If you haven't played this all
time classic game it must be because you've been hiding out in a shack
on top of a mountain in Montana for the last 20+ years. The object of
the game is to move around the small yellow blob (Pacman) and chomp up
the white dots. Oh, and watch out for Blinky, Pinky, Inkey, and Clyde
(the spooky ghosts). Now Featuring High Scores!
This
game will test your memory, and, ultimately, your sanity. The object of
the game is to memorize Simon's sequence of lights. On that note,does
anyone remember those Simon commercials in the '80s? How could you
forget! :)
You
can't get anymore retro than this classic shoot-em-up game. Yes, the
graphics are chunky - a far cry from X-Box or PS2 standards - but at
the time it seemed like 'space-age' technology :-) . Now Featuring High Scores!
Strangely
addictive game that I remember playing on my old Amstrad PC back in the
day when Windows and MS-DOS was still in its embryotic stages. You are
the frog and your task is to make it across the road without being hit
by traffic, and finally make it across the river by skilfully hitching
a ride on the floating logs. Sounds simple enough, but it's the end
pockets which are the hardest - and watch out for those pesky
crocodiles!
Classic
'left-to-right' shoot em' up game that I remember playing vividly on my
old Atari 2600. An impressive yet quite challenging action/shooter game
with its unique 3D graphics, funky techno background music - and its
revolutionary gameplay, that's still good even by todays standards -
Ok, maybe not - but Moon Patrol excels in so many areas that it's sure
to please diehard Atari 2600 fans :)
This
classic game first appeared at the arcades in 1981, and was the first
to introduce such characters as Mario, Donkey Kong and Peach. Donkey
Kong was the product of a Nintendo artist named Shigeru Miyamoto.
Miyamoto did the entire game himself (even the music), the only help he
got was with the name. He and a manager decided they'd call it "Donkey
Kong" because "kong" would imply a gorilla was involved, and "donkey"
was used because their Japanese-to-English dictionary said it meant
"stubborn, wily, and goofy."
The story : Donkey Kong has stolen Mario's girlfriend and taken her to
the top of a steel structure. You move Mario over girders and up
ladders, leap over tumbling barrels, dodge lethal fireballs and jump
onto fast-moving elevators, trying to rescue Mario's girlfriend from
Donkey Kong
Tetris
is life. Think about it : As time passes, life's little problems
incessantly pour down in chunks. Somehow, someway, you must conquer
these hurdles, fitting them together so you can move on. Ok, maybe I'm
taking the metaphor too far. In any case, this is one of the all time
classic games and it was Alexey Pajitnov who created Tetris on an
Electronica 60 while working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Tetris was released in the United States in 1986. The game's popularity
was tremendous, and many were instantly hooked - it was a software
blockbuster. Enjoy these classic video games...
Pacman
Special Instructions : Use mouse to click 'Start' , Use your
arrow keys to move Up/Down Left an Right. Press "M" to Mute/Unmute
sound, and "P" to Pause/Unpause the game. CLICK HERE TO PLAYSimon
Special Instructions : Use your mouse to click start and click the color bars. CLICK HERE TO PLAY
Space Invaders
Special Instructions : Space Bar = Fire, Move Left / Right using your arrow keys. CLICK HERE TO PLAYFrogger
Special Instructions : Left/Right : User your left/right arrows. To move up/forward - use Up arrow Click Here to Play
Moon Patrol
Special Instructions : Move left/right : use your Left/Right arrow keys, Jump : Up arrow , Fire : Space Bar Click Here to PlayDonkey Kong
Special Instructions : Space Bar to jump; Use your left/right arrow keys to move from left to right, etc. To climb ladders use your Up arrow Click Here to PlayTetris
Special Instructions : Use your mouse to click 'Play',
then choose a level to start at. Up arrow to rotate shapes,
Down/Left/Right arrow keys to move shapes, press P to pause Click Here to Play
Duck Hunt
Released in 1984 by Nintendo, Duck Hunt
was one of the first games on the NES platform to use the 'light gun'.
The basic idea of this game is pretty simple - you're a duck hunter
armed with a pistol and your trusty dog. You have three shots to shoot
one or two ducks each round. After ten rounds of duck hunting (you'll
probably be rather bored of shooting duck at this point), you go to the
shooting range and shoot at clay pigeons for another ten rounds -
although the dog is absent. The game is rather fun and satisfying
initially but gets old quickly. The sound effects are pretty much what
you'd expect for a game from the early 1980s - that is, awful by todays
standards - gameplay and graphics are simple - but it remains a classic
and is fun to play every once in a while.
Special Instructions : Be patient for this game to load. To fire your pistol click your mouse button. Click Here to PlayPong
Pong,
while not the first videogame, was the first coin-op arcade game and
the first mainstream videogame that was available to almost everyone.
The origins of Pong lie with an abstract tennis game created with an
old oscilloscope and some vacuum tubes by Willy Higinbotham way back in
1958. What eventually became "Pong" was a pretty simple game with
simple rules - hit the ball across the playing field and try your best
to hit it past your opponents paddle on the other side.
Special Instructions : Use your mouse to guide your paddle up and down. Click Here to PlayAsteroids
In
the years after Star Wars, anything involving outer space, speedy
interstellar craft and dangerous battles was considered golden. Into
this arena of sci-fi fantasy came Atari’s Asteroids, one of the most
enduring hits in video game history. Atari’s recipe for addiction
consisted of the following: one screen, five buttons, one ship, a few
UFO’s, and several ship-smashing asteroids. Smack dab in the center of
the action was your triangle-shaped spacecraft, adrift in a sea of
space rocks. The Blasting large, slow-moving asteroids turned them into
two medium-sized, speedier asteroids. Another blast at the medium
asteroids split them into small, fast-moving asteroids, which could be
vaporized with one more shot. Thus, if you started firing wildly into
fields of big asteroids, you would likely end up in an even bigger mess
than you started with, facing a swarm of tiny, zippy asteroids. The
controls allow you to rotate left and right, thrust, warp into
hyperspace, and most importantly, to fire your blaster at the rocky
menaces. For a generation of video game addicts, Asteroids will always
mean simple graphics, stressful and addictive gameplay, and dreams of
high-scoring glory.
Special Instructions : Use your mouse to click start, Space bar = Fire , Up arrow key to thrust, Left/Right arrow keys to move left/right
CLICK HERE TO PLAYStar Castle
You
may not remember Star Castle - actually, I didn't either - but visually
this game (released in 1980) uses the same 'vector graphics' that are
seen in games such as Asteroids and Battlezone. Vector graphics are, as
seen in the screen shot to the right, simple lines to create objects -
and while it may seem cheesey compared to present day graphics, they
were considered cutting edge stuff back in the '70s and early '80s.
This was also one of the first games to use an experimental artificial
intelligence to harrass the game player's ship. A barely noticable
feature of the game from our perspective, but a fundamental element of
all video games today. Your task in Star Castle is to break through the
three layers of walls and destroy the central behemoth. Success in this
game is primarily determined by how well you can control your ship.
Special Instructions : Use the space bar to fire, move around using your arrows keys. Click Here to Play