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- Arcade video game and the first in the "Donkey Kong" series in which Jumpman (later retconned to be Mario) runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong.
- In this arcade game, you must help a frog cross a highway and a river while avoiding obstacles so he can get to his home safely.
- The sequel to Galaxian (1979), the player controls a spaceship and faces waves of enemy aliens that try to destroy, capture, or collide with the spaceship.
- A computer adaptation of the popular card game.
- Defend the human population from swarms of attacking aliens.
- Castle Wolfenstein is 2D stealth-based action-adventure game set in World War II. The game's main objective is to traverse the levels of the castle to find the secret war plans and escape alive.
- The player's ship flies over a horizontally scrolling planet surface, protecting friendly humanoids from alien abduction. Destroying all enemies advances you to the next wave. Loss of all humanoids destroys the planet until it is reinstated every fifth wave.
- An insect-like creature seeks to destroy the evil Qotile.
- You control a yellow crab-shaped shooter that travels along the outside rim of a 3-dimensional tunnel, shooting enemies down the alleys of the tunnel while avoiding any coming down the alleys. The tunnel takes on many different forms, and the shooter has a special "superzapper" that enables it to kill all enemies present in the tunnel.
- The player controls a spaceship that must blast its way through five missions, each a different challenge. The game features a pistol grip joystick and robotic speech synthesis that heckles the player during gameplay.
- Catch as many bombs as you can and get as close as possible to the 999,999 maximum points.
- The players use shields to defend their castle walls from the fireballs that ricochet around the playfield. Players can capture and catapult the fireballs at opposing castles. Fireballs destroy pieces of the castle walls they hit.
- Just as in real tennis, the object of this game is to win sets and games.
- One or two players move around a variety of line-drawn mazes shooting the creatures that wander within. Eliminating all of the monsters will advance the players to the next level. Creatures called Worluks and the Wizard Of Wor himself will occasionally appear and these can be shot for bonus points.
- A cosmonaut takes down the surrounding alien infrastructure.
- Score more goals than your opponent in the four-minute time period.
- A man must find and seduce women in the fictional city of Lost Vagueness.
- As a blue car, collect flags throughout a maze while dodging red enemy cars and rocks.
- A racing game in which the player drives a formula one race car in a series of competitive road races. The player must out drive 30 other competing race cars within a time limit in order to win the race. Each race course is set in a variety of terrain that differs with weather conditions and time of day.
- The goal is to get as many chickens across a ten lane highway as possible in two minutes and sixteen seconds. When hit by a car the chicken moves back two lanes. There are eight levels in the game.
- You are a mouse in a maze who must avoid cats and hawks while searching for cheese, bones and bonus items. Eating bones will allow you to become a cat-eating dog. Pressing color buttons will change the maze.
- You're a chopper pilot on a surveillance mission in enemy territory; your goal is to make it through the various obstacle courses alive and score as many points as possible.
- As a small blue spherical creature whose sole sensory organs consist of two eyes, two antennae and an enormous mouth, you are on a mission to eat twelve dots which are floating around a small maze. Pursuing you are three multicolored jellyfish-like horrors who will gobble you up on contact.
- A vector space combat game. You have to destroy alien ships invading your solar system and rescue the survivors before they fall into the sun and die.
- Turtles puts you into the role of the maternalistic turtle who tries to save the kid turtles from a bunch of bad bugs (or, in some versions, bad cars).
- Olive throws spinach, bottles and pineapples from the top. You, Popeye, have to catch them by moving Popeye under the objects. That would not be very difficult, if Brutus didn't try to knock you down.
- The main character has to stop pedestrians from falling into holes that lead to the sewers below. To do this, he uses a manhole cover, which fills in the holes long enough for the people to pass. The player earns a point for every pedestrian who travels across a manhole cover. As the game progresses, the pedestrians will move faster. More of them appear in Game B. If a pedestrian falls into the water, the player gets a miss. If the player reaches 300 points without any misses, the points will be worth double until the player does get a miss. If the player has any misses at said score, every miss will be cleared instead. When the player gets three misses, they receive a Game Over.
- You fly a plane as you look for various animals for your kingdom.
- Mars is video arcade game made by Artic in 1981. The player pilots a spaceship over a leftward scrolling landscape. The laser gun can be fired in eight directions. Destroy the ground based enemies.
- The player controls a rowboat and has to catch smaller people parachuting out of a helicopter. Every parachutist the player catches is worth a point. As the player progresses in the game, more parachutists will appear, and they will eventually fall faster. If the player does not catch one, a shark lurking below will catch the person, and the player will get a miss. At 200 and 500 points, any misses the player has will be removed. When the player gets three misses, they receive a Game Over. In Game B, some parachutists get stuck in a tree.
- Play as a diver trying to find treasure in a cave while a gigantic octopus tries to grab you with its tentacles.
- Shoot Out is a gun fighting game with a Western setting. The players control a cowboy on the screen and must try to hit each other with their pistol fire. The cowboys cannot shoot while moving, instead, they must enter a firing position after which the joystick is used to aim the gun rather than walk. After a shot, the player cannot exit the firing position until the bullet has hit something. A stagecoach and a cactus offer cover for the players. Different game variations offer different game rules such as the cover being breakable, being able to get up immediately after shooting or having a bullet limit. All game variants can also be played in a target practice mode where there is no second player present.
- Trebor was a mad overlord who went off on the deep end after acquiring a magical amulet of immense power. The amulet ends up being snatched away from Trebor by his arch nemesis Werdna. Werdna was not sure how to properly use the amulet, only to accidentally cause an earthquake which creates a newly formed ten level dungeon under Trebor's castle. In order to avoid the embarrassment, Werdna declared that the dungeon system is Trebor's new lair for his monsters. Trebor on the other hand, declared that the dungeon system will be his new proving grounds for adventurers to prove their worthiness of becoming Trebor's new honor guards. Hiding the actual truth from Werdna that these adventurers will be instructed to steal back the amulet for Trebor.
- A text adventure, a sequel to the classic Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980). Once again, the game is set in the Great Underground Empire, but this time the main goal is to face off against the titular wizard.
- Arcade cabinet that uses laserdisc technology to simulate horse betting. Pick your horse, make a bet and watch full motion video clips of horse races to see if you've one. Two players can play together.
- Cowboy is a gun fighting game with a Western setting bearing thematic similarities to Shoot Out for the 1292 Advanced Programmable Video Game System. The players control a cowboy on the screen and must try to hit each other with their pistol fire. The cowboys fire their bullets in horizontal lines and can hide behind objects for protection. The first player to have 30 hits on the opponent wins the game. Game variations allow for different sizes for the cowboys, different backgrounds, invisible cowboys, and different firing distances and guided shots (during their path bullets can be moved up or down). A limited shot game limits the guns to 10 bullets, with guns being reloaded once both players shot all their bullets.