showing 40 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | tags | pop. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law of the West | Accolade | ? | commercial consequences dialog-progressive dialog-sentences dialog-tree earth firearms handguns lawenforcerprotagonist license-proprietary maleprotagonist naturalistic negotiatedresolutions northamerica outlaws past score serious thirdpersonshooter town walking western | labelminimizeminimize | |
| Sumer 4000 BC | Crystalware | 1980 | citybuilding earth mesopotamian-theme naturalistic past thesumergamelike | labelminimizeminimize | |
| Beneath the Pyramids | Crystalware | 1981 | 1930s 20thcentury 2ndmillennium capacity-weight crossbows earth egypt encounters-literal forethoughtrequired inventory lamp monsters past precisionrifles saveanywhere shopping | labelimagesubject | |
| Cypher Bowl | Artsci | 1981 | americanfootball earth naturalistic nplayers | labelimageminimize | |
| Drac is Back | Syncro | 1981 | achillesheelfoes automap bankservice bodyarmor commercial demons dungeoncrawler earth europe gold hunger itemdurability license-proprietary magic magicrings meleeweapons monsters repairing shopping swords teleporting vampires werewolves | labelimageminimize | |
| Galactic Expedition | Crystalware | 1981 | 3020s 31stcentury 4thmillennium 5.25disk earth future interactivefiction luna | labelminimizeminimize | |
| Missile Command | Atari | 1981 | 1980s 20thcentury california cartridge chainreactions city city-eureka-ca city-losangeles-ca city-sandiego-ca city-sanfrancisco-ca city-sanluisobispo-ca city-santabarbara-ca defensegame earth edu-propaganda ending joystick keyboard latemodernperiod militantprotagonist missilecommandlike naturalistic northamerica packin present protect realworld score serious seriousgame stateofjefferson stationary stmouse trackball usa | labelimageminimize | |
| Saigon: The Final Days | Adventure International | 1981 | 1970s 20thcentury 2ndmillennium cassette coldwar-ww2 commercial earth interactivefiction keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic past vietnam vietnamwar war wordinput | labelimageminimize | |
| The Battle of the Bulge: Tigers in the Snow | SSI | 1981 | 1940s 20thcentury 5.25disk ardennes ardennesoffensive belgium city-luxembourg-lu earth europe forest grid grid-hex luxembourg mountain river wallonia-be war wargame worldwar worldwar2 | labelimageminimize | |
| Volleyball | SoftSide | 1981 | 3ormoreplayers basic earth joystick license-publicdomain naturalistic nplayers typein uvl-confusable volleyball | labelimageminimize | |
| Waterloo II | Crystalware | 1981 | 1810s 19thcentury ageofrevolution battleofwaterloo earlymodernperiod earth europe napoleonicwars war wargame | labelimagesubject | |
| Anti-Sub Patrol | Roklan Corporation | 1982 | earth grid grid-square naturalistic naval submarines underwater warfare-sea | labelimageminimize | |
| Sentinel | Med Systems | 1982 | earth score | labelimageminimize | |
| Hopper | SoftSide | 1982 | amphibianprotagonist animalprotagonist basic deadlywater earth froggerlike harmfultouch instantdeath joystick jumping langinsignificant license-proprietary lives machinecodelang movingplatforms naturalistic naturalvinvention naturalvnatural nohumans river score snakes steppingstones timelimit traffic typein | labelimageminimize | |
| Around the World | SUPERWare | 1983 | aerostat ambiguous-rifles cervids charactercreation currency domesticcats earth femaleprotagonist flying gold handguns hunger lives maleprotagonist meleeweapons negotiatedresolutions premadeprotagonist shopping swords walking waterscooter whips | labelimageminimize | |
| Computer War | Thorn EMI | 1983 | 5.25disk assemblylang cartridge earth joystick keyboard movie multisequence naturalistic nuclearweapons war | labelimageminimize | |
| Deluxe Invaders | Roklan | 1983 | alieninvasion aliens cartridge cover-destructible coversystem earth fixedshooter instantdeath langinsignificant lives naturalistic score spaceinvaderslike xegs | labelimageminimize | |
| Donkey Kong | Atari | 1983 | animals bludgeons cartoon cartridge constructionsite did donkeykong donkeykonglike earth elevators harmfultouch instantdeath jumping ladders langinsignificant lethalobjects lives mario mario-universe powerups primates rescue score walking | labelimagesubject | |
| Epidemic! | SSI | 1983 | 5.25disk earth outbreak | labelimageminimize | |
| Major League Hockey | Thorn EMI | 1983 | 3ormoreplayers cartridge earth hockey icehockey naturalistic | labelimageminimize | |
| Risk | Parker Brothers | 1983 | cartridge earth grid grid-irregular naturalistic prototype | labelminimizeminimize | |
| Spy's Demise | Penguin Software | 1983 | 5.25disk cassette clandestine coldwar coldwar-ww2 earth joystick keyboard lives paddles score sovietunion specialagentprotagonist | labelimageminimize | |
| Dragon's Keep | Sierra On-Line | 1984 | 5.25disk birds bovines cattle chickens commercial contemporaryfantasy dogs domesticcats dragons earth frog gamebook graphicsmagician house keyboard lagomorphs license-proprietary lowfantasy pigs primates raccoons rescue testudines ursines | labelimageminimize | |
| Fifty Mission Crush | SSI | 1984 | 1940s 20thcentury aerodyne aeroplane aircraft-b17-flyingfortress bomberaircraft earth europe france germany group latemodernperiod militantprotagonist naturalistic past veterancy worldwar worldwar2 xp-literal xp-progress | labelimagesubject | |
| Maxi Golf | Adventure International | 1984 | earth golf naturalistic | labelimageminimize | |
| Pitfall II: Lost Caverns | Activision | 1984 | aerostat cartridge earth electriceels ending frog jumping latemodernperiod naturalistic pitfallseries platformer primates retrypoints southamerica subterranean swimming underwaterdiving walking | labelimageminimize | |
| The Dallas Quest | Datasoft | 1984 | ♫brahmslullaby 1980s 20thcentury aerodyne aeroplane aircraft-location airport arid bigcats birds cattle city-dallas-tx city-parker-tx city-plano-tx coconuts companion crazedanimals digging domesticcats earth fasttravel giantanimals giantrats giantrodents giantspiders helicopters hippo horses house interactivefiction inventory jaguars jewelry jungle ladders lamp langsnamericanenglishdialects langtexasdialects latemodernperiod longhorns magical magicrings map northamerica owls parrots peru plains playapeligro precisionrifles primates rats realworld river rodents rural shovels smokes snakes southamerica spiders testudines texas tombstones town tvseries usa walking watercraft-small weather wordinput | labelimagesubject | |
| The Fall of Rome | ASP Software | 1984 | 4thcentury 5thcentury earth europe imperiumromanum lateantiquity | labelimageminimize | |
| 0 Grad Nord | Ariolasoft (Axis Komputerkunst) | 1985 | earth interactivefiction wordinput | labelimageminimize | |
| Colonial Conquest | SSI | 1985 | 19thcentury earth grandstrategy wargame | labelimageminimize | |
| Kennedy Approach | MicroProse | 1985 | 5.25disk aerodyne airtrafficcontrol earth naturalistic | labelimageminimize | |
| The Goonies | Datasoft | 1985 | 5.25disk city-astoria-or earth ladders lives movie multiprotagonists oregon score subterranean usa | labelimageminimize | |
| The Great American Cross-Country Road Race | Activision | 1985 | 5.25disk california circadiancycle city-lasvegas-nv city-losangeles-ca earth nevada northamerica racinggame timelimit traffic usa | labelimageminimize | |
| Zorro | Datasoft | 1985 | 19thcentury 5.25disk california colonialera earth heroprotagonist ladders lives naturalistic nofalldamage northamerica past score titularcharacter vigilanteprotagonist walking zorro | labelimageminimize | |
| Guderian | Avalon Hill (Dyadic Software) | 1986 | 1940s 5.25disk atarixl battleofsmolensk city-moscow-ru city-smolensk-ru commercial earth europe joystick license-proprietary russia wargame worldwar worldwar2 | labelimageminimize | |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos | Infocom | 1986 | 1930s 5.25disk 69105 alienmenace bossbutton companion earth genderchoice interactivefiction northamerica printer wordinput | labelimageminimize | |
| The Lurking Horror | Infocom | 1987 | 5.25disk contemporaryfantasy demons earth fantasticearth interactivefiction lovecraftian school wordinput zilengine zombies | labelimageminimize | |
| Pro Mountain Bike Simulator | Alternative Software | 1989 | bicycle cassette commercial earth joystick license-proprietary mp-versus naturalistic | labelimageminimize | |
| Volleyball | Raster Software | 1991 | assemblylang earth joystick mp-versus naturalistic nplayers uvl-confusable uvl-missingmedia volleyball | labelminimizeminimize | |
| The Queen's Footsteps | author | 2020 | 1900s 20thcentury 2ndmillennium cardinalnavigation download earth interactivefiction inventory italy latemodernperiod past saveanywhere wordinput | labelminimizeminimize |
