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Pacman
If you haven't played this all time classic game it must be because
you've been hiding out in a shack on top of a mountain in Montana for
the last 20+ years. The object of the game is to move around the small
yellow blob (Pacman) and chomp up the white dots. Oh, and watch out for
Blinky, Pinky, Inkey, and Clyde (the spooky ghosts)....
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Simon
his game will test your memory, and, ultimately, your sanity. The
object of the game is to memorize Simon's sequence of lights. On that
note,does anyone remember those Simon commercials in the '80s? How
could you forget!
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Space Invaders
You can't get anymore retro than this classic shoot-em-up game. Yes,
the graphics are chunky - a far cry from X-Box or PS2 standards - but
at the time it seemed like 'space-age' technology...
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Frogger
Strangely addictive game that I remember playing on my old Amstrad PC
back in the day when Windows and MS-DOS was still in its embryotic
stages. You are the frog and your task is to make it across the road
without being hit by traffic, and finally make it across the river by
skilfully hitching a ride on the floating logs. Sounds simple enough,
but it's the end pockets which are the hardest - and...
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Moon Patrol
Classic 'left-to-right' shoot em' up game that I remember playing
vividly on my old Atari 2600. An impressive yet quite challenging
action/shooter game with its unique 3D graphics, funky techno
background music - and its revolutionary gameplay, that's still good
even by todays standards - Ok, maybe not - but Moon Patrol excels in so
many areas that it's sure to please diehard Atari 2600 fans :)
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Donkey Kong
This classic game first appeared at the arcades in 1981, and was the
first to introduce such characters as Mario, Donkey Kong and Peach.
Donkey Kong was the product of a Nintendo artist named Shigeru
Miyamoto. Miyamoto did the entire game himself(even the music), the
only help he got was with the name. He and a manager decided they'd
call it "Donkey Kong" because "kong" would...
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Duck Hunt
Released in 1984 by Nintendo, Duck Hunt was one of the first games on
the NES platform to use the 'light gun'. The basic idea of this game is
pretty simple - you're a duck hunter armed with a pistol and your
trusty dog. You have three shots toshoot one or two ducks each round.
After ten rounds of duck hunting (you'll probably be rather bored of
shooting duck at this point), you go to the...
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Pong
Pong, while not the first videogame, was the first coin-op arcade game
and the first mainstream videogame that was available to almost
everyone. The origins of Pong lie with an abstract tennis game created
with an old oscilloscope and some vacuumtubes by Willy Higinbotham way
back in 1958. What eventually became "Pong" was a pretty simple game
with simple rules - hit the ball across...
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Star Castle
You may not remember Star Castle - actually, I didn't either - but
visually this game (released in 1980) uses the same 'vector graphics'
that are seen in games such as Asteroids and Battlezone. Vector
graphics are, as seen in the screen shot to the right, simple lines to
create objects - and while it may seem cheesey compared to present day
graphics, they were considered cutting edge stuff back...
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Asteroids
In the years after Star Wars, anything involving outer space, speedy
interstellar craft and dangerous battles was considered golden. Into
this arena of sci-fi fantasy came Atari’s Asteroids, one of the most
enduring hits in video game history. Atari’s recipe for addiction
consisted of the following: one screen, five buttons, one ship, a few
UFO’s, and several ship-smashing...
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