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
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
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
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.
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
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
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