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
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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
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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 Click Here to Play*
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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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. Now Featuring High Scores!
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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Rubik's Cube
Press s to scramble, r to reset
Pong
Click mouse button to
start ball. Play against the computer and test
yourself!
