Hogan’s Alley is a light gun shooter video game by Nintendo, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1984 and then the arcade Nintendo VS. System in 1985. It was one of the first games to use a light gun as an input device. The game presents players with “cardboard cut-outs” of gangsters and innocent civilians. The…
Crazy Taxi was produced by Sega in 1999. Sega released 588 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1936. Other machines made by Sega during the time period Crazy Taxi was produced include Dynamite Deka 2, delete4, Airline Pilots, Brave Firefighters, Daytona USA 2: Power Edition, Dynamite Baseball, Sega Tetris, Ski Champ, Lost…
Asteroids Deluxe is a vector graphic multidirectional shooter released in arcades in April 1981 by Atari Inc. Key changes in Asteroids Deluxe was designed to combat the saucer-hunting strategy of Asteroids, which allowed experts to play for extended periods. These modifications also made it significantly more difficult than the original. Ports of Asteroids Deluxe were released for…
1943: The Battle of Midway, known as 1943: Middouei Kaisen in Japan, is a 1987 shoot ’em up arcade game developed and published by Capcom.It was the first follow-up to Capcom’s earlier 1942. The game’s name is a reference to the Battle of Midway, which in actuality happened in June 1942.
A side-scrolling shooter, the game is set on either an unnamed planet or city (depending on platform) where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Defender was Jarvis’ first video game project and drew inspiration from Space Invaders and Asteroids. Defender was…
The player controls Bentley Bear who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered castles while avoiding enemies, some of whom are after the gems as well. Crystal Castles is one of the first arcade action games with an ending, instead of continuing indefinitely, looping, or ending in a kill screen, and to contain advance warp zones.
Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc. Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the most commercially successful games from the golden age of arcade video games and one of the first with a significant female player base. The primary objective is to shoot all the…
BurgerTime, originally released as Hamburger in Japan, is a 1982 arcade game developed by Data East initially for its DECO Cassette System. The player is chef Peter Pepper, who must walk over hamburger ingredients located across a maze of platforms while avoiding pursuing characters.
Players control Bub and Bob, two dragons that set out to save their girlfriends from a world known as the Cave of Monsters. At each level, Bub and Bob must defeat each enemy present by trapping them in bubbles and popping, who turn into bonus items when they hit the ground. There is 100 levels total, each…
Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy the asteroids and saucers, while not colliding with…