Atari Vintage Games: 8 Bit Computers

Game Title: 221 B Baker St.
Game Type: Adventure
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: 221 B Baker St. pits up to four players against each other in a race to solve mysteries set in Victorian London. Pick your character as Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Irene Adler or Inspector Lestrade.

Game Title: Ace of Aces
Game Type: Flight
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You are in charge of a British Royal Air Force Mosquito fighter bomber. Your mission, in this flight simulator is stop enemy trains, intercept the German V-1 buzz bombs, sink the German U-boats and down the Nazi bombers.

Game Title: Adventure in Serenia
Game Type: Adventure
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You must rescue a princess imprisoned by an evil wizard.

Game Title: Adventureland
Game Type: Adventure
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Adventureland was the first of the Scott Adams text adventures. Using simple two-word commands, you explored an enchanted world trying to recover 13 lost treasures.

Game Title: Agent USA
Game Type: Adventure
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Agent USA is a geography enhancement game that centres around a character that travels by train to different U.S. cities.

Find the FuzzBomb that turns ordinary people into FuzzBodies. Plant crystals that regenerate into newer crystals and when you build up 100 of them and touch the FuzzBomb, the nation is saved.

Game Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Game Type: Role-Playing
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is a RPG that has you searching for the Sultan's kidnapped daughter, Princess Buddir-al-Buddoor.

Your party can feature humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings. While looking for the princess, you'll come across hoards of gold ducats that you can buy armour with and weapons and hint-filled.

Game Title: Alternate Reality: The City
Game Type: Role-Playing
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You are one of many people who have been abducted from earth by aliens and transported to an alternate dimension. Your mission is to find the clues that will lead you to your captors and help you get back home.

Game Title: Andromeda Conquest
Game Type: Strategy
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: A strategy game where one to four players build galactic empires by establishing and defending space colonies, managing resources and battling other players for control of star systems.

Game Title: Archon II:Adept
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: The sequel to the classic Archon, Archon II: Adept features a more complex board and enhanced gameplay.

Each side plays as an Adept powerful wizard with the ability to cast spells against other Adepts. Each side can summon four unique elementals at a time or choose from four demons, common to both.

Gameplay is similar to the original.

Game Title: Archon: The Light and the Dark
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: This is a strategic board game with some similarities to chess. Two sides, a light one and a dark one, consisting of 18 pieces each compete on a board divided into 9 by 9 squares. The game is won by having one of your units on each of the five powerpoint squares or by removing all your opponents pieces.

When two pieces clash, the outcome is decided in the battle arena during one-on-one real-time combat. If the real-time combat takes place on a dark square, the dark monster gets a health bonus. On a light square the light side gains an advantage.

Unlike chess the two sides are not identical. Both sides consist of mythological creatures. The differences are not just cosmetic. Two special pieces are the light wizard & the dark sorceress, they can both cast magical spells like: imprison a unit on the board, shift the flow of time, bring one unit back from the dead etc.

The different pieces have their own movement restrictions regarding the number of squares they're allowed to travel on the board and whether or not they can jump over other units. Units also behave different in combat; some units are faster than others, some use melee attacks while others fire projectiles.

Archon can be played with either one or two players. The NES version, which was released a few years after the other versions, has improved graphics for the real-time combat part. Each type of square has it's own colored background and the unit sprites are larger.

Game Title: Arkanoid
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Arkanoid is based off the original breakout that is based off of Pong. Arkanoid became a huge hit during the 1980s.
The game's plot really does not fit very well, but that does not matter. The game stands on its own.

Along with the ball bouncing around the screen, hitting the bricks would also cause options to fall that included, but not limited to, longer paddle, laser ball, three balls, catch, free ball, etc.

The game also dramatically improved on the sound effects and use of sound. It is not difficult to lose hours playing this game.

Game Title: Asteroids
Game Type: Action - Shootem Up
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Asteroids was a highly popular game in the Arcade before it was ported to many game consoles and home computers.

As a spaceship pilot trapped in the asteroid belt, blast your way out of the asteroids.

Each time you shoot one of the asteroids, it will break up into smaller pieces and these pieces move faster that the original piece. Eventually the pieces will become small enough that they can be destroyed.

When all asteroids have been fully destroyed, its time to level up to more asteroids. Watch out for flying saucers that are there to destroy you.

Game Title: Astro Chase
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Save Earth from eight mega mines. Use your flying saucer to destroy them all before they reach Earth.

Your ship is equipped with lasers which can be used to destroy enemy saucers and the mega mines. Located throughout the space around Earth are eight shield depots. Fly through one of these to provided limited invincible.

Your ship also has a limited energy. If you get too low on energy, use the resupply generators in the four corners of the play area.

When all of the mega mines have been destroyed, you will move on to the next, faster chase!

Game Title: Atlantis
Game Type: Action - Shootem Up
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Your job is to defend the ancient city of Atlantis from the Gorgon attack.

Atlantis is very similar to Missile Command. Like Missile Command, you have three gun towers to defend against attacks. Waves of Gorgon attackers descend four times before they come within range of attacking the city. Use these opportunities to blast them out of the sky with a well placed shot. If the invaders make it to the level closest to the city, one of your seven installations will be destroyed. You can regain destroyed installations after a wave of enemies is wiped out.

The gun towers on the left and right sides of the screen fire at a diagonal angle and the main gun in the center fires straight up. The good news, an unlimited supply of ammunition, and the left and right guns cannot be destroyed.

The bad news: Enemies will keep descending in waves until the city is completely wiped out and as they speed up. So, eventually, you will loose. Good luck.

Game Title: Attach of the Mutant Camels
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Fly your spaceship while shooting up gigantic mutant camels who are trying to attack your base. Yep, gigantic mutant camels....

The camels start off yellow but as you bombard them with laser fire they change colour until they are eventually destroyed. Keep your eye's pealed as the camels will stampede at you and do you in if you are not careful.

Game Title: Autoduel
Game Type: Racing
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You are an average Joe starting off in New York with a dream to earn massive amounts of money and maximise prestige while accomplishing story-based missions.

Side quests are also available for pay as well as being able to compete in the arena for more money and prestige.

Game Title: Aztec
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Your mission is to recover a valuable Jade Idol from a maze. You are armed with three sticks of dynamite and must avoid traps, animals and natives and make it out alive.

Get through the maze quickly and earn a much better pot. Apparently, even though there is only one, its value decreases the longer you take.

Game Title: Aztec Challenge
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Your mission is to reach the Aztec temple. Once there, be careful of the variety of dangerous obstacles.

Game Title: B-1 Nuclear Bomber
Game Type: Simulation
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Fly your B-1 bomber to it's destination and destroy the target in order to complete your mission.

Input text commands to control your bomber's altitude, course, radar, weapons and so on. You will have to watch out for MiGs and SAMs as well as electronic counter-measures.

Game Title: Ballblazer
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Ballblazer is a one-on-one soccer match set in the distant future.

You are a robot trying to snare a floating ball called a plasmorb. Once snared, fired the plasmorb into your opponent's goal.

You play on a simple 3d playfield which is split in half. You can play against the computer or against another robot controlled by a human player.