New Arcade Games - Page 260
Fireflies
1982
Fireflies
1982
The player controls a bug jar, and attempts to catch all the fireflies which flit about the screen. Fireflies are represented by single pixel dots which intermittently turn on and off as they move randomly about the screen. The player must attempt to guess their location, and correctly open their bug jar while over the firefly.Captain Cosmo
1982
Time Runner
1982
Time Runner
1982
Released by Funsoft as Time Runner in North America and by WizardSoft as Blade Runner in Italy, this Amidar style action game was created by Scott Maxwell & Troy Lyndon. Time Runner is a game in which you move your character along a pellet grid, which changes from level to level, while you collect points and avoid enemy characters. The goal is to, similar to PacMan, cover the entire board and fill-in each rectangular area, which will then become colored in. Time Runner was first developed on the Atari 800 and later converted to the Commodore-64.Chicken
1982
Chicken
1982
Home computer clone of Activisions Freeway in which you have to steer a chicken across a heavily frequented highway.Novatron
1982
Hard Hat
1982
AstroBlast
1982
Jellyfish
1982
Salmon Run
1982
Tax Dodge
1982
Crazy Mazey
1982
Crazy Mazey
1982
A action game written by Ron Meadows and published by Datamost for the Apple II. The player's goal is to capture all the cash in the maze without being caught by enemy cars.Money Munchers
1982
Money Munchers
1982
In this action game, written by Bob Bishop, the player tries to run through a maze collecting money that is lying around.Pig Pen
1982
Spectre
1982
Cyclod
1982
Cyclod
1982
A 2D action maze game in which the player controlls an eyeball and has to move bricks into segments of snakes to smash them. Designed by Hunter Hancock and published by Sirius Software for the Atari 8-bit and Apple II computers.Fly Wars
1982
Cosmic Cruncher
1982
Arex
1982
Crazy Chewy
1982
Dishaster
1982
Dishaster
1982
Dishaster is an action game released for the Atari 2600 in 1983 by Zimag. Another version of the game was released by Bit Corporation under the name Dancing Plates which features oriental-themed graphics and adds eight game variations. Dishaster was inspired by the circus tradition of keeping spinning plates suspended on poles. The player controls a girl attempting to keep a group of several spinning plates balanced on poles from falling. The game received negative reviews; criticism focused on the game's repetition and monotony. The girl can stabilize wobbling dishes by pressing the button on the controller. If a plate falls, the player is able to capture it if the girl touches it before it hits the ground, and a new one appears at the top of the pole. The number of poles to spin varies between the selected skill level; there are six on the easiest setting, and ten on the hardest. The player loses if they let four dishes hit the ground
