Video games (1970s)
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- DirectorEd LoggYour spaceship is trapped in an asteroid belt. Watch out for enemy spacecraft and maneuver your way out.
- Players wander around a maze shooting at other players or computer-controlled robots. Players score points for kills. If they are shot, they are deducted points and transported to a random location in the maze.
- Two players play a video version of table tennis. The first to score 11 points wins.
- Two tank commanders battle each other and avoid mines in a maze.
- This is a hurdles horse race.
- Amazing Maze is an arcade game and one of the earliest maze games produced. Both players must use a 4-way joystick to take control of a small symbol through a complex maze in a race to get to where their opponent had started from first.
- You must use a horizontally-sliding paddle to bounce a ball against colorful bars at the top of the screen. Each segment of the bars touched by the ball disappears. The object is to keep the ball ricocheting between your paddle and the bars above until the bars are completely gone and you "break out". You get points for each bar segment you get rid of. If the ball drops below your paddle, you lose a life.
- Land the perfect jump by getting the right amount of speed. If you get too much, you will fall over.
- Circus is an arcade game released by Exidy in 1977. The game is a re-themed variant of Atari's Breakout (1976), where the player controls a seesaw and clown in order to pop all the balloons in the level. The game has been copied and released under different names by numerous other companies in both the United States and Japan.
- Combat features 27 games in one, each are all variations on the tank, biplane, and jet gameplay.
- Superman must repair the bridge in Metropolis that has been destroyed by Lex Luthor, capture Luthor and his criminal underlings, enter a phonebooth to turn back into Clark Kent and then return to the Daily Planet in the shortest possible time.
- DirectorDoug Neubauer3-D space video game for the Atari 800 computer system.
- Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, the goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.
- Depthcharge is a single-player arcade game released in 1977 by Gremlin Industries for the Sega VIC Dual system board. Taito licensed the game and released it as Sub Hunter in Japan. The game, which uses a black-and-white CRT display, presents the player with a cut-away view of a section of ocean, on the surface of which is a destroyer with submarines passing beneath it. The player drops depth charges (up to six at a time) to destroy the submarines and moves the ship back and forth in order to avoid the submarines' mines. Up to four submarines may be present at any given time, each of which bears a score for destroying it that increases with its depth.
- A multi-directional shooter arcade game in which two players take the role of two cowboys engaged in a gun duel. Both cowboys carry no more than six bullets during each round of the duel, a round ends when both cowboys have used up all of their bullets.
- Face waves of aliens descending on your spaceship and clear the screen to achieve victory.