"Adventureland" is the first interactive fiction game by Scott Adams. In using two-word verb-noun-combinations the player tries to retrieve 13 lost treausures in a fanatasy world.
Initially the game did not feature any graphics at all. As time [...]
Jungle Hunt is side-scrolling arcade game produced and released by Taito in 1982. It was initially released as Jungle King. Jungle Hunt is one of the first video games to use parallax scrolling. The player controls an unnamed jungle explorer sporting a [...]
A action game written by Tony Ngo that was published for various 8-bit platforms. The player controls Sam who must climb to the top of a 48 story building and collect a suitcase full of money while avoiding being knocked off the building by a variety of [...]
Tutankham is a combination of the maze, action and shoot ’em up genres. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun’s tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, all [...]
StarQuest: Rescue at Rigel ## Description In _Rescue at Rigel_ , you take the part of Sudden Smith, a human adventurer teleported down by transporter beam inside a six-floor, sixty-room complex inhabited by an alien race, the Tollah. Scattered throughout [...]
The player controls Jumpman or Mario in home versions. His objective is to reach the top of the stage to save the Lady (Pauline in home versions), although he must jump over barrels and avoid fire, springoboads and sand piles. It became one of the best [...]
