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Mr. Jong
1983
Mr. Jong
1983
A mahjong puzzle-action game with sliding block and maze elements. Players control Mr. Jong to make mahjong hands by pushing tiles into a pit at the top of the screen while also avoiding ogres in pursuit. Mr. Jong can temporarily defeat the ogres by crushing them with shoved tiles (similar to Pengo), or by collecting a special power tile and tagging an ogre (similar to Pac-Man).Jungle Maths
1983
Jungle Maths
1983
Jungle Maths is an educational game for multiple sytstems. The player must travel through a jungle to reach their home base and safety. To do this, they must correctly answer 10 math questions. A map tracks the player's progress. If the player answers incorrectly, they could fall in a pit, sink into quicksand, or have other animated maladies befall them. Five incorrect answers, and it's game over. Options include numbers from 10 to 1000, subtraction or addition, negative numbers, and time to answer the questions.Pipes
1983
Fruit Search
1983
Fruit Search
1983
Fruit Search is a Puzzle game, published by HAL Labs, which was released in Japan in 1983.Up for Grabs
1983
Up for Grabs
1983
Up for Grabs is a 1 - 4 player word game. A spinning cube in the center of the screen continuously brings up new letters. Each player has a board in the corner of the screen, and players can pick up letters as they appear in the cube, with each letter able to go to only 1 player. Letters can be rearranged on the individual 4 x 4 boards to spell words horizontally and vertically, but the cube keeps spinning and other players can obtain new letters during this time. Gameplay is divided into 4 quarters, and during intermissions unwanted letters can be discarded. The final score is tallied at the end of the game based upon all words on the board minus the value of unused letters. There are 4 levels of gameplay.Q*bert
1983
Q*bert
1983
Q*bert
1983
Joshi Daisei Private
1983
Joshi Daisei Private
1983
A sliding puzzle game featuring erotic images of three different college students developed by Nihon Falcom.Sleuth
1983
Sleuth
1983
As you begin a game of Sleuth a murder has just been committed. Your job is to mingle with the house guests and to search the contents of the house until you feel you have solved the crime. Every game of Sleuth is different so you must fully explore the house each time that you play. As your investigation proceeds the murderer will begin to grow suspicious and will most likely start plotting your demise. If you have not figured out who the murderer is by this point in the game, your chances of survival are slim.Mined-Out
1983
Mined-Out
1983
The semi-amusingly-named Mined-Out involves guiding a character across a screen covered with mines. He can move in any of the four main directions. At each point he is told how many of these four squares have mines in, but not the exact locations of the mines, making completion a precarious challenge. There are 8 skill levels, each with progressively more and more mines. After each level you are showed an 'action replay' of your path, as well as a full diagram of where each mine was.Flappy
1983
Flappy
1983
Flappy is a puzzle game by in the same vein as the Eggerland series and Sokoban that is obscure outside Japan. It features Flappy, a somewhat mole-like character who must complete each level by pushing a blue stone from its starting place to the blue tile destination.Dingo
1983
Dingo
1983
Big Ted the koala is so fond of fruit that he has cultivated an enormous melon patch in the jungle. But unfortunately the patch has been invaded by a pack of evil dingoes that love nothing more than stomping on poor Ted's melons and creating a lot of havoc in the process. Big Ted has to harvest the fruit as fast as he can to save them from the invading marauders. Big Ted has to run around the melon field to collect all the fruit to advance to the next level. Meanwhile he has to avoid the nasty dingoes who will terminate him upon contact and take away one of his three lives. Ted can defend himself by picking up fruit to throw at the Dingoes to stun them for a few seconds, but the dingoes can also pick them up and throw back at him, which can prove fatal. Thrown fruit is wasted and thus can not be used as further projectiles or to increase the score.Tunnel Runner
1983
Tunnel Runner
1983
Get a move on, TUNNEL RUNNER. Those monstrous Maze Zots have picked up your scent and there's only one item on their menu --- you! You've been running up and down tunnels like a rat for so long, you're starting to develop a taste for cheese. Oh sure, you can get out . . . you just haven't been able to find the Key to the right Escape Door, that's all. Wait! There it is! Quickly --- pick it up and start making tracks for that door! You can hear one of those Zots hot on your heels! No time to check the map --- this better be the right way! There's a door up ahead. You did it! You're free! Sorry, Tunnel Runner, not quite...Crazy Blocks
1983
Atlantic City Action
1983
Atlantic City Action
1983
A one or two player casino game published and developed by Epos Corporation in 1983.Block Buster
1983
Block Buster
1983
A localized version of mahjong puzzle-action game Mr. Jong. Also known as "Crazy Blocks." The international versions replace various graphics in an effort to be more relatable and readable for Western audiences. Mr. Jong is replaced with Little Red Riding Hood, the ogres are replaced with Big Bad Wolves, standard mahjong suits are replaced with numbered fruit tiles, wind tiles are replaced by playing card suits, and dragon tiles are replaced with slot machine icons.Alpha Beam With Ernie
1983
The object of Alpha Beam is to help Sesame Street's Ernie pilot a small shuttle, collect fuel tanks (marked by a letter of the alphabet), and return them to his space ship so that he can return to Earth. The game was marketed as a family-friendly game that could teach children pre-reading skills such as identifying and matching letters. Alpha Beam was compatible with the Atari Kid's Controller, which was sold separately, although the regular keyboard controller is also compatiblePopeye no Eigo Asobi
1983
Popeye no Eigo Asobi
1983
A English learning game starring Popeye and friends, based on the Popeye arcade game. Word Puzzle is a version of the classic word game Hangman, where you have to guess the word in the category by choosing letters with a limited number of attempts. In Word Puzzle A, you receive a clue in Japanese while Word Puzzle B offers no clues other than the category. Word Catcher is a multiplayer challenge where Player I is Popeye and Player II is Bluto as both compete to catch the letters Olive Oyl throws in a certain order using the clues that appear.
