The Chessmaster 2000 is the chess game that began the Chessmaster franchise. It was developed by The Software Toolworks, featuring a chess engine written by Dav...
Camelot Warriors is an action / adventure 8-bit game developed in Spain by Dinamic Software. It was very popular in Spain and was even a packed-in game (along o...
Known as the granddaddy of the "Quick Time Event", Dragon's Lair is an interactive cartoon that lets players help guide the actions of brave knight Dirk the Dar...
A puzzle game in which each of the 60 screens has a laser and a target and the aim is to connect the two using optical devices like mirrors.
Unrelated to the 2009 sandbox WWII game, Saboteur! was an early example of the stealth genre, two years before Metal Gear.
A vertical shooter similar to Commando that was released on many early computer systems.
John Elway's Quarterback is a vertical-scrolling Football sim that features the former Denver Broncos quarterback's likeness. Originally released in Arcades, it...
Battle your way through an island full of pirates and then battle your way through a ship full of pirates to rescue the damsel in distress.
Monty has broken out of Scudmore prison, and is on the run. Get him on the next boat out of here in the third Monty Mole game.
The second game in Level 9's science fiction trilogy dealing with the colonisation of the planet Eden.
An action simulator game that alternates air and ground battles, featuring rock star pilot Cpt. Johnny "Jimbo Baby" McGibbets.
A classic game in which you need to collect all the bombs.
Explore the castle (as either Brad or Janet) to find pieces of the Medusa Machine so that you can free your partner. Watch out for Riff Raff with his laser gun...
A vertical scrolling shoot 'em uppublished by Codemasters for various 8-bit systems.
The one-on-one arcade fighting game that kicked off the "fighting game revolution" of the 1990s. Play as one of eight martial artists and travel the world to kn...
A cross between a simulator and an arcade game in which the player has to fly a Lancester bomber and drop bombs over dams in Germany during World War II. Whereb...
Control Jumpman (later known as Mario) and save his girlfriend, Pauline, from the evil barrel-tossing gorilla known as Donkey Kong. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto...
Quattro Super Hits is a complication of four classic Codemaster games that was released for systems like the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
As an exterminator, players must rid Chicago's houses of insects, rats, and toy tanks by shooting, squashing, and punching them.
Bunny Bricks as ridiculed in the Mega Fun Party 3 demo
Full Throttle, also known as Top Speed, is an arcade racing game by Taito, released in 1987. It is similar in style to OutRun, with a fast red car hurtling thro...
In this game the player can manage a soccer team in England. It was later released as a 2-player version renamed to "2 Player Super League".
Platoon is the video game based off of Oliver Stone's "Platoon".
Considered one of the best racing games of the 16-bit era, Super Monaco GP puts the player in the driver seat for a simulation of the 1989/90 F1 season. The gam...
A game based upon the famous book by Adrion Edmonson where you go to a party and try to be a complete bastard.
Designed by Julian Gollop, Laser Squad is a turn-based strategy game which gives the player a squad of space marines to pit against a host of scenarios. The inf...
This 1986 sequel added more enemies with better AI, new treasures, harder levels, and the ability for each player to choose the character they wanted.
The Heroes of Karn is an Interactive Fiction game with graphics and more unusually, music.
A side-scrolling action game based on a Spanish comic series.
A boxing game featuring 20 different opponents. It is known as Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing in the UK.
The sequel to Impossible Mission
Rescue on Fractalus was first released in 1985 for various home computers and is one of the first games released by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts).
Originally released in 1987, Pac-Mania featured a unique take on the Pac-Man formula.
A side-scrolling action/shooter based on the 1987 Schwarzenegger movie Predator. It was published by Activision for many home computers, though its NES incarnat...
A 2D flip-screen platformer featuring Hickey the Keezer who has to make his way around the caverns of the planet Cosmia avoiding all sorts of meanies.
An action game with platform elements developed by Code Masters and published by Cartoon Time for the 8-bit home computers Amstrad CPC, C64 and ZX Spectrum. It ...
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun is a collection of mini games based on various circus acts. Released across multiple 8-bit computers.
A fast-paced puzzle-platformer that debuted in arcades, and later moved to home gaming systems; including the Commodore 64, NES, and Nintendo's Virtual Console.
A vertically-scrolling shooter made by Sega for arcades, and later ported to home computers.
You play an archaeologist, looking for treasure, as archaeologists are wont to do. Sadly, mummies are after you. To find the treasure you walk round all 4 s...
Finders Keepers is an action adventure game where Magic Knight has to collect as many valuables as possible.
A video game adaptation of the 1987 movie regarding Eliot Ness, notorious gangster Al Capone and the Prohibition era. The SNES version is based on the 1993 TV s...
The Stormlord is tasked with emancipating all the captured fairies of a dying world in this controversial side-scrolling action-adventure game.
As a floating orb, players must perform repairs to a spaceship.
Help Bugaboo (The Flea) escape a cavern while avoiding a large dragon.
A 3D first-person flight simulator rendered with colourful wireframe vector graphics and packaged with a sci-fi novella by James Follett, describing the game's ...
You awake in a hut on a deserted island, with a headache and no memory.
Infernal Runner is a platform computer game released in 1985. It is one of the first works of game designer Eric Chahi.
Make your way through a nasty, robot-filled maze with a friend in Xybots, a cooperative shooter from Atari.
Harrier Mission is a simulation game.
Take your souped up car to the race track and race increasing difficult courses. This game seems to be influenced game by Super Sprint and Super Cars.
Recreating the events of the movie of the same title, commando John Rambo must rescue his mentor and friend, Colonel Trautman, from the Soviet forces occupying ...
Your job is rescue Nimue, apprentice to Merdyn from your evil half-sister Morgause.
A managerial soccer game. This time the player directs the career of a striker who starts in the 4th UK soccer league division and has to rise through the divis...
An 80's fighting game from Capcom that laid the framework for one of the most popular fighting game franchises of all time, as well as the traditional fighting ...
An Adidas-licenced, top-down tennis game.
An maze action game in which the player controls a patrol droid and has to keep out aliens out of the colony and off the crops.
It is the far-off future year of 2005 AD, and aliens have taken over Antarctica. You are sent in with your new Slye-Hicks MX-100 supertank and it's your job to ...
A Western-themed side-scrolling platformer for arcades by Data East, where players control a train robber beating up dudes on top of moving trains in order to s...
A text adventure based on the Terry Pratchett novel of the same name.
Bloodwych is a classic Dungeon Crawler which features a split-screen two player mode in which each player controls a party of its own.
A pirate simulator created by the renowned game designer Sid Meier. Contains looting, swordsmanship and all around swashbuckling. The game was remade in 1993 fo...
Guide hordes of helpless green-haired rodents away from peril in this landmark puzzle game.
Xevious is one of the first vertical scrolling shoot-em-up arcade games.
3D Starstrike is a clone of the original wireframe Star Wars game.
Making fun of Tolkien before it was cool.
Bounce around different platforming stages in this sequel to Thing on a Spring.
Escape from Singe's Castle is a "sequel" to Dragon's Lair which is mostly made up of discarded scenes from the original.
A side-scrolling, hack & slash brawler, developed by Taito. It started as an Arcade game in 1987, then moved to home computers and consoles such as the C64 ...
A top-down shooter where one or two bandana-wearing commandos fight enemy forces in a jungle. It is notable for allowing the player to pilot various vehicles in...
A text adventure game from Level 9, using their KAOS adventure system.
Garfield must rescue his girlfriend Arlene from the city pound in this puzzle solving action-adventure.
Switchblade is a 2D action-adventure platformer where the player guides Hiro, the last of the Bladeknights, through the labyrinth of Undercity. Hiro must recove...
An arcade basketball game endorsed by Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr.
An adventure game based on the Arthurian legend.
Explore caves in an alternate dimension in the mysterious Eidolon vehicle