Turrican is an action platformer (run-and-gun) with smooth scrolling in all directions, created by programmer and Manfred Trenz for Rainbow Arts company. Turrican first released for the Commodore 64, Amiga and later ported to other home computers and consoles. Inspiration for Turrican was Metroid and Psycho-Nics Oscar games. Memorable music for game was composed by Chris Hülsbeck...
Titus the Fox is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Titus Interactive for the home computers. The main character of the game is a fox. The game was programmed by Eric Zmiro, with graphical design by Francis Fournier and Stephan Beaufils. Player's goal is to avoid dogs, construction workers, giant bees and similar creatures. The player can fight back by throwing objects back at them, or (most notably) picking walking enemies up from behind and throwing them as projectiles at other obstacles...
Test Drive is a cross-platform racing game, first in the Test Drive series and has been followed by numerous sequels. The player chooses one of the five following supercars to drive on a winding cliffside two-lane road while avoiding traffic and outrunning police speed traps. The course's five stages are separated by gas station pit stops...
The goal of Stormlord is to free several fairies from the bubbles in which the rotting crone has trapped them. The player can eliminate enemies by throwing a star-like weapon and travel rapidly from place to place by means of the falcon. The player has a limited amount of time to finish...
Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman on college Unix systems. In Rogue, the player assumes the typical role of an adventurer of early fantasy role-playing games. The game starts at the uppermost level of an unmapped dungeon with myriad monsters and treasures. The goal is to fight one's way to the bottom, retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, then ascend to the surface...
last update: 11.01.2011, games played: 20
Rick Dangerous, Play online - Rick Dangerous (Amstrad CPC)
1989
Rick Dangerous is an action platform game developed by Core Design. The game is largely based on the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe. His plane crashes in the jungle, and Rick must escape from the enraged Goolu. When the game starts Rick finds himself in a cave running from a rolling boulder, a famous scene from the Indiana Jones movie. Armed with a pistol and dynamite, Rick must fight hostiles and evade countless traps in three more levels...
Rescue on Fractalus is an action game played from a 3D first person point of view. The game utilizes fractal technology to create the craggy mountains of an alien planet, where the visilibility was drastically reduced by the dense atmosphere. The player controls a fictional "Valkyrie" space fighter attempting to land and pick up downed Ethercorps pilots. Some of these mountains hold anti-aircraft guns, which have to be avoided or destroyed...
last update: 17.06.2011, games played: 62
Prince of Persia, Play OnLine - Prince de Perse (Amstrad CPC) [French]
1989
The game starts with the Sultan of Persia being called away for a war in a foreign land. Sensing opportunity, the evil Vizier Jaffar seizes the throne for himself. The Prince is imprisoned, since Jaffar has designs on the Princess. The Princess is also imprisoned and is given an hour to decide: she would have to either marry Jaffar or else, die. The Prince therefore has 60 minutes to complete the game by saving the Princess and killing Jaffar...
last update: 06.01.2011, games played: 262
Prehistorik, Play online - Prehistorik (Amstrad CPC)
1991
Prehistorik is a platform game developed by Titus. The playable character is a neanderthal armed with a club. In a search for food, the neanderthal must hit dinosaurs and other animals that come in his way. Some hostile beings can't be beat, so the player must dodge them. A boss awaits in every even numbered level. There are seven levels...
last update: 05.01.2011, games played: 2741
Pipe Mania, Play online - Pipe Mania (Amstrad CPC)
1989
Pipe Mania is a puzzle game developed in 1989 by The Assembly Line for the Amiga. It was ported to several other platforms by LucasFilm Games, who gave it the name Pipe Dream. Using a variety of pipe pieces presented randomly in a queue, the player must construct a path from the start piece for the onrushing sewer slime, which begins flowing after a time delay from the start of the round...
Panza Kick Boxing is a very nice kick boxing game developed by French company Futura and is based on a name of the real world champion André Panza whom you will challenge at the end. The game features both multi player and single player mode with career game mode. You can train your boxer to improve physical stats - strength, resistance and reflex. A nice and unique feature is the presence of "programmable moves". You can assign 13 moves per match from the staggering 55 moves available. All in all, it is a good fighting game which is much more than just hitting the attack buttons as fast as possible...
The Neverending Story is a text adventure based on the movie of the same name by Wolfgang Petersen (rather than the novel by Michael Ende). The world of Fantasia is about to be destroyed by the "All-consuming Nothing", it needs someone from the "Real World" to believe in it again in order to be saved from falling into oblivion. The player takes control of the young hero Atreyu who is the only one who can find the savior of Fantasia. The game uses different pictures to show the player's current location...
Myth: History in the Making is a 2D platform game with a lot of fighting. The levels of this game deal with different mythologies, from ancient Greece to the Vikings, Egyptians and more. The gameplay consists of running and jumping through each level, collecting objects and weapons, fighting enemies and solving puzzles. Enemies include skeletons, demons, wraiths, mummies and vikings. Weapons include a sword, gun and fireballs. Each level contains a mythical boss enemy, such as Cerberus, Medusa, Thor or Hydra...
Microprose Pro Soccer is arcade-style soccer game. It has two different parts: Indoor and Outdoor. The Outdoor game is the normal European soccer. You may play single matches, league or tournament (world championships). Optional features are: weather effects, replays, customizable game length. The Indoor game has US soccer teams and plays on a much smaller field. It has different rules compared to outdoor soccer...
Pinball Wizard (also known as `Macadam Bumper`) is a computer game, an arcade and pinball construction set. The game includes full-featured graphics, sound and lights, and even `tilt` capability. The game features four simulations with varying obstacles. On the Atari ST, the flipper and back-board controls are manipulated by the mouse, but moving the mouse too much will activate the tilt sensors...
last update: 06.02.2011, games played: 11
Macadam Bumper, Play online - Macadam Bumper (Amstrad CPC)
1985
Pinball Wizard (also known as `Macadam Bumper`) is a computer game, an arcade and pinball construction set. The game includes full-featured graphics, sound and lights, and even `tilt` capability. The game features four simulations with varying obstacles. On the Atari ST, the flipper and back-board controls are manipulated by the mouse, but moving the mouse too much will activate the tilt sensors...
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge is the first game in the series was released in 1990 for most popular contemporary 8-bit and 16-bit computer systems, the Amiga version being the most technically advanced. The game allowed the player to race a Lotus Esprit Turbo SE car through several (32 in the Amiga version) circuit race tracks of varying scenery. Two player simultaneous play (with split screen) was also provided, and a choice of audio tracks to accompany races...
last update: 21.01.2012, games played: 138
Laser Squad, Play online, Laser Squad (Amstrad CPC)
1988
Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics war game where the player completes objectives such as rescue or retrieval operations, or simply eliminating all of the enemy, by maneuvering the squad's team members around a map one at a time, taking actions such as move, turn, shoot, pick up and so on that would use up the unit's Action Points...
Lagaf: Les Aventures de Moktar - Vol 1: La Zoubida is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Titus Interactive based on the song `La Zoubida` by Lagaf - famous French humorist (Vincent Rouil). Player is in role of Moktar, an Arabian man who is lost in the big city and must bring him back to the Arab world. Next title - Titus the Fox - is essentially the same game with a different main character...
Knight Orc is a standard text adventure with limited graphics on some platforms. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a night of heavy drinking with friends, Grindleguts the orc awakes to find himself strapped to a horse and about to joust with a human knight. His "friends" are nowhere to be seen, and he must somehow escape from his predicament and get even with them...
Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager is a football computer game that was released exclusively to Europe in 1989. This video game involves taking the role of Kenny Dalglish as he manages an English football team from the Football League Fourth Division right to the Football League First Division. The game is powered mainly by icons and menus; dragging the `managerial football` genre into the 1990s. A chairman can be consulted if players made the right decision while a physiotherapist can check for player injuries and the football scout can find players that can be recruited into the team...
last update: 13.06.2012, games played: 41
Karateka, Play online - Karateka (Amstrad CPC) [French]
1984
Karateka is a 1984 computer game by Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. The game begins with an impressive graphic of the fortress of the evil Akuma. Akuma is holding the lovely Princess Mariko. The player must defeat the guards of the castle and must eventually face Akuma himself in order to rescue the princess. Mechner adeptly used character gestures and musical cues to evoke the game's immersive atmosphere. The animations nearly match the quality of the ones seen in Mechner's Prince of Persia five years later...
last update: 06.01.2011, games played: 66
Juggernaut, Play online - Juggernaut (Amstrad CPC)
1985
Juggernaut is the first game in its own genre! Become a truck driver in an elaborate computer simulator for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Your task is to distribute goods in the small town, your opponents outlayed fuel and poorly controllable truck ...
As in the movie (and the more-famous graphic adventure), your task is to find the Holy Grail. Before this can be done you must find the Cross of Coronado, a shield and a diary...
last update: 24.08.2012, games played: 30
Hobbit, The, Play online - The Hobbit (Amstrad CPC)
1982
The Hobbit is a computer game released in 1982 and based on the book The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was developed at Beam Software by Phillip Mitchell and Stuart Richie and published by Melbourne House for most home computers available at the time. Many locations were illustrated by an image, based on originals designed by Kent Rees...
The famous fantasy-themed board game was converted into an isometric-viewed role playing game in which the evil Wizard Morcar must be defeated. You take control of a wizard, a dwarf, a barbarian and an elf, each with different strengths and weaknesses, who each start the 14 missions from opposite sides of the board. Strict turn-based movement rules apply, as actions other than movement can only be carried out before or after the move, the size of which is limited by a dice roll...
Head Over Heels is an arcade adventure, released in 1987 for several 8-bit home computers, and subsequently ported to a wide range of formats. It uses an isometric engine that is similar to the Filmation technique first developed by Ultimate (Knight Lore). Head Over Heels is the second isometric game by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond, after the Batman computer game...
Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing computer game released for the ZX Spectrum, PC, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. There are eight GPs in the game: Brazil, Monaco, Canada, Detroit, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan. You can select a McLaren Honda MP4/4, Ferrari F187/88C or Williams Judd FW12 as your Formula One team. Generally, the Ferrari is the slowest, but easiest to handle, and the McLaren is the fastest, but difficult to control...
Elite is a seminal space trading computer game developed by David Braben and Ian Bell. Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wireframe 3D graphics with hidden line removal. The player, initially `Commander Jameson`, starts at Lave Station with 100 credits and a lightly armed trading ship, a Cobra Mark III. Most of the ships that the player encounters are similarly named after snakes, or other reptiles. Credits can be accumulated through a number of means...
last update: 26.12.2010, games played: 35
Dragon's Lair, Play online - Dragon's Lair (Amstrad CPC)
1983
Dragon's Lair features the hero, "Dirk the Daring", attempting to rescue "Princess Daphne" from the evil dragon Singe holed up in a wizard's castle. The screen shows animated scenes, and the player executes an action by selecting a direction or pressing the sword button with correct timing. The comedy of the game stemmed from not only the bizarre looking creatures and death scenes, but the fact that while Dirk was a skilled knight...
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