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Gravitar
1982
Gravitar
1982
star 6.2Gravitar is a color vector graphics arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1982. The player controls a small blue spacecraft in a fictional solar system with several planets to explore. If the player moves his ship into a planet, he will be taken to a side-view landscape. Unlike many other shooting games, gravity plays a fair part in Gravitar: the ship will be pulled slowly to the deadly star in the overworld, and downward in the side-view levels. In the side-view levels, the player has to destroy red bunkers that shoot constantly, and can also use the tractor beam to pick up blue fuel tanks. Once all of the bunkers are destroyed, the planet will blow up, and the player will earn a bonus. Once all planets are destroyed, the player will move onto another solar system.Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
1982
Sega released the arcade video game Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom in 1982. It was a forward-scrolling rail shooter where the user controls a spaceship in a behind-the-back third-person perspective that must destroy enemy ships and avoid obstacles; the game was notable for its fast pseudo-3D scaling and detailed sprites. The game would later go on to influence the 1985 Sega hit Space Harrier, which in turn influenced the 1993 Nintendo hit Star Fox. Buck is never seen in the game, except assumedly in the illustration on the side of the arcade cabinet, and its only real connections to Buck Rogers are the use of the name and the outer space setting. Home versions were released for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari XE, ColecoVision, Coleco Adam, Intellivision, MSX and Sega SG-1000 video game systems, and the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Apple II and ZX Spectrum computers. A version for IBM PC using CGA graphics was also available.Popeye
1982
Popeye
1982
star 6.3Popeye is a 1982 arcade game developed and released by Nintendo based on the Popeye cartoon characters licensed from King Features Syndicate. In Popeye, two players can alternate playing or one player can play alone. The top five highest scores are kept along with the player's three initials. Popeye was available in standard and cocktail configurations.Calipso
1982
Calipso
1982
Compete against each other and a time limit (your air supply) to retrieve a treasure on the sea floor. Tago Electronics, the Calipso maker, released 3 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1981. Other machines made by Tago Electronics during the time period Calipso was produced include Anteater, and Video Hustler (Tago).Cotocoto Cottong
1982
Cotocoto Cottong
1982
Players manipulate a four-way joystick and a Speed button to control the direction and acceleration of their train as it rumbles down the track to the tune of "I've Been Working On The Railroad". The basic idea is to keep from running off the track. To get really big scores, though, players must drive locomotives into the passenger stations and pick up the waiting strap-hangers. There is even a bonus station that can only be reached during a limited time period. The faster the player gets to the special station, the more bonus points he or she collects (from 1000 to 5000).Chance-kun
1982
Anteater
1982
Anteater
1982
The player controls an anteater that elongates his proboscis through maze-like anthills eating ants. The player can only eat ants with the tip of the anteater's proboscis. If an ant bites your proboscis at any other location you lose a life. Pressing the second button will quickly retract the anteater's proboscis. Worms will not harm you unless eaten head first, in which case you lose a life. Worms can be safely eaten from behind. Eating queen ants at the very bottom of the nest will temporarily clear all ants and worms from the screen. Once the sun has travelled across the screen and night falls, a spider will appear. The spider climbs down the anteater's proboscis, taking a life if it touches the tip. The object is to eat all of the larvae before time runs out, clearing the screen. Each larva is worth 10 points. Each ant is worth 100 points, while eating a worm is worth 200 and multiplies the score you receive from eating ants by 1x (Ex. eating 5 ants +2 worms = 500 x 2 = 1000). Queen ants are worth 1,000.Bagman
1982
Bagman
1982
The objective of the game is to maneuver the bagman through various mine shafts, picking up money bags and placing them in a wheelbarrow at the surface of the mine. The player must avoid pursuing guards, moving ore carts, and descending elevators. The player may temporarily stun the guards by striking them with a pickaxe or by dropping money bags on them when they are below the player on the same ladder. The player may move between the three screens which make up the level via shafts and on the surface.Quantum
1982
Pirate Pete
1982
Pirate Pete
1982
A renamed Port of "Jungle Hunt/Jungle King" Taito distributed a less successful rebranding of Jungle Hunt as "Pirate Pete" in 1982. Jungle King, along with Moon Patrol released a month earlier, is one of the first video games which has parallax scrolling.Battle Cross
1982
Battle Cross
1982
A shooter where fleets of ships fly in from either of the screen and loop around in formation. The player may move around the screen in any direction.Zektor
1982
Funky Bee
1982
Swimmer
1982
Donkey Kong Junior
1982
Donkey Kong Junior
1982
star 7.2Donkey Kong Junior is the direct sequel to Donkey Kong. In this game, Mario plays the antagonist, finally having captured Donkey Kong, and has put the ape in a locked cage. As Donkey Kong Jr., players will have to make their way through four different levels (Vines, Springboard, Chains and Mario's Hideout) in an attempt to find keys to free the little monkey's father.Strike Bowling
1982
Sky Bumper
1982
Sky Bumper
1982
Use the joystick to loop your plane and make points by blasting enemy helicopters. Shoot the gates to move from one area to the next. A neat feature is the ability to bounce off 'borders' with your plane, like a bumper car.Tug Boat
1982
Super Locomotive
1982
Super Locomotive
1982
You control a train that must get to the station by avoiding or shooting enemy trains.Streaking
1982
