Category Archives: Arcade

You are the frog and your task is to make it across the road without being hit by traffic, and finally make it across the river by skilfully hitching a ride on the floating logs. Sounds simple

The story: Donkey Kong has stolen Mario’s girlfriend and taken her to the top of a steel structure. You move Mario over girders and up ladders, leap over tumbling barrels, dodge lethal fireballs and jump onto fast-moving

You can’t get anymore retro than this classic shoot-em-up game. Yes, the graphics are chunky – a far cry from X-Box or PS2 standards – but at the time it seemed like ‘space-age’ technology. Instructions: Space Bar

This is one of the all time classic games and was released in the United States in 1986. The game’s popularity was tremendous, and many were instantly hooked – it was a software blockbuster. Instructions: Use your

In the years after Star Wars, anything involving outer space, speedy interstellar craft and dangerous battles was considered golden. Into this arena of sci-fi fantasy came Atari’s Asteroids, one of the most enduring hits in video game

Released in 1984 by Nintendo, Duck Hunt was one of the first games on the NES platform to use the ‘light gun’. The basic idea is pretty simple – you’re a duck hunter armed with a pistol

Pong, while not the first videogame, was the first coin-op arcade game and the first mainstream videogame that was available to almost everyone. The origins of Pong lie with an abstract tennis game created with an old

This game will test your memory, and, ultimately, your sanity. The object of the game is to memorize Simon’s sequence of lights. On that note, does anyone remember those Simon commercials in the ’80s? How could you