Popular games for platform Dragon 32/64

31.12.1983

Chuckie Egg is an action platformer featuring a turn-based multiplayer mode. As Hen-House Harry, the player must collect the twelve eggs positioned in each level, before a countdown timer reaches zero. In addition there are piles of seed which may be collected to increase points and stop the countdown timer for a while. The player starts with five lives, and an extra life is awarded every 10,000 points.

31.12.1984

Jet Set Willy is a flip-screen platform game in which the player moves the protagonist, Willy, from room to room in his mansion collecting objects. Unlike the screen-by-screen style of its prequel, the player can explore the mansion at will.

15.02.1980

Moon Cresta is an arcade game released in 1980 by Nichibutsu. A moving starfield gives the impression of vertical scrolling, but the game is a fixed shooter in the vein of Namco's Galaxian. Incentive Software published a version of this arcade game for many 8-bit home computers of the time. Dempa also released a port of both Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta for the X68000. It was also released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on March 9, 2010 and PlayStation 4 (Arcade Archives) in 2014.

31.12.1978

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.

01.05.1983

Manic Miner is a platform video game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the early titles in the platform game genre. The game itself was inspired by the Atari 800 game Miner 2049er. It has since been ported to numerous home computers and video game consoles.

31.12.1982

Multiple Circus-Themed Challenges

31.12.1983

You fell asleep in the waxworks at a fair and now you have to find your way out.

31.12.1983

In order for Andromeda to become your, Perseus', wife, you have have to slay the hideous Medusa.

31.12.1983

You have to save a princess from an evil wizard.

31.12.1983

Horror Castle is a text adventure. Starting in the forest outside a dark castle, the player must find their way into the castle and rescue the princess. Numerous clues, dangers, and traps litter the castle and its surrounding grounds and dungeon.

31.12.1983

Turn-based strategy game set during the American Civil War.

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31.12.1982

31.12.1982

Gridrunner is a lot like Atari's arcade classic, Centipede.

01.06.1983

31.12.1983

This is a text based game that has elements from a multiple genres dungeon crawl, puzzle, logic challenge, and even resource management. The back story is about a bad wizard who's stolen a magic chalice and you play the plucky adventurer who has to get it back. The bad guy is hiding in the ancient burial grounds, or barrows. The game is based on a map of the barrows in which there are 40 or so rooms. You are dropped randomly into a room. In other rooms are gnomes, trolls, dragons etc and in one room is the wizard. The game is played by moving from room to room exploring. You may view connecting rooms. You may raise a magic wall in an adjacent room. However you have only 400 magic points and viewing or raising a wall costs points so it's important to find the wizard before points run out. The game is a text game. There is only one graphic which is the map that shows how the rooms are connected.

31.12.1984

31.12.1982

Protect your cities in catching the bombs being dropped on them.

31.12.1986

Lucifer's Kingdom is one of the rare vertically scrolling shoot'em'ups for the Dragon 32. In order to achieve smooth scrolling, the play area is limited to a block roughly half the size of the screen, with the rest of the screen area dedicated to score and status displays.

31.12.1983

Donkey Kong jr. clone

01.01.1983

Another winner from Kenneth Kalish (Author of Phantom Slayer, Escape and Invader's Revenge). Danger Ranger must collect ten keys from the Chamber of Pasha, whilst warding off the Floating Urns, Radioactive Bats and Roving Eyes. Then he must face the Acid Chamber to collect all the Treasure Chests, avoiding not only the drops of acid, but shooting the four demons which guard the chamber. Five Levels of Play. Sound Effects. High speed arcade action game. Full colour graphics. Machine code. Joystick Required.

31.12.1982

You play as a fleet commander and your task is to escort a convoy from one end of the map to the other within a set time limit, with at least half the convoy vessels surviving the U-boat wolfpack hiding in the depths. The fleet commander has six destroyers for protecting the convoy and clearing the sea of submarines. The ships are equipped with sonar to discover the submarines and a number of depth charges and torpedoes to destroy them with. Only a limited amount of moves may be made during each turn.