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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game was released in 1989 by Lucasfilm Games, based on the film of the same name. As in the movie, the player's quest is to find the Holy Grail. The review praised the graphics and sound, but found the fight sequences both too easy and too short, since all...
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...
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...
Winter Games was ported to the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and DOS computer platforms, and to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Family Computer Disk System video game consoles. The reviewers gave the game 3½...
The series has had a significant impact on the development of console RPGs, and introduced a number of features to the genre. Early in the series the Dragon Quest games were released under the title Dragon Warrior in North America to avoid trademark conflict with the tabletop role-playing game DragonQuest....
The gameplay of Galaga puts the player in control of a spacecraft which is situated at the bottom of the screen. Galaga is one of the most successful games from the golden age of arcade video games. Enemies swarm in groups in a formation near the top of the screen, and then begin flying down toward the...
As the title suggests, the player is tasked with achieving the ultimate goal of warlord Oda Nobunaga: the conquest and unification of Japan. Games in the franchise have been released on a variety of gaming platforms, including the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Mega Drive, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer,...
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...
First introduced in 1983, it was distributed in the United States by Bally/Midway. The player guides Mappy the police mouse through the mansion of the cats called the Mewkies to retrieve stolen goods. If the player waits too long after this, the "Gosenzo" coin will drop onto the top-middle...
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...
Your initial goal is to rescue the fair maiden, April, but your ultimate objective is to battle through the streets and sewers of New York until you score a victory at the TECHNODROME, home of the evil Shredder and his Life Transformer Gun. Once a turtle is captured, he is out of action until you find...
Several titles in the 2000s were published by fellow Japanese game company Konami, who gained full control of the franchise when they purchased and absorbed Hudson in 2012. Most Bomberman games also feature a multiplayer mode, where other Bombermen act as opponents, and the last one standing is the winner....
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...
R-Type is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The game is made up of several sequential levels, with a boss enemy at the end of each. The player's spacecraft has, by default, a weak but rapid-firing main gun; and a more powerful gun called a wave cannon, which requires...
Hudson's Adventure Island, also known simply as Adventure Island and released in Japan as Takahashi Meijin no BÅken Jima (高橋å人ã®å†’険島 lit. "Master Takahashi's Adventure Island"), is a side-scrolling platform game produced by Hudson Soft that was first released...
In the games, the player takes up the role of a captain and manages a seagoing fleet to participate in trades, privateering, treasure hunting, exploration, and plain piracy. In East Asia, the series has a large cult following, but it has not received much recognition outside the region. This period was...
Aleste is a 1988 shoot 'em up video game developed by Compile for the Master System. A version of the game has been released on phones by Square Enix, presumably based on the MSX2 version.
It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. Set in a time "Between the Dawn of Færie and the Dominion of Men",The Hobbit follows the quest of home-loving...
It was later ported to the MSX, Famicom and remade for the PC Engine platform by Game Studio. However, in recent years, the series has been retconned as being set in the fantasy kingdom of "Babylim". The player assumes the role of the hero Gilgamesh, whose goal is to rescue the maiden Ki from...
The objective of the game is to destroy a multilayered wall of bricks at the top the screen. Upon hitting the bricks with a ball which bounces off of a paddle at the bottom of the screen the bricks are destroyed. If the player misses the ball with his horizontally moveable paddle the ball is lost. After...
It is the first video game in the Valis series which stars a Japanese teenager named Yuko who uses a mystical sword called Valis to defend Earth and other worlds. At certain points in the game, gameplay pauses, and cinematic cutscenes regarding the game's storyline play. Like other side-scrolling games...
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...
