Head Over Heels, Play online, Head Over Heels (Commodore 64)
1987
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...
Action game released simultaneously with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Most action takes place in isometric view, although there are some variations along the way to keep up interest. There are even some adventure-game elements, such as Indy's inventory which you can fill with various objects to use...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is an arcade platform game and scrolling fighter, and is based on the movie of the same name. The player assumes the role of Indiana Jones as he infiltrates the lair of the evil Thuggee cult, armed only with his trademark whip...
Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off Road enter the world of off-road racing as 4 vehicles will face each other, on a series of tracks which are based around flipped and reversed versions of a core selection. Fame, glory and bikini clad women await your victories and the taste of dirt awaits if you fail. Let a computer car beat you and you lose one of your 3 credits...
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...
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: 42
Laser Squad, Play online, Laser Squad (Commodore 64)
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...
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: 145
Manic Miner, Play online - Manic Miner (Commodore 64)
1983
Manic Miner is a platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte. It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the pioneers of the platform game genre. Miner Willy, while prospecting down Surbiton way, stumbles upon an ancient, long forgotten mine-shaft. On further exploration, he finds evidence of a lost civilisation far superior to our own, which used automatons to dig deep into the Earth's core to supply the essential raw materials for their advanced industry...
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...
last update: 25.06.2010, games played: 876
Miner 2049er, Play online - Miner 2049er (Commodore 64)
1982
Miner 2049er is a video game created by Bill Hogue Under the name Big Five Software. Bounty Bob is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on a mission to search through all of Nuclear Ned's abandoned uranium mines for the treacherous Yukon Yohan. Bob must claim each section of each mine by running over it. There are a wide variety of futuristic obstacles that he must deal with such as matter transporters, hydraulic scaffolds...
Nebulus (Tower Toppler) is a platform game with some distinctive unique features. Your character, a small green creature called Pogo, is on a mission to destroy eight towers that have been built onto the sea, by planting bombs at the towers' peaks. Pogo's progress is hindered by enemies and obstacles, which he has to avoid in order to reach the top of the tower. The actual game play happens at each tower in turn. Pogo starts from the bottom and has to find his way up to the top...
The Neverending Story II is an action platform game which is largely based on the movie. You're Bastian, and are called forth once again by the Childlike Empress to save Fantasia, the Land of Dreams. The game itself is indeed a platformer where you have to outrun giants (as in the movie) or push them over ledges. With every level you will be awarded with another advancement in the plot, usually a few pages written on a "book"...
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...
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the U.S. by Midway, first released in Japan. Pac-Man is universally considered as one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of the 1980s popular culture. Pac-Man's goal is continually challenged by four ghosts: The shy blue ghost Bashful (Inky), the trailing red ghost Shadow (Blinky), the fast pink ghost Speedy (Pinky), and the forgetful orange ghost Pokey (Clyde). One touch from any of these ghosts means a loss of life for Pac-Man...
last update: 04.05.2010, games played: 323
Pipe Mania, Play online - Pipe Mania (Commodore 64)
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...
last update: 06.07.2011, games played: 25
Pole Position, Play online - Pole Position (Commodore 64)
1982
Pole Position is a racing video game released in 1982 by Namco. The game popularized the use of sprite-based, pseudo-3D graphics with its `rear-view racer format` where the player’s view is behind and above the vehicle, looking forward along the road with the horizon in sight, which would remain in use even after true 3D computer graphics became standard for racing games. In this game, the player controls a Formula One race car...
last update: 09.05.2010, games played: 177
Pole Position 2, Play online - Pole Position 2 (Commodore 64)
1983
Pole Position II is a racing arcade game that was released by Namco in 1983 as the sequel to Pole Position, which was released the previous year. There is a new opening theme, and in addition to the original Fuji racetrack, there are three others to choose from: Test (resembling Indianapolis Motor Speedway), Seaside (resembling Long Beach Grand Prix), and Suzuka. The graphics were improved; cars have a different color scheme and explosions show debris...
last update: 09.05.2010, games played: 482
Rick Dangerous, Play online - Rick Dangerous (Commodore 64)
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...
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: 22
Second Reality, Play OnLine - Second Reality (Commodore 64)
1993
Second Reality is a demo created by Future Crew for the Assembly `93 demoparty. In the PC demo competition, Second Reality placed first with its demonstration of 2D and 3D rendering. The demo was released to the public in October 1993. It is considered to be one of the best demos created during the early 1990s on the PC. Slashdot voted it one of the `Top 10 Hacks of All Time`...
Shadow of the Beast is a side-scrolling platform computer game released for the Commodore Amiga, but the game has been ported to many other systems. Shadow of the Beast, however, was considered revolutionary because its graphics, with many more colours on screen and up to twelve levels of parallax scrolling backdrops, were of a level rarely if ever seen before in action games. It was also notable for its atmospheric score composed by David Whittaker that used high-quality instrument samples...
last update: 18.03.2011, games played: 103
Space Invaders, Play online (clone), Invaders 64 (Commodore 64)
1978
Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to defeat waves of aliens with a laser cannon to earn as many points as possible. In designing the game, Nishikado drew inspiration from popular media: Breakout, The War of the Worlds, and Star Wars. To complete it, he had to design custom hardware and development tools...
last update: 14.02.2011, games played: 72
Space Taxi, Play online, Space Taxi (Commodore 64)
1984
Space Taxi is an action game simulates a flying taxi. It was written by John F. Kutcher for the Commodore 64 and published by MUSE Software. The game is famous for featuring sampled speech uncommon in the early 1980s. The speech samples include `Hey taxi!`, `Pad one please`, `Thanks` or `Up please`. There are 24 different levels, all in sequential order, and the player has to complete all of them. Piloting a Space Taxi, player must pick up passengers from "pads" and carry them to whatever other pads they wish to go...
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...
Stratego is a strategic board game featuring a 10 × 10 square board and two players with 40 pieces each. Pieces represent individual officers and soldiers in an army, though the game is in all other respects an abstract strategy game...
last update: 29.10.2011, games played: 74
Test Drive, Play online, Test Drive (Commodore 64)
1987
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...
Treasure Island is Dizzy's second adventure. This game is quite different from its predecessor, with a new inventory system and improved animations. The game notably contains fewer enemies than the previous title. It is more centred around inventory based problem solving. The aim of the game is to solve various puzzles in order to obtain a boat so that Dizzy can return to his friends and family, the Yolkfolk...
Xenon is a 1988 2D vertical-scrolling shooter computer game, originally released for the Amiga and quickly ported to other platforms. Excellent graphics, catchy soundtrack, and gameplay turned the game into best-seller on Commodore 64 and Amiga systems, although the PC version much less well received. Like all great SHMUPs, Xenon features smooth controls, well-designed and varied enemy ships , plenty of power-ups, and nonstop action. One neat feature is the ability to change your vehicle from a flying ship to a ground-based tank at any time...
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