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.
Turn-based strategy game set during the American Civil War.
Jump from one place to another. Avoid hitting obstacles. Gather bonus items for points.
You have to retrieve artifacts which were stolen from a museum and solve the mystery as to why.
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 what is possibly the most baffling text adventure ever devised, navigate a surreal landscape with the aid of the Pi-Man in an attempt to discover the (real world) location of a golden sundial. Originally published in 1982.
Your task in this arcade game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the screen. Both these sections are fraught with a variety of hazards, each of which will kill the frog and cost you a life if contact is made.
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.
As Pedro (A Mexican gardener), you must protect your plants from various animals that try to eat them, by building a wall around your plants or jumping on the animals. Any plants eaten can be re-planted.
Yakzee! is a dice game for one to four players. Players take turns rolling five dice, and the player can reroll any or all of the dice twice more before selecting their scoring category. Scoring categories include the sum of all ones to sixes, 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, full house, a 4 dice straight, a 5 dice straight, yakzee (5 of a kind) and chance (which is the sum of all dice). A game is finished when all 11 scoring categories have been used. Game commands are via moving a cursor. Dice are graphically displayed on the right of the screen.
A first-person maze game where players attempt to collect jewels while evading a ghost.
Chase is somehow similar to Gnome Robots but in real-time game and with several items and power-ups.
A single-screen collec'em up written by Chris Morris and published by Softek for several 8-bit homecomputers.
In this text adventure you have to make it through a fun house until the amusement park closes for the day.
The Wizard of Akyrz is the eighth game in the Mysterious Adventures series. The player begins in the royal palace, where the king asks him to save his daughter from an evil wizard. If the player should succeed, his reward will be priceless.