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Supaplex is an arcade puzzle game in the Boulder Dash mould, created in 1991 by Swiss students Michael Stopp and Philip Jespersen under the Think!Ware Development banner; it was published in the UK by Digital Integration through its Dream Factory label. The player controls a red ball named Murphy through environments styled as the interior of a printed... 4815

Strider (Strider Hiryū in Japan) is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. Strider is set in a dystopian future in the year 2048, where a mysterious dictator known as the "Grandmaster" rules over the world. Hiryu, the youngest ever Super A Ranked member of an organization of high-tech ninja-like agents... 164

The Cycles has similarities to Grand Prix Circuit, except it is a motorcycle racing sim. The game includes all the tracks of 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. Laguna Seca and Goiania circuits are not available when you choose 125cc bike... 740

The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 on an HP 2100 minicomputer. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers... 644

Centurion: Defender of Rome is a turn-based strategy computer game with real-time battle sequences by Bits of Magic, designed by Kellyn Beck. The bulk of the game involved real-time battles (of a nature that can be argued to foreshadow later real-time tactics and real-time strategy games) against various enemies of the Roman Empire, including barbarians,... 1435

Stargoose is a sci-fi shoot 'em up game for Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC, developed by LogotroN. The game contains eight levels and takes place on the surface of an alien planet. The player's character, called Scouser-Gitt, has been hired by some kind of "tribal elder" to steal six jewels from each level. The levels in Stargoose scroll continuously upwards,... 417

This is a parody of the Sierra-style game series like Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, King's Quest, etc. Similar interface, sounds, and graphics - all created using the Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine... 1195

Perestroika (also known as Toppler) is a Russian video game released in 1989 by a small software developer called Locis (currently - Nikita online) in the Soviet Union in 1990, and named after Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of Perestroika. The game consists of controlling a small frog-like creature which jumps from one lily pad to another, trying to collect... 1374

Alley Cat is a computer game created by Bill Williams and released by Synapse Software for the Atari 8-bit family in 1983, and for the PC in 1984. The player controls an alley cat whose object is to perform certain tasks within the homes of people, ultimately causing mischief and finding female cats to romance... 1240

Donkey, often known by its file name DONKEY.BAS, was a computer game written in 1981 and included with early versions of the PC-DOS operating system distributed with the original IBM PC. DONKEY.BAS was written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen to demonstrate the IBM PC and the BASIC programming language's capability to produce interactive programs with... 446

DuckTales: The Quest for Gold is a platform game, bears little resemblance to the Capcom game DuckTales released for the NES. Assuming the role of Scrooge, the player then gets 30 days to collect treasures from all around the world. Scrooge is assisted by his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and pilot Launchpad McQuack. Flying to different destinations... 1541

Worms (Červi in Czech) is a czech snake variant game for 2-6 players at hot-seat, were all the players control their worms on the same screen. From the very beginning, each worm is increased in length with same speed in certain direction. By default, player should not collide with other worm bending its increase to the left or to the right. However,... 2906

Betrayal at Krondor takes place largely in Midkemia, the fantasy world developed by Raymond E. Feist in his Riftwar novels. The game is designed to resemble a book, separated into chapters and narrated in the third-person with a quick-save bookmark feature. Gameplay occurs mainly from a first-person perspective while traveling in the overworld, dungeons,... 433

SimCity is a city-building simulation game, originally developed by game designer Will Wright. The inspiration for SimCity came from a feature of the game Raid on Bungeling Bay that allowed Wright to create his own maps during development. The objective of SimCity, as the name of the game suggests, is to build and design a city, without specific goals... 1218

Space Invaders is a remake of the famous arcade coin-op machine by Taito. This remake was developed by Slovak programmers Martin and John Rusnak under the name Felis Software for MS DOS operating system in 1995. Since the original version, of course, remake contains better graphics (VGA 320x200), sounds and music, supporting most standard sound cards...... 282

Shadow Knights is a platform game about ninjas. This is one of the several games written by id Software to fulfill their contractual obligation to produce games for Softdisk, where the id Software founders formerly were employed. It is a basic platform game with a considerable influence by the NES Ninja Gaiden games. Froggman released the gamne under... 545

Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs is a basketball video game developed by Electronic Arts. The game would be the first team basketball game to acquire full players names and rights without actually relying on the NBA Players Association. Established stars in the game include Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and... 1880

Operation Wolf is a one-player shooter video game made by Taito as coin-op cabinet and was one of the most ported arcade games of all time. The game is controlled with a fixed swivel mounted light gun controller attached to the cabinet, with force feedback to simulate recoil. The object of the game is to rescue the five hostages in the concentration... 1157

Catacomb by John Carmack was released for the Apple II and PC. This is a two-dimensional game utilising a third-person view from above, released in 1989-1990. It was followed up with Catacomb II (The Catacomb), which used the same game engine with new levels... 226

VLAK (Train) is an excellent Czech clone of classical game "snake" from the programmer Miroslav Nemecek, where the train in a maze collect different things and not crash into anything. It could serve as an example of programming excellence that everything can fit into 13KB... 7302