A friendly joust of duel to the death? Kill the dragon, run away or even talk to it?
These are some of the questions you will have to answer on your Fame Quest. You enter this world as a lowly knight without sword or armour. By means of your skill and judgement you will accumulate fame (and money!). Given time you may aspire to be the mightiest warrior in the land, but beware - many encounters await you on your Quest.
A game strategy for one player. with full graphics ad sound.
In Coney Island, you'll help Freezy the penguin sell ice cream by placing colors and patterns in the correct sequence. Sequencing skills contribute to the understanding of fundamental math concepts.
Grab-A-Crab is a top view single screen maze game inspired by the arcade game Pac-Man where you play the role of Hobbler the Gobbler who will eat anything. You have discovered a cavern with old turtle eggs and you plan to eat them all over various levels to fulfill your large appetite. As you eat the eggs around the maze, four crabs also move around the maze and have to be avoided or you lose one of three lives. There are four dodo eggs in each corner and if eaten allow you to eat the crabs for a short period of time. If you eat a lobster pot in the centre of the maze then you receive an extra dodo egg.
The Rox conversion for the Commodore 64 further iterates from the original game for the VIC-20. In this title Jeff Minter pays tribute to the classic arcade game Missile Command.
Q*bert is an isometric platform game with puzzle elements where the player controls the titular protagonist from a third-person perspective. Q*bert starts each game at the top of a pyramid of cubes, and moves by jumping diagonally from cube to cube. Landing on a cube causes it to change color, and changing every cube to the target color allows the player to progress to the next stage.
The player controls a Pac-Man like creature in a maze trying to eat all the pellets. Four ghosts are released from their homes, and will chase the player if approached too close. Power pellets in the corners of the screen will temporarily send the ghosts back to their homes. If the player clears a level, they advance to a more difficult challenge. The player starts with 5 lives, and it's game over when all are lost.
Halls of Death is an adventure game where you play the role of one of many explorers who have entered the caverns and rooms over many floors, searching for the treasure within, the only difference hopefully is that you make it out alive. The screen is split into five different parts with two parts text, one a map of the floor you are on, your stats and finally what you can see in front off you or the creature you are fighting. Starting at the bottom of some steps, you move around the map searching each room and text tells you what you see and how many turns you have taken.
As you explore, some rooms will have traps, some will have treasure and others will have a creature or monster that wants to fight you seen from the side. You have a certain level of strength and psionics (magic) and you can either swing at the creature, retreat or use one of four spells which are sleep, teleportation, lighting and fireball. Spells sometimes don't work and can sometimes rebound and hit yourself. You both take it in turns to figh
Dig Dug is a 1-2 player arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth. Stopping you from doing this are two monsters, called Pooka and Fygar, who will continually chase you around. The only weapon that you carry is an air pump, which you can use to inflate the monsters to the point where they explode. (if you start to inflate them but stop doing so, the monsters will get turned back to their normal selves). Furthermore, rocks are scattered throughout the earth, and you can use these rocks to squash them. If the monsters do not find you for several seconds, they will eventually get turned into ghosts, which can walk through the earth. They are invincible and cannot be killed. From time to time, vegetables will appear in the center, and you can get these for points.
Your task in this arcade game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the screen. Both these sections are fraught with a variety of hazards, each of which will kill the frog and cost you a life if contact is made.
This Cold War game puts the player in control of average American everyman Mike, charged by sudden circumstance with building a fallout shelter in his basement by slowly climbing two flights of stairs to the attic, where three cinder blocks need to be carried down to build it out of.