Classic Video Games

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1. 1983: Kapt'n Krooz'r must shoot monsters in matching pairs in order to destroy them. (The first is temporarily frozen until its twin is also shot, or if a mismatched monster is shot.) In later rounds, if mismatched monsters are shot, their top and bottom halves exchange, and they must be unscrambled before being destroyed. Wacko Krooz'r Kontrol Monster Madness Lost In Space

2. 1983: You are a police mouse, retrieving stolen goods from a house full of burglar-cats (not catburglars 8-) ). You collect 5 pairs of items, earning a multiplication bonus if they're picked up in pair order. You bounce between floors of the house on trampolines, where you're safe from the cats. However, you can only bounce 3 times in a row on a trampoline, or else it breaks. Also helping you are "microwave doors", which when opened will push any cats pursuing you away. Mappy Cat-n-Mouse Burglar-Cats Long Arm of the Paw

3. 1984: You control a ball rolling through an obstacle course. Besides steering clear of the sheer drop-offs, you must avoid munchers, acid pools, an evil ball, hammers, etc. The playing field includes a maze, ice patches, a funnel, catapult, sine-wave carpet, and jump ramps you must go off of fast enough to jump crevasses. Steel Balls Orbs! Roller Derby Marble Madness

4. 1981: A combination of 5 video games. Players must go through 5 levels - space invaders, laser attack, galaxians, space warp, and flag ship - to advance their rank. Each round of 5 gets harder. Pentawarrior Space Attack Gorf Galaxian Plus

5. 1983: You are a secret agent, driving a special spy car down an endless highway. The enemy agents are after you, all driving dark blue sedans, boats, or helicopters. They try to ram, shoot, slash, or bomb you off the road. Along the way you can add weapons to your car: missiles, oil slicks, or smoke screens. You can also take side roads that let you take to the water on a speed boat (where your oil slick lights on fire when released). Spy Hunter Secret Agent Man James Bond Peter Gunn

6. 1983: Players - from 1 to 4 - competed in various decathalon events, tapping buttons to run faster or to gather more height. (US name) Olympiad Track & Field Decathalon Olympians

7. 1982: You are flying an attack shuttle through a pseudo-3-D (orthographic) course, destroying fuel dumps, gun implacements, missiles, enemy fighters, force fields, and robots. Mission to Mars Trancers Defender Zaxxon

8. 1981: You fly behind formations of aliens in space (who come into formation in various loopy maneuvers). But don't shoot them all immediately. If you're patient (and have an extra ship), allow one of the big aliens to tractor beam your ship away. Then, shoot that big alien when he attacks in formation with your captured ship. Once your first ship is released, you have a double-shooting ship with which to dispatch aliens. Galaxian Attack! Space Invaders Galaga

9. 1984: A simple one-on-one hockey game. It left skate trails on the ice as the game proceeded, which were cleaned up at the end of the game by a Zamboni. Slap Shot Five for Fighting Hockey Hat Trick

10. 1982: This game goes medieval. You are a knight atop a flying ostrich. You are trying to defeat enemy Buzzard-Riders by hitting them while your lance is higher than theirs. Defeated, they turn into eggs, which you must collect before they re-hatch into more skilled flyers. Lance Renaissance In Days Of Old Joust