The Ikari Warriors, Paul and Vince, are back in their second installment. Originally an arcade release, the game was later ported to the Nintendo Entertainment ...
Battle space aliens and avoid their suicidal attacks to survive in the world of Galaxian, Namco's first installment in the Galaxian franchise. It was a technica...
A text adventure by Scott Adams and the sequel to "Savage Island Part One" in which the player is still trying to find the secret of the island in the Pacific O...
221b Baker St. is an adventure game release on many early computer systems.
Tank wars, also known as BOMB, is an artillery game, developed by Kenneth Morse and released in 1990. Players use a wide range of weapons and try to be the last...
Sail the high-seas in this text based pirate adventure.
Prince of Persia is the original Persian adventure by Jordan Mechner and the first game in a multi-million dollar franchise.
Dig dug is an arcade game released in 1982. The objective is to kill the underground monsters by either squishing them under a rock through the tunnels you cre...
Graphical version of the original Scott Adams all-text adventure, The Count.
Mission on Thunderhead is a sci-fi game which includes a mix of maze puzzles and side-scrolling action.
A wrestling game that includes eight fictional wrestlers and 25 different moves.
An adventure game designed by Roberta and Ken Williams. Although the game itself is entirely text based, it was the first adventure game to feature graphics. Th...
Pipe Dream is a puzzle game where players have to connect random pieces of pipe on a 2D grid in a limited time. The game was originally released under the name ...
In this graphic adventure the player guides Jason and Hercules through the Labyrinth of Crete to recover the captured golden fleece of Greek myth.
You are one of many people that have been kidnapped by aliens and transported to a city in another dimension. Explore the city, find the clues that will lead y...
A action game in which the player controls a vehicle through mazes on Mars while avoiding the vicious Mars Cars and collecting Martian treasures.
Boulder Dash is a vintage maze puzzler in which players collect diamonds before time runs out.
Archon: The Light and Dark is a popular hybrid of turn-based, chess-like strategy as well as 2-player action sequences. It has been released on numerous systems...
You must save the planet above by repairing the Complex you are frozen within. You must do it before they arrive to shut you down. And you must do it not with y...
Isometric traversal game with action components, influenced by Marble Madness
ALF must collect parts of his spacecraft in this top-down action game.
California Games is a multiple event sports game released on multiple 8-bit and 16-bit computers, consoles and handhelds. Developed by 80s legends Epyx, with a ...
Snooper Troops is an adventure/puzzle game created by Tom Snyder Productions, Inc.
Using only text commands, players engage in turn-based tank battles against AI opponents.
A Mind Forever Voyaging is a text-based sci-fi adventure game, with the player assuming the role of the first sentient artificial intelligence, PRISM, in the ye...
Classic arcade game where you, as Bentley Bear, must collect gems while avoiding enemies.
Released in 1980, Battlezone was an arcade machine where you assumed the role of a tank commander in a vector-based graphic world. Allowing for split screen m...
The Eternal Dagger is the sequel to the popular roleplaying game Wizard's Crown.
The final game of the Zork Trilogy, Zork III is not a treasure hunt like its predecessors. Instead your nameless adventurer must prove his/her worthiness to bec...
A futuristic air combat game in which the player commands the eponymous aircraft against a variety of enemy targets.
Oil Barons is a turn based strategy game for one to eight players.
An arcade game that originally came out in 1985, the goal of Paperboy is to go from house to house delivering papers while avoiding obstacles.
A version of Lode Runner with a much harder collection of levels, intended for "champion" players. Some versions were exclusive to Japan, where Lode Runner was ...
A chess game available for various home computer systems.
You now finally have the chance to play as Alice.
An early action-platformer for home computers. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, the player is tasked with assembling old-world power armor to defeat humanity's...
Déjà Vu is a point-and-click adventure game that draws inspiration from "noir" detective novels that were popular in the 1940s.
Questron II is a RPG game created by Westwood Associates.
Decathlon is a sports game made in 1982 for both PC and Apple II. It features ten distinct olympic-like sport events, as well as a "hot seat" muliplayer mode.
The first installment of the Mavis Beacon series.
A standalone level creator for the popular Boulder Dash game.
A text adventure in which the player discovers on a world-wide journey who has stolen the peculiar inheritance, the painting Parrish's 'Earthly Delights', that ...
Your the test pilot of an experimental chopper called the UH-1XA. You test out the Helicopter in several game modes including, Flight School, Arcade mode and Re...
An adventure game published by Windham Classics. It is a direct sequel to a series of books called "The Green Sky" trilogy by author Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
Graphical version of the original Scott Adams all-text adventure, Strange Odyssey.
The Wizard of Oz is a graphical and textual adventure game based on the classic novel.
A 2D screen-to-screen maze/platformer for the Apple II and Commodore 64 system
Night Stalker is an action game with a treacherous maze full of robots, spiders, and bats. To survive means finding a gun and fighting back, six bullets at a ti...
Play as Ace Harding in this classic Film Noir adventure game.
An arcade title developed by Sega that is very similar to classic arcade games of the time.
A role-playing adventure and the second game in the Phantasie franchise. The player commands again a band of six adventurers and has to stop the Dark Lord Nicka...
An adventure game based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
Based on the movie, this game features multiple gameplay variations, such as exploration, action/adventure, and top-down driving segments.
Run your own video arcade and try to keep your token machines filled in this frantic action game from Brøderbund.
Fly down into dangerous caves filled with bugs, lava, and other traps to save your buddy before you run out of health.
Adventure Construction Set (ACS) is a program that is used to construct tile-based graphical adventure games.
The third adventure in the Wizardry series sees the City of Llylgamyn rocked by a series of natural disasters. Only the descendants of the party of heroes that ...
A 2D fighting game in which the player has to slain pirates and occasionally small animals coming from the left and the right side of the one-screen scenery.
A platformer that features treasure hunting and puzzle solving.
Knights of Legend is a single-player roleplaying game released by Origin Systems in October 1989.
Heiankyo Alien is a 1979 maze game originally developed and released for the NEC PC-8001 and for for arcades. It is the first "trap 'em up" game and the first g...
Play as chef Peter Pepper, climbing ladders and running over burger ingredients to assemble giant burgers, whilst avoiding dastardly hot dogs, pickles and frie...
As Professor Arabesque you have been sent by a secret society to eliminate the influence of the Skull of Doom. There are over 1000 random game variations and te...
Crypto Cube is an educational game created by DesignWare.
A 2D platforming game for early computers and consoles.
Rampage takes the staples of giant monster movies and molds them into a tongue-in-cheek action game.
Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards was one of the first graphic adventure games made by Sierra On-Line. Lovable loser Larry Laffer sets out o...
An early arcade platformer that has 100 levels. Released by Taito in 1986, it was one of the first games to feature two-player cooperative play and multiple end...
Based on the famous martial artist of the same name, Bruce Lee is a 1984 action-adventure platformer starring Bruce himself. Navigate a perilous fortress while ...