Atari 8-bit Games
Escape from Traam
Dec 31, 1981
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★ 1.5
A text-adventure written by Jyym Pearson and the third one in the Other Venture series published by Adventure International.
The Tail Of Beta Lyrae
Dec 31, 1983
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★ 2.5
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Philip Price and published by Datamost for the Atari 8-bit home computers.
Atari 8-bit
Mindwheel
Mar 1, 1985
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★ 1.5
An electronic novel where the protagonist must dive into the minds of four deceased powerful figures in order to save the world from destruction.
Dunjonquest: The Datestones of Ryn
Dec 31, 1979
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★ 1.5
Given a time limit of 20 minutes you are sent into a cave to retrieve the stolen Datestones of Ryn.
Preppie! II
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 2.0
The preppie is back, and this time he's coloring in a maze.
Atari 8-bit
Music Composer
Dec 31, 1979
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★ 1.5
An early music composition game released for the Atari 400 and 800, and one of the first applications which allowed users to create their own chiptunes.
Atari 8-bit
New York City
Nov 1, 1983
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★ 2.5
Traverse the Big Apple and see the sights while avoiding muggers and oncoming traffic in New York City.
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Submarine Commander
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 2.5
You are at the helm of a submarine equipped with radar, sonar, depth charge indicators, torpedoes, and fuel and temperature gauges. As commander of the submarine, you must sink the …
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Commodore VIC-20
StarQuest: Star Warrior
1981
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★ 1.0
The second installment in Epyx' StarQuest series.
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
TRS-80 Color Computer
Six-Gun Shootout: Gunfights of the Wild West
Jun 3, 1985
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★ 2.5
Turn-based strategy featuring wild west gunfighters. Created by SSI (Strategic Simulations Inc)
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Laser Gates
Oct 1, 1983
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★ 2.5
The thousand galaxies quake at the news: the Cryptic Computer, the galactic defense synthesizer which has maintained peace for the five centuries since the Wars on Zevon, has malfunctioned! Four …
Atari 2600
Atari 8-bit
Strange Odyssey
Dec 31, 1979
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★ 3.0
While orbiting an asteroid your space ship malfunctions. In this text adventure you have to find five alien artefacts - and a way home.
Acorn Electron
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
BBC Microcomputer System
Commodore 16
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Commodore Plus/4
Dragon 32/64
FM-7
PC-8800 Series
PC-9800 Series
TRS-80
TRS-80 Color Computer
Texas Instruments TI-99
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Return of the Mutant Camels
Dec 31, 1987
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★ 3.5
Jeff Minter's third camel-themed game (after Attack and Revenge) is again a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, taking place over 100 levels. 6,000 years ago, mankind fought the forces of …
Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror
Dec 31, 1985
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★ 1.5
From the mind of Dr. Timothy Leary comes Mind Mirror, a trippy journey through your own mind. Mind Mirror is not just a game, it is a valuable tool to …
Golden Voyage
Dec 31, 1981
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★ 1.0
In this text adventure you must travel to a faraway land in order to find the magic elixir that will heal your ailing king.
Acorn Electron
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
BBC Microcomputer System
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Dragon 32/64
TRS-80
TRS-80 Color Computer
Texas Instruments TI-99
+6 more
Crusade in Europe
Dec 31, 1985
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★ 2.0
Crusade in Europe is a classic real-time simulation game from the 80s designed by Sid Meier and Ed Bever. The first title in the "Command Series" of tactical wargames from …
Hard Hat Willy
Dec 31, 1983
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★ 1.0
Take down centipede parts and bash eggs with your hard hat in this action game from Inhome and Bruce Thompson.
Atari 8-bit
Field of Fire
Dec 31, 1984
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★ 1.5
You play the commander of Easy Company and lead your men through eight historical battles in North Africa and Europe - either as single missions or as a complete campaign.
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
The NeverEnding Story
Sep 17, 1985
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★ 2.5
The land of Fantasia is being consumed by Nothingness. It takes Bastian, a boy from the real world, to believe in Atreyu and all the magical beings of Fantasia to …
Arrow of Death: Part 2
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 1.5
Acorn Electron
Atari 8-bit
BBC Microcomputer System
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Dragon 32/64
TRS-80
ZX Spectrum
+4 more
Floyd of the Jungle
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 1.5
You have to rescue a lost girl in the jungle and watch out for dangerous flora and fauna you will encounter.
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Rainbow Walker
Dec 31, 1983
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★ 2.5
Once upon a rainbow in a land at clouds and sky, a great misfortune occurred. One night. while the inhabitants slept someone stole the colors of the rainbow. The next …
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
PC-8800 Series
Astro Chase
Dec 7, 1982
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★ 3.0
Astro Chase is a multidirectional shooter written by Fernando Herrera for Atari 8-bit computers. It was published by First Star Software in 1982 as the company's first game. Parker Brothers …
Aztec Challenge
1982
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★ 1.5
Side-scroller for the Atari 8-bit family with the player's character running continuously. The object of the game was to cover as much distance as possible without succumbing to the perils …
Atari 8-bit
Commodore VIC-20
Texas Instruments TI-99
Suspended
Feb 22, 1983
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★ 2.5
You must save the planet above by repairing the Complex you are frozen within. You must do it before they arrive to shut you down. And you must do it …
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Amstrad PCW
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Atari ST/STE
Commodore 16
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Commodore Plus/4
DOS
Mac
TRS-80
Tatung Einstein
Texas Instruments TI-99
+11 more
Saigon: The Final Days
Jan 1, 1981
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★ 1.0
A text adventure by Jyym and Robin Pearson set in the Vietnam War. The player is an escaped American POW lost somewhere in the dense jungle and his only chance …
Atari 8-bit
TRS-80
TRS-80 Color Computer
Zeppelin
Dec 31, 1983
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★ 2.5
William Mataga programmed this exploration-based shooter.
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Space Station Zulu
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 1.5
Aliens have invaded the space station you a commanding. It's your task to guide you crew towards safety.
Ballyhoo
Dec 31, 1986
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★ 2.5
Ballyhoo is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Jeff O'Neill and published by Infocom in 1985. It was released for ten different 8 and 16-bit platforms, including MS-DOS, Atari …
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Atari ST/STE
Commodore C64/128/MAX
DOS
Mac
TRS-80
Texas Instruments TI-99
+7 more
Wavy Navy
Dec 31, 1983
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★ 3.5
A shoot'em up similar to the infamous Space Invaders this time on the high seas where the player controls a fighting ship and has to shoot down planes, helicopters and …
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Robot Knights
1986
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★ 1.5
A platformer in which the player is a Robot Knighr who has to work his way through Otto's dungeon.
Atari 8-bit
Pirates of the Barbary Coast
Dec 31, 1986
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★ 1.5
A trading game in which the player is the captain of a trading frigate and has to trade in the various Barbary Coast seaport towns in order to raise the …
Savage Island: Part Two
Dec 31, 1981
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★ 1.5
This text adventue is the conclusion of Savage Island, Part I. You are still trying to find the secret of the island in the pacifuc ocean. A code sheet which …
Acorn Electron
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
BBC Microcomputer System
Commodore 16
Commodore Plus/4
Dragon 32/64
TRS-80
TRS-80 Color Computer
ZX Spectrum
+7 more
The Last V8
Dec 1, 1985
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★ 2.5
Seven years have passed since world war III, and only now dare you leave your shelter in order to investigate what has become of the surface world. You drive out …
Amstrad CPC
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Telengard
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 2.0
Telengard is an earlier example of a "dungeon crawler" role-playing game--albeit with a top-down view- with either real time movement (DOS version) or turn-based movement and turn based combat. Telengard …
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Commodore PET
DOS
FM-7
PC-8800 Series
PC-9800 Series
TRS-80
+6 more
Ten Little Indians
Dec 31, 1983
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★ 2.0
A text adventure from Brian Howarth and Wherner Barnes.
Acorn Electron
Atari 8-bit
BBC Microcomputer System
Commodore 16
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Commodore Plus/4
Dragon 32/64
ZX Spectrum
+5 more
The Sands of Egypt
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 1.0
The Sands of Egypt is an adventure game. The story takes place in 1893, following a British explorer and archaeologist who is lost in the desert. Text commands are entered …
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
TRS-80 Color Computer
The Wizard of Akyrz
Dec 31, 1983
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★ 1.5
You have to save a princess from an evil wizard.
Acorn Electron
Atari 8-bit
BBC Microcomputer System
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Dragon 32/64
ZX Spectrum
+3 more
Chopper Rescue
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 2.0
You saves captives from underground caves with your chopper. Sid Meier's first game for MicroProse.
Atari 8-bit
Polar Pierre
Nov 1, 1984
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★ 2.0
A single-screen 2D platformer in which up to two players can compete with each other. The object of the game is for each player to maneouvre his character (Pierre or …
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Gruds in Space
Dec 31, 1983
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★ 2.5
A graphical text-adventure written by Chuck Sommerville and Joseph Dudar and published by Sirius Software for various 8-bit homecomputers.
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Earthquake San Francisco 1906
Dec 31, 1981
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★ 1.5
The fourth text-adventure game in the Other Venture series published by Adventure International.
The Archers
Dec 31, 1986
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★ 1.0
Advanced Pinball Simulator
Dec 31, 1988
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★ 2.5
A fast, furious and incredibly addictive pinball game featuring – Trapdoors, Rollover Lanes, Mega-Bumpers, 4 flippers, Bonus Lanes, extra balls, Ball Trap, Mystery Tube, realistic movement and MUCH MORE!!!!
VC
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 1.5
Monster Smash
Dec 31, 1982
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★ 2.5
Monster Smash is a side view single screen platformer where your task is to capture all the monsters that are partying around the local graveyard. The screen has four rows …
Apple II
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX