Genre: Action

Omega Race

Omega Race, a shoot ’em up arcade game developed by Ron Haliburton and released by Midway in 1981, was later adapted for the Atari 2600 by CBS Electronics. Unique among CBS’s Atari 2600 games, Omega Race includes an extra 256 bytes of RAM in each cartridge, a feature marketed as “RAM Plus.” Set in 2003, … Read more

Mr. Do!

In the Atari 2600 game Mr. Do, the player controls a character who is trying to harvest all the cherries on the screen. However, there are multiple enemies trying to stop them! Mr. Do has two ways to defend himself against these enemies. Firstly, he can push apples located on the playfield onto the enemies … Read more

Ms. Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man is a 1982 maze arcade video game developed by General Computer Corporation and published by Midway. It is a sequel to the original Pac-Man game and features similar gameplay. The player controls Ms. Pac-Man, a yellow, circular character, as she navigates through a maze eating dots while avoiding ghosts. The goal is to … Read more

Night Driver

Night Driver is one of the earliest first-person racing video games and is commonly believed to be one of the first published video games to display real-time first-person graphics. Night Driver gameplay The player controls a car which must be driven along a road at nighttime without crashing into the sides of the road as … Read more

Nightmare

Nightmare is an Atari 2600 game in which the player is trapped in a terrifying nightmare world filled with dangerous creatures like birds, demonic faces, and deadly balloons. The game features three increasingly challenging scenarios, where the player must navigate through various obstacles to reach the escape vehicle, a hovering helicopter. To progress through the … Read more

Montezuma’s Revenge: Starring Panama Joe

Montezuma’s Revenge is a pioneering game in the Metroidvania genre, released in the early 1980s. The player takes control of a character named Panama Joe (also known as Pedro), who explores the underground pyramid within the 16th-century Aztec temple of Emperor Montezuma II. This maze-like structure is filled with enemies, obstacles, traps, and various dangers. … Read more

Moon Patrol

Moon Patrol, developed and released by Irem in 1982, is an arcade video game where the player takes on the role of a Luna City police officer assigned to Sector Nine. Players control a Moon buggy that travels over the Moon’s surface, viewed from the side as it moves toward the right. The objective is … Read more