In The 8. 0s - Vintage Computer Games of the Eighties. Vintage Computer Games of the Eighties. This is a list of the more memorable games for computers. I am not looking for.
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First Bball game to allow player adjustments - - post player or shooter, and allowed a certain number of rating points for each. Full court play, although you only really saw one half- court at a time.
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No press, but popular for its team oriented play. Graphics were subpar, but gameplay made up the difference. By Gamestar. 3. D Monster Maze (Sinclair ZX- 8. Astonishing 3- d game for the beloved Sinclair ZX- 8.
This is a list of 721 game titles released for the Commodore 64 personal computer system, sorted alphabetically. Time for playing Oldie Games - Kultspiele und Spieleklassiker: F
T- Rex. Quite simple, used to scare us to death and probably can be called . Lots of fun! ALFIt was based on the tv show but it was the friends of ALF from Melmac had crash landed and ALF was suppose to pick up pieces lying around to fix the ship. All you basically did was climb a mountain while avoiding various objects and animals. Alternate Reality : The City.
A truely open- ended RPG from the 8. Release for the C6. Archon series. One of the most popular game series for the commodore system. From what I remember, it's not as easy as it sounds. Artic Fox. 1st person tank sim shootem up. Resplendent in clunky b/w! You start a padded cell in an insane asylum and your mission is to escape.
Mad inmates and an even maddening 3d maze kept you hooked for weeks. Best part: the note that tells you to look up.. You need to give the axe murderour this note and wait for his musical demise otherwise you get chopped to bits. Despite plenty of first person 3d adverntures today, few match Alsylum's surreal and disturbing milieu, which goes to show increased computer power is not substitute for creativity.
There was as sequel boasting such fun as . One of the early ones that attempted to give a 'dark' look. Auto Duel. Created by Lord British & Chuckles of Origin Systems, this was a futuristic pen & paper game that was ported to the computer. Fight in arenas to earn money to buy a tricked- out car, carry loads to different cities, or become a highway bandit and steal loads and sell them on the black market. Release for the C6. Apple . It involved the famous . You are an atzecan soldier and you have to stay alive till the end of the game, because the King whants to know if his pyramidal fortress can protect forever him and his .
You went into some Inca pyramid looking for this lost idol. The game was about eight screens by eight screens and you had monsters to knife or shoot or avoid(they grew from snakes and small spiders to dinosaurs and octopi,) and there were plenty of traps like a giant water spigot that would fill the room with water, or even a descending ceiling where the walls on the side slammed shut.
Very Indiana Jones, and it also had cool bugs where you could jump through walls if you knew what to do. Back to the Future. There was a Back to the Future game that was played on the Amiga computer.
You played as Marty Mcfly on a skateboard and you were riding thru the streets avoiding cars and people to meet up with . You could punch people on the street which was kinda funny.
The game had the main theme from the Back to the Future movie, but the sound was cheesy. Bad Street Brawler.
A must have for the commodore 6. You played this pissed off wrestling dude(looked like hulk hogan with sun glasses) who goes around parts of town and performs body slams and wrestling moves on people. It had no plot but lots of cool special effects. Came out in the mid 8. Bad Street Brawler. Ballblazer. One of the first titles ever developed by Lucas.
Arts (nee Lucas. Film Games, back when they were in building 'Z' on the ILM campus). A seminal mix of styles from driving to platform and puzzle. Superb. Battle of Britain.
Made by Lucasarts. At the time it was the best WW2 flight sim on the market. It actually worked on an 8mhz XT! Battlestoad. One of the most deliciously fun and bloody games of it's day.
By Marc Goodman (credited as . With an inset bird's eye viewfinder over the wide- open green grass field of combat - - to help you decide which way to run, You, a knight in full armor and with a battle axe for each hand, would seek to destroy enemy knights. A simple game, played entirely from a top- down view, it was you against the world on this little . With the slight memory- caused delays you'd almost feel the impact as you slammed your axes into the enemy! Battlezone. Best tank game of the eighties, notable for its 3. D driver's POV graphics done with simple green lines on a black screen, and scary sound effects add to the suspense.
BC's Quest For Tires. Prehistoric unicycle skill- building at its finest. Beach Head. You play the role of an invading force during WWII, trying to take over an island. The object of the game was to guide your only marginally recognizable stick figure around the screen to collect as many beer cans as possible. Below The Root. A Windham Classic Game where you are a tree dweller and must complete a mission to keep the evil forces from the underworld to take over your friendly villages. A lot of the game is spent in 2 person axe battles from an over head view - kind of like Activision's boxing with more sophisticated controls and uh, with axes. Good times, good times..
A text- based driving game. Drive as fast as you can, avoid the cops, stop for food and gas (or a bit of gambling), and use nitrous to jump bridges. Back in '8. 3, I think my computer teacher confiscated at least one copy a week (sometimes more!). Blockbustersthis was the original game that gave you a paddle at the bottom of the screen and bricks on the top for you to break. It's more fun than todays similarities due to the fact that it was so simple and not overbaked. No google search as of yet will help me here because of the insane fetish with putting the term blockbuster on everything!
Blue Max. Great scrolling 8 bit flight game, WW I pilot trying to blow up targets and ultimately win. Someone has planted 2. Sphinx and Great Pyramids, the Acropolis, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, and two cityscapes resembling Miami Beach and Hollywood, which appear only as screen backgrounds rather than unique game locations). Jack must fly around the screen to collect the bombs before a timer runs out.
Each screen uses a different configuration of platforms upon which Jack may run on, or jump from, or remain at rest. Eventually, the levels reoccur a number of times with increasing difficulty. As soon as he has touched the first, he triggers a sequence in which another bomb's fuse lights up, and so on. A player can score a bonus in each round by touching all 2.
Jack may also defuse an unlit bomb by touching it, but this impedes his opportunity to score the bonus for that screen. It also delays the appearance of the game's bonuses and power- ups. A certain power- up will, when collected, turn all the enemies into coins for a short period. Boulderdash. The object was to move dirt and boulders in order to collect X amount of diamonds. At the same time you had to avoid the falling boulders, and make it to the exit point within a certain amount of time. Break Dance. EPYX capatalizing on the breakdance fad of '8. Broadsides. This game was on the Apple II computer.
It was about a spaceship stuck on a planet and had to travel along the ground at high speed avoiding floating rocks & debris. Graphics were limited to CGA 4 colour.
California Games. A game that had a variety of sports to play, such as roller skating, surfing, and BMX racing. To find them, the player must speak to various aliens and gain their trust. Communication with aliens occurs via an icon- based interface known as UPCOM. This consists of around 1.
As each alien race discovered speaks its own language and reacts differently, the player must learn to negotiate using these UPCOM concepts in a style that suits the races. As time wore on, the character's health deteriorated. This was represented in- game via an increasing amount of shaking of the mouse cursor, making the game more and more difficult to control until the character eventually died. Captain Goodnight and the Islands of Fearcreated by Broderbund, this was a platformer that showed the foregrounds to Ausin Powers as you had 2. Dr. Maybe. Captin Claw. Castle Wolfenstein (Apple . You would land and load up your guys and try and get them back to the safety of your home base.
Great fun! Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator. This was my first game ever. Later on there was a giant parrot that would chase you around just to really freak you out at four in the morning. Chucky Eggegg colecting game. Claw This game is a pirates game and the hero is captin claw how is on a quest to find nine stones for the cats. Claw. Comic. You play as a secret agent in a comic book.
If the word bubble is black with white letters, you can push left or right to choose dialogue. Little mini- games came up once in a while to spice things up. Some of the dialogue was pretty hilarious. Commander Keen. Commander Keen's babysitter was stolen in the middle of the night by aliens and you had to rescue her, there were commander keens I - IV that i played but maybe more.
You were a man in an aeroplane flying over a city of skyscrapers. You had to drop bombs on the skyscrapers to clear the way. The aeroplane would go off the screen and come back on the right side a bit lower down.
The object of the game was to clear all the skyscrapers so the plane could land. Then the man would get out, wave, get back in and take off again so you could do another level. Conan. A 2- D adventure with only 4 screens. It came on 3 floppies. Gameplay was first person side scrolling shooter. I believe it came out in 1.
Older VGA cards did not produce graphics properly since the game was technically . Crossfire(1. 98. 2) by Sullivan, Sierra On- Line; arcade. Strategy and intense concentration required.
Superb, smooth animation of a dozen pieces simultaneously. One of the great ones. In the lower levels all Dave could do was walk and jump, but as you got better you had levels where Dave had a ! A great DOS game. Dark Castle. The player was able to choose one of three doors to enter and had to gather keys and other items to beat this ogre in the last scene by pulling chains that break the throne he is sitting on. All I remember about it was that it was their favorite game - - a figure had to run through a castle and avoid pitfalls, falling stalactites, and bats. I can still hear those bats.
David's Midnight Magic(1. Snider, Broderbund Software; A really slick- looking pinball game. The game concept is fantastically simple and engrossing: your aim is to guide a laser beam through a 2d tile board and destroy all gems or somethings. You do this by rotating various mirrors and polarizing lenses and such but beware: if your beam reflects back to its source for too long it overloads and the thing blows up! It's incredible no one ported this for mobile phones or PDA's yet.. Denarius. A nice little shooter from Firebird in 1.
The game is quite difficult, so alot of my friends didn't like it.. The graphics, and sound is average, but the difficulty made me go on and on. Awesome gameplay. Dig- Dug. Ah, come one! Dig- Dug involved burrowing through the ground and inflating a Pooka and Frygar (which breathed fire) so that they'd pop. You could also drop rocks on them.)Digger. This was a game where you controlled .
The purpose of the game is to collect circles before the time ran out and avoid the baddies at the same time. It was monochrome on the C6.
Dino Eggs. Apple . Very strange game and also very addictive: you had to escape from a room full of monters. They could touch you- you could touch them,even ride them, you wouldn't die unless you get crushed. To escape you had to reach the top of the bottom, and have a hole in the seeds roof.. Only playing it.. Donkey Kong (C6. 4)One of the first platform games ever! Our hero had to jump over rolling barrels to rescue the fair damsel Fae Wray from the clutches of the evil Kong.
Dow Jones Or Jonesits a computer game that you can play with 4 players. Larry Byrd. One on One Basketball on a half court, you could be either Dr. Highlight of the game was to dunk and shatter the backboard to watch a little guy come out and sweep up the mess. Ran on the Commodore 6.
Dragonriders of Pern. Bad stuff called .
In fact, you could also import characters from Bard's Tale III. A very overlooked game, it led to the creation of Wasteland. Drink & Drownthis game was so cool! If not, then you would pass out, or throw up on yourself or get some kind of vd. You controlled a butch, muscular dude with a machine gun/laser, zapping aliens, evil machines, surveillance cameras, and the like.
Power- ups were good, but lives limited. Dungeon Master by FTLOriginally released for Atari ST. Dungeons of Dagoth.
You are fighting your way thru 5 levels of dungeons,faceing snakes,spiders,wraiths,wizards,warriors,knights and dragons or drakes. I'm not exactly sure but I do know that the fourth level was the hardest. Earl Weaver Baseball. Earl Weaver baseball for the Amiga was such an incredible combination of strategy and arcade action, that I dedicated five years of my youth to it.
It's very intelligent, it has American and German submarines with different missions, theatre of operation pacific and atlantic from 1. To me it's one of the best even thou the graphics aren't very good but the strategy is great. Evolution. This game was awesome. You went through six silly levels of trying to eat the type of food you need to survive as a certain type of animal and you killed some little enemies.
On the first board you were an ameoba eating all these little bits while trying to avoid sea animals and one big coconut- like thing tha we used to call . The second level you were a frog that needed to catch these little flies before the fishies ate you. As a mouse you needed to eat all your cheese and make a path so the snakes cannot get you fast enough. As a beaver you swim across a lake to build a dam and avoid alligators. The gorilla board u had to throw oranges at a cat trying to climb a tree; you could only die if they got away or you run outta oranges.
The last board, which was more challenging, you were a human avoiding lasers shot by these drones and u had to kill them by letting the lasers reflect off the walls. This was a real fun game altogether.. It is good for many laughs too!!! F- 1. 5 Strike Eagle. For the C6. 4. The first combat flight sim I'd ever seen. My friends and I gathered around the TV to play this one for hours at a time.. Everything in the game (including the ground) was made up of vectors (lines), but we didn't care.
We thought it was just like being a hotshot pilot! I think it was deisigned for the Tandy brand of computers.
It could also been used for Apple Computers. This game had children select different types of faces. Then they added parts of the face (eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and hair) Children now could select actions like stick out tounge, blink eyes, wiggle ears, and wiggle nose.
Cool graphics and a funky soundtrack made it bearable. Release for the C6. Farmers Daughter. Text adventure where you played a .
You flew a fighter to stop a massive invasion of your planet, by aircraft and tanks. There were motherships you had to hunt down and destroy as well. Pretty good graphics for the time and good strategy. Fireworks Construction Kit. How stupid was this?
Flying Circus. This is NOT Monty Python, altough it could have been. You play as an English pilot during WWII, trying to complete missions against the Germans, to the theme song of .
The absolute best part of the entire game was bombing the outhouse with someone still inside. Fool's Errand A game that consisted of about 2. You had to re- fuel, and your enemies were mostly tanks, who were invulnerable except for their treads. The boss enemy was a blue helicopter that showed up periodically. One of the best Commodore games ever, with great, long levels! Fraction Munchers. Fraction Munchers was a game that I played on the Apple IIe and apple Macintosh computer, when I was just a kid.
Jason is dressed all in black but can disguise as people he has already killed. Pickle. FROGGERA frog trys to cross a busy street. The publisher for Funschool 2 was Hit Squad. The publisher for Fun School 4 was Europress. G. I. Joe. Based on the tv series, this game allowed players to choose from a variety of characters and attack the forces of cobra in one on one combat (or in vehicle combat).
Ocean Commodore 6. G. U. T. Z. Green Beret 1.
Imagine/Konami Commodore 6. Gateway to Apshai. First in the Apshai series. The goal of the game is to solve puzzles and find secrets.
It is played by dragging Gertrude, a goose, into one of various rooms. Gertrude then brings various shapes into the rooms which must be arranged appropriately. Upon completion of the puzzle, Gertrude awards the player with a prize.
The game also includes a noisy bird, and a room for editing shapes. Ghostbusters. Based on the movie. Outstanding hi- res graphics, challenging refueling sequence. It was one of the first car simulators featuring a somewhat complex 4 gearbox, and one of the first games that let you save scores! The nice things about this game was that you could run your car as fast as 2. MPH, had to stop to get some gas from time to time, could be stopped by cops, and weather and time could change!
Great Giana Sisters. Super Mario Brothers...
And a tv which will cause all Mogwais and Gremlins to freeze by watching it. Puddles of water means the Mogwai or Gremlin will double after passing through it.
Basically a texted base game with very intricate drawings scrolling down to provide some eye candy to your own imagination. An improvement to the Zork series, and very difficult to win. You played a petty thief trying to gain entry into Kernovia's (first mentioned in a similar game called . The end game took forever to understand, and its puzzles remain some of the most difficult in any text based adventure game.
Gunship. Originally made for the C6. You controlled an Apache Gunship, shooting rockets, minigun and hellfire missiles on missions in areas ranging from Southeast Asia to Central America, then moving on to the Middle East and Europe. Life could be short and brutal on the Ultimate level. Later ported for the Amiga as Gunship 2.
I still play this game on the C6. Hacker. A natural game to put on a computer.
You play as a hacker who stumbles upon a major conspiracy and you take control of a robot to retrieve shredded documents. Happy Fret. A weird and cute japanese platform game where the character get items in order to solve little puzzles to get through the screens. Hardball! Anyone who loved computer baseball had this one. Featured the Champs vs. Included player's names, different pitchers with differing strengths (and weaknesses), and spectacular camera view and .
Featured different batting angles, choice of pitch, and an umpire calling the strikes. Only downside was that the batting order controlled the batter's capabilities (slugger, hitter, . With a friend, hours could be spent without even realizing the time . The Fruits provide you with energy and you have to kill off the dragons to get back the pieces of the titular Golden Talisman to. I guess to win the game. If you got anywhere near a computer in the 8. Hey American kids (like me), how long did it take - you- to realize you had to say 'LIE down' in the mud instead of 'LAY down'?
Hoover Boover. Cut the lawn, no matter how it gets done, or who's lawnmower you 'borrow' to do it. Player was able to strengthen their fighter by completing various levels. A very complex and difficult game. Ikari Warriors. One of the first good 2 player games around. You and a friend took the roles of 2 mercenaries from a top down view point. You had to fight your way through jungles shooting bad guys on foot as well as in tanks.
Different weapon types and grenades were available and they could become more powerful through power ups.
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Theatre Europe. Shadowfire, Battle of Britain. Arcade- Style Game of the Year. Commando. Hyper Sports, Dropzone.
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