Ace of Aces, Play online - Ace of Aces (Amstrad CPC)
1986
Ace of Aces is a computer game flight simulator developed by Artech Digital Entertainment in 1986. The game takes place during World War II and the player flies a RAF Mosquito long range fighter-bomber equipped with rockets, bombs and a cannon. Missions include destroying German fighter planes, bombers, V-1 flying bombs, U-boats, and trains...
On the surface, Archon appears similar to chess, but there are a number of significant changes. While the board is similar to a chessboard and the various pieces are similarly designed to have various offsetting abilities, when one piece attempts to take another the removal of the targeted piece is not automatic. Instead, the two pieces are placed into a full-screen 'combat arena' and must battle (action-style, with the players running the pieces) to determine who takes the square...
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It is based upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the Vaus, the player's ship, escapes. Much like the game 'Breakout', the player controls the "Vaus", a space vessel that acts as the game's "paddle" which prevents a ball from falling from the playing field, attempting to bounce it against a number of bricks...
Barbarian (Death Sword) is a one or two-player fighting game. As the name suggests, the fighters are barbarians. The game offers sword combat in various locales. The game has also a one-player plot mode, where the player has to defeat several fighters to fight evil wizard Drax to rescue princess Mariana. The game was greatly inspired by sword and sorcery fantasy stories like Conan the Barbarian...
last update: 03.02.2011, games played: 277
Boulder Dash, Play online - Boulder Dash (Amstrad CPC)
1984
Boulder Dash, aka Rockford, was originally created by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray. The hero of the game, whom the player controls, is the brave prospector "Rockford". He must dig through caves collecting gems and diamonds, while avoiding various types of dangerous creatures as well as obstacles like falling rocks and the constant danger of being crushed or trapped by an avalanche, or killed by an underground explosion...
Carrier Command is a cross between a vehicle simulation game and a real-time strategy game where players control a robotic aircraft carrier. The carrier is not based on any real-life aircraft carrier but has been designed specifically for the game. Across all but one format, Carrier Command uses filled-in vector graphics to create a three-dimensional view of the game world. The game is set in the near future, where a team of scientists have developed two robotic aircraft carriers to colonise an archipelago of sixty four islands...
Cisco Heat is an arcade racing game by Jaleco. The player takes on the role of an officer who must race his squad car through San Francisco in an attempt to win the first ever 'National Championship Police Car Steeplechase'. The gameplay is similar to that of other contemporary racing games, with a two-speed shifter and a chase view...
last update: 09.07.2011, games played: 62
Crazy Cars, Play online - Crazy Cars (Amstrad CPC)
1987
Starting Titus' racing series of third-person perspective racing games, Crazy Cars encompasses the American Cross Country Prestige Cars Race. This takes in several parts of the USA, in several powerful cars. Initially you have a Porsche 911 Turbo in your hands, but this can later be upgraded to a Lamborghini and then a Ferrari...
You have discovered evidence that a rogue group of police officers are involved in a stolen car racket To stop them profiting form their dubious actions you must get across America as quickly as possible. This is made a little easier by the fact that your turbocharged Ferrari F40 can do over 300 MPH...
Lamborghini American Challenge (Crazy Cars III is an earlier edition) is a game released in 1993 by Titus Interactive. The objective of the game is to become the undisputed champion of illegal races in the U.S.A.. To do so, the player must race against a group of computer controlled opponents in a variety of illegal races across the country. The races are divided into three leagues, each one with increasingly harder opponents, and the player needs to regularly upgrade his Lamborghini Diablo...
The Cycles has similarities to Grand Prix Circuit, except it is a motorcycle racing sim. The game includes all the tracks of 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. Laguna Seca and Goiania circuits are not available when you choose 125cc bike...
last update: 26.12.2010, games played: 188
Dragon's Lair, Play online - Dragon's Lair (Amstrad CPC)
1983
Dragon's Lair features the hero, "Dirk the Daring", attempting to rescue "Princess Daphne" from the evil dragon Singe holed up in a wizard's castle. The screen shows animated scenes, and the player executes an action by selecting a direction or pressing the sword button with correct timing. The comedy of the game stemmed from not only the bizarre looking creatures and death scenes, but the fact that while Dirk was a skilled knight...
Elite is a seminal space trading computer game developed by David Braben and Ian Bell. Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wireframe 3D graphics with hidden line removal. The player, initially `Commander Jameson`, starts at Lave Station with 100 credits and a lightly armed trading ship, a Cobra Mark III. Most of the ships that the player encounters are similarly named after snakes, or other reptiles. Credits can be accumulated through a number of means...
Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing computer game released for the ZX Spectrum, PC, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. There are eight GPs in the game: Brazil, Monaco, Canada, Detroit, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan. You can select a McLaren Honda MP4/4, Ferrari F187/88C or Williams Judd FW12 as your Formula One team. Generally, the Ferrari is the slowest, but easiest to handle, and the McLaren is the fastest, but difficult to control...
Head Over Heels is an arcade adventure, released in 1987 for several 8-bit home computers, and subsequently ported to a wide range of formats. It uses an isometric engine that is similar to the Filmation technique first developed by Ultimate (Knight Lore). Head Over Heels is the second isometric game by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond, after the Batman computer game...
The famous fantasy-themed board game was converted into an isometric-viewed role playing game in which the evil Wizard Morcar must be defeated. You take control of a wizard, a dwarf, a barbarian and an elf, each with different strengths and weaknesses, who each start the 14 missions from opposite sides of the board. Strict turn-based movement rules apply, as actions other than movement can only be carried out before or after the move, the size of which is limited by a dice roll...
last update: 15.01.2012, games played: 189
Hobbit, The, Play online - The Hobbit (Amstrad CPC)
1982
The Hobbit is a computer game released in 1982 and based on the book The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was developed at Beam Software by Phillip Mitchell and Stuart Richie and published by Melbourne House for most home computers available at the time. Many locations were illustrated by an image, based on originals designed by Kent Rees...
As in the movie (and the more-famous graphic adventure), your task is to find the Holy Grail. Before this can be done you must find the Cross of Coronado, a shield and a diary...
last update: 24.08.2012, games played: 42
Juggernaut, Play online - Juggernaut (Amstrad CPC)
1985
Juggernaut is the first game in its own genre! Become a truck driver in an elaborate computer simulator for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Your task is to distribute goods in the small town, your opponents outlayed fuel and poorly controllable truck ...
last update: 28.01.2013, games played: 117
Karateka, Play online - Karateka (Amstrad CPC) [French]
1984
Karateka is a 1984 computer game by Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. The game begins with an impressive graphic of the fortress of the evil Akuma. Akuma is holding the lovely Princess Mariko. The player must defeat the guards of the castle and must eventually face Akuma himself in order to rescue the princess. Mechner adeptly used character gestures and musical cues to evoke the game's immersive atmosphere. The animations nearly match the quality of the ones seen in Mechner's Prince of Persia five years later...
Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager is a football computer game that was released exclusively to Europe in 1989. This video game involves taking the role of Kenny Dalglish as he manages an English football team from the Football League Fourth Division right to the Football League First Division. The game is powered mainly by icons and menus; dragging the `managerial football` genre into the 1990s. A chairman can be consulted if players made the right decision while a physiotherapist can check for player injuries and the football scout can find players that can be recruited into the team...
Knight Orc is a standard text adventure with limited graphics on some platforms. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a night of heavy drinking with friends, Grindleguts the orc awakes to find himself strapped to a horse and about to joust with a human knight. His "friends" are nowhere to be seen, and he must somehow escape from his predicament and get even with them...
Lagaf: Les Aventures de Moktar - Vol 1: La Zoubida is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Titus Interactive based on the song `La Zoubida` by Lagaf - famous French humorist (Vincent Rouil). Player is in role of Moktar, an Arabian man who is lost in the big city and must bring him back to the Arab world. Next title - Titus the Fox - is essentially the same game with a different main character...
last update: 11.05.2012, games played: 63
Laser Squad, Play online, Laser Squad (Amstrad CPC)
1988
Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics war game where the player completes objectives such as rescue or retrieval operations, or simply eliminating all of the enemy, by maneuvering the squad's team members around a map one at a time, taking actions such as move, turn, shoot, pick up and so on that would use up the unit's Action Points...
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge is the first game in the series was released in 1990 for most popular contemporary 8-bit and 16-bit computer systems, the Amiga version being the most technically advanced. The game allowed the player to race a Lotus Esprit Turbo SE car through several (32 in the Amiga version) circuit race tracks of varying scenery. Two player simultaneous play (with split screen) was also provided, and a choice of audio tracks to accompany races...
Pinball Wizard (also known as `Macadam Bumper`) is a computer game, an arcade and pinball construction set. The game includes full-featured graphics, sound and lights, and even `tilt` capability. The game features four simulations with varying obstacles. On the Atari ST, the flipper and back-board controls are manipulated by the mouse, but moving the mouse too much will activate the tilt sensors...
last update: 06.02.2011, games played: 14
Macadam Bumper, Play online - Macadam Bumper (Amstrad CPC)
1985
Pinball Wizard (also known as `Macadam Bumper`) is a computer game, an arcade and pinball construction set. The game includes full-featured graphics, sound and lights, and even `tilt` capability. The game features four simulations with varying obstacles. On the Atari ST, the flipper and back-board controls are manipulated by the mouse, but moving the mouse too much will activate the tilt sensors...
Microprose Pro Soccer is arcade-style soccer game. It has two different parts: Indoor and Outdoor. The Outdoor game is the normal European soccer. You may play single matches, league or tournament (world championships). Optional features are: weather effects, replays, customizable game length. The Indoor game has US soccer teams and plays on a much smaller field. It has different rules compared to outdoor soccer...
Myth: History in the Making is a 2D platform game with a lot of fighting. The levels of this game deal with different mythologies, from ancient Greece to the Vikings, Egyptians and more. The gameplay consists of running and jumping through each level, collecting objects and weapons, fighting enemies and solving puzzles. Enemies include skeletons, demons, wraiths, mummies and vikings. Weapons include a sword, gun and fireballs. Each level contains a mythical boss enemy, such as Cerberus, Medusa, Thor or Hydra...
The Neverending Story is a text adventure based on the movie of the same name by Wolfgang Petersen (rather than the novel by Michael Ende). The world of Fantasia is about to be destroyed by the "All-consuming Nothing", it needs someone from the "Real World" to believe in it again in order to be saved from falling into oblivion. The player takes control of the young hero Atreyu who is the only one who can find the savior of Fantasia. The game uses different pictures to show the player's current location...