Atari Vintage Games: 8 Bit Computers

Game Title: Barnyard Blaster
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Having invested in a farm, you must protect it from various creatures that are determined to drive you away.

This game uses the Atari XG-1 light gun as well as the joystick. Your goal is to rid your farm of vermin by shooting targets in each of three levels.

Between each level you play Grampa's bonus screen. In order to proceed through each level, you must achieve a certain percentage of shooting accuracy. At the end of the game you're given a ranking depending on how well you did.

Game Title: Battle of Antietam
Game Type: Simulation
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Battle of Antietam is a tactical simulation of a Civil War battle at the little town of Sharpsburg, Maryland along Antietam Creek.

The game is played in 11 turns each representing 1 hour of real time. Points are awarded at the end of each turn based on casualties and territorial objectives.

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

Game Description: As the pilot of a heavy tank, wipe out enemy tanks and landing vehicles. Be sure to move around the map to avoid being hit.

Game Title: BC's Quest for Tires
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Cute Chick is held captive by the dinosaur and it is up to Thor to ride his trusty wheel to the rescue.

Watch out for the many obstacles in the way that Thor will need to jump and duck including rocks, trees, rivers, lava pits, cliffs and of course Fat Broad.

Game Title: Beach Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: The Dictator from the first Beach Head game is back. World War 2 is over, but the dictator is out to seek revenge against the victorious allied forces. To aid in his cause, he kidnaps hostages and brings them to his island fortress.

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

Game Description: Beamrider is a unique space shooter game. The game's maps are drawn using 3-d and objects get bigger the closer to them you move -- just like real life.

Pilot your star-ship to defeat evil aliens which have encased the Earth in a strange field of glowing beams.

Battle through 99 treacherous sectors. The number of enemies and dangerous objects you must avoid increasing as you progress through the levels. Use your blaster to destroy most enemies, and torpedoes to destroy anything that's hard to kill. Be careful as you have a limited number of torpedoes.

An enemy mother-ship that appears at the end of each sector and can only be destroyed with the torpedo.

Game Title: Beneath Apple Manor
Game Type: Role-Playing
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Your mission is to find the Golden Apple that is buried somewhere deep in the manor. Watch out for the monsters as you search for treasures, secret doors and hidden traps in the dungeons.

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

Game Description: You are in a building infested with robots. Each room has a number of walls that restrict your movement.

Each room also has a number or robots. Many robots appear to be stationary during early levels, but move as you level-up. The game supports shooting in eight directions. Earn an extra life every 2000 points.

Game Title: Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Your mission is to infiltrate Nazi headquarters and seek out bomb agents and plant them outside the door to Hitler's bunker.

Use stealth and the occasional bribe to work your way to Hitler. Do not open up and fire at everything or you will fail in your mission.

Game Title: Black Lamp
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Your goal is to find and collect several coloured lamps and bring them back one at a time to a case located in the first room.

Collect several bonuses along the way while fighting off many creatures along the way. The ultimate goal is to bring all the colored lamps back to the case, including the elusive Black Lamp.

Game Title: BMX Simulator
Game Type: Racing
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: In this racing game, there are seven courses incorporating ramps and bumps that significantly affect the bike's handling. Complete each course before your time is up or it's game over.

Game Title: Bop'N Wrestle
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: The game can be played with one or two players. In one-player mode there are 10 opponents to take on in sequence.

Game Title: Boulder Dash
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You're Rockford and have to dig through monster infested caves in search of diamonds.

Once you have collected the right amount of diamonds, you progress to the next stage.

Squash your enemies with falling boulders that are released when the ground below them is removed or they are pushed onto empty ground. Be careful because these can also squash you.

Game Title: Boulder Dash II: Rockford's Revenge
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Part two changed very little in terms of game design: you still get to mine diamonds while avoiding falling rocks and cave monsters of all sorts.

Game Title: Bounty Bob Strikes Back
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Bounty Bob Strikes Back is the sequel to Miner 2049er.

Your goal is to claim every inch of 25 challenging mines. You must walk over each segment of the framework in the mines and to do this, you will need to figure out a way to jump, climb, or use one of many devices.

Wandering about each mine are deadly mutants and deadly means you will loose a life in you come in contact with any of them. Also scattered throughout each mine are special food items. Collect these food items for energy.

Game Title: Brian Clough's Football Fortunes
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Brian Clough's Football Fortunes is a football management computer board game suitable for two to five players.

You play the role of a club manager and must manage your team through the season using skill to make your team stronger and win games.

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

Game Description: This is a real time all-text game where you play the role of Sir Gawain, a knight of the Round Table. The game is played using the third-person.

You are trapped in the underworld of Ulro where you must learn five magic words in order to escape.

Game Title: Bruce Lee
Game Type: Fighting
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Your mission is to reach the wizard in an underground lair. Along the way, you must kick and punch out various bad dudes mostly consisting of Ninjas and Green Yamos.

Collect the many strategically-placed lanterns before exiting through the passageway revealed after successfully winning the round.

Game Title: Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Buck Rogers began as a comic strip and later in the 1980s adapted as a TV show. It became an arcade game before being ported to various game consoles and home computers.

This Fast and furious racing game taking place on a futuristic racetrack. Guide your spaceship between the pylons and shoot down other enemy racers.

Game Title: Castle Wolfenstein
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: This is the first installment in this revolutionary classic.

Your mission is to infiltrate Nazi headquarters in disguise, find the secret war plans hidden in a chest somewhere in the castle and then make it out again.

Use stolen passes, money, and ultimately ammunition to accomplish your goal.