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Simon
This game will test your memory, and, ultimately,
your sanity. The object of the game is to memorize
Simon's sequence of lights. On that note,does
anyone remember those Simon commercials in the
'80s? How could you forget! :)
Special Instructions : Use your mouse to
click start and click the color bars. Click
here to play...
Moon Patrol
Classic 'left-to-right' shoot em' up game that
I remember playing vividly on my old Atari 2600.
An impressive yet quite challenging action/shooter
game with its unique 3D graphics, funky techno
background music - and its revolutionary gameplay,
that's still good even by todays standards - Ok,
maybe not - but Moon Patrol excels in so many
areas that it's sure to please diehard Atari 2600
fans :)
Special Instructions : Move left/right
: use your Left/Right arrow keys, Jump : Up arrow
, Fire : Space Bar Click
here to play...
Duck Hunt
Released in 1984 by Nintendo, Duck Hunt was
one of the first games on the NES platform to use
the 'light gun'. The basic idea of this game is
pretty simple - you're a duck hunter armed with
a pistol and your trusty dog. You have three shots
to shoot one or two ducks each round. After ten
rounds of duck hunting (you'll probably be rather
bored of shooting duck at this point), you go to
the shooting range and shoot at clay pigeons for
another ten rounds - although the dog is absent.
The game is rather fun and satisfying initially
but gets old quickly. The sound effects are pretty
much what you'd expect for a game from the early
1980s - that is, awful by todays standards - gameplay
and graphics are simple - but it remains a classic
and is fun to play every once in a while.
Special Instructions : Be patient for this
game to load. To fire your pistol click your mouse
button. Click
here to play...
Star Castle
You may not remember Star Castle - actually, I didn't
either - but visually this game (released in 1980)
uses the same 'vector graphics' that are seen in
games such as Asteroids and Battlezone. Vector graphics
are, as seen in the screen shot to the right, simple
lines to create objects - and while it may seem
cheesey compared to present day graphics, they were
considered cutting edge stuff back in the '70s and
early '80s. This was also one of the first games
to use an experimental artificial intelligence to
harrass the game player's ship. A barely noticable
feature of the game from our perspective, but a
fundamental element of all video games today. Your
task in Star Castle is to break through the three
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