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 text adventure game created by Sam Barlow. One unique characteristic of this game is that players only have one turn to perform an action before the game ends...
Drug Watch is a game that intends to educate players on the dangers of illicit drugs.
On a quest to escape the planet Steps, Pogo must color all of the 28 steps in each level of the game.
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...
Special Delivery: Santa's Christmas Chaos was a Commodore 64 game where you played as Santa Claus and must Catch Christmas presents while riding in a flying sle...
Classic motorcycle racing game from 1985 developed by Shaun Southern (Mr Chip Software). Game was released for C64, ZX Spectrum and Atari 8-bit.
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.
Monty Mole's first video game appearance seems him stealing coal from a coal mine. A mole has to keep warm, you know!
As an exterminator, players must rid Chicago's houses of insects, rats, and toy tanks by shooting, squashing, and punching them.
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".
Help to protect a toy store against waves of robots in this Activision platformer.
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...
One of several games for the ZX Spectrum which mocked Sir Clive Sinclair's electric car venture, the Sinclair C5.
One of the earliest puzzle-platformers has you running around an underground treasury in an attempt to escape with a motherlode of treasure. It is one of the fi...
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.
A top-down racing game featuring the Dunlop-shod Porsche 911. Before heading out, you can modify your vehicle with a selection of upgrades using a limited budge...
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 ...
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.
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 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.
An action-adventure game developed by Steve Turner's Graftgold and released for the ZX Spectrum by Hewson Consultants in 1985.
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.
Mig-29 Soviet Fighter is a jet fighting game released on the NES and many early computer systems.
Make your way through a nasty, robot-filled maze with a friend in Xybots, a cooperative shooter from Atari.
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 compilation of four Codemasters sports titles for the Amiga, ZX Spectrum, and NES.
Jetpac is a 2D shooter for the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum and VIC-20. The game was developed by Rare and released in 1983.
A collection of five games published by Virgin Games for the C64 and ZX Spectrum.
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 ...
A vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up from Nihon Bussan, created originally for the Arcades and later ported to various home systems. It features a power-up system t...
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...
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