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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). Now Featuring High Scores!
Special Instructions : Use mouse to click 'Start' , Use your
arrow keys to move Up/Down Left an Right. Press "M" to Mute/Unmute
sound, and "P" to Pause/Unpause the game.
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Simon
This 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! :)
Special Instructions : Use your mouse to click start and click
the color bars.
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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 :-) . Now Featuring High Scores!
Special Instructions : Space Bar = Fire, Move Left / Right using
your arrow keys.
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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 watch out for those pesky crocodiles!
Special Instructions : Left/Right : User your left/right arrows.
To move up/forward - use Up arrow
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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
:)
Special Instructions : Move left/right : use your Left/Right
arrow keys, Jump : Up arrow , Fire : Space Bar
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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 imply
a gorilla was involved, and "donkey" was used because their
Japanese-to-English dictionary said it meant "stubborn, wily, and
goofy." The story : Donkey Kong has stolen Mario's girlfriend and taken
her to the top of a steel structure. You move Mario over girders and up
ladders, leap over tumbling barrels, dodge lethal fireballs and jump
onto fast-moving elevators, trying to rescue Mario's girlfriend from
Donkey Kong
Special Instructions : Space Bar to jump; Use your left/right
arrow keys to move from left to right, etc. To climb ladders use your Up
arrow
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Tetris
Tetris is life. Think about it : As
time passes, life's little problems incessantly pour down in chunks.
Somehow, someway, you must conquer these hurdles, fitting them together
so you can move on. Ok, maybe I'm taking the metaphor too far. In any
case, this is one of the all time classic games and it was Alexey
Pajitnov who created Tetris on an Electronica 60 while working for the
Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Tetris was released in the United States
in 1986. The game's popularity was tremendous, and many were instantly
hooked - it was a software blockbuster. Now
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Special Instructions : Use your mouse to click 'Play', then
choose a level to start at. Up arrow to rotate shapes, Down/Left/Right
arrow keys to move shapes, press P to pause
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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 to shoot
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
shooting range and shoot at clay pigeons for another ten rounds -
although the dog is absent. The game is rather fun and satisfying
initially but gets old quickly. The sound effects are pretty much what
you'd expect for a game from the early 1980s - that is, awful by todays
standards - gameplay and graphics are simple - but it remains a classic
and is fun to play every once in a while.
Special Instructions : Be patient for this game to load. To fire
your pistol click your mouse button.
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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 vacuum
tubes by Willy Higinbotham way back in 1958. What eventually became
"Pong" was a pretty simple game with simple rules - hit the ball across
the playing field and try your best to hit it past your opponents paddle
on the other side.
Special Instructions : Use your mouse to guide your paddle up and
down.
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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 asteroids.
Smack dab in the center of the action was your triangle-shaped
spacecraft, adrift in a sea of space rocks. The Blasting large,
slow-moving asteroids turned them into two medium-sized, speedier
asteroids. Another blast at the medium asteroids split them into small,
fast-moving asteroids, which could be vaporized with one more shot.
Thus, if you started firing wildly into fields of big asteroids, you
would likely end up in an even bigger mess than you started with, facing
a swarm of tiny, zippy asteroids. The controls allow you to rotate left
and right, thrust, warp into hyperspace, and most importantly, to fire
your blaster at the rocky menaces. For a generation of video game
addicts, Asteroids will always mean simple graphics, stressful and
addictive gameplay, and dreams of high-scoring glory.
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Special Instructions : Use your mouse to click start, Space bar =
Fire , Up arrow key to thrust, Left/Right arrow keys to move left/right
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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 in the '70s and early '80s. This was also one of the first
games to use an experimental artificial intelligence to harrass the game
player's ship. A barely noticable feature of the game from our
perspective, but a fundamental element of all video games today. Your
task in Star Castle is to break through the three layers of walls and
destroy the central behemoth. Success in this game is primarily
determined by how well you can control your ship.
Special Instructions : Use the space bar to fire, move around
using your arrows keys.
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