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| Atari ST |
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The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s. It was released by Atari Corporation in 1985. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit...
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Bubble Bobble (バブルボブル, Baburu Boburu) is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986 and later ported to numerous home computers and game consoles . The game, starring the twin Bubble Dragons Bub (Bubblun) (バブルン, Baburun) and Bob (Bobblun) ...
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Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based strategy computer game created by Sid Meier for MicroProse in 1991. The game's objective is to "...build an empire to stand the test of time". The game begins in 4000 BC, and the players attempt to expand and...
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Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987 by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). Maniac Mansion has become known among gamers and programmers for its highly-acclaimed gameplay and its introduction of new ideas...
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R-Type (アールタイプ) is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named "Arrowhead" to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien life-form known as "Bydo", which was later...
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Sim City |
SimCity is a city-building simulation game, first released in 1989 and designed by Will Wright. SimCity was Maxis' first product, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and spawned several sequels including...
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| MIDI Maze |
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MIDI Maze was an early first person shooter video game for the Atari ST developed by Xanth Software F/X, published by Hybrid Arts, and released around 1987. It owes a significant debt to what may be the first of its genre, Maze War. The original...
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Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare is an interactive fiction computer game written by Michael Berlyn and published by Infocom in 1983. It belongs to the science fiction genre, and is considered by many fans to be one of Infocom's better non-Zork...
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Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as the first pc God game. In 1991, Populous won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1990 as well as 1990 Computer Game of the Year in...
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| Zool |
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Zool is a computer game originally produced for the Amiga by Gremlin Graphics as a rival to Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog. It was heavily hyped upon its initial release in 1992, including being bundled with the newly launched Amiga 1200, although not...
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| Lemmings |
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Lemmings ("レミングス) is a puzzle computer game developed by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by Psygnosis in 1991. Originally developed for the Commodore Amiga, Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time, and several...
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| Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders |
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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is a graphical adventure game, originally released in October 1988, published by LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games). It was the second game to use the SCUMM engine, after Maniac Mansion. The...
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| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1989 (to coincide with the release of the film of the same name), published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). It was the third game to...
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Loom is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1990. It was both developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now called LucasArts) and was the fourth game to use the SCUMM adventure game engine. The project was led by Brian Moriarty, a...
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| The Secret of Monkey Island |
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Monkey Island 1 |
The Secret of Monkey Island is an adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games. The game spawned a number of sequels, collectively known as the Monkey Island series. Released in October 1990, The Secret of Monkey Island is the fifth game to use the...
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Bloodwych is a computer dungeon role-playing game developed for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS as well as the major 8-bit home computer platforms. It was developed by Image Works from 1989. Its box featured artwork by Chris Achilleos.
The plotline...
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| Marble Madness |
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Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny, and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide an onscreen marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time...
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| Rogue |
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Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman. It is generally credited with being the first "graphical" adventure game, and was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to...
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| Star Raiders |
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Star Raiders is a video game for the Atari 8-bit family of computers, released in 1979 and programmed by Doug Neubauer. It was also later ported to other Atari computer and game platforms. It was distinctive for its graphics, which (under most...
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| Pool of Radiance |
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Pool of Radiance is a computer role-playing game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI) in 1988. It was the first computer adaptation of TSR's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D; or D&D;) fantasy role-playing game. It is the...
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Arkanoid (アルカノイド, Arukanoido) is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It is based upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the Vaus, the player's ship, escapes.
Much like the game 'Breakout...
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| Xenophobe |
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Xenophobe is a 1987 arcade game published by Bally Midway. Starbases, moons, ships, and space cities are infested with aliens, and the players have to kill the aliens before each is completely overrun.
This game was unusual in that it split the...
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| Rick Dangerous |
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Rick Dangerous is a series of two platform games released by Core Design (who would later make Tomb Raider) in the 1980s.
Rick Dangerous is a platform game developed by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and...
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| Rainbow Islands |
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Bubble Bobble 2 |
Rainbow Islands (レインボーアイランド, Reinbō Airando) is a 1987 arcade game developed and published by Taito. The game is subtitled "The Story of Bubble Bobble 2" and is the sequel to Taito's hit game Bubble Bobble from the previous year. It is the second of...
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POP |
Prince of Persia (often shortened to "POP") is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner in October 3, 1989 for the Apple II, that represented a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in computer games. Mechner used a...
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| Joust |
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Joust is an arcade game produced by Williams Electronics in 1982.
The player controls a knight armed with a lance, mounted on either an ostrich (player 1) or a stork (player 2), who battles waves of computer-controlled enemy knights mounted on giant...
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| Ghouls 'n Ghosts |
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Ghouls 'n Ghosts (大魔界村, Dai Makaimura, lit. "Great Demon World Village") is a platform game/run and gun developed by Capcom and released as an arcade game in 1988, and subsequently ported to a number of other platforms. It is the sequel to Ghosts 'n...
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| SunDog: Frozen Legacy |
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SunDog: Frozen Legacy is a 1984 Space trading and combat simulator video game. It was the first game produced by FTL Games. SunDog was first developed for the Apple II. Version 1.0 was released in March, 1984, with Version 1.1 (bug fixes) released...
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| Police Quest |
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Police Quest is a series of computer games produced and published by Sierra On-Line between 1987 and 1993. The original series was composed of four adventure games, the first three of which were designed by former policeman Jim Walls, with the...
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| Alternate Reality |
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Alternate Reality (AR) is an unfinished computer role-playing game (RPG) series that has achieved cult status among many fans of RPGs. It was created by Philip Price, who formed a development company called Paradise Programming. Published by...
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| Street Fighter II |
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Street Fighter II (ストリートファイターⅡ) is a Japanese series in Capcom's Street Fighter saga of head-to-head fighting games, originally released as coin-operated arcade games. The Street Fighter II series started with the Street Fighter II game itself,...
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| Bombuzal |
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Bombuzal is a computer puzzle game designed by Antony Crowther (credited as Ratt in the game) and David Bishop for Image Works. The game was released in 1988 for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64. It was also released in 1989 for MS-DOS and 1990...
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| Oxyd |
Oxyd is a computer puzzle game released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, PC, and the NeXT platform by Dongleware Verlags GmbH in 1990.
It is a game of puzzles and tests that challenge the player to restart all the oxygen generators (called Oxyds)...
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Utopia: The Creation of a Nation is a strategy video game. It was developed by Celestial Software and published by Gremlin Graphics (later known as Gremlin Interactive), in 1991 for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. It was later released for the Super NES...
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| Railroad Tycoon |
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Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon is a business simulation designed by Sid Meier. The game can now be downloaded and played for free.
The objective of the game is to build and manage a railroad company by laying track, building stations, and buying and...
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| Armour-Geddon |
Armour-Geddon is a 3D computer game developed and published in 1991 by Psygnosis for the Amiga, DOS and Atari ST platforms.
The setting for the game is post-nuclear holocaust Earth, where privileged group of humans have made it through the war in...
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| Shadow of the Beast |
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Shadow of the Beast is a side-scrolling platform computer game produced by Reflections Interactive and published by Psygnosis in 1989. The original version was released for the Commodore Amiga, but the game has been ported to many other systems. The...
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| Shufflepuck Cafe |
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Shufflepuck Café is a computer air hockey game developed by Domark (not a table shuffleboard computer game, as the name would suggest). It was published by Ubisoft (and later Brøderbund) in 1989, for the Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS (leaked version),...
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| Great Giana Sisters |
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The Great Giana Sisters is a platform game developed by Time Warp Productions for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and Commodore 64. It was released in 1987 and published by Rainbow Arts. The Commodore 64 version was programmed by Armin Gessert....
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| James Pond |
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James Pond, also known as James Pond: Underwater Agent, is a platform video game that was developed by British video game developers Vectordean Ltd and Millennium Interactive, and published by Millennium Interactive and Electronic Arts for numerous...
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| Treasure Island Dizzy |
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Treasure Island Dizzy is a computer puzzle game published in 1987 by Codemasters for the Amstrad, Commodore 64, Spectrum, DOS, NES, Amiga and Atari ST. There was some variation between different releases. For example, the C64 release of Treasure...
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| Speedball |
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Speedball is a video game series based on a violent futuristic cyberpunk sport that draws on elements of handball and ice hockey, and rewards violent play as well as goals. Three games were developed by the Bitmap Brothers, and a fourth by Kylotonn....
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| The Chaos Engine |
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The Chaos Engine is a top-down run and gun computer game developed by the Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in 1993. It was first released for the Commodore Amiga, with an enhanced version available for AGA Amigas, and later ported...
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| ZSNES |
ZSNES is a free SNES emulator written mostly in x86 assembly with official ports for Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows.
Development of ZSNES began on July 3, 1997 and the first version was released on October 14, 1997 for MS-DOS. Since then, official ports...
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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction computer game based on the seminal comic science fiction series of the same name. It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and was first released in...
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| Bard's Tale |
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Tales of the Unknown Volume I: The Bard's Tale |
The Bard's Tale (Tales of the Unknown: Volume I) is a fantasy computer role-playing game created by Interplay Productions in 1985 and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was designed and programmed by Michael Cranford.
Based loosely on traditional...
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| Elite |
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Elite is a seminal space trading computer 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...
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| Final Fight |
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Final Fight (ファイナルファイト) is a fighting action game produced by Capcom originally released in 1989 as a coin-operated arcade game. The arcade version was planned by game designer Akira Nishitani (Nin-Nin) and character designer Akira Yasuda (Akiman),...
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| Battlezone |
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Battlezone is an arcade game from Atari released in 1980. It displays a wireframe view (using vector graphics rather than raster graphics) on a horizontal black and white CRT (with green and red sectioned color overlay). Due to its novel gameplay...
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| Starflight |
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Starflight is a computer game published by Electronic Arts and developed by Binary Systems in 1986. Originally developed for DOS and Tandy, it was later released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh and Commodore 64. A fully-revamped version of the...
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| Zany Golf |
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Zany Golf, also known as Will Harvey's Zany Golf, is a video game with a fantasy take on miniature golf, developed by Sandcastle Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The game was originally developed in 1988 for the Apple IIGS and became...
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| Dragon's Lair |
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Dragon's Lair is a laserdisc video game published by Cinematronics in 1983. It featured animation created by former Disney animator Don Bluth. Most other games of the era represented the character as a sprite, which consisted of a series of bitmaps...
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| Chip's Challenge |
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Chip's Challenge is a tile-based, puzzle video game for several systems, including the hand-held Atari Lynx, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, DOS, and Windows (included in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack and Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack).It has also...
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| 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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| Balance of Power |
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Balance of Power is a computer strategy game of geopolitics during the Cold War, written by Chris Crawford and published in 1985. The game is notable for engaging the player in nail-biting brinkmanship without using any graphics more complicated...
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| Shinobi |
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Shinobi (忍 -SHINOBI-) is an arcade game, developed and published by Sega. It was originally released in 1987 and ported to numerous systems. The game spawned numerous sequels. A re-worked version was released for Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade on June...
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| Ataxx |
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Ataxx (also known as Slime and Frog) is a board game which first appeared in 1990 as an arcade video game by The Leland Corporation. The game was invented by Dave Crummack and Craig Galley in 1988 and was called Infection. It was first programmed on...
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| Bureaucracy |
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Bureaucracy is an interactive fiction computer game released by Infocom in 1987, scripted by popular comic science fiction author Douglas Adams. It is Infocom's twenty-fourth game.
The player is challenged to confront a long and complicated series...
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| Wonder Boy in Monster Land |
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Wonder Boy in Monster Land (Super Wonder Boy in Monster World in the Japanese Sega Master System version, also known as Super Monster World: Super Wonder Boy in some North American versions and Super Wonder Boy in Monsterland for the Activision...
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| A Mind Forever Voyaging |
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A Mind Forever Voyaging (AMFV) is an interactive fiction game designed and implemented by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom in 1985. The name is taken from book three of The Prelude by William Wordsworth:
The antechapel where the statue stood...
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