List of video games, filtered by Grouvee tag: 1958-1979 Historical Expedition Through Video Games
Space Invaders
Jun 1, 1978
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★ 3.3
Space Invaders is an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978. It is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to defeat waves …
Eliza
Aug 12, 2019
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★ 3.4
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from …
Asteroids
Nov 17, 1979
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★ 3.1
Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The objective of the …
Apple II
Arcade
The Oregon Trail
Dec 3, 1971
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★ 3.5
The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. …
CDC Cyber 70
HP 2100
Pong
Nov 29, 1972
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★ 3.1
Pong is a table tennis-themed twitch arcade video game with simple two-dimensional graphics. It was the first sports arcade video game and one of the earliest arcade video games in …
Galaxian
Sep 15, 1979
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★ 3.2
Galaxian is a shooter arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. It was released by Namco in Japan and a few months later by Midway Games in North America. The …
Arcade
Adventure
Dec 31, 1980
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★ 3.3
Adventure is a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console, released in 1980. In the game, the player controls a square avatar whose quest is to hunt an …
Atari 2600
Breakout
May 13, 1976
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★ 3.2
The objective of the game is to destroy a multilayered wall of bricks at the top the screen. Upon hitting the bricks with a ball which bounces off of a …
Combat
Sep 11, 1977
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★ 2.9
Combat is an early video game by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600. It was based on two earlier black-and-white coin-operated arcade games produced by Atari. Combat had color graphics …
Atari 2600
Wild Gunman
Dec 31, 1974
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★ 3.0
Wild Gunman is a game that was first released in arcades in 1974 by Nintendo. The original version of the game featured a 16mm-projection screen that had the player shoot …
Arcade
Super Breakout
Sep 21, 1978
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★ 3.2
Super Breakout is an arcade game released by Atari in 1978. It utilizes a Motorola M6502 (running up at 375 KHz) and, as the name suggests, is the sequel to …
Arcade
Microsoft FreeCell
Sep 30, 1991
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★ 3.0
Microsoft FreeCell is a computer game included in Microsoft Windows, based on a card game with the same name. Microsoft has included a FreeCell computer game with every release of …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Lunar Lander
Aug 1, 1979
· Port
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★ 2.9
Lunar Lander is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1979, which uses a vector monitor to display vector graphics. The object is to pilot a lunar landing module …
Arcade
Atari 8-bit
TRS-80
Colossal Cave Adventure
Mar 31, 1976
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★ 3.4
Colossal Cave Adventure is a text adventure game, developed originally in 1976, by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe. The game was expanded upon in 1977, with help from Don …
PDP-10
PDP-11
Night Driver
Oct 1, 1976
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★ 2.3
The player controls a car which must be driven along a road at nighttime without crashing into the sides of the road as indicated by road side reflectors. The game …
Arcade
Atari 2600
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Air-Sea Battle
Sep 11, 1977
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★ 2.1
There are six basic types of game available in Air-Sea Battle, and for each type, there are one or two groups of three games, for a total of twenty-seven game …
Atari 2600
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Football
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 1.9
Football is a football game for two players. The game is played from a top down point of view of the field and features two skill levels and three game …
Atari 2600
Basketball
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 2.5
Basketball is an Atari 2600 game loosely based on the sport of the same name. The game features a simple game of one-on-one basketball playable by one or two players, …
Atari 2600
Atari 8-bit
Outlaw
Dec 31, 1978
· Port
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★ 2.8
A home console port of 1976 Outlaw for the Atari 2600 by then-Atari employee David Crane. This version is more directly comparable to Midway's Gun Fight, allowing two players to …
Arcade
Atari 2600
Bowling
Dec 31, 1979
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★ 2.3
The game is based on the game of bowling, playable by one player or two players alternating. In all six variations, games last for 10 frames, or turns. At the …
Atari 2600
Canyon Bomber
Nov 1, 1977
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★ 2.1
Canyon Bomber is a black-and-white 1978 arcade game, developed and published by Atari. The game was rewritten in color and with a different visual style for the Atari 2600, also …
Arcade
Blockade
Oct 1, 1976
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★ 3.1
Blockade is a black and white arcade game developed and published by Gremlin in October 1976. Using four directional buttons, each player moves their character around leaving a solid line …
Arcade
Space War
Dec 31, 1978
· Port
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★ 2.4
This video game is an Atari 2600 port of Spacewar!, the famous 1962 computer game by Steve Russell. The cartridge comes programmed with 17 game variations. Variations 1 to 13 …
Atari 2600
Surround
Sep 11, 1977
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★ 2.6
Surround was an unofficial port of the arcade game Blockade, released the previous year by Gremlin. As such, it was the first home console version of the game that would …
Atari 2600
Blackjack
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 2.0
Either 1 or 2 players can join in this American casino game based on Las Vegas rules which include taking insurance on a bet and doubling your bet. Database Games-Computer …
1292 Advanced Programmable Video System
VC 4000
DND
Dec 31, 1984
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★ 2.9
DND is the seminal mainframe classic, which started computer role-playing games. The name of the game clearly comes from the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) pen and paper role playing systems, …
DOS
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
Dec 31, 1979
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★ 2.1
The game is similar to the traditional game of tic-tac-toe, but is played on four 4×4 grids stacked vertically; it is basically a computerized version of the board game Qubic …
Atari 2600
Atari 8-bit
TRS-80
Video Olympics
Sep 11, 1977
· Bundle
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★ 2.7
Video Olympics a collection of games from Atari's popular arcade Pong series is one of the nine 2600 launch titles. The games are a collection of "bat and ball" style …
Atari 2600
Indy 500
Dec 31, 1977
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★ 2.1
Indy 500 is a 1977 racing video game developed by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). It is themed around the Indianapolis 500, …
Atari 2600
Spacewar!
Apr 30, 1962
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★ 3.1
Spacewar! is one of the earliest digital computer video games. It is a two-player game, with each player taking control of a starship and attempting to destroy the other. A …
PDP-1
PDP-11
Moria
Mar 31, 1976
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★ 2.3
Moria is a dungeon crawl style role-playing video game first developed for the PLATO system around 1975, with copyright dates listed as 1978 and 1984. It was a pioneering game, …
PLATO
Hangman
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 2.0
Hangman was one of the eleven Atari 2600 titles that were part of the second wave of games released in 1978. It is based on the old words guessing game …
Atari 2600
Circus
Dec 1, 1977
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★ 2.0
Circus was one of the first games produced by Exidy that used a CPU (6502) to control the game logic instead of hand-crafted hard-coded logic circuits. It ran on a …
Arcade
Maze
Dec 31, 1973
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★ 2.9
Maze originated or disseminated a number of concepts used in thousands of games to follow, and is considered one of the earliest examples of, or progenitor of, a first-person shooter. …
Imlac PDS-1
PDP-10
Hunt the Wumpus
Mar 31, 1973
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★ 3.0
Hunt the Wumpus is an early computer game, based on a simple hide and seek format featuring a mysterious monster (the Wumpus) that lurks deep inside a network of rooms. …
Microcomputer
Heiankyo Alien
Feb 1, 1979
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★ 2.9
The player controls a Heian period police officer who must defend the capital city from an alien invasion by digging holes in the ground and filling them back up after …
Arcade
Backgammon
Dec 31, 1979
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★ 2.3
This is the game backgammon and its variant, acey deucey.
Atari 2600
Beneath Apple Manor
Sep 30, 1978
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★ 3.6
Very early dungeon-crawler, it is the first known roguelike pre-dating Rogue itself though no link between the two games exists.
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
DOS
Deluxe Space Invaders
Jul 1, 1979
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★ 2.7
Originally called Space Invaders Part II in Japan, this is the first sequel to the coin-munching hit Space Invaders. This game is notable for introducing the concept of a cut-scene.
Arcade
Hamurabi
Dec 31, 1968
· Remake
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★ 2.8
Hamurabi is a text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. It was originally written in FOCAL in 1968, but it was ported …
PDP-8
Computer Space
Nov 1, 1971
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★ 2.6
Computer Space is a video arcade game released in 1971 by Nutting Associates. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who would both later found Atari, Inc., it is generally …
Arcade
Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai
Aug 1, 1979
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★ 2.6
This dungeon crawler is one of the first ever RPGs with graphics and character progression.
Gun Fight
Nov 1, 1975
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★ 2.3
Old west theme shoot-out. Using simple graphics, two cowboys one on the left and one on the right move up down, left and right trying to get a clear shot …
Arcade
Bally Astrocade
Lemonade Stand
Dec 31, 1973
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★ 2.9
Lemonade Stand is a business simulation game created in 1973 by Bob Jamison of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium. Charlie Kellner ported the game to the Apple II platform in …
Sky Diver
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 1.9
Sky Diver is an arcade video game designed by Owen Rubin, and released by Atari, Inc. in 1978. Its interface is a simple third-person view of a parachuting drop zone. …
Arcade
Sheriff
Dec 31, 1979
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★ 2.9
The bandits who kidnapped your girlfriend have surrounded you. Now you have to shoot your way out.
Arcade
Street Racer
Sep 11, 1977
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★ 1.9
Street Racer is an action racing game for one to four players played from an overhead view. The screen is split into two lanes; in one or two player games, …
Atari 2600
Slot Racers
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 2.4
Slot Racers is a joystick-controlled action game, with a total of nine game variations programmed within the cartridge. The object of the game is to pilot your car through a …
Atari 2600
Super Speed Race
Dec 1, 1977
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★ 2.7
Super Speed Race GP V (released as "Super Speed Race" in North America, and as "Speed Race CL-5" in Europe) is an edition in Speed Race series. The primary gameplay …
Arcade
Casino
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 2.3
Casino is a collection of three card games: Blackjack, Five-card stud poker, Poker Solitaire.
Atari 2600
Death Race
Apr 1, 1976
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★ 3.3
Death Race is a vehicular combat game that puts your car in an open space with gremlins. Your goal is the crash into the gremlins so you can brutally and …
Arcade
Adventureland
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 3.1
A text based Adventure Game for the TRS-80, later enhanced with visual scenes in various ports. Only allowed 2-Word input and was largely based on Colossal Cave Adventure.
Acorn Electron
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
BBC Microcomputer System
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Commodore PET
Commodore VIC-20
Dragon 32/64
FM-7
PC-8800 Series
PC-9800 Series
TRS-80
TRS-80 Color Computer
Texas Instruments TI-99
ZX Spectrum
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Basic Math
Sep 1, 1977
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★ 1.3
Basic Math (aka Fun With Numbers) is a video game cartridge developed by Atari for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). The game was one of …
Atari 2600
Human Cannonball
Dec 31, 1978
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★ 2.2
In Human Cannonball your goal is to fire a man out of a cannon and have him land in a bucket of water. To do this you need to adjust …
Atari 2600
Miniature Golf
Dec 31, 1979
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★ 1.7
This is a computer game simulation of a miniature golf course. It attempts to refine your sense of timing and your perceptiveness in judging distance. As in a traditional miniature …
Atari 2600
Lunar Rescue
Nov 1, 1979
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★ 3.1
The game starts with the player's spacecraft docked inside the mothership at the top of the screen. Below the mothership is an asteroid field and below that, the surface of …
Arcade
Armor Battle
Cube
Apr 30, 2007
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★ 2.8
Set within in a 3D cubic world, The Cube is the newest puzzle addiction to hit the PSP & market. You’ll explore your way through suspended 3D platforms and mazes …
PlayStation Portable