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Feud game
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Feud

International version of a Korean MMORPG which was released into public beta on May 28, 2008. It uses a cash shop system, and it's key selling points include township battles and its unique PvP system.

The Earth Dies Screaming game
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The Earth Dies Screaming

A space shooter designed by Dan Thompson for the Atari 2600 that was also released under the name "Final Orbit" for the Atari 8-bit and Commodore VIC-20 homecomputers.

Q*bert game
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Q*bert

  • Platform
  • Puzzle

The objective is to change the color of every cube in a pyramid by making the on-screen character hop on top of the cube while avoiding obstacles and enemies. Lee designed the title character and original concept, which was then further developed and implemented by Davis. The success resulted in sequels...

Kangaroo game
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Kangaroo

  • Arcade
  • Platform

In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus: the red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo. Kangaroos are endemic to Australia. The term "wallaroos" refers to species of an...

Gauntlet game
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Gauntlet

The players, up to four at once in the arcade version, select among four playable fantasy-based characters; Thor the Warrior, Merlin the Wizard, Thyra the Valkyrie, or Questor the Elf. Each character has his or her own unique strength and weaknesses. For example, the Warrior is strongest in hand-to-hand...

Ghostbusters game
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Ultima 3: Exodus game
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Ultima 3: Exodus

  • RolePlaying

Eons ago Lord British came unto the lands of Sosaria. Since that time it has been united under his rule as the Kingdom of Britannia and has gone through two major crises. A few years ago there were political upheavals among the city states of the kingdom. The ringleader of this political instability...

Spy Hunter game
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Spy Hunter

  • VehicularCombat
  • combat
  • vehicle

The object of the game is to drive down roads in the technologically advanced "Interceptor" car and destroy various enemy vehicles with a variety of onboard weapons. Spy Hunter was also ported to various home computers and video game systems. Spy Hunter is a vertical scrolling action/driving...

Choplifter game
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Choplifter

  • Arcade
  • Shooter

Choplifter is a 1982 Apple II game developed by Dan Gorlin and published by Brøderbund. The player must collect the hostages and transport them safely to the nearby friendly base, all the while fighting off hostile tanks and other enemy combatants. It may shoot at enemies in any of these directions...

K-Razy Shoot-Out game
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K-Razy Shoot-Out

  • ShootEmUp

K-Razy Shoot-Out is a clone of the arcade game Berzerk developed by K-Byte, a division of Kay Enterprises, and released for theAtari 8-bit family in 1981. The game is part of a series of titles with the "K-" prefix, including K-Razy Kritters and K-Star Patrol. All of them were published on...

Pengo game
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Pengo

  • Arcade

The player controls Pengo, a red penguin that resides in the Antarctic. The game takes place in an overhead maze made of ice blocks, where Pengo fights the trolling, blob-like Sno-Bees. The objective of the game is for Pengo to survive a series of rounds by eliminating all Sno-Bees, while amassing bonuses...

RealSports Football game
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RealSports Football

  • Sports

Players in the game cannot go out of bounds or fumble the football, and there are no penalties in the game. The team on the offensive side of the ball has a quarterback, a flanker, and three offensive linemen ; the user controls the one with the ball. After the play is selected, the user presses the...

The Activision Decathlon game
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The Activision Decathlon

  • Sports

[game]The Activision Decathlon[/game] is a sports game written by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983. The Atari 2600 version of Decathlon was reviewed by Video magazine in its "Arcade Alley" column where it was described as "an absolute triumph of imaginative...

The Dreadnaught Factor game
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The Dreadnaught Factor

  • Arcade
  • Shooter

The game involved the player flying a small fighter spaceship to attack a very large and heavily armed vessel, a Dreadnaught. Bombing the Dreadnaught's engines would slow its progress to the Field, and shooting out its bridges would reduce the Dreadnaught's ability to return fire from any intact gun...

Rampage game
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Rampage

  • Arcade
  • Platform

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.

Rescue On Fractalus game
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Rescue On Fractalus

  • Simulation

The game utilizes fractal technology to create the craggy mountains of an alien planet, where the visilibility was drastically reduced by the dense atmosphere. The player controls a fictional "Valkyrie" space fighter[2] (converted for search and rescue duty) from a first-person view, attempting to land...

Warhawk game
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Warhawk

  • ShootEmUp
  • Vertical

Warhawk is an action/simulation game built around a futuristic VTOL craft. The player maneuvers with 360 degrees of flight control through 6 unique levels. Take to the skies over desert and volcanic planets, through ancient castles and towers, and against massive airships in WarHawk. As a member of...

Demon Attack game
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Demon Attack

  • Shooter

It was originally for the Atari 2600, then ported to the Intellivision, Odyssey², Atari 8-bit, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, PC , TRS-80 and TRS-80 Color Computer. Starting in Wave 5, demons also divide into two smaller, bird-like creatures that eventually attempt descent onto the player's cannon....

Ballblazer game
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Ballblazer

  • Sports

Ballblazer is a futurist sports game similar to basketball and soccer. Each side has a craft called a "rotofoil" controlled by either the human or computer. The computer has ten levels of difficulty. The main goal is to score points by firing or carrying the a floating ball into the opponent's...

Defender game
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Defender

  • Shooter
  • Strategy

Defender is an arcade video game developed released by Williams Electronics in 1980. A shooting game featuring two-dimensional (2D) graphics, the game is set on a fictional planet where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis,...

Dig Dug game
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Dig Dug

  • Arcade

Dig Dug is an arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan in 1982. Atari also obtained the license for home versions of Dig Dug, and released it for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Intellivision, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, VIC-20, Commodore 64, IBM PC, and TI-99/4A. The objective...

Qix game
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Qix

  • Arcade
  • Puzzle

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...