Atari 5200 Games

Game Title: Choplifter!
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Chopper Command is a side-scrolling action/arcade game. You command of an attack chopper. Your mission is to go behind enemy lines and rescue 16 hostages per level.

To prevent you from rescuing the hostages, tanks and enemy aircraft will try to stop you and won't stop until you have rescued the hostages.

Game Title: Combat II Advance
Game Type: Flight
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: In Combat II Advanced supports four person game-play. Each of you can take to the battlefield in a wide variety of vehicles, such as tanks, jets, helicopters and submarines.

Each vehicle type has several different battlefields to choose from, and there also several game variations to add even more variety.

Game Title: Congo Bongo
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: This is a port of the popular jump n run arcade game. Your objective, should you choose to accept it, is to run, jump, and climb your way through a dangerous jungle while avoiding various animals and projectiles.

As a bonus, the game includes the introductory animation from the arcade game.

Game Title: Countermeasure
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Terrorists seized control of several missile silos with plans to blow up Washington D.C.

Your job is simple, you must stop them. To stop the missiles, destroy all of the missiles, or attempt to guess the fail safe code.

If you try to destroy all the missiles, you must do so in under ten minutes and the missiles silos have many defences which the terrorists control: pillboxes, tanks, jeeps and cruise missiles.

Clues to the fail safe code can be found at the supply depots. The code is three letters long, and can consist of any combination of L, E and O.

Once in the war room, quickly enter the code before the missiles will launch. When the missiles have been stopped, the level is complete and you continue on to the next, more difficult round.

Game Title: Crossbow
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: You objective is to retrieve stolen treasures from the castle of the Evil Master with several friends. The members of your party are unarmed, but you are bestowed with a crossbow, and hense the name of this game.

Using the crossbow, take out any hostile enemies that get in the way of your friends as they cross the screen. There are many different landscapes to be crossed, each with its own variety of dangers. Dangers include deserts with scorpions, ice caverns, jungles with hostile monkeys, a lava spewing volcano, and even the heavily guarded castle.

The game starts with two friends in your party. Additional friends join your party as you progress throughout the game. The game ends when everyone in your party has been killed.

Game Title: Decathalon
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: The Activision Decathlon attempts to use the player's own physical endurance to simulate athletic performance. Players move their joysticks left and right to run, and hit the red button to perform actions such as vaulting or throwing the discus.

There are 10 different Olympics events including:
100-meter dash,
long jump,
shot put,
high jump,
400-meter race,
110-meter hurdles,
discus throw,
pole vault,
javelin throw, and
1500 meter race that takes several minutes to complete.

Game Title: Defender
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Another top, and highly addictive, video game from the 1980s, Defender puts players in charge of a ship sent to protect mankind from wave after wave of attacking alien forces.

Armed with smart bombs and a hyperdrive fight against bombers, pods, swarmers, baiters, and landers. The landers are the worst as they capture the humanoids and transform them into deadly and relentless Mutants.

If you fail o save the humanoids form the mutants, the planet will be destroyed, ending your game.

Game Title: Dig Dug
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Dig Dug is another Arcade port and is considered one of the top arcade games on the 1980s. So popular that the game is still being ported to generations 7 consoles.

Dig Dug is pretty much the same in concept as Pac-man, but instead of eating cookies while moving through a maze of hallways, Dig Dug has you digging you own maze of tunnels while avoiding creatures that want you dead.

The only weapon that you carry is an air pump, which you can use to inflate the monsters to the point where they explode. Furthermore, rocks are scattered throughout the earth, and you can use these rocks to squash them if you dig a tunnel directly under the rocks.

If the monsters do not find you for several seconds, they will eventually get turned into ghosts, which are able to walk through the earth and this is very bad! Oh, I forgot to mention, each successive level gets harder with more and faster creatures.

Game Title: Dreadnaught Factor
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Dreadnaughts dwarf stars are huge. They are rude, intruding where they are least wanted. Dreadnaughts can destroy fleets, planets, solar systems and entire galaxies.

Your mission is to destroy all dreadnaughts.

Game Title: Final Legacy
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: In this war game, your goal is to defeat the enemy before time runs out.

The action takes place in three separate arenas: land, sea and air. In this war, you must blast the enemy in all three arenas.

Game Title: Friskey Tom
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: You are a plumber who must climb up and fix broken pipes to keep a steady stream of water flowing from the tank to the reservoir.

Unfortunately, there is always a catch to an otherwise simple job. The house is infested with mice that roam the screen, gnawing through pipes and generally causing problems for our man Tom.

Game Title: Frogger
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Another big hit of the 80s that has managed to find itself ported to modern game consoles.

Essentially, gameplay is all about getting across the road. Avoid cars, trucks and other nasty things trying to kill you. Level-up by getting across the road, however, each successive level increases in difficulty.

Like most games from the 1980s, levelling up usually meant playing the same boards with increased speed, more obstacles and smarter obstacles.

Game Title: Frogger II: Three Deep
Game Type: Like many sequels, they do not always follow the success of the original version. Frogger II adds three different locations including underwater. In the underwater screen, you must watch out for dangerous alligators and fish, though turtles can be ridden
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: In Frogger II, you need to guide your frog to safety in three different locations. Starting out underwater, reach the top of the pond while avoiding dangerous alligators and fish (you can ride a turtle for safety!). Once on top of the pond, hop across logs, birds, and even a whale to the life preserver trailing behind a tugboat. In the third location you have to hop across a flock of birds to reach a cloud at the top of the screen. Each frog has a time limit to safely reach one of the homes on each of the three screens. You move on to the next level when a frog has safely reached each of the homes on all screens.

Game Title: Galaxian
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Galaxian is another popular video game of the 1980s as is evident by the number ports to modern platforms.

Aliens come on to the screen into formation. During this stage, they are easier to shoot and don't put up much of a fight.

The player moves left and right to aim at an alien, then shoots a bullet up the screen and the bullet must hit something or move off the screen before another bullet can be shot.

The aliens are classed as Drones, Emissaries, Hornets and Commanders, with those higher up the screen scoring more points when destroyed.

At set intervals some of the aliens will move down the screen towards you, escorting a bomber, which is a moment of high danger. Clear a wave and another is generated, each harder than the previous one.

Game Title: Golf
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Golf provides traps, trees and water. However, the game does not provide much in the terms of texture to judge the roughness of the course. The game supports one and two player modes in low resolution.

Game Title: Gorf
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Gorf is essentially four games in one and played as levels.

The first level has you behind a defensive shield, defending against an alien attack, which looks very much like the game space invaders. Use your shields to dodge bombs and take out all the aliens.

The second level is similar to the first, only your defensive shield is gone and the enemies tend to swoop down over the level as opposed to those row formations. Bonus ships also tend to appear in this level.

The third level is a change, and has you entering hyperspace. Your only goal is to survive to the end of your journey. This level vaguely resembles Star wars. The viewpoint switches from a top-down view to a behind-the-ship view and in effect you are heading towards your destination. Alien vessels flying in circular formation try to stop you.

The fourth is the most difficult as a large mother-ship is dropping bombs on you while you are trying to hit one tiny sport to destroy it. Oh yeah, the mother-ship has shields as well!

Finishing the game increases your rank and starts the game over at level 1 with a faster game speed for more challenge.

Game Title: Gremlins
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Gremlins adapted from Steven Spielberg movie of the same name. The game takes place just after midnight when the Gremlins are running around Billy's living room.

You are Billy and your goal is to catch all of the Mogwai and return them to their cage and to destroy all of the Gremlins with a sword. Each level has a six minute time limit. However, as the levels progress gameplay becomes faster and the Gremlins and Mogwai more numerous.

Advancing to the next level occurs when you have completed your tasks, or simply by surviving the six minutes. Bonus points are received for each Mogwai returned to the cage.

Be careful of food laying around as the Mogwai turn in to Gremlins upon eating any food.

Game Title: Gyrus
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: To save the solar system, fly your spaceship around nine planets.

Starting with a single canon, you can gain another cannon after shooting a power up satellite. Upon clearing each planet, you enter a bonus stage where weapons and bonus points are collected.

Your ship moves around what looks to be the top of a vortex, shouting at aliens coming out of it. This game was very popular during the 1980s for its game play, sound and graphics.

Game Title: H.E.R.O.
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Your mission is to make your way through the dangerous mineshaft and locate the miners. This must be done before running out of energy and avoiding dangerous creatures and lava

Roderick Hero has some tools to aid in his mission.

The prop pack will allow you to hover and fly around the mineshaft and avoid the many dangers.
Your helmet features a short range microlaser beam which can be used to destroy the bats, spiders, snakes and other creatures you'll encounter in the mines.

To break through a path blocked use one of your six sticks of dynamite. Be careful as the dynamite explosion can also end your life as well. However, If you run out of dynamite, your laser beam to destroy the walls, though this will take some time.

As the levels progress, the game will become more difficult: the mine shaft will become longer and more maze-like, creatures will more frequently block the path, and lava walls and pools will appear which are dangerous to the touch.

Game Title: James Bond 007
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: You are James Bond and your mission is complete four different mission:

Diamonds Are Forever
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only

Each level has a variety of enemies trying to destroy you, and a unique goal that must be accomplished to continue on. If you can complete all the missions, you win the game!

Good luck, Mr. Bond.