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Berenstain Bears
1983
Berenstain Bears
1983
Berenstain Bears comes with three different cassette tapes that are designed to be used with the Kid Vid Controller (originally packaged with Smurfs Save the Day - the only other Kid Vid game). The cartridge won't do much without the tapes. At the beginning of each game, Actual Factual Bear takes off while you control Brother Bear on his unicycle. Avoid the boulders and cross the bridge to reach one of the games, chosen by the particular tape you are listening to. The games are: Big Number Hunt: Catch the correct numbers as they fall from the tree Great Letter Roundup: Catch the correct letters as they fall from the tree Spooky Spelling Bee: Spell a word by catching the letters falling from the treeLibble Rabble
1983
Libble Rabble
1983
Libble Rabble is an arcade game that was released by Namco in October 1983. It was designed by Toru Iwatani, who had also designed the Gee Bee series, Pac-Man, and Pole Position. It is a curious but challenging game, where the player tries to harvest little mushrooms (Mushlins) while avoiding various enemies, and was the first game from Namco to use a Motorola 68000 processor (which ran at 6.144 MHz). At first glance, the gameplay resembles Taito's Qix. The player controls two "arrows", one red (Libble) and one blue (Rabble) with a line strung between them. The object is to wrap the line around poles and surround Mushlins and enemies with it. The player can either close the loops themselves (worth more points for the Mushlins) or move both arrows to the same edge of the screen. The player clears a "season" when he or she harvests all the Mushlins. Along the way, various enemies will appear and try to stop the player. The most common are four little hooded critters (Hobblins), which start each season in the cornerAstro Grover
1983
Astro Grover
1983
Astro Grover (along with Muppet Go-Round and Big Bird’s Hide and Seek) was part of Atari’s planned children’s line of games for the Atari 5200. These titles would have utilized the 5200 Kid’s Controller, which was actually just a giant keypad that would have easy for children with small hands to use. However, while the 2600 children’s line was released (featuring completely different games), the 5200 games and controller never saw the light of day. The games were however eventually released by CBS on the Atari 8-bit computers and the Nintendo Entertainment System, although some were slightly retooled. As you may have guessed, Astro Grover is an educational game featuring that lovable blue demon Grover. Although the title suggests a game about discovering the solar system, Astro Grover is really about counting and numbers. Atari simply borrowed Grover’s astronaut persona from the reoccurring skits on Sesame Street to make it more interesting. Astro Grover consists of five different mini-games offering uSega Mahjong
1983
Facemaker
1983
Facemaker
1983
Commodore VIC-20 ColecoVision Atari 8-bit Commodore C64/128/MAX ZX Spectrum TRS-80 Color Computer DOS Apple II Texas Instruments TI-99 MSXEveryone's mothers always say "Don't make those faces! They'll stay like that!" But now you have the chance to make the silliest looking faces anyone's ever seen! Choose from a wide assortment of eyes, ears, noses, and mouths. Then make your newly created faces blink, wiggle their ears, wink, or razz you. You can even play a "Simon Says.." type game where your face will do some kind of action and you have to follow along!Strike It!
1983
Fraction Fever
1983
Fraction Fever
1983
In Fraction Fever, the player's goal is to advance floors up to the twentieth with the help of his pogo stick and the Fraction Elevators located on each floor. To find them, the player needs to look for the correct fraction pictures, matching what is shown at the top of the screen, while a radar shows the layout of floors at the bottom. Incorrect fractions can be knocked down for scoring points, but this leaves holes in the floors. When the player doesn't manage to jump over these and falls down far enough or several times, the game will end. There is also a time limit to look out for, if the clock reaches zero the Fraction Elevator of the current floor cannot be reached, and the player has to jump down a floor to be able to try again.Scrambled Egg
1983
Topper
1983
Topper
1983
Poor Topper, the lovable little turtle who tries to liven up his universe by painting his galactic tiles. But, the mysterious Dynomite and the Renegade Rabbits will stop him if they can. It's up to you. Can you help Topper, while keeping him from getting caught by the Regenade Rabbits? Can you save him from the mysterious Dynomite before his tile is demolished? Topper needs you!Ant Colony
1983
Ant Colony
1983
Ant Colony is a prototype game from Funware which was never released. In the game you play the role of an exterminator who much navigate through the puzzled map and clear out ants as they emerge and spread out through the map. Be careful as there are also timed zones which appear to spawn additional ants. Fun for the whole family!Scooby Doo's Maze Chase
1983
You control Scooby as he chases ghosts through a maze while himself being chased by the skull & crossbones. If three ghosts are caught within a time-limit, the skull will disappear and a submarine sandwich appears. When eaten, it gives you a magic bone which when dropped in the path of the skull will momentarily freeze it in place. When Scooby is caught by the skull, the difficulty will go down. There's 10 mazes in all, but with the keyboard addon for Intellivision you can also make your own mazes.The Jetsons' Ways with Words
1983
Learn spelling and reading in Hanna-Barbera's "Jetsons" universe! Fly George Jetson's spacecraft around a network of platforms to collect up letters that form a word. The letters drift around the network, and will even try to get away from your spaceship when you get close. When you touch the right letter in the right order, you earn points, but touch a letter that doesn't belong and you lose them. If you collect letters out of order you don't earn as many points. On the higher levels you also have to dodge robots and satellites, which cost more points if you hit them.Flipper Slipper
1983
Flipper Slipper
1983
It is a water-themed Breakout-like game, with the unique mechanic of having curved paddles, which can cause the ball to roll off them and bounce off at unconventional angles.Joinem
1983
Crazy Bugs!
1983
Crazy Bugs!
1983
You are in a maze in which you must get the eggs laid by the bugs, put them in a box, and exit the maze. Although you are faster than the bugs, they are intelligent and will trap you. The screens increase in difficulty. At the higher levels super bugs join the chase.Sabotage
1982
Sabotage
1982
Blow up as many boxes as you can before the guard sees you. Or play as the guard and try to find the saboteur.Mazogs
1982
Mazogs
1982
Mazogs is a maze video game developed by Don Priestley and published for the ZX81 by Bug-Byte in 1982. It was subsequently licensed by Softsync and published in the US for the Timex Sinclair 1000.Eli's Ladder
1982
Eli's Ladder
1982
Eli's Ladder is an educational game aimed at children, where math problems need to be solved to help Eli and his crew climb a ladder to his space ship so they can then journey to the Moon. The game included a wall chart and stickers designed to help motivate children progress through the problems. This is one of the rarest Atari 2600 games and apparently saw fairly limited distribution.Dream Shopper
1982
Dream Shopper
1982
In one part, try to collect up to $10000 in merchandise. In the another part (the "Act I" and so forth) try to get past the enemies to your sweetheart. Sanritsu, the Dream Shopper maker, released 4 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Other machines made by Sanritsu during the time period Dream Shopper was produced include Rougien, Mahjong Kyou Jidai, and Space War.Wayout
1982
