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Oregon Trail

• Simulation

The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of the future state of Kansas, and nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. Wagon trails were cleared increasingly further west, and eventually reached all the way to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, at which point what came to be...

Lode Runner

• Platform
• Puzzle

It is one of the first games to include a level editor, a feature that allows players to create their own levels for the game. Smith of Renton, Washington, who at the time was an architecture student at the University of Washington. This prototype, called Kong, was written for a Prime Computer 550 minicomputer...

Prince Of Persia Classic

• Platform

The Last Express

• adventure

The Last Express is a video game created by Jordan Mechner and Smoking Car Productions, published in 1997. Set on the Orient Express in 1914, the player takes on the role of Robert Cath, an American doctor on the train's final journey from Paris to Constantinople before World War I. The game has 30 characters...

Zoombinis

• Educational
• Puzzle

Zoombinis are a series of educational puzzle computer games that were originally developed by TERC and published by Brøderbund Software until The Learning Company bought Brøderbund in 1998 and took over developing and publishing the series in 2001. Throughout the Zoombinis' journey, the...

Raid On Bungeling Bay

• Action
• Strategy

It was published by Brøderbund for the Commodore 64 and MSX in 1984 and the NES in 1987. There was also a hidden island for the player to reload on. In order to win the game, the player must prevent the escalation by bombing all the factories as quickly as possible, keeping them from advancing...

Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow And The Flame

• adventure
• Platform

As in Prince of Persia, the trick is to complete the game under a strict time limit from 65 minutes in the game that passes in real time. The game begins as the Prince enters the royal courts of the palace. Falling asleep on the ship, the Prince dreams of a mysterious woman who asks the Prince to come...

The Manhole

• adventure

and distributed through mail order. In 1989, it was produced for Activision as CD-ROM version based on that floppy disc game. This version was the first computer game distributed on CD-ROM . It runs in black-and-white on the Apple Macintosh line of computers. The game was re-released for MS-DOS twice,...