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Henhouse
1983
Henhouse
1983
In Henhouse, you are trying to help a farmer collect his eggs. Eggs are laid in the hen house near the top of the screen, and then move to one of five chutes. When the chute is full, you can collect the eggs and take them to your truck. If the chute is full and another egg lands in it, you'll have a cracked egg. Six cracked eggs will end your game. Of course, you're not the only one who wants those eggs. Bandits and coyotes appear from time to time. Bandits will steal an egg (earning you a cracked egg), but the coyotes will kill your chickens, ending the game. To stop them, you have to grab your shotgun from the left of the screen and shoot them. There are also two birds flying at the top of the screen. Although they don't harm you, you can shoot them for 50 points. You must put your gun back when finished defending the hen house, as you cannot collect eggs while holding the gun.Super Demon Attack
1983
Super Demon Attack
1983
Demon Attack is an arcade action game with gameplay similar to Space Invaders. You control a laser canon at the bottom of the screen, and need to destroy wave after wave of brightly colored demons. The demons bounce around the screen in bizarre patterns, and try to destroy your canon with bombs or lasers. When you shoot a demon, it will be replaced with another or will split into two smaller demons depending on which wave you are playing. When the required number of demons for the current round is finally destroyed, you can move on to the next, more difficult round.Ambulance
1983
Ambulance
1983
The object of the game is to pick up patients from their homes and race them to the hospital. When a house flashes, that indicates a sick patient is present. Navigate to the house and press the fire button to pick the patient up. Then, drive through the city to get to the hospital. You have to avoid other cars on the road because they will not stop for you. On certain levels, there's a train that makes you sit and wait. You only have a limited amount of time to deliver your patients.Rotor Raiders
1983
Rotor Raiders
1983
Rotor Raiders is a game very similar to Pac-Man where instead of you are on cleanup. Your character is that of a drain cleaner where you must navigate through the sewers to clean out the mice and their trail as they navigate. Four mice are typically in the sewer per level and each will make capture difficult and unpredictable. During gameplay there are brief periods of darkness where knowledge of the map design will come in handy to the user. After a brief outage lights are restored and the map can once again be seen. Who knew sewer cleanup could be so much fun!Sewermania
1983
Sewermania
1983
This game was designed by both Beverly Starke (Milton Bradley graphics artist) and programmer Dave Landon. According to Dave, Sewermania was MB President Jim Shea's favorite game out of all the MBX titles that were in development. According to early promotional material, the generator located in the upper left corner of the screen was intended to flood the sewer and kill all the rats. This would help the player in locating the bomb since there would be no rats to avoid for a few seconds (although the alligator would still be lurking around). In the released version of the game, however, the generator's functionality was removed making it impossible to flood the sewer. According to programmer Dave Landon the reason for the removal was because the game was initially developed for MB's own video game unit before being brought over the TI-99/4A (read the MBX development history by clicking the link in the above Trivia section). The TI-99/4A's cartridges were smaller in size apparently to what Milton Bradley had envisiSneggit
1983
Sneggit
1983
In Sneggit, you control a chicken trying to gather up eggs from the barnyard before the snakes get them! Pick up one egg at a time, bring it back to the nest, and repeat! But it's not just about quickly grabbing the eggs, you also have to make sure to defend the nests, or else a snake might clean it out completely! This is a pretty fun game for the TI-99/4A and deserves a look! Games back then had such clever concepts behind them. OK, games nowadays do too, sometimes.....Neutron Star
1983
Neutron Star
1983
In Neutron Star the player controls a spaceship trying to defend a system of satellites from being hit by planet fragments cast by an explosion. The boulders must be collected by placing them in transport platform in front of the ship. Once the boulder is coupled, the player must move the ship toward a neutron star in the left edge of the screen. The neutron star exerts a magnetic force which will draw the ship into it. The ship must be moved carefully as it displays momentum. If the ship is drawn by the neutron star, it will be destroyed. Once close enough, the boulder can be released (by pressing the action button) and it will be drawn into the neutron star. The boulders can also be destroyed with rockets launched by the ship, but they are only available while the ship is not carrying any boulders.Crazy Caveman
1983
Crazy Caveman
1983
You try to survive on your way back home after being separated from your peers while hunting.Pacmania
1983
Pacmania
1983
Not to be confused with Pac-Mania by Namco, this is a Pac-Man clone where the object is to eat dots and power pills. Several ghosts appear in their hideout at the center of the maze, and these ghosts will eventually make their way through the maze, chasing Pac-Man wherever he goes. However, eating the power pills cause the ghosts to turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to hunt a ghost down and then eat it for bonus points, which are also awarded for eating a fruit that appears somewhere within the maze. Warp tunnels are located at either side of the screen, and these can be used to get away from ghosts that are on Pac-Man's tail. Besides power pills, also scattered around the maze are white H icons. If Pac-Man comes in contact with any of these icons, he will be teleported to anywhere in the maze. Once Pac-Man eats all the dots and power pills in the maze, he will advance to the next one, whose structure differs from the previous.Rug Rats
1983
Circus
1983
Hobo
1983
Hobo
1983
Hobo was developed and published by Emerson Radio Corp., which was released in 1983. This is essentially a Frogger clone, albeit the road is diagonal and you play a bum/hobo instead of a frog.Doraemon
1983
Doraemon
1983
Doraemon is a Pac-Man style game, developed and published by Bandai, which was released in 1983 in Japan. It was the first Doraemon video game ever produced.Midnight Building
1983
Midnight Building
1983
In Midnight Building you control a man who is running around in a dark labyrinth. You'll start at floor eight and work all the way down to floor one. At the beginning of each round the labyrinth floor is shortly visible, giving you the opportunity to locate the keys and the vault in the labyrinth. After a few seconds the labyrinth turns black. Only your direct surroundings of the labyrinth lightened. Now it becomes your goal to collect all the keys, open the vault with the collected keys and then return to the middle of the labyrinth to enter the door and go to the next floor. There are at least three hostile green men running around in the labyrinth who are trying to catch you. You'll loose a life when they catch you.Picnic
1983
Picnic
1983
You call this a picnic!!?? Just when you are ready to sit down and eat your juicy cheeseburgers, a swarm of nasty bugs comes along intent on beating you to the munch. They start eating and you start swatting, and the battle has begun. It's a good thing you brought along your bug zapping trap. Now, swat those critters into the trap, and just maybe there will be something left for you to eat for lunch.Crazy Climber
1982
Mole Patrol
1982
Pucki & Monsters
1982
FL Changeman
1982
Space Attack
1982
Space Attack
1982
Space Attack is a 1-player arcade game for the VIC-20. The player controls a small vessel at the bottom of the screen that moves horizontally and fires vertically. Numerous alien vessels approach from the top. These vessels move side to side, and fire angled and straight shots. The player gains 10, 20, 30, or 40 points depending on the ship destroyed. Progressively faster aliens appear as the game progresses. There are 3 skill levels, and the player has 3 vessels each game.
