458th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari These isometric games don’t work well for me. I’m not sure why, but there’s a series of games like Crystal Castles (several of which are yet to come) that I just dread. The controls are awkward, the action simple […]
Posts Tagged ‘arcade’
#58 Crystal Castles
Posted: 24th September 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, action, arcade, atari
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449th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1989 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom I’ll admit, before playing Strider was categorized, in my mind, as a general samey-seeming group of games. Somewhere between platform, beat ’em up and action game, I would have easily confused it with something like Forgotten Worlds if I […]
#29 Ms Pac Man
Posted: 3rd August 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1981, arcade, bally midway, general computer corporation, maze, namco
445th played so far Genre: Maze Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Bally Midway/General Computer Corporation Publisher: Bally Midway/Namco Pac-Man was a popular game and it seems like it was geetting cloned early on. Ms. Pac Man, as is well known by now, was an early one. It caught the attention of Namco and, […]
#393 Sega Bass Fishing
Posted: 14th July 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, am1, arcade, dreamcast, pc, sega, sims, sports
440th played so far Genre: Sports Platform: Arcade/Dreamcast/PC Year of Release: 1999 Developer: AM1/Sims Publisher: Sega Up until now, my knowledge of fishing has been theoretical. Conversations with friends who went fishing, some attempted bonding some fifteen years ago, bits and pieces I picked up here and there. Sega Bass Fishing, then, isn’t my game, […]
435th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Exidy Publisher: Exidy Time for a short diversion to another early game. Venture isn’t the first dungeon crawler we covered – Eamon, Rogue and Adventure came before, as did arguably Zork and MUD. Venture, however, is the first arcade one on the list, and […]
#27 Stargate
Posted: 31st May 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1981, arcade, shoot 'em up, vid kidz, williams electronics
429th played so far Genre: Shoot Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Vid Kidz Publisher: Williams Electronics Sorry, this is not a game based on the now defunct science fiction series Stargate, its predecessor movie or its spin-offs – as our searches reminded us of when we looked the game up every […]
#26 Scramble
Posted: 7th May 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1981, arcade, konami, leijac, shoot 'em up, stern
423rd played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Konami Publisher: Leijac/Stern One of our recurring (though now ultimately futile) discussions is whether we should have started playing these games in order. It’s too late now, but even now we could start doing it, making it easier to get […]
#23 Galaga
Posted: 1st April 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1981, arcade, midway, namco, shoot 'em up
414th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco/Midway So it’s time for another one of our old shoot ’em ups, part of our constant catchup, as well as just going through these games in order. We’ve covered its predecessor in the entertaining Galaxian, and from […]
#63 Tapper
Posted: 16th March 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, action, arcade, bally midway, marvin glass and associates
410th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Marvin Glass and Associates Publisher: Bally Midway Commercial tie-in games always seem a bit weird. They often seem bad – existing games with the identifying marks filed off and a logo plastered in. There are probably plenty of them around (mostly as […]
#279 The King of Fighters ’94
Posted: 28th February 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1994, arcade, fighting, neo geo, SNK
406th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Arcade/Neo Geo Year of Release: 1994 Developer: SNK Publisher: SNK See that up there? Although we played a different port, this is our first Neo Geo game we’re playing. One for the stats, really, but it was about time. Three out of the four of them on the […]