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| x Badlands |
Badlands is a 1989 arcade game published by Atari Games. It was later ported by Domark under the Tengen label to a number of home computers. It is set in the aftermath of a nuclear war and races around abandoned wastelands with many hazards. Three...
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| x Double Dragon |
Double Dragon (ダブルドラゴン) is a 1987 beat 'em up developed by Technos Japan and distributed in North America and Europe by Taito Corporation. The game is a spiritual and technological successor to Technos' earlier beat 'em up, Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun ...
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| x Pitfall II: Lost Caverns |
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns is a platforming video game originally released for the Atari 2600 video game console in 1984. It is the sequel to the popular Pitfall!. Both games were designed and written by David Crane and published by Activision. The...
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| x Pole Position |
Pole Position is an arcade racing video game released in 1982. It was designed by Namco and manufactured worldwide by Namco, except in the United States, where it was manufactured by Atari, Inc. It was the most popular coin-op arcade game of 1983....
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| x Street Fighter II |
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (ストリートファイターⅡ -The World Warrior-) is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in 1991. It is the second entry in the Street Fighter series and the arcade sequel to the original Street...
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| x Legend of Kage |
The Legend of Kage (影の伝説; Kage no Densetsu) is a 1985 arcade game by Taito and was released for several contemporary home computer systems in 1986.
The player takes role of the young Iga ninja named Kage ("Shadow") on the mission to rescue Princess...
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| x Tau Ceti |
Tau Ceti is a science fiction themed computer game first published in 1985 by CRL for the ZX Spectrum and later converted to several other platforms. It was designed and programmed by Pete Cooke. It was groundbreaking at the time for its extensive...
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| x Donkey Kong |
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Donkey Kong (ドンキーコング, Donkī Kongu) is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. It is an early example of the platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping...
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| x California Games |
California Games is a 1987 Epyx sports video game for many home computers and video game consoles. Branching from their popular Summer Games and Winter Games series, this game consisted of some sports purportedly popular in California including...
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| x Potty Painter |
Potty Painter is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum and released by Rabbit Software in 1983. The game had a Maze format to it with bonus games in between levels.
The player control character is a monkey. The goal of the game is to join the dotted...
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| x Cookie |
Cookie is a ZX Spectrum video game written by Chris and Tim Stamper and published by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. It was one of four 16K games by Ultimate that were available on ROM format for use with the ZX Interface 2. A version was also...
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| x Hacker |
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Hacker is a 1985 computer game by Activision. It was designed by Steve Cartwright, produced by Brad Fregger and was released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari XL/XE, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, MS-DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum. The game...
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| x Yie Ar Kung-Fu |
Yie Ar Kung-Fu (イー・アル・カンフー, Ī Aru Kanfū) is a 1985 arcade fighting game developed and published by Konami. It was considered by many gamers in Japan to be the basis for modern fighting games. It pit the player against a variety of opponents, each...
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| x Nebulus |
Nebulus is a computer game created by John M. Phillips and published by Hewson Consultants in the late 1980s for various home computer systems. International releases and ports were known by various other names, including Castelian, Kyorochan Land,...
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| x Rebelstar |
The Rebelstar games are a series of turn-based tactics video games designed by Julian Gollop. Rebelstar Raiders was published in 1984 by Red Shift for the ZX Spectrum personal computer. It was reworked in machine code as Rebelstar, published by...
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| x Pud Pud in Weird World |
Pud Pud in Weird World (also known simply as Pud Pud) is a computer game published by Ocean Software in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum. It was written by Jonathan Smith. Smith was paid £1000 for Pud Pud by Ocean Software and was given a job at Ocean as a...
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| x Knight Lore |
Knight Lore is a computer game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the third in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf and Underwurlde. Unlike the earlier games in the series it used...
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| x Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal |
Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal is a 1987 computer game for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and the Amiga based on the comic strip Garfield.
The game is an arcade adventure with platform elements, starring Garfield, who has to...
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| x Skate or Die! |
Not to be confused with the Law & Order episode "Skate or Die", or the 2008 French film "Skate or Die"
Skate or Die! is a skateboarding game released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Apple IIgs,...
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| x Dizzy Down the Rapids |
Dizzy Down the Rapids is an arcade style action video game that was published in 1991 by Codemasters for the Amstrad CPC, Spectrum, DOS, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Amiga.
The game involves Dizzy riding barrels down a river avoiding obstacles and...
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| x Alien Syndrome |
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Alien Syndrome is a run and gun arcade game developed by Sega in 1987.
Two players control two soldiers named Ricky and Mary, who must fight their way through large eight-way scrolling levels rescuing their comrades who are being held by aliens....
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| x Don't Buy This |
Don't Buy This (also known as: Don't Buy This: Five of the Worst Games Ever) is a ZX Spectrum compilation. As described on the box, it contains five of the poorest games submitted to Firebird.
Instead of rejecting the submissions, they decided to...
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| x Split Personalities |
Split Personalities (first released as Splitting Images) is a sliding square puzzle game that involves piecing together the faces of famous personalities and politicians.
The game presents the player with a blank screen to play with. The player...
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| x Super Hang-On |
Super Hang-On (スーパーハングオン) is a 1987 motorcycle racing arcade game from Sega, and the sequel to the acclaimed Hang-On. A version of this game, in the full simulated-motorcycle cabinet used by the original Hang-On was released in 1991 as Limited...
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| x Shadow Dancer |
Shadow Dancer (シャドー・ダンサー) is a side-scrolling action game produced by Sega originally released as an arcade game in 1989. It is the second arcade game in the Shinobi series, following the original Shinobi itself. The game was developed on the Sega...
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| x Tir Na Nog |
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Tir Na Nog is a video game published in 1984 by Gargoyle Games for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. It was ported to the Commodore 64 in 1985. It is loosely based on Celtic mythology.
The game was widely positively received by the gaming media. The...
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| x Rasterscan |
Rasterscan is a computer game published in 1987 by Mastertronic for several 8-bit formats. It was written by Binary Design Ltd based in Parsonage Gardens, Manchester with the C64 version programmed by Phillip Allsopp (aka Sarge).
The Rasterscan, a...
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| x Chase H.Q. |
Chase H.Q. (チェイスH.Q., "Chase Headquarters") is a 1988 arcade racing game, released by Taito. It is a spiritual successor of Taito's 1987 Full Throttle. The player assumes the role of a police officer named Tony Gibson, member of the "Chase Special...
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| x Potty Pigeon |
Percy The Potty Pigeon is a 1984 computer game developed by Antony Crowther and released by Gremlin Graphics for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The goal was to fly around and collect sticks to build your nest. You could also poop on the cars that...
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| x The Incredible Shrinking Fireman |
The Incredible Shrinking Fireman is a computer game released by Mastertronic in 1986. The game was written by Andy Mitchell and David Kidd.
While beating back the flames of a blazing fire in a vast shrinking plant, Shuffling Sid fell into the jaws...
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| x Super Robin Hood |
Super Robin Hood is a platform action video game featuring Robin Hood released in November 1985 by Codemasters. The game was developed by the Oliver twins on the Amstrad CPC at the age of 17 and was their first title published by Codemasters.
The...
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| x Colony |
Colony is an arcade adventure and strategy computer game released in 1987 for several 8-bit computer formats by Mastertronic on their Bulldog label.
Owing to overpopulation, humanity has found it necessary to grow food in colonies on other planets....
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| x Mikie |
Mikie, known in Japan as Shinnyuushain Tooru-kun (新入社員とおるくん, lit. Freshman Tooru-kun), is a 1984 arcade game by Konami where the player must guide a student called "Mikie" around the school, classroom, and locker room to collect hearts which make up...
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| x Impossible Mission |
Impossible Mission is a platform computer game for several home computers. The original version for the Commodore 64 was programmed by Dennis Caswell and published by Epyx in 1984.
Impossible Mission has the user play a secret agent who must stop an...
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| x Karateka |
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Karateka (Japanese: 空手家, "practitioner of karate") is a 1984 beat'em up video game by Jordan Mechner, his first game created while attending Yale University. It was originally programmed for the Apple II, and was later ported to several other home...
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| x Tapper |
Tapper, also known as Root Beer Tapper, is a 1983 arcade game released by Bally Midway. The goal of the game is to serve beer and collect empty mugs and tips.
Tapper puts the player in the shoes of a bartender. The player must serve eager, thirsty...
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| x Spellbound |
Spellbound is a computer game that was designed and programmed by David Jones with music by Rob Hubbard and released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC (also with Ed Hickman) home computers. Versions for the Commodore 64 (with Richard...
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| x Silent Service |
Silent Service is a 1985 submarine simulator computer game. It was designed by Sid Meier and published by MicroProse for various 8-bit home computers, and in 1987 for 16-bit systems like the Commodore Amiga. The follow-up game Silent Service II was...
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| x Techno Cop |
Techno Cop is a 1988 action video game for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS and ZX Spectrum. It was subsequently ported to the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. The gameplay combines pseudo-3D driving in the graphical style of...
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| x Pirates Cove |
Pirate Adventure or Pirate Cove was a text-based adventure program written by Scott Adams.
Published by Adventure International and the second game of the series, after Adventureland, this text-based adventure game was one of many adventure games...
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| x Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure |
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Dizzy, or Dizzy – The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure, was the first video game featuring the character Dizzy, an anthropomorphic egg. The game was designed by two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, frequently referred to as the Oliver twins....
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| x Jet Set Willy II |
Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier was a platform game released in 1985 by Software Projects for a variety of 8-bit home computers. It was the only official sequel to Jet Set Willy, one of the most successful and popular home computer games ever...
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| x Dynamite Dan II |
Dynamite Dan II: Dr Blitzen and the Islands of Arcanum is the sequel to the highly rated original Dynamite Dan. It was written by Rob Bowkett (ZX Spectrum) and Keith Goodyer (Amstrad CPC) and published by Mirrorsoft for the ZX Spectrum and the...
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| x Final Fight |
Final Fight (Japanese: ファイナルファイト) is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in 1989. It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware. The player takes control...
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| x Rodland |
Rod Land, known in Japan fully titled as Yousei Monogatari Rod Land (妖精物語ロッドランド, lit. ""Rod Land: A Fairy Tale"") is a 1990 arcade game originally developed and published by Jaleco.
The player(s) control one or two fairies called Tam and Rit armed...
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| x Brian Bloodaxe |
Brian Bloodaxe is a British platform game written by Charles Bystram and released by The Edge Software in 1985. It was published for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 (converted by Trevor Inns) and Amstrad CPC 464 (also converted by Trevor Inns).
In...
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| x Great Giana Sisters |
The Great Giana Sisters is a platform game developed by Time Warp Productions for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MSX2, and Commodore 64. It was released in 1987 and published by Rainbow Arts. The Commodore 64 version was programmed by Armin...
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| x Hard Drivin' |
Hard Drivin' is a driving arcade game that invites players to test drive a high-powered sports car on stunt and speed courses. The game featured one of the first 3D polygon driving environments via a simulator cabinet, rendered with a custom...
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| x Rush'n Attack |
Rush'n Attack, originally released in Japan and Europe as Green Beret (グリーンベレー)(gurīnberē), is an action/platform arcade game released by Konami in 1985. Rush'n Attack is remembered for its Cold War setting (the title is a play on "Russian attack")...
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| x Elite |
Elite is a seminal space trading video game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers. The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of ...
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| x Gradius |
Gradius (グラディウス, Guradiusu) is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up produced by Konami originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1985. It was the first game in the Gradius series of shoot 'em ups. In Gradius, the player must maneuver a...
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| x Blasteroids |
Blasteroids is one of the sequels to the original 1979 shoot 'em up video game Asteroids. It was developed by Atari Games (which later became Midway Games West) and published in 1987 by Image Works for: arcade cabinet, in 1989 for: Amiga, Amstrad...
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| x Night Shift |
Night Shift is a computer game developed and published in 1990 by Lucasfilm Games, now known as LucasArts. It is a unique action game where the hero is a worker in a factory owned by Industrial Might and Logic (a parody of Industrial Light and Magic...
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| x Sanxion |
Sanxion is a 1986 side-scrolling shoot 'em up by Thalamus Ltd., developed by Stavros Fasoulas, along with Delta, another shoot 'em up, and Quedex.
Sanxion is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up, the goal to traverse each level from left to right avoiding...
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| x Spy Hunter |
Spy Hunter is a 1983 arcade game developed and released by Bally Midway. It has also been ported to various home computers and video game systems.
As a cabinet-style arcade game, Spy Hunter was produced in both sit-down and standard upright versions...
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| x Sabre Wulf |
Sabre Wulf is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1984. The game is the first in the Sabreman series. It was written originally by Tim Stamper and Chris Stamper, and later ported to many other computer...
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| x Crystal Kingdom Dizzy |
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy is an adventure video game featuring the character Dizzy released in December 1992 by Codemasters. The Oliver Twins—who were heavily involved in the design and programming of previous Dizzy games—had less involvement with the...
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| x Twin Kingdom Valley |
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Twin Kingdom Valley was a text adventure game with animated pictures (on most formats) for the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Commodore 16 and ZX Spectrum. It was released in 1983 by Bug-Byte Software.
The game was inspired by the original...
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| x X-Out |
X-Out is a video game released by Rainbow Arts in 1989 for the Commodore 64 and in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.
X-Out is a horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up with eight levels and an underwater setting.
Between levels,...
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| x Waxworks |
Waxworks is a text adventure game by Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden. It was originally published by Digital Fantasia in 1983 for the Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro.
The story is about a waxworks in which the protagonist...
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