Popular games for platform Dragon 32/64
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this text adventure you are on a treasure hunt in an Egyptian pyramid.
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.
The game is set on a castle wall. The player must cross the screen from left to right avoiding obstacles in order to ring the bell at the far right. Obstacles include pits which must be swung over on a long rope, ramparts which must be jumped (some of which contain knights with spears) and flying fireballs and arrows (to be ducked or jumped). Eventually, after completing a number of screens, the player must rescue Esmeralda. If this final screen is completed, the game begins again at a faster speed.
Questprobe featuring The Hulk is a graphic adventure video game. It is the first entry in Questprobe, an intended series of graphic adventure games that only released three instalments before the developer's bankruptcy. The game's narrative follows the Marvel superhero Hulk and his human alter-ego Bruce Banner (in their first video game appearance), who must explore the mysterious lair of the Chief Examiner.
Hole is a text adventure for the Dragon 32/64. The year is 2208, and the player is the sole crew member of a medium-range starship. Their mission is to visit a sector of space previously explored only by the starship Zelda. As the player enters the sector, they find themselves losing consiousness. The player now wakes up in some strange galaxy interlinked by a series of black holes. The player can travel to a series of different worlds useing their ship's navigation system. Each system has unique environmental conditions that require wearing specific suits. There is a save and restore feature. All commands are via VERB NOUN entry.
In 1982 Tang also produced Horace Goes Skiing. In it, Horace must cross a dangerous road teeming with traffic to rent out a pair of skis, à la Frogger, get back over the road and successfully navigate a ski course. This title is not a true sequel, as it does not follow on from an original story and is only similar in that it features the same character. Like Hungry Horace, this title was available on the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Dragon 32. As before, Sinclair distributed the Spectrum version, Melbourne House the Commodore 64 and Dragon 32 versions.
The invaders are attacking the Earth with their new hyper missiles which never miss. It is up to you to defend the world and the people.
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.
Microdeal published this Mr. Do! clone on the Atari 8-bit line in 1984.
Chase is somehow similar to Gnome Robots but in real-time game and with several items and power-ups.
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.
Cassette 50 is a compilation of 50 games that was released for a variety of 8-bit home computers, albeit with different selections of games on different computers. The majority of games within the collection were programmed in BASIC and are widely considered to be of poor quality.
In the Cretan labyrinth of King Minos beneath Knossos you have to find 16 hidden treasures while evading seven mythical monsters.
This game is the sequel to Strategy I: Invasion. Your goal is to find the Bismark and make it sink by attacking. The Bismark is invisible till one of your ships is close to it. You also have aircraft carriers that can launch planes if so desired. The planes can then bombard/shoot the Bismark if it is in their range.
The first football management simulator, many of the hallmarks of the incredibly complex games which exist in this genre today are found in embryonic form here. Club finances, player transfers, basic tactics, and perhaps most importantly of all, excellent white noise crowd sounds when your team scored.
The semi-amusingly-named Mined-Out involves guiding a character across a screen covered with mines. He can move in any of the four main directions. At each point he is told how many of these four squares have mines in, but not the exact locations of the mines, making completion a precarious challenge. There are 8 skill levels, each with progressively more and more mines. After each level you are showed an 'action replay' of your path, as well as a full diagram of where each mine was.
The Black Sanctum (text version 1981, graphics added 1984) is the second game by Ron Krebs to be converted by Stephen O’Dea and Bob Withers for TRS-80 Color Computer. According to the manual, "Your object in this game is to overcome the forces of evil."
You are sent by Lady Artemis to Castle Blackstar to recover an orb.