Click and compare - it's in your hands:

Target: Renegade (1988) strutted in like a street brawler with a bad attitude and a worse neighborhood.

Target Renegade

1988 • Amstrad • Commodore 64 • NES +1 more

Pixel8Games 75% Users -

Street justice, cheap shots

Super Mario Bros began with a plumber, a mushroom, and a simple goal, then quietly redefined platform gaming forever.

Super Mario Bros.

1985 • NES

Pixel8Games 92% Users -

One plumber. Endless legacy.

Rolling Thunder (1986) dropped players into a stylish spy thriller where trench coats were sharp, enemies were ruthless, and bullets were strictly rationed.

Rolling Thunder

1986 • Amiga • Amstrad • Arcade +2 more

Pixel8Games 83% Users -

Cool under fire

Prince of Persia (1989) locked you beneath a palace, started a sixty-minute timer, and expected elegance under pressure.

Prince of Persia

1989 • Amstrad • Apple II • PC

Pixel8Games 92% Users -

Hardcore Parkour

Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995) handed you a blaster, parked the lightsaber, and proved the galaxy had room for a proper first-person shooter.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

1995 • PC

Pixel8Games 87% Users -

The Force is strong in this one

Maniac Mansion (1987) invited you to pick a trio of teenagers and trespass into the Edison household, where every room hid a gag, a trap, or a way to accidentally doom your friends.

Maniac Mansion

1987 • Amiga • Apple II • Atari ST +3 more

Pixel8Games 79% Users -

Break in, think

Gauntlet (1985), by Atari Games, cheerfully tossed players into a neon-soaked fantasy dungeon where health drained faster than loose change in an arcade pocket.

Gauntlet

1985 • Amstrad • Apple II • Arcade +2 more

Pixel8Games 77% Users 100%

Eat the food. Survive the dungeon.

Get Dexter (aka Crafton & Xunk) dropped you into a glossy isometric sci-fi maze where an android and his tiny sidekick had to blag, dodge and gadget their way to an all-important code.

Get Dexter

1986 • Amstrad

Pixel8Games 82% Users -

Crack the code, survive

Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf put you behind the controls of an Apache and somehow made fuel gauges as frightening as missile launchers.

Desert Strike

1992 • Amiga • Mega Drive • PC

Pixel8Games 77% Users -

Get to da choppa!

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe took the idea of a friendly sports match, threw it out of an airlock, and replaced it with metal armour and flying elbows.

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe

1990 • Amiga • Atari ST • Commodore 64

Pixel8Games 83% Users -

Enjoy a clean break

Metal Gear Solid (1998) smuggled blockbuster drama into your PS1 memory card, then told you to stop shooting and start sneaking.

Metal Gear Solid

1998 • PS1

Pixel8Games 92% Users -

Stealth with swagger

Unreal Tournament (1999) arrived as online PC gaming was exploding, and quickly became one of the games that defined the LAN-party era.

Unreal Tournament

1999 • PC

Pixel8Games 92% Users -

Let's rock!

Gryzor (1987) strapped a machine gun to your thumbs and dared you to run right, shoot everything, and still look cool doing it.

Gryzor (aka Contra)

1987 • Amstrad • Arcade • Commodore 64 +1 more

Pixel8Games 83% Users -

Run. Gun. Regret.

Bubble Bobble (1986) turned monster-hunting into something suspiciously adorable.

Bubble Bobble

1986 • Arcade • Atari ST • BBC +1 more

Pixel8Games 76% Users -

Bursting with joy

Descent (1995) took a normal corridor shooter, spun it in every direction, then asked you not to be sick.

Descent

1995 • PC

Pixel8Games 90% Users -

Six degrees of panic

Pyjamarama (1984) turned bedtime into a surreal obstacle course, starring Wally Week as he sleepwalked through his own house in stripy pyjamas.

Pyjamarama

1984 • Amstrad • Commodore 64 • Spectrum

Pixel8Games 68% Users -

Sleepwalking chaos

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