You control a hand who must catch falling things. and then throw them back up to safety It's quite a strange concept. Maybe the only game whose main character is a hand.
The evils of ancient times are loose and the player, armed with lightning bolts, has to destoy them in this action/shoot'em up game written by Bob Flanagan and Scott Miller.
In The Bilestoad, players control "meatlings" that hack and battle with axes and shields from a top-view perspective. Although the game may seem medieval, the backstory in the manual explains that the axe fighting is actually a future virtual reality game designed to reduce real violence.
Blisterball! & Mad Bomber! are a series of two 1 or 2-player arcade games for the Apple II.
Both games allow for single-player, as well as 2-player cooperative gameplay. Also allows for 2-player competitive play, where 2 players compete for a high score. The player controls a small ship or cannon on the bottom of the screen, which can move horizontally left and right using the Apple game paddles. The ship fires vertically upwards.
In Blisterball!, the goal is to shoot down bouncing balls as they bounce out of the chamber above the player. If the player is hit by a ball, they are damaged, and they fall into the drain below if they are struck 3 times. There is also a series of blister balls, which can be shot for bonus points.
In Mad Bomber!, the player must shoot bombs as they descend from slots above. If a bomb strikes the bottom of the screen, the player loses a point. 10 points lost, and it's game over. The player must regularly refill their ammo by bringing their ship to the edge of the screen, and if the pla
Escape from Arcturus consist of two distinct action games: During the first part the player has to shoot down torpedoes which are launched from all four directions at the space fortress situated in the middle of the screen.
During the second part, the player has to defend several waves of incoming enemy spacecraft.
Spotlight is a series of educational games for the Apple II.
Reflect - Angle a mirror so that the light from a flashlight reaches the object displayed
Spotlight - Angle a mirror so the spotlight shines on a man moving across the screen.
Hot Stuff - Try to guess a number between 0 - 9. Each turn the player guesses three numbers, and are told how many are far away, close, or correct.
Boxed In - A computerized version of Othello played on a 6 x 6 board against a computer opponent.