476th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Yie Ar Kung-Fu is described in the book as the archetypical fighting game. I’m sure it is, but I’ve never heard of it. The images make it look fairly standard, so let’s just go. Our Thoughts Boy, did this […]
Posts Tagged ‘1985’
#89 Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Posted: 27th December 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, arcade, fighting, konami
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#102 Tetris
Posted: 21st September 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, alexej pajitnov, puzzle, Various
365th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Alexej Pajitnov Publisher: Various We’ve held off for quite a while, but it’s time. We’ve played Tetris often enough that we should be familiar enough to write this. Tetris is the single best-selling game in the world, with 143 million games sold […]
317th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Our original plan for today was actually to play Salamander, but on further reading we found out that it had a prequel, Gradius (or Nemesis in most non-Japanese arcade versions), and is a part of a longer […]
#90 Gauntlet
Posted: 25th October 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, action, arcade, atari, atari games
280th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Atari Games Publisher: Atari Games Regular readers may remember that this set of fifty games are all games I haven’t played before. And today we get a game where we are very strict about this, as I’ve played the hell out of […]
#101 Skool Daze
Posted: 10th January 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, action, david reidy, microsphere, zx spectrum
208th played so far Genre: Action Platform: ZX Spectrum Year of Release: 1985 Developer: David Reidy Publisher: Microsphere Skool Daze… misspellings intentional, I’m sure. In typical Bully/Canis Canem Edit fashion, you go back to your childhood to play a not-very-holy schoolboy. The difference here is that this game came out about 20 years earlier than […]
#125 Space Harrier
Posted: 2nd July 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1985, arcade, sega, shoot 'em up
159th played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega 15% of games on this list are shoot ’em ups. Since this is not a genre either of us usually think of when it comes to picking games we are probably going to splurge on these every […]
135th played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Various Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Epyx Inc. Publisher: Epyx Inc. Epyx’s Games series – aside from this game, at some point in the future we’ll also cover World Games and California Games – is not the first collection of minigames (even in our book Tron comes first), […]
#100 Paradroid
Posted: 28th May 2011 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, action, andrew braybrook, commodore 64
57th game played so far Genre: Action Platform: Commodore 64 Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Andrew Braybrook Publisher: Hewson Consultants The most roundly numbered game we’ve covered so far, Paradroid is an old action game that makes you hack robots and fight your way around. Blow up the ship by shooting other droids and taking […]
#95 Little Computer People
Posted: 16th December 2010 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, activision, life simulation, Various
9th game played so far Genre: Life Simulation Platform: Various ones Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Activision Publisher: Activision Did you know there are little people living in your computer? Well, there are, and in this Tamagotchi-like fishbowl game, you can see one of them going through his daily routine. Yes, a guy and his […]
#97 Super Mario Bros.
Posted: 7th December 2010 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 1985, Mario, NES, nintendo, platformer
6th game played so far Genre: Platformer Platform: NES Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo It may seem a little bit odd to cover another Mario already but there must be in excess of 20 different games (this could be an exaggeration) featuring this plumber so it’s a good idea to get a […]