Video games (1980–1984)
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- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoArcade 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.
- DirectorDon BluthTony BozekStarsDan MolinaVera PachecoMichael RyeA valiant knight, Dirk the Daring is on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon.
- The player controls a lone spacecraft on a mission to take down the entire enemy armada. Enemy fighters and ships shoot at the player, and there are mines and other objects that must be shot or avoided.
- As a blue car, collect flags throughout a maze while dodging red enemy cars and rocks.
- DirectorDon BluthTony BozekStarsJeff EtterWill FinnLorna CookThe heroic Ace has been transformed into an adolescent named Dexter. You guide Ace through various dangers as you fight to save his girlfriend Kimberly from the villainous Borf.
- Navigate Pac-Man through a maze escaping ghosts and eating Pac-Dots.
- The player controls a gun that can only move in the bottom fifth of the screen. The object is to shoot a centipede that works its way down to the player area through a field of mushrooms. Other attacking enemies are fleas, spiders, and scorpions.
- Humanoid player runs through maze-like rooms, destroying robots while avoiding their fire. The indestructible Evil Otto is the game's timer, forcing the player to move on.
- Missiles from the sky are attacking the cities, you, as the player, must defend the 6 cities as long as you can.
- Your job is to complete several quests and gather special stones to defeat the evil wizard, Mondain.
- Sowing the seeds of evil in every man's soul.
- 20 years after the defeat of Minax, a volcanic isle has appeared in the southern seas. Evil seems to iminate from this place. You and 3 others have been called forth to go answer the mystery and riddle of the isle, Exodus.
- Can you become an Avatar?
- A character named Lode Runner must traverse and dig through fanciful designs of architecture to collect tons of gold, while utilizing physics and avoiding man-crushing, though foolish, guards.
- Mappy is a side-scrolling platform game that features Mappy, a police mouse that must retrieve stolen goods that are stored in a Mansion that belong to a cat gang (called Meowkies in the game) that Mappy must avoid.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoA plumber named Mario and his brother Luigi travel through the Mushroom Kingdom to save the princess from the evil Bowser.
- DirectorAlexey PazhitnovDifferently shaped blocks descend into a 2D container. The blocks can be moved and rotated, and must be sorted into the rest of the blocks on the fly.
- Light gun shooter video game in which the player must hit a minimum number of targets (either ducks or clay pigeons) to advance to the next round or else get a game over. If the player loses, a dog appears to mock the player.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoTwo plumber brothers, Mario and Luigi, come across unearthly creatures while searching sewer pipes, so they must do their job and clear the pipes.
- This update to Pac-Man (1980) changed the character to a lady, added moving fruit, smarter monsters, cut scenes and more mazes.
- A launch title for the Nintendo NES. A puzzle-platformer in which Mario attempts to break down all the walls and ladders he can with a hammer on each of 100 levels.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoArcade platform game and the sequel to "Donkey Kong", but with the roles reversed compared to its predecessor: Mario (formerly named "Jumpman") is now the villain and Donkey Kong Jr. is trying to save his kidnapped father.
- A teen loner thinks he is becoming the high scorer of a video game in his trailer park, but he is actually being recruited by an Alien race to help them save their universe.
- DirectorMasahisa IkegamiIn the video game DigDug you are the character Doug who has been sent to clear this underground area of all the enemies.
- A man flying on balloons tries to destroy rival birds, also with balloons.
- StarsJames GleasonAtari 2600 adaption of "The Empire Strikes Back" in which the Battle of Hoth is recreated as a side scrolling shooter. The player controls a Rebel snowspeeder and has to shot down AT-ATs.
- Q*bert must to make the top of the blocks the color shown and avoid enemies.
- StarsJon PertweeDonna BaileyIan DuryTake control and follow the life of a "defect", which takes the shape of a human body that was formed inside a machine. The defect goes through all stages of life from cells to senility, as it grows and evolves it must avoid the defect police who try to detain it.
- StarsBrandon Scott MillerYou play a kid delivering papers on his treacherous route.
- A computer adaptation of the popular card game.
- It is the year 2084, the world we all once knew is now overrun by robots. The majority of mankind was eliminated by the robots during a cybernetic revolt. As the player, you must rescue the surviving humans while defeating an endless wave of killer robots.
- 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 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.