In this VIC-20 game from 1983, busy store detective Barney Bootlace must appease the shop manager by running around the shop floor dealing with various problems, from dealing with lost property and children, to apprehending shoplifters and even dealing with planted bombs!
A maze game where the player controls a caterpillar, traversing branches of a tree and eating leaves. The leaves obscure various junctions in the maze, so you are not sure if you’re going to hit a dead end until you munch the leaf.
Enemy bugs are hunting you as you navigate the levels, but there is a power up you can collect that works like the power pills in Pac-man and allows you to chase and eat the enemies for a short time.
As an explorer you have to avoid a red dinosaur as you try to get from the left of a huge cavern and traverse 27 screens to the right. As you move through each screen, various obstacles must be avoided such as falling rocks, lava and birds. If you dawdle for too long, the dinosaur appears behind you and chases you until you make it to the end of the screen. There are also treasures to collect and if you get six in a row without dying you receive a bonus. On the last screen, you need to try and trap the dinosaur in a cage.
Earth is in trouble from the Black Wizard Velnor, as he has finally found the tomb of Grako to turn himself into a demon. Time is short as he prepares for the change and so instead of sending a huge army to stop him, you have been chosen for this quest. You have arrived at Mt. Elk and you must enter the mountain and find Velnor hidden in the Goblin Labyrinth to stop his evil plan.
The Wizard of Akyrz is the eighth game in the Mysterious Adventures series. The player begins in the royal palace, where the king asks him to save his daughter from an evil wizard. If the player should succeed, his reward will be priceless.
Horror House is the very first graphical adventure game published by Nihon Falcom in 1983. The title was created by a student of Kindai University named Fujio Fujimori who had previously had several games published inside the pages of Japanese computer magazines like I/O Magazine, RAM and others at the time. Horror House would be the first in a trilogy of games released by Falcom that were classified as "occultic mystery adventure" games with Horror House Part II releasing in December and Monster House releasing the next year in 1984.
Halls of Death is an adventure game where you play the role of one of many explorers who have entered the caverns and rooms over many floors, searching for the treasure within, the only difference hopefully is that you make it out alive. The screen is split into five different parts with two parts text, one a map of the floor you are on, your stats and finally what you can see in front off you or the creature you are fighting. Starting at the bottom of some steps, you move around the map searching each room and text tells you what you see and how many turns you have taken.
As you explore, some rooms will have traps, some will have treasure and others will have a creature or monster that wants to fight you seen from the side. You have a certain level of strength and psionics (magic) and you can either swing at the creature, retreat or use one of four spells which are sleep, teleportation, lighting and fireball. Spells sometimes don't work and can sometimes rebound and hit yourself. You both take it in turns to figh
For Help! you control a guy who swings a mean stick that will knock out snakes that come up from the ground and climb up the vines you can maneuver on. However the blue striped snakes cannot be killed and are quite fast and if they touch our hero he will lose a life and have to listen to some agonizing music and any yellow snakes will advance to the top of the tree. You can also get a game over if enough of the yellow snakes reach the top of the tree and eventually will reach the large apple above your girlfriends head. They’ll then cruelly drop it down on top of her head crushing her! Eventually if you club enough snakes you’ll move on to the next level but the amount of snakes that reached the top stay. The controls of the game are a bit difficult and make it tricky to maneuver the hero. If he’s holding on to two vines he cannot move up or down so you have to be careful.
An action game where you pilot a mech known as MJ-05 and shoot at various enemies that upon being shot split into more ships to shoot down. There’s also a fuel gauge you have to keep an eye on as if it runs out you’ll lose a life. However it can be refilled by landing in a pod that scrolls along the bottom of the screen from time to time.