Popular games for platform Commodore PET
This dungeon crawler is one of the first ever RPGs with graphics and character progression.
A text based Adventure Game for the TRS-80, later enhanced with visual scenes in various ports. Only allowed 2-Word input and was largely based on Colossal Cave Adventure.
You are Sudden Smith and are on a mission to rescue ten prisoners who are kept by the evil alien race of the Tollah in a mine in an asteroid orbiting the planet Rigel. Whatever you do - you only of have 60 minutes to rescue all ten prisoners.
Galaxy is a Galaga variant that builds on the ideas explored in the Commodore PET game Galaga, an earlier unlicensed take on the coin-up game by Henrik Wening. Players move a space ship left and right to fire at a group of alien ships near the top of the screen. They fire bullets and come swooping down like a kamikaze. Based on the colour they have different behaviour and some of them require multiple hits. To finish the stage all aliens have to be defeated. The wave is repeated in every stage, but enemies gradually become faster. Just like in the regular Galaga, the largest enemies can move down and fire a fixed beam that makes the area smaller to move. After a number of stages a Challenge Stage can be accessed with a new pattern. The player receives a bonus there based on the number of kills. You start with three lives. A bonus ship is awarded at 20,000 points and then at every 70,000 points.
Given a time limit of 20 minutes you are sent into a cave to retrieve the stolen Datestones of Ryn.
Turn-based space strategy wargame.
In your quest for the Dragon's Eye amulet you venture through the Seven Provinces defeating numerous enemies in this early RPG.
You fight the Klaatu in this turn-based straretgy game.
A vertically scrolling shooter developed by Inofuto for a variety of systems.
Sequel to "Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai". It is advised that this top-down real-time action RPG is only tackled by experienced gamers who have at least played "The Datestones of Ryn" or "Morloc's Tower" or better yet "The Temple of Apshai".
The first survival horror game.
As the name suggests, this game brings to the personal computer one of the earliest concepts to appear on arcade and dedicated console game screens: a tank duel. Players look down on a battlefield of two-dimensional obstacles and maneuver their tanks to shoot and destroy each other. Each tank has nine points of armor, allowing eight hits before the final shot destroys the tank and hands victory to the opposing player.
The Dnieper River Line is a fictionalized engagement between German and Russian forces in the Southern Ukraine in late 1943. As the Germans you are challenged to repel Russian efforts to breach your critical defensive position. The Soviet units controlled by the computer seek to over run your thin German defensive line and capture sufficient objectives to assure victory. Dnieper River Line is a computer game which is played out board game style with a 8" x 11" mapboard and 240 5/8" illustrated counters.
Inspired by Star Wars this is a text-adventure game written by Lance Micklus.
Your goal in this text adventure is to find a pirate treasure using two word commands.
To clear the level, you must destroy all the UFOs while avoiding falling bombs and blocks. Blocks cannot be destroyed by your own bullets, but will disappear if hit by an enemy bomb.
A baseball game for the Intellivision. Features baseballs.
This game was first released as Miser for the Commodore PET in 1981. Considering the strict constraints of the early 8-bit machines - the original version only required 16K of memory to run - it was remarkable for its complexity.
Today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You are now back in Genoa, Italy: your steam ferry arrived three days ago with 25 wooden boxes containing Queen Nefertari Meritmut's grave goods, a real treasure! They left Genoa by train, heading towards Turin, yesterday evening. While they were in transit, you were invited to a sumptuous reception organised by a wealthy art lover, Eugenio Collovati, count of Raligotto, but it would be hard to say that you appreciated the evening. But the reception was yesterday: now, you must catch the train to Turin and check that the treasure arrived safely. I will be your eyes and ears. Good luck.
A simulation of the Battle of Midway in 1942.