blinking eye of a dragon behind the game screen. The Macintosh and Sega Master System version shows an animated dragon spitting fire.
The game takes place in a world called Banana Land, which is populated by anthropomorphic moles. Mr. Mole is on a picnic with his wife and son when an earthquake strikes, trapping his wife and son underground! Help Mr. Mole rescue his wife (and sometimes son) and find their way to the exit through underground areas of varying design. The game features 105 stages and a custom stage design mode.
The object of each stage is to make it to the exit after picking up all the various food items and Mr. Mole's family members. There is no way to "die" as such, but the player can make a mistake and make a stage impossible to complete; for this reason the player can "give up" by pressing the A and B buttons simultaneously to re-try the stage.
Snail Maze is a 1986 video game by Sega, part of the Sega Master System. Instead of being released on a cartridge, it was built into the system's BIOS and could be played by starting the system without a game cartridge inserted and holding Up and buttons 1 and 2 simultaneously. The later "Master System II" model did not include Snail Maze, it instead included a built in Alex Kidd in Miracle World. Snail Maze was never released in cartridge or card format.
Ernie's Big Splash is a 1986 Sesame Street video game starring Rubber Duckie. The goal was to create a series of connections, for Rubber Duckie to make his way to Ernie's bathtub. The game teaches basic logic, directions (North, South, East and West) and sequencing.
The video game was created by CBS Learning Systems, for ages four to six.
The game was originally made for DOS, but was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989. On NES, it was released on the cartridge Sesame Street ABC, supplementing Letter-Go-Round. At some point in time, the game was released for the Unisys ICON operating system, a platform commissioned by the Ontario education system. No copies of this format exist, as the last ICON computers and software were destroyed in the early-2000s.
To shortly sum up Monkey Business, it's about educational and math / logic, puzzle-solving. You have 3 -5 monkeys who have to stack on top of each other to capture an apple. there are only 3 spots to fill. For the generation growing up in the 80s it was often the first computer game ever played as it was exstenivley used in schools. It was made by Learning Technologies, Inc. in 1986
The player helps Ned tidy up his garden which involves avoiding various creatures while navigating the maze. Once all items are collected, Ned must find the shed key and lock the shed. This adds an additional layer of challenge as players must remember the key's location and manage their movements wisely.
Splatch! is a Boulder Dash clone originally released as a type-in program in the Amstrad Computer User magazine. You control a rabbit who must navigate underground levels to find carrots to eat. Digging through the dirt can release rocks which will fall and can crush the rabbit. There are other obstacles such as mushrooms and on later levels moving opponents which are deadly to encounter.
Fix It is a puzzle game where the player assembles various machines out of a kit of spare parts. The machines are similar to Rube Goldberg devices and involve releasing a bolt from a wrench and then have it reach a box. For each machine the player has access to a toolbox with a certain amount of components of various kinds that have to be placed on the playing field to complete the machine. Most common are the elbows (l-shaped pipes) which change the direction of the bolt and the converters which change the property of the bolt. The bolt can be small and hollow, large and hollow, small and solid or large and solid and these properties have to match with the properties of the box and the parts. For example, to reflect a small and hollow bolt only an elbow with those properties will work. There is also the bouncer which rebounds the bolt in the opposite direction and the key which the bolt has to pass through to enter a locked box.
The game consists of 200 machines. The first 100 only uses regular parts while the la
Released in 1985 on DOS. It's an action and puzzle game, set in an arcade theme. You move the pointer, in order to fill a percentage of place:
a) without other dots must touch your line before reach your area,
b) without touching your line at back.
A sliding puzzle game based on the Urusei Yatsura anime.
Initially published as "Lum no Jigsaw" as a feature on a tape bundled with the December 1983 issue of Popcom, a magazine focused on Japanese personal computers. It was later released with additional puzzles as a commercial product in 1985 as Urusei Yatsura CG Puzzle.
A clone of the classic arcade game Pengo, in which a penguin pushes blocks of ice to kill the enemies, while trying to push parts of a diamond together.
Gojira-kun is a game for the MSX released in 1985. The monsters are rendered in a cutesy chibi style, which was based on the Godzilland merchandise line. This game is very similar to the Gameboy Godzilla game.
Mole Mole is a puzzle game in which the player has to navigate a rather anthropomorphic mole through top-down single-screen stages, with the goal of reaching the exit after having collected all the fruits on the screen.