405th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari There are some games, such as today’s game Centipede, that always stayed a bit nebulous to me. I had seen in come by on floppy disks a long time ago, but don’t recall ever playing it. I’m not […]
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#24 Donkey Kong
Posted: 16th February 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1981, arcade, nintendo, platform
403rd played so far Genre: Platform Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Perhaps inevitably, gaming would start riffing on movie stories. While not the first, Donkey Kong‘s inspiration is obvious form the name – King Kong is already referenced in the name, and the central image of an ape climbing a […]
396th played so farGenre: Platform Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Time for a bit of catch up! In 1984, after gaining fame in his maze, Pac Man breaks out into his own platformer. Normally these genre shifts tend to be, at the best, dicey, but its presence on this list […]
393rd played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Gottlieb Publisher: Gottlieb We have many reasons why we pick a game, something we sometimes expand on – whether it’s random or genre-focused. Q*Bert has a clearer, more frivolous reason: We were watching Wreck-It Ralph again and Q*Bert characters have a small […]
384th played so far Genre: Shoot Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Today’s game is the third shoot ’em up in a row… and the third we’re using to finish some of the earliest games. We wanted to catch up a bit on our stats and knock off some […]
#19 Phoenix
Posted: 28th November 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1980, amstar, arcade, centuri, shoot 'em up, taito
383rd played so far Genre: Shoot Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Amstar Publisher: Centuri/Taito Phoenix appears to be another Space Invaders-inspired vertical shooter. Brilliant. More interesting, the name of the game is not because of the connection to mystical birds – at least, not at first. The developers were based in […]
382nd played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Flashback time! We played the sequel of this game before, as Tempest 2000. Familiarity may occur. Our Thoughts With our other memorable remake, the rather deplorable and (to us) unnecessary Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, we […]
#14 Missile Command
Posted: 31st July 2014 by Jeroen in UncategorizedTags: 1980, arcade, atari, shoot 'em up
352nd played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Atari Publisher: Atari Oldie time! The very plain and boring reason we’re playing this today is that we were going through the book, updating our checks on games we’ve covered, and we accidentally went one too far and checked Missile […]
#12 Defender
Posted: 21st June 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1980, arcade, shoot 'em up, williams electronics
342nd played so farGenre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Williams Electronics Publisher: Williams Electronics How’s this for some pleasant Sunday gaming? As I was playing the game to prepare for the blog, I was told that it was apparently one of the most difficult games ever. How’s that for fun? […]
341st played so farGenre: Action Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1981 Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Qix! That’s today’s game. It’s a game we both know – we just don’t know the name and can’t remember it. It has just been copied that often. This should be pretty straightforward! Our Thoughts For some reason, I kept […]