Star Drifter is an arcade adventure style game published by Firebird for the BBC Microcomputer in 1985. It was programmed by John Day and Tim Wilkinson. Your adventure aboard this ancient colonisation liner begins on the bridge, your task - to discover the answers to this strange disappearance of the fleet. You may move freely around the open areas of …

Fat Man Sam is a platform game published by Firebird for the BBC Microcomputer. Guide Sam around the forty screens, avoiding almost everything that moves. In order to exit each screen, Sam will need to collect all the objects that appear, sometimes keys, sometimes sweets, sometimes... who knows? And watch out for that crusher. You can only exit a screen …

Cholo is a classic wireframe 3D computer game with nonlinear gameplay, originally released in 1986 for the BBC Micro computer but quickly ported to a number of other 8-Bit systems, such as the Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. Cholo's gameplay is similar to that of Paradroid, but with wireframe graphics. Following a nuclear war, humanity is trapped underground …

Bubble Bobble is a platform game, with each level being a single screen. The enemies must be cleared from a level to go to the next one. With one player controlling Bub and the other controlling Bob, the player can jump and collect items for points (such as fruit). The real power Bub and Bob have however is the ability …

Published by Firebird for the BBC Microcomputer. Wing the planes to release a carrier pigeon, shoot the pigeon and add a note to the stave at the top of the screen. if you can complete the tune you will be rewarded with a bonus of 1500 points and move onto the next level. Attacking planes will drop bombs and relentlessly …

Sharkey's 3D Pool sur Atari ST est un jeu de billard en 3D. Vous pouvez pivoter tout autour de la table et changer vos angles de vue pour une meilleure précision. Deux modes sont disponibles, un Classique et un d'Exhibition où vous devez réaliser des figures qui impressionneront à coup sûr vos amis.

The Sentinel est un jeu de réflexion. Le titre est divisé en plusieurs niveaux représentant des reliefs terrestres. Vous partez au plus bas et tentez d'accéder à une statue qui draine l'énergie. Soyez rapide et précis afin que votre énergie ne soit pas absorbée elle aussi.

Sharkey's 3D Pool est l’un des premiers jeu de billard en 3d contenant une table tournante entièrement et un point de vue variable permettant plus de réalisme que la traditionnelle vue de dessus même si il est possible de jouer de cette manière également. Avant chaque tir, vous pouvez regler la puissance, la rotation et l’angle. Vous pouvez jouer en …

Jack, bouffon de son état, doit récupérer neuf lampes enchantées (les "Black Lamps") dans le pays d'Allégoria et les poser une à une dans les vingt étagères réparties dans le royaume. Celui-ci est composé de châteaux, de maisons, de forêts, etc.

Savage contains three different parts, each with its own style. You can play all three, but to get more than one life on levels 2 or 3, you must first input the code earned on completing the previous level. You play Savage, a muscular warrior who was imprisoned in a castle. When he broke free, he found out that his …

With the Roger Rabbit film (and game) successful, and the Jive Bunny phenomenon shaking up charts worldwide, perhaps it was time to redress the balance away from wimpy rabbits. Stan Sakai's comic character set in the 17th century did this, being capable of a range of martial arts moves. In this licensed game he'll need them to save Japan from …

The game is largely based on the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe. His plane crashes in the jungle, and Rick must escape from the enraged Goolu. When the game starts Rick finds himself in a cave running from …

Sky Shark is a top-down shooter similar to Raiden. You start off with four lives and three bombs. With that (you can get more lives at certain point intervals, and more bombs can be found), you, the "Sky Shark" of your squadron, blast through five levels of enemy-infested battlefields with as many as six gun upgrades (Aside from the bombs …

Elite is a free-form space trading and combat simulation, commonly considered the progenitor of this sub-genre. The player initially controls a character referred to as "Commander Jameson", starting at Lave Station with 100 credits and a lightly armed trading ship called Cobra Mark III. Most of the game consists of traveling to various star systems, trading with their inhabitants, gaining …

The game is set in the Isles of the Western Sea, where the Lord of the Isles has forged the Dark Sceptre to defeat the invading Northlanders, but they seized the Sceptre and absorbed its power, becoming the Lords of the Shadow. The isles are now gripped by evil and ruled by the Sceptre, and the forces of the Isles …

Bubble Bobble is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC.The game, starring the twin Bubble Dragons Bub and Bob, is an action-platform game in which players travel through one hundred different stages, blowing and bursting bubbles, dodging enemies and collecting a variety of items. The game became very popular and led to a long …

This is a top down vertically scrolling shooter, in which you start off as a motorbike. You are quite vulnerable to attack at first, but power ups come in the form of a Sega van which you have to dock with. The first time you dock you get double fire, the second time gives you a rocket, the third gives …

In this flick-screen maze game, you play as Wyatt Hunter who has travelled back in time to a Zulu tribal area to collect 100 Golden Masks before the clock runs out and he is transported back to his own time. Scattered over the maze are the masks as well as Zulu warriors who roam around the maze and if touched …

Sabreman’s second game (following Sabre Wulf and preceding Knight Lore and Pentagram) finds him trapped in an underground cavern network, split into nearly 600 side-viewed screens. There are three ways to escape, each protected by a guardian who can be killed using one of the three major weapons you can locate – a dagger, a torch and a knife.

After successfully being a train robber, Cactus Pete now has a $4000 bounty on his head. You play as Pete as you attempt to rob more locomotives by riding your horse along side and attempting to grab onto a ladder. The game is viewed from the side at a elevated angle as you ride your horse along side the train, …

In The Sentinel, the player takes the role of a Synthoid , a telepathic robot who has to take control of a number of surreal, checkered landscapes of hills and valleys, by climbing from the lowest spot, where the hunt begins, to the highest platform, over which the Sentinel looms. The Synthoid itself cannot move across the level, instead it …

This game puts you in the position of a driver of a high-performance car participating, as the name implies, in races between U.S. cities. Noteworthy features of the game include a multitude of weather and road conditions (fog, snow, road construction), day/night changes (complete with smooth twilight transitions) and the ability to plan individual route to beat competition to the …

Konnichi Wa! The Time: 17th Century. The Place: Feudal Japan. The Conflict: The land is rife with civil war as the great warlords of Japan battle with each other for control of the Shogunate, and control of Japan itself. The Hero: Usagi Yojimbo is the warrior who must oppose the dark forces, a lone Ronin Rabbit of great skill and …

The player must maneuver a character known as Pitfall Harry through a maze-like jungle in an attempt to recover 32 treasures in a 20-minute time period. Along the way, he must negotiate numerous hazards, including pits, quicksand, rolling logs, fire, rattlesnakes, scorpions, and crocodiles. Harry may jump over or otherwise avoid these obstacles by climbing, running, or swinging on a …