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name	publisher(developer)	year	description	platform
Alphaland	?	?		Flash
Fragments of Power	author	?	Almost a straight-up Zelda game. Complete 9 dungeons to save the girl. Does contain an optional bonus dungeon. Graphic improvement of course. Game mechanics are updated a bit; you push multiple blocks to solve puzzles for instance. Also, game path is not nearly as open as the original Legend of Zelda (like later Zelda games).	Linux
OpenSyobon-M	author	?		Linux
Syobon action	-	?		Windows
The Fallen One	author	?		Linux
Wolfstyle	author	?		Linux
Dunjonquest: The Datestones of Ryn	Automated Simulations	1979		TRS-80
Goblins	Programma International	1979	This is the original text-only version that sold no more that 30 copies (maybe only 13). But one of those copies has a place in history for being purchased by Roberta Williams. This game was very infuential for [url=game-108770]The Wizard and the Princess[/url]. This game is rediculously hard even by advanced difficulty text adventure standards.[spoiler=spoiler;close]Finding a pinned note and taking it will not lead to winning the game. The player must also take the pin. READ BOOK, alone is useless. The player must also READ COVER. Likewise, LOOK, is often useless where LOOK GROUND is required.. There are no indications of which directions a player may move. Not unheard of for text-adventures with North-South-East-West movement, But this one includes six additional possibilities. Players are forced to try all of them to discover the map. Many puzzles and combats can be solved or avoided by taking actions from another room. Cartoon and magic logic is often mixed with real world facts and logic in very inconsistant ways. Cartoon example: how to make cement out of quicksand. Use lime of course. Lime, as in fruit[/spoiler] The later text plus graphics version included some subtle visual hints but but really didn't decrease the difficultty.	Apple II E
Goblins	Highlands (Antonson Labs)	1981		Apple II E
Super Quest	Softside	1982	[WIP] MSRP: $3 This game is massive by any standards at 1024 total locations. That is 4 times larger than the overworld and dungeons of The Legend of Zelda. Everything is in real-time and offers no other respite than a few sparely place shops. Shops are also the only place games can be saved. Strength is the only stat. It is increased in small random increments only by drinking strength potions bought from shops. Currency does not come from killing monsters but only from rare chests dispersed throughout the labrynth. Killing monsters gains XP which mainly counts as a high score (since winning the game is unlikley). Most screens have monsters that will be there every time you arrive no matter if you have defeated them previously. There are also random monster encounters that happen everywhere except shops, there is no pause to escape them or leave time to make your own map. Story: In a future on Earth with too much magic and too much technology, a one-of-a-king technomagical artifact was created to keep balance between the two. Being more powerful than it was intended, it stifled all change for either. A powerful king decided to used technology to hide and negate the effects of the artifact. With the artifact sealed away in a labyrinth of traps and unnatural guard creatures magic began overwhelming technology. 200 years later, a hero is chosen to brave the labyrinth and recover the artifact. Entering initials is explained in-game. Heroes are sponsored by nobles so when the hero is asked who their sponsor is, it's the player.	Apple II E
Blagger	Alligata	1983		C64
Blagger	Alligata	1983	Blagger is a platform game where you must collect all the keys to progress to the next level, rather like Manic Miner.	BBC
Jungle Queen	Zoso Software;author (author)	1983		Tandy Coco
Blagger	Alligata	1984		Electron
Blagger	Alligata;Micro Cabin	1984		MSX
Dark Tower	Melbourne House	1984		Apple II E
L'Odyssie du Robot	The Learning Company	1984	I would not have thought Robot Odyssey is in fact [i]not[/i] the hardest game ever made. This language teaching modification of the game makes you play the game while learning French! ***** I must beat this game now! T* Guul! Me*! Mo*! Sa! En*! Ve****! Sacrebleu! Pa****! Fo*! Brle ** l’enfer! Z*t! I'm certain these will the most memorable French the game will teach me to speak.	Apple II E
Robot Odyssey I: Escape from Robotropolis	The Learning Company (The Learning Company;Computerware)	1984	The in-game menu uses the title "Robot Odyssey 1"***Somehow, with a vastly superior CPU and more memory, this is a cut down slower version than the Apple ][ version. There are 4 chips instead of 8 and fewer gates in the toolbox. And it's slow. But it is still Robot Odyssey and still awesome. Just a slower awesome. The slowness must be a result of being framesynced to the Coco's infamous graphic hardware bottleneck.	Tandy Coco
Zorgon's Kingdom	Romik	1984	[b]hard[/b] I admit not having played the game myself. This tag might not actually apply. I've decided to tag it because both professional and amateur reviewers commonly believe the game has only one level or sometimes two levels (but not universally, I found one reviewer, giving it an average score, who made it to level 3 and gave up further play). It in fact has 6 levels (the first level is replayed harder so one might say it has 5 levels). From its release to this very day, reviewers seem to fail to pass the first or second level. This alone is not enough. But there are also some owners of the game that don't believe in the other levels, even though the game's packaging advertises them.*** [15]	VIC-20
Robot Odyssey I: Problem Solving Game	Simon & Schuster (The Learning Company;Reliable Micro Systems)	1984	SMRP: $49.95 This game may have only been offered as a Teacher's Edition meant for a classroom environment. And it may have been mail order only.	C64
Robot Odyssey I: Escape from Robotropolis	The Learning Company	1984	[50]* [48]* [48]***Requires 64k RAM, an Apple ][plus machine or better, and 2 blank disk sides. [b]MSRP[/b]: $49.95 Your trapped in a the robot city, Robotropolis. You must navigate the city by designing and soldering logic circuits into discarded robots. You'll need to find batteries, battery chargers (unless you work extremely efficiently), keys, tokens, sensors, and microchips, among other things. But more important than any items you find in the game is the item resting between your shoulders, your brain. The puzzles in this game have no absolute solution (but hints and parts are sometimes provided for a solution predetermined by the game designers), instead you must design the solutions that you think will work. The unofficial sequel to [game=#20413]Rocky's Boots[/game]. Uses a much more advanced engine to drive very, very complex logic circuitry and animations. Although the puzzles in the game don't come close to needing the complexity this game is capable of delivering. It is educational, just don't tell anyone because this game is way to much fun to spoil. In the Sewer level, you can find initials of 8 of the authors. There are 4 sides to this program! Depending on what version you have, all sides of the disks may contain useful chips. Check'em out. The copy protection of this game will prevent the soldering iron from working (even if legitimately used). The disks are a modified DOS 3.3 format. Enter B942:18 in the Apple's monitor program, copy the disks, then Enter B942:36. Edit the disks and change $000FD2 and $040EEB to 38. Now you have disks suitable to dump for emulation. "Klaatu Barada Nikto" is a reference to the old black and white classic sci-fi, [i]The Day the Earth Stood Still[/i] There is a Dalek in The Sewers level. [Zerothis]	Apple II E
Blagger	Amsoft;Alligata (Alligata)	1985	The most skilful house breaker of all time turns his attentions to the town of Umstrid, having cleaned out its computer age predecessors. Can Roger the Dodger loot his way through an endless number of banks, shops, houses... a burglar's dream. The glint in his eye is not just sheer cheek, its from the golden keys that he has to collect - but don't be too dazzled by the thought of amassed riches - round every corner in every passage danger lies in wait. There are a vast array of killing nasties waiting to stop him and with only 5 lives he must be careful. The golden keys are very valuable. Each key is worth 500 points! 20 screens make it even harder but in the end the swag will be his!* [4]* [39]*** [25]	Amstrad CPC
Blagger	Alligata	1985		C16/Plus4
Robot Odyssey	The Learning Company	1985	On his resume, François Rouaix describes this as a "GUI game" and as "Lost" and as being programmed in LeLisp. Documentation by The Learning Company credit him as the porogrammer.	Mac OS Classic
Robot Odyssey I: Escape from Robotropolis	The Learning Company	1985	Requires 8088/8086/80686 CPU (won't run on other intel CPUs period, even under accurate emulation), DOS 1.0 to 2.11, CGA video, PC Speaker, Keyboard, optional PC joystick. 1 Player, but group help is strongly is recommended. Comes with 3.5' disk and 5.25' disk versions. The Robots are named Sparky, Checkers, and Scanner. [Zerothis]	MS-DOS
Championship Lode Runner	Hudson Soft	1985	Championship Lode Runner features the same graphics and gameplay as the original Lode Runner. However, while Lode Runner was a difficult, but playable game, the difficulty level of each of the 50 new Championship Lode Runner levels goes miles through the roof. Only experts, who know every trick from the original game, will stand a chance to beat a single level in this sequel. I bet many people who bought the game were unpleasantly surprised by this.	NES
Deadly Towers	Brøderbund;Irem (Lenar)	1986	You are young Prince Myer, setting out to defend the ancient kingdom of Willner. Rubas, King of Devils, has built a castle in the north and is preparing to invade your kingdom. Ringing magic bells, he is calling out an army of the most terrifying creatures known (or unknown) to man. To defeat Rubas, you must journey to his palace and burn down his seven bell towers. On your quest, you will collect weapons and armor to defend yourself against rats and crawlers; bats, snakes and slime; demons, dragons and more. You'll need every ounce of help you can get. For you are all that stands between your people and the forces of darkness.*Deadly Towers is a mixed-bag. The gameplay is similar to [game=#9176]The Legend of Zelda[/game], with the perspective being a bit more 3D-ish. For a game released in 1986 it looks rather advanced. The graphics are nice, the music is good and the game is huge. The game has major flaws however. Some of them are not uncommon for an early NES game. Many necessary items are very well hidden in non-obvious spots. The difficulty level is too high. In this game the beginning is even the hardest part of the game. Being badly equipped you have barely a chance againts the many monsters. Sometimes when you run over a certain spot you are teleported into a dungeon. And you cannot immediately leave the dungeon, until you find the exit. Making things worse, the dungeons are huge 16x16 screen mazes with many difficult monsters. And only in these dungeons you can find shops where you can buy some better equipment to survive the final seven towers where seven bells are hidden, which you must find and destroy in order to challenge the end boss. Now with a walkthrough and cheat at hand I could avoid the biggest frustration, but I understand people who say that this game is a game design disaster."Mashou" is used in official documentation. Journey through this 3D looking game to collect the evil magic bells from the 7 bell towers and burn them in the sacred flame. Mashō literally means "Evil Bell" an is a pun of 魔性 which means meaning "devilishness." It was supposed to be titled "Hell's Bells," in English but this title qualified for Nintendo's unwritten censorship rules. Oddly, there are Holy Crosses shown all through the game and the game is pretty blatant that God himself has personally asked the game's protagonists to complete this quest. This game has a very long crawl screen of text. Possibly the longest crawl of any game previous and I can't think of a longer since. The text mentions that the castle explored in the game is actually under construction. This can thinly justify the level structure. [spoiler=Quick & Dirty Passwords Hack:;Close Passwords Hack]start, die immediately, change the 1st 2 letters of your password to "FE". Now you have lots of good equipment.[/spoiler][spoiler=Passwords:;Close Passwords:]GDXHDPMM10 Start with a lot of items EF1KDK.KTX End of the Game GDXHDPMM10 Another easy start EE1KBK.TTT An Easy start 54DK1P4WC4 Final Battle with double shot .AZODKNXTJ Final Battle with parallel shot[/spoiler][spoiler=Game Gene codes:;Close Game Gene codes:]LGXELPZU Start with 75 Ludder GXSONPST No Damage ZEUPKYPE 10x Ludder GOUPUYIA 4x Ludder GXUGLVON No charge at stores[/spoiler] [Zerothis]**I'm surprised to find this game listed on many 'worst games of all time' lists. Ya, its insanely hard. And true, the character and enemies moves in plain 2D even though the enemies are (not) placed in a weird pseudo 3D non-existent environment. And, I'll admit, generally hidden/invisible entrances are used for required main levels instead of just secret bonus areas. And, ok, 20 hit points for the first enemy encountered in the game that isn't even a boss and doesn't even have a name, and doesn't even have a face, or a brain, or limbs, or multiple colors, is a bit excessive. Oh and instead of finding a way to the remotest part of the dungeons, grabbing the treasure and being teleported out, the player is teleported into the remotest part of the insanely complex dungeons, loses treasures, and must find their own way out. It could be worse, imagine if it had no continue option (which is easily exploited btw. [spoiler]Start the game, die, then change the first two letters of your continue password to "EF" or "FE".[/spoiler] Wimpy). [b]However, I like it for the challenge[/b], I find the false 3Dishness very retro (by 1986 standards), in a good way. This game proceeded [gameid=9176]The Legend of Zelda[/gameid] and in many ways its better, imo. The size of dungeons and the order of their 'completion' are superior. Deadly towers was actually the 2nd NES game I ever played after Super Mario Bros. It took me about 300 hours to beat. [b]This game gets 4.5 stars by me.[/b] Summary of good points: Challenging Save your progress Enemy Variety Many Enemies Sharing Screen Eight-way Movement Eight-way Attack Vast world to explore Many secrets Permanent upgrades 3Dish Unique light-up cartridge (Japan version) [Zerothis]	NES
Blagger	Alligata	1987		Amstrad PCW
Shadowgate	Mindscape (Icom Simulations)	1987	The original version would not run in color Macs. A later (1992?) version is still black & white but runs fine on color Macs. Despite naming three Mac models in the requirements that use a 68000 CPU, the manual lists a 68020 CPU as the minimum supported. It does not mention Macintosh II, Macintosh LC (the only Mac to use an 020). It does mention the Performa 200 (68030) and Powerbook (68HC000) models on some packaging.*** [52]	Mac OS Classic
Little Red Hood	Joy Van;Sachen;HES (Thin Chen Enterprise)	1989	This game might just be better than [game=#7706]Hell's Bells[/game]. I'd give it 4.6 stars if I could.*One of the only NES game that requires to have any other game inserted into its cartridge to work.From the game box : "[i]This is no ordinary forest, then again, this is no ordinary LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. She can sure throw a kick and let me tell you, she needs it to get to grandma safely. The forest is filled with wicked goblins, snakes, scorpions, bears, and of course THE WOLF. Team up with her faithful dog and help LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD collect fruit, candy and magic potions so that che can fight these evil beasts and save grandma.[/i]"**Joy Van offered this game to American Video Entertainment for publishing but they decided not to. HES Published the cartridge in Australia in two versions. One was a piggyback cartridge, requiring a licensed game be plugged into the back in order to satify the lockout chip. The other was functionally identical but has a cartridge slot dongle on a cable to plug in a licensed game rather that having the slot directly on the back of the cartridge. [Zerothis]	NES
Holy Diver	Irem	1989		NES
The Immortal	Electronic Arts;The Hit Squad (Sandcastle)	1990		Atari ST
The Immortal	Electronic Arts (Sandcastle)	1990		Apple IIGS
The Immortal	Electronic Arts;Starbyte;The Hit Squad (Sandcastle)	1990		Amiga
Skate or Die: Bad 'n Rad	Konami;Palcom (Konami)	1990	Think you're down 'n dirty enough to rule the streets? Nothing in your wildest dreams or most hideous nightmares can compare to this seven level skin-blistering thrash-o-rama sponsored by that Crown Prince of Rock 'N Destruction - ElRad the Evil One. From the second you hyper-skate into ElRad's wide world of wipe-outs you'll be pushed to the outer limits by his ruthless band of skateboard freaks. Punishing pals like the Sonic Boomer, the Cool Cat-Eating Rats and the Berserk Not-So-Happy Clown will crash your board and bust your every move. You'll be the bait of a fiendish feeding frenzy. And to escape the jaws of death you must outjump Fang Master Flash the Leaping Lizard, zip and duck past oozing mounds of nuclear mud, and wail and assail in Attack Copter Alley. Until you ultimately cruise where no dude has cruised before - the hyper-intense Rampage Stage. Needless to say, the flesh will be flying* [69]* [37]*** [32]	GB
The Immortal	Electronic Arts	1990	When nightmares come to life... You discover you're not immortal! You're a mighty wizard in search of your lost master, Mordamir. Venture into the dungeon and slove the mysteries of each level. Unravel the secrets of The Immortal!	NES
The Krion Conquest	Vic Tokai	1990	Once upon a time, long long ago, the world was experiencing great ruin. Enormous animals were bestowed upon the earth to create terrible pain and hardship for the people. The people were desperate, so they called upon the Old Witches' World for help. Thence came Francesca, a gracious witch with great powers. She fought and saved the world from these terrible creatures. The land began to flourish again and the people worked peacefully together to rebuild their wonderful cities. All was well. Now, we too are experiencing serious turmoil. Terrible horrid beings called Krions have decended upon our planet. We are prisoners and we are losing hope. Francesca, we need you. If you are out there, please come.***US release was initially announced as [i]Francesca's Wand[/i] before being titled [i]The Krion Conquest[/i]. An obscure but still spread internet joke is to call this game "Megan Man" because of a typo in the [i]the official 1990 WORLD OF Nintendo buyers guide[/i] showing "Megan Man 3" and its similarities in game play to the megaman series. Catalog number for the Japanese Famicom version is definitely [b][code]VIC-VF[/code][/b] (visually confirmed, it is printed on the cartridge lable) and not [b][code]VIC-VP[/code][/b]. But many sites on the web report it as [b][code]VIC-VP[/code][/b]	NES
ANIMAC	author	1991		MS-DOS
Shadow of the Beast	Electronic Arts;Psygnosis (Psygnosis)	1991	Supposedly poor port that makes the game run faster than the original Amiga version, making it much more harder than the original which itself was already quite hard.***Directly from the manual: Fight your way through several different regions in order to reach the heart of the enemy's stronghold and face your ultimate adversary - the Beast Lord. The creatures you encounter on the way will invariably be hostile and will cause damage when they come into contact with you. Contact can be avoided by punching or kicking creatures away from you before they get too close, or by shooting them if you have a weapon.	Mega Drive
Terminator 2: Judgment Day	LJN (B.I.T.S.)	1991		GB
The Immortal	Electronic Arts;Starbyte (Sandcastle)	1991		MS-DOS
The Immortal	Electronic Arts;Tec Toy (Sandcastle)	1991	Meet the Maker A gut-wrenching nightmare come to life. Terror reigns in his dungeon lair. Hurling toward your doom, you grasp one chance to live. Survive and win immortal fame. * Eight lethal levels - 50 chambers filled with danger and deception * Full screen, real-time combat against creation's most evil creatures * Over 30 wickedly cunning, fully-animated deaths await the unwary * Digitized soundtrack of fearsome screams and unearthly effects* [22]Score shown on Mega Force #27 (Apr. 1994) [26] [64]* [37]* [29]* [27]	Mega Drive
The Blues Brothers	Titus	1992	[wip] THIS GAME IS HARD!!! [Zerothis]	NES
Bucky O'Hare	Konami;Palcom (Konami)	1992	Become a renegade space rabbit in BUCKY O'HARE. It seems that the Toad Empire has captured Bucky and his crew. Become Bucky and bust the others out of jail. Once you get a crew member out of jail, you can use his or her special fighting skills to get through the remaining stages. All of the skills are needed to defeat the elite Storm Toad Troopers and Double Bubble High Speed Toad Armada Tanks. See if you can make it through all eight levels in BUCKY O'HARE.* [66]*There're also Chinese and Korean translations available somewhere... [cjlee001]	NES
Zelda Classic	Armageddon Games	1999	A [i]near[/i] perfect "unofficial" conversion of the NES classic "The Legend of Zelda". Additionally it has an editor which lets you build your own maps/quests. The last DOS version developed was version 2.10.	MS-DOS
Zelda Classic	Armageddon Games	1999		Windows
Ikaruga	Sega (Treasure)	2001		Arcade
1st Quest Revamp	author	2002	Collect useful items guarded by secret puzzles and enemies to gain access to 8 dungeons with more useful items guarded by bosses to gain access to the last dungeon to defeat Ganon and rescue Princess Zelda. This is a remake of the original Legend of Zelda. The graphic overhaul is immediately apparent but there are a few other subtle changes. Most changes make the game not necessarily easier, just a bit less frustrating. Save or Continue, and Link's hearts remain unchanged or filled to three if they were below that. Boss fireballs not deflectable and Stone Statue fireballs deflectable looked identical in the original, now players can see the difference. Dungeon rooms are rarely so square as they were. Blocks are often replaced by walls where appropriate. And rooms that used to be a pattern of blocks are not a more organically shaped area with various obstacles to maneuver around. The new room shapes and smoothed out terrain means there are less places that look like bombable walls, so bombable walls are easier to find. Most notable it the changes in dungeon layout, where are not so much changing the rooms as it is replacing the room-to-room tunnels with a simple stairway (instant arrival at the other end). New pathways have been added. And dead ends and pointless treks into obscure corners of the dungeons are virtually eliminated by adding something useful or even necessary to them. A good example of this is in the first dungeon. In the original, Link can go left and get a key by defeating enemies. Or, Link can go right and get a key by defeating enemies. Or, both, if the player choses not to or does not knows where bomb to avoid using keys. In this remake, Link can only go left. When enemies are defeated, the staircase must be opened and this leads to the right room where the enemies must be defeated to open the exit back to the entry room. Another trick is make dead-end paths useful by having pots in the rooms. This way, players can now grind for hearts and money on a path that was just a waste of time in the original. Also there's more completely optional secrets to discover. Certain room based puzzles in the dungeons have completely new solutions. Player will find themselves using items in ways they are used in other Zelda games and in unique ways. These are usually easy and nearly intuitive. Along the lines of encountering something new in a room in a dungeon on the way to the boss; using the item collected in the same dungeon in a on the new thing to solve the puzzle. These are not just an added step, these teach the player. These new tricks learned in the dungeon can be used elsewhere to find a whole new set of secrets that have been added to the game. Also, use old tricks in new places to find the some of new secrets. This aptly named 1st quest is but only the 1st, no 2nd quest follows on defeating Ganon (to the best of my knowledge).	Linux
Ikaruga	Treasure	2002		Dreamcast
The Dead Lands	author	2003	A classic Zelda style quest with more difficulty in most aspects but easier in new ways. 2nd quest enemies are present as early as Level 2. Dungeon entrances are all hidden secrets. After dying, Link starts with full hearts. There are no enemies on the roads between kingdoms or in towns (like Zelda II). Fight the monsters, defeat Ganon, rescue 3 princess.***[sic]After Link saved Hyrule from the evil grasp of Ganon the kingdom of Hyrule prospered as a major center of trade. Three other kingdoms called Tenn, Montar, and Frellan arose around Hyrule, as a result of its expansion. Link put his weapons in the royal armory, because he had no need for them any longer, and the Triforce was placed in the throne room and heavily guarded. Link moved to the kingdom of Tenn and began to raise a family. But one fateful day Link was killed by a group of angry moblins; not even his great skill could save him. For over 10 years Hyrule reigned as the largest kingdom in the world, but the remaining band of Ganon's army sought tirelessly to revive their once great leader. After 11 long years they finally suceeded. Ganon easily retook the Triforce in the absense of Link and brought Hyrule to its knees. 9 years later Ganon grew angry because even though he destroyed Hyrule, the three daughter kingdoms still prospered, so he sought to capture and destroy them as well. He began by kidnapping the princess Julie of Frellan. Then Ganon created strong-holds (in each Ganon put Link's weapons to keep them from any adventurous soul) in each of the kingdoms and sent his armies out to destroy the land. Now it is up to Link's son, also named Link, to gather his father's weapons and destroy Ganon in the Dead Land.	Linux

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