classic games to play anytime
Donkey Kong was created by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo and is one of best-selling arcade machines of the early 1980s. In the game, Mario must ascend a construction site while avoiding obstacles to rescue Pauline from Donkey Kong.
Controls:
Cursor keys to walk and climb
Space to jump
Ghost and Goblins was originally written by Capcom and was the start of a franchise. The game is known for being difficult. The player controls Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclopes, dragons, and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin.
Enter to Start
Arrows Keys to Walk and Climb
Shift = Jump
Ctrl = Fire
Prince of Persia is a video game franchise created by Jordan Mechner, originally developed for the Apple II Computer. It was known for its state of art graphics. The franchise continues today, and most recently Disney released a movie Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
Controls:
Arrows keys to move character
Missile command was arcade game released by Atari in 1980. The aim is to shoot the incoming missiles with your laser beam before they hit your bases.
Controls:
Mouse to move cursor
Click to fire
Missile command was arcade game released by Atari in 1980. The aim is to shoot the incoming missiles with your laser beam. Missile Strike is a clone of the original game.
Controls:
Mouse to move cursor
Click to fire
The classic game of Tic Tac Toe.
Controls:
Mouse click where you want your cross to go.
Moon Patrol was a classic arcade game released in 1982 by Irem. Avoid the craters and shoot obsticles in the way.
Controls:
Mouse to click start
Space to fire
Arrow keys to move and jump
Micro Machines is a series of computer and video games, developed by Codemasters and published on several platforms between 1991 and 2006. The series is based on the Micro Machines toy line of miniature vehicles produced by Hasbro.
Controls:
Arrow Keys to move
A remake of the classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System game Super Mario World, guide Mario through the world collecting all the coins.
Controls:
A key to Jump
S key to Run
Arrow keys to move
Pause: Space Bar
Bomberman classic arcade game and was made famous on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Use the Bomberman to drop bombs to destroy walls and to trap your opponents.
Controls:
Arrows to move
Delete key to drop bombs
The classic game R-Type is a side-scrolling shooter game. It’s predecessors are Nemesis and Defender. These games have inspired a plethora of side-scrolling games.
Controls:
Arrows to move ship
A to normal fire
S to burst
X to release weapon
Minesweeper is a classic puzzle game. The player has to pick plots where there are no mines to win, the higher the number the more adjacent mines there are.
Controls:
Click on the grid squares
The Tron game was inspired by the Disney movie where Flynn is taken into the computer world where programs compete in computer games. The light cycle game objective is to avoid the light wall produced by the opponents light cycle. If you hit the wall then die.
Controls:
Arrow keys to move the light cycle
Released by Namco in 1981 Galaga is a space ship shooting game. Galaga is a sequel to Galaxian. The player controls a spaceship and shoots at alien ships.
Controls:
Spacebar to shoot
Arrow keys to move
The Taito classic Space Invaders inspired countless other games and let everyone to believe that they could defend the world against an invading armada of aliens.
Controls:
Left and Right arrow keys to move the Ship
Space to fire
A classic platform game which inspired a slurry of other platform games. The game is largely based on the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Rick can jump and climb, and carry a limited amount of bombs and ammunition for his gun. The gun is mostly used to shoot enemies, although most traps that can kill Rick can also kill his enemies if used correctly. The bombs are generally used for puzzle solving, such as blowing out certain blocks. Rick is also armed with a pogo stick that allows him to paralyze enemies with split-second timing.
Unusually, many of the traps in Rick Dangerous have no visible warning, which means that a player’s initial progress through the game can be a nail-biting ordeal of trial and error, I should warn you that this can be frustrating
Controls:
Arrows to move
ctrl and up to fire gun
ctrl and down to bomb
ctrl and left to stick
ctrl and right to stick
home key to cheat
ESC to reset
Tab/P to pause
Raiden was a 1990 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game which was developed by Seibu Kaihatsu. It was the first game in the popular Raiden series of scrolling shooter arcade games. Your objective is to shoot the enemy spaceships.
Controls:
Arrow keys to move the ship
Z and X keys to fire
Pac man was a landmark in arcade games, it created mass media coverage and became a huge success. The success of the game came down to its simplicity, gameplay and creating a new genre.
Controls:
Click start and use the arrow keys.
Simon is a classic memory game, remember the sequence of the coloured buttons, if you get one wrong then game over.
Controls:
Click on the coloured buttons
Q*bert is a orange creature with a large nose, who you move between squares by jumping. The aim is to avoid the bad guys and jump on all the squares.
Controls:
Arrow keys to move Q*bert
Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. It was originally released by Atari Incorporated (Atari) in 1972. Just keep the ball bouncing back and forth.
Controls:
Use the mouse to control the paddle.
Super Mario is a classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System game. Dash around the world killing the monsters and collecting the coins.
Controls:
Arrow keys to move Mario
Snake is a classic arcade game, move the snake around, eating everything possible and avoid hitting walls and its tail.
Controls:
Arrows keys to move the snake
Frogger was an arcade game introduced in 1981. It was developed by Konami. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one. To do this, each frog must avoid cars while crossing a busy road and navigate a river full of hazards.
Controls:
Arrow keys to move frogger
Duck Hunt was a video game developed and published by Nintendo, and was released in 1984 in Japan. The player shoot ducks on screen for points. The ducks appear one or two at a time, and the player is given three shots to shoot them down.
Controls:
Control the cursor with mouse
Click to shoot
One of my favorite games, Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pazhitnov in the Soviet Union. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four element special case of polyominoes. The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network music players and even as an Easter egg on non-media products like oscilloscopes.
Controls:
Arrow Keys
Jet Set Willy was released for the ZX Spectrum in 1984 and was one of the first platform games for the computer. Jet Set Willy has had a party and needs to tidy up his house to gain access to his bedroom to get some sleep.
Controls:
Arrow keys to move and jump
I love the classic game of Asteroids. At the time it was released in 1979 it introduced vector graphics to the world. It was one of the most popular and influential games of all time and one of Atari’s first games. Asteroids uses vector graphics and a two-dimensional view that wraps around.
Controls:
Use the mouse to click Start.
Arrows to move.
space bar to shoot.
Xevious is a classic side scrolling shoot ’em up. It was released by Namco in 1982 and was one of the first vertical scrolling shooters.
The original Xevious was the first arcade game to actually have a television commercial aired for it in the U.S. and Atari promoted the game with the slogan “Are you devious enough to beat Xevious?” and closed the commercial with a tag line branding it “the arcade game you can’t play at home.” It inspired numerous similar games.
Controls:
Mouse click to start.
Z key to fire
X key to bomb
Arrow keys to move
Controls:
Click start using the mouse
Move with the cursor/arrow keys
Space bar to fire
Play as Nebulus, and guide around and up the tower in this classic game. I remember Nebulus on the Amiga and the Commodore 64.
Controls:
Arrow keys to move.
Space bar to jump or throw.
Play as sonic or knuckles in one of the most famous video games ever, the alternative to Nintendo’s Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog was a classic game which became the number 1 game for Sega back in 1991.
Controls:
Click start to play.
Space bar to jump.
Arrow keys to move.
Hold down Space bar to speed up.
The classic Puzzle Bobble arcade game is also known as Bust a Move. Puzzle bobble was released in 1994 and spawned numerous sequels and bought in the popular characters Bub and Bob from Bubble Bobble to shot the bubbles. The idea of the game is to shoot bubbles and connect 4 bubbles of the same color and burst them before the time runs out or before they reach the level at the bottom of the screen. Anyone who loves the game Tetris will love this game which in the most recent incarnations included two player versions. An awesome game with numerous clones, but the original is still the best.
Controls:
Click the ‘push 1p to start’ flashing text to start.
Arrow keys to move and space bar to fire bubbles.
International Karate Plus (IK+) was released in 1988 and was a massive hit on the Commodore 64, Amiga and Atari ST. I remember playing it on the C64 against my brother. It was one of the best karate games because besides the two players, there was always a third cpu player to go up against. The graphics were great for the Commodore 64 which only had a small palette of colors available and the graphic detail was great; the water would ripple in the background and birds would fly across the sky. The detail reminded me of California Games.
Controls:
Press 1 to start and reset.
Use the arrow keys to move and attack.
Down is leg sweep.
Down and towards at the same time to low kick
Up and towards to punch