Pac-Land is an entry in the Pac-Man series of arcade video games, released into arcades by Namco, and its American distributor Bally Midway , in August 1984. In the American release of Pac-Land by Bally Midway, the characters' appearances are based on the designs from the Pac-Man animated series produced...
Cyberball is an Atari Games arcade game of 7-man American football, using robotic avatars of different speeds, sizes, and skill sets set in the year 2022. Most often, the timely use of the defender's turbo, a short-term speed boost usable once per play, would determine whether the play resulted in a...
Hard Drivin' is a 3D arcade hit from Atari Games. You are in control of a high-performance sports car. Your objective is to race around the course as fast as possible and hit as many checkpoints as possible. If you hit a checkpoint you gain extra time to go farther. You will see traffic on the road both...
California Games is a 1987 Epyx sports video game for many home computers and video game consoles. The game sold very well, topping game selling charts for winter months. Chuck Sommerville, the designer of the half-pipe game in California Games later developed the game Chip's Challenge, while Ken Nicholson...
The objective of Qix is to fence off, or claim, a supermajority of the playfield. The player controls a marker that can move around the edges of the rectangle. The player's marker can move at two different speeds; areas drawn exclusively at the slower speed are worth double points. In addition, if the...
Rampage is a game where players control giant monsters/mutated humans. Players must smash buildings while destroying vehicles such as tanks, planes, and trains to advance to the next level. Smashing windows will sometimes reveals items of interest that the player may use.
However, the destruction of the vehicle will subtract a small amount from the player's fuel tank. At this point, the amount of fuel in the main tank is restored to what it was at the beginning of the rally . When a player gets low on fuel in their main tank, a fuel light will blink on and an alarm will...
The hero of the game is a young jungle-man named Toki. One day the evil wizard Dr. Stark kidnaps his girlfriend Wanda. When Toki tries to save her, he is turned into a monkey! Now Toki has to find Dr. Stark in his palace, rescue Wanda, and become a human being again!
Pit-Fighter is a 1990 arcade fighting game by Atari Games, notable for its early use of digitized live actors. The graphic animation for the player character and opponents were created through a bluescreen process, where the various poses & moves of the characters were acted out by hired actors in...
The arcade version of Ninja Gaiden is a "belt-scrolling" beat-'em-up. The player controls a ninja whose mission to defeat an evil cult led by Bladedamus, a descendant of Nostradamus who seeks to fulfill his end of the world prophecies. Upon starting the game, the player is greeted by the phrase "NINJA...