Commodore 64

In a spin-off from one the most popular cartoon franchises of the day, the evil Skeletor has captured the magic-giving Ilearth Stone . This allows him to take control of Castle Grayskull, kidnap the Sorceress, and create a horde of fighters to attack He-Man's palace. He-Man must first rescue Orko from an 'imprison' spell (by collecting the right...

This interactive fiction title (one of three licensed Masters of the Universe titles released in the mid 1980s) might suit the more intellectual He-Man fans. Skeletor has developed an Earthquaker device, which uses hypnotic rays to control a horde of Rockbinders - gigantic boulder beasts capable of gnawing through solid rock. As the game starts,...

Walking along one day, Mickey and Pluto come across a spaceship. After boarding the ship, they are given a quest by XL30 from the planet Oron. A long time ago, a thief stole the planets memory crystal and broke it up into nine pieces, hiding them on each planet in the solar system. It is Mickey's job to travel to each planet and locate the crystals...

Alice in Wonderland is an adventure platformer based upon the two Alice books by Lewis Carrol and created using the same engine as Below the Root. However, whereas that game had more of a focus on role playing, Alice has more of a focus on puzzle solving. Puzzles come in a variety of forms including many inventory based puzzles, and more appropr...

A collection of five games starring the egg-shaped Dizzy character. All formats include: - Kwik Snax - Panic Dizzy - Spellbound Dizzy - Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk Additionally, Amiga and ST versions feature Bubble Dizzy, while C64, Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions feature the previously-unreleased Dizzy Down the Rapids.

Dizzy and Daisy have got themselves lost in the Enchanted Forest while picking berries and ended up beside a river. Hidden in the bushes is Rockwart the Troll and his gang of Henchtrolls who confront the heroes. Floating besides them in the water is an old apple barrel, so jumping in they start a journey down the rapids looking for safety. As they...

Elm Street... where dreams are blurred with reality... where all dreams become nightmares... the street where Freddy lives. You must go there. You alone have the power to save your friends and stop Freddy. You sleep, and let the nightmare consume you, carrying you into the endless night of Freddy's world. Once there, you move quickly, driven by so...

In Mickey’s Runaway Zoo both Mickey and Goofy team up to return all of the animals back to the zoo. This is done by a series of screens for young children to start visually identifying numbers incorporated into vivid color landscapes. When the child finds a number and presses the matching number on the keyboard, they are rewarded by a quick set...

The Ogre King and his minions have taken over Disney Castle, and it's Mickey's task to win it back. The game starts on a sequence of stairways, up which Mickey must move, shooting any creatures that get in his way. Eventually you will come to a door and go through it, at which point the second section of the game begins. These are viewed from ab...

Early this morning, a strong wind went through the hundred acre wood and picked up many objects and scattered them about. It is your job to locate all the objects, determine who the proper owners are, and return them. You had better hurry though, before the wind returns again! Along the way you'll meet all the familiar Winnie The Pooh charact...

Take a deep breath and enter a topsy-turvy world where one of your greatest enemies is... an electric fan? Control the cute Ghost who loves blowing a bubble through a wacky haunted house. His soft breath can move it, but a fragile bubble doesnt stand a ghost of a chance against a candle flame or the breeze from a fan. If the bubble bursts-pop go...

Toobin' involves Biff and Jet racing their way down the rapids of a river, riding on tires. You rotate your tyre left or right, and drift as the current sends you, making sure to avoid the banks of the river, and the dividing lines in the middle. Hazards include crocodiles, stray logs and branches, and fishermen - you are armed with a limited s...

Join Mega-Star DIZZY and the YOLKFOLK in their latest Adventure in Fantasy World! Incredible Dragons' Lairs, Wizard's Cloud Castle, the Evil King's Palace and Dungeons, Mysterious new Worlds, Volcanoes and more! Featuring over 50 rooms to explore! Dizzy's third adventure sees the introduction of the Yolkfolk, including Daisy, who has got lost in...

DIZZY'S cartoon adventure in MAGICLAND! Explore WEIRDHENGE, PRINCE CHARMING'S castle, Vampira's ICE PALACE, Wicked WITCH's island and jump through the MAGIC MIRROR! Find EXCALIBUR, wake SLEEPING BEAUTY and more! Starring all the YOLKFOLK in the latest INCREDIBLE TALE! Dizzy, the egg protagonist, is back in his fourth installment: Magicland...

Dizzy must rescue four of his 'Yolkfolk' (groan) chums in this game, from Cuckoo Land, Ice Land, Cloud Land and Zak's Castle. Like Fast Food it doesn't directly resemble the main series of arcade adventures, instead being a single-screen action game, resembling Pengo. The basic idea is to move around a maze of blocks collecting fruit, but the tw...

Death Star Interceptor belongs to a Sci-fi sub-genre of shooting games and it is one of the firsts to have a tie-in licence somehow related to Star Wars universe. Specifically to John Williams's Star Wars main title music. It has all the suggestions needed to implicitly relate the game to Star Wars's franchise: The title mentioning the galactic...

Star Wars: Droids is based on the Star Wars Saturday morning animated series that ran from 1985-1986. The series followed the adventures of the droid duo C-3PO and R2-D2. In this platformer title with puzzle elements, the droids find themselves prisoners of the Fromm Gang, and must escape a series of traps and hostile droids and traps, including...

This is the sequel to Codemaster's Fruit Machine Simulator and is programmed by the same people who developed the original. It is a game for 1 - 4 players. Each player is given £1.50 stake money which is represented as a series of coins. These coins are fed into the machine by pressing the appropriate action key, zero feeds in £1 for example....

Billed as 'The first real Fruit Machine Simulator' this is a game for 1 - 4 players that starts you off with £1.50p and sets about helping the player lose it. Though not based on a specific machine, it has features that fruit machines of the 1980's had such as Cash Box, Nudge Box, Skill Climb, Winning Streak, Cash Gamble, Hold, Mega-hold, and mo...

The biggest hero of them all returns for high adventure, rich rewards and big trouble! Join superstar Dizzy in his most exciting adventure yet! Four complete worlds of magic and mystery await! Featuring all the brilliant Dizzy characters and more interaction than ever before, Crystal Kingdom Dizzy has amazing graphics, sound and music!

In Bubble Dizzy you must guide Dizzy through the underwater worlds, collecting pearls as you go. Dizzy starts at the bottom of the sea, and you have to get him to the top. You do this by jumping across bubbles, which only have a limited time before bursting. Enemies to avoid include sharks, octopuses and swordfish. Dizzy has limited oxygen, but mor...

For two years, your people have struggled against the relentless onslaught of invading forces. With your army reduced to a handful and your artillery depleted, further resistance seems impossible. But in a hidden underground laboratory, a team of scientists has at last perfected a new kind of fighting machinery: a bionic arm that extends and contra...

This is it - THE soccer game! It's got everything - fouls, corners, goalkicks, penalties, throw-ins, off-side, and more. 4 Soccer Simulators is a soccer game that includes 4 independent sub-games: - 11-A-Side Soccer is a simulation of the default soccer rules. As the name implies, there are eleven players per team. - Indoor Soccer is pl...

Feel the need for speed? Want to live life in the fast lane? Then shift into Super Sprint, the arcade hit that's racing action at its very best! Race by yourself against computer-controlled cars or join a friend in a pedal-to-the-metal race for the finish line. Your driving skills will be tested by several exciting tracks, each with so many...

Compilation compiling the first five games in the Dizzy series: 1. Dizzy (replaced by Kwik Snax on 16-bit platforms) Dizzy's world is being threatened by the evil wizard Zaks. The player takes control of Dizzy, the anthropomorphic egg, who must search the land for a Leprechaun's Wig, a Cloud's Silver Lining, a Vampire Dux Feather, and Troll Bre...