Van-Van Car is an arcade game that was released by Sanritsu, in 1983, and licensed to Karateco for EU manufacture and distribution; as with Dream Shopper and Dr. Micro, it runs on Namco's Pac-Man hardware (a Zilog Z80, running at 3.072 MHz), but with two Texas Instruments SN-76496s running at 1.78975 MHz for sound. The flyer may give the impression that it uses an isometric perspective but it uses the same overhead view as the first six Pac-Man titles - and, the player must use a 4-directional joystick to take control of a yellow racer car (the eponymous "Van-Van Car"), which is on a mission to burst balloons with its front-mounted spike while watching out for the three "killer" cars (which are red, green, and blue, so the last one looks somewhat like an evil version of the car from Namco's Rally-X).
Each normal balloon burst will be worth 200 points, regardless of colour; also, if you press that "Jump Button", Van-Van Car will jump into the air, and every time it jumps over one of the killer cars, you will receiv
In the City stages, bounce falling stockbrokers into the ambulance. In the Maze stages, collect sacks of money and avoid tanks. Can you save the world economy?
Abscam is one of many Pac-Man bootlegs. Based on FBI's controversial Abscam sting operation, it was developed by GL and published by US Billiards in 1982.
Kozmik Krooz'r is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Bally Midway and released in arcades in 1982. The spaceship, a core element of the gameplay, is not an in-game graphic, but a physical plastic model. A series of mirrors projects the mothership just above the game's monitor.
The goal of the game is to collect all dots on the playfield with your yo-yo. In each level the dots are placed in different patterns and the numbers of enemies vary. There are two types of enemies. One type (that you may not touch at all) puts electrical charges on the dots, which you have to catch. The other type is also deadly, unless you hit it when you are charged, which gives you bonus points. You can move your yo-yo in four different directions and it grabs onto the dot which is nearest in each direction. The longer the distance to the next dot, the more points you get.
The object of the game is to guide the protagonist, named Zzyzzyxx, through a moving maze of bricks to collect gifts and bring them to the fair-haired Lola, the object of his affection. Zzyzzyxx is opposed by the evil trio by the names Boris, Bluto and Smoot, also known as the Rattifers. These three will try to intercept Zzyzzyxx as he makes his way through the maze. He can collect a helmet in the maze, which can be used to imprison a Rattifer inside a brick, or to break a brick in the row above to move through the maze. As the levels progress, Zzyzzyxx must avoid crumbling bricks, rising missiles, and dropping bombs. The game has a 1up player score and laps tallied at the top of the screen.
War of the Worlds is a Cinematronics arcade game released as a conversion kit for Star Castle. The game features battle against the three-legged aliens from the classic H.G. Wells novel.
An interactive art project programmed in Zgrass for SIGGRAPH '82. The game is housed in an arcade cabinet, and was described by the artist as an "artistic video game". It has been exhibited at the Ontario Science Center.