A maze game where the player controls a caterpillar, traversing branches of a tree and eating leaves. The leaves obscure various junctions in the maze, so you are not sure if you’re going to hit a dead end until you munch the leaf.
Enemy bugs are hunting you as you navigate the levels, but there is a power up you can collect that works like the power pills in Pac-man and allows you to chase and eat the enemies for a short time.
As an explorer you have to avoid a red dinosaur as you try to get from the left of a huge cavern and traverse 27 screens to the right. As you move through each screen, various obstacles must be avoided such as falling rocks, lava and birds. If you dawdle for too long, the dinosaur appears behind you and chases you until you make it to the end of the screen. There are also treasures to collect and if you get six in a row without dying you receive a bonus. On the last screen, you need to try and trap the dinosaur in a cage.
Go for as long as you can destroying assorted enemy ground and air vehicles. Avoid hitting a mine while picking up missiles from the ground. Missile attack ground installations for extra points.
Journey is an arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1983. Rock band Journey had enjoyed major success in the early 1980s, and Bally/Midway decided to ride this wave of popularity by creating an arcade game based on the group. Its release was intended to coincide with a US tour by the band.
Exciting Soccer is an association football game which includes penalty shootout if the game ends in a tie. If you win the game you move on to the next level, each time the opponent gets harder to beat. When you start playing you can choose one of 6 teams: Italy, England, Brazil, West Germany, Austria, or France. The sequel Exciting Soccer II was released in 1984 with Japan replacing Austria and new music, but identical gameplay.
The game let one or two players play, had a control scheme where they could tackle, shoot, short pass, and long pass, and had realistic touches like corner kicks, throw-ins, penalty shots, and cheerleaders, as well as digitized voices and an influential overhead view.
A caveman runs around tossing his boomerang at enemy cavemen and prehistoric creatures. Pick up potions to spell out BOOMER RANG'R to move to next level. For even more fun, kill a dinosaur rider and mount his dinosaur!
Regulus is an arcade shoot-'em-up game released for Sega System 1 hardware in 1983.
Players control a tank, capable of moving in eight directions. One button fires forward, while another launches bombs further up the screen. The play area continuously scrolls upwards and players need to avoid enemies and obstacles.
The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Battlefield'. The simple gameplay involves the player controlling a fixed turret on a tank shooting oncoming alien enemies through a cross-hair target. A certain number of enemies must be destroyed to progress to the next stage. The original arcade cabinet was a cocktail table.
This game has flavors of several different video games rolled into one. It is mostly like Xevious, being an overhead shooter against a plethora of enemies, each with a unique characteristic. Unlike Xevious, however, that only allowed you to travel in one straight path, Mega Zone periodically allows you to choose different paths. For most of the game, the player's ship flies along a river. When the river forks, the player has the option of following either fork.
The game also has elements of Scramble, in that the player fights through numerous zones in the struggle to reach the end. Where Scramble has a progress bar at the top, Mega Zone gives the player a map, and shows the player the progress along the map between lives. The main enemies of Mega Zone are giant robot eyeballs. Easily enough destroyed, they still pose a menace. Smaller eyeballs leave teardrops when destroyed, which when picked up, give bonus points and wipe out all enemies on the screen.