PJ Crossley is no stranger to the retro gaming era as his golden age of gaming goes right back to the days of the ZX81. He has played most of the 8-bit systems and has plenty of experience with dealing with old games and giving them the remake treatment for PC gaming. Although not new, they have recently been updated and uploaded to gamejolt. There are lots of games for you to play and remember such as Cookie, Pacman, Thrust and many others each listed for your enjoyment!
Cookie
System Playable : PC
Authors Description : Move Charlie the Chef around the screen throwing bags of flour at the ingredients in an attempt to knock them into your mixing bowl at the bottom of the screen. But avoid knocking nuts and bolts e.t.c in the bowl as the number of ingredients you have to place in the bowl before you can move to the next level will increase.
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Bagman
Retro System : Arcade
System Playable : PC
Authors Description : The objective of the game is to maneuver the bagman through various mine shafts, picking up money bags and placing them in a wheelbarrow at the surface of the mine. The player must avoid pursuing guards, moving ore carts, and descending elevators. The player may temporarily stun the guards by striking them with a pickaxe or by dropping money bags on them when they are below the player on the same ladder. The player may move between the three screens which make up the level via shafts and on the surface.
Centipede
Retro System : Arcade
System Playable : PC
Authors Description : The classic arcade game centipede which eats mushrooms destroy the centipede segments before it attacks you
Millipede
Retro System : Arcade
System Playable : PC
Authors Description : The Millipedes - consist of one or more attached segments which move horizontally through the playfield, moving one tile vertically when they hit the side of the screen, or a mushroom. Shoot a segment, and it will turn into a mushroom. If a centipede is split in half in this fashion, the segment behind the shot will form a head and you'll have two smaller centipedes to contend with.
Dizzyland
Retro System : NES/MSX
System Playable : PC
Authors Description : Avery simple action title for the NES/MSX with an interesting twist. You control, not one, but two characters (Dizzy n Daisy) at the same time. While you are in direct control of one character, you indirectly control the other character, who moves in mirror image fashion. When you move your character left, the other moves right, and vice versa. The goal of the game is to move both characters from the bottom of the screen to the caged heart. There are many enemies to worry about, also spider webs, and both are easily dispatched with a spray that both Dizzy and Daisy fire simultaneously There are other enemies such as Birds That Swap your positions when they are pink if touched and lethal fireballs that cannot be destroyed.
MsPacman & MiniPacman
Retro System : Arcade
System Playable : PC
Authors Description : The goal of this pacman style game is to get the highest score by removing all dots with MsPacman. Ghosts will try to stop you so you should avoid them.
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Rick dangerous II
Retro System : Amiga
System Playable : PC
Authors Description : This is a faithful remake of the Action Platformer. Rick Dangerous was an Action platform game developed by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and DOS based PCs
Thrust
Retro System : All 8bits
System Playable : PC
Authors Description : A brilliantly gripping arcade game requiring precision, dexterity and a cool, calculating mind. You have been commissioned by the resistance to steal these pods from the Empire's storage planets. Each planet is defended by a battery of 'Limpet' guns, powered by a nuclear power plant. By firing shots at the power plant, the guns can be temporarily disabled; the more shots fired at the nuclear reactor, the longer the guns will take to recharge. BUT BEWARE!!! If you fire too may shots at the reactor, it will become critical, giving you just ten seconds to clear the planet before it is destroyed. If you have not already retrieved the pod stored at that planet, then you will have failed the mission. If you have retrieved the pod, and you manager to send the reactor into its critical phase and leave the planet safely,you will recieve a hefty bonus.Further into the Empire's system, you will encounter planets with the REVERSE GRAVITY and something even more deadly.
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