316th played so far Genre: Maze Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco One of the more… interesting entries on our list of genres is the maze genre. Half of it are different Pac Man entries, there’s the previous Mr. Do, and then two other digging-based games. The old Boulder Dash, pretty […]
Posts Tagged ‘1982’
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Posted: 1st October 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1982, action, arcade, williams electronics
274th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Williams Electronics Publisher: Williams Electronics The reason this game is (apparently) included in the list? Its pure insanity. The reason is simple: You’re a knight riding a flying ostrich, defeating other knights riding on buzzards. Player 2 if, they’re playing, rides a […]
236th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco There is a big argument for doing games in strictly chronological order, that way we can see exactly who did what first and who influenced whom. Xevious is the earliest example of a vertical shooting game that […]
172nd played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: Intellivision Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Mattel Publisher: Mattel The Intellivision is one of those consoles that is forgotten, from the ages of Atari, Amiga and ZX Spectrum. Back when everyone was creating consoles, Mattel jumped in as well and created the Intellivision. In a historical context this […]
49th game played so far Genre: Maze Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Universal Publisher: Taito Now, as one of the last in our quest to play little known, obscure games not on the list, we’re going to cover our first ‘Maze’ game, an old variant of Dig Dug where you go around as […]