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68 games

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The Treehouse

Brøderbund Software, Fujitsu

The Treehouse is an educational point-and-click personal computer game developed for MS-DOS and then ported to Macintosh and the FM Towns, with Windows versions arriving later.

Point-and-click

The Guardian Legend

Compile, Irem Corporation, Nintendo, Brøderbund Software

In The Guardian Legend, the player controls the female guardian of Earth, a "highly sophisticated aerobot transformer". The player's mission is to infiltrate Naju, a large planet-like object which aliens sent hurtling towards the Earth. While inside, the player must activate ten safety devices in order to initialize Naju's self-destruct mechanism and destroy the alien world before it reaches Earth. Five hostile tribes of alien lifeforms are vie for control of territories within Naju,and the player needs to fight through them to successfully activate the switches and escape.

AdventureHack and slash/Beat 'em upRole-playing (RPG)Shooter

Living Books: Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare

Living Books, Brøderbund Software

An educational game which reads the story of "The Tortoise and the Hare" to young players while including point-and-click elements.

Point-and-clickVisual Novel

Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?

Brøderbund Software

"Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego? is a 1989 entry in the Carmen Sandiego series. It was intended for educational purposes in the state of North Dakota.

Adventure

Orly's Draw-A-Story

ToeJam & Earl Productions, Brøderbund Software

An educational game in which the player illustrates portions of a narrated story.

Point-and-click

Championship Lode Runner

Brøderbund Software, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia, Sega Enterprises, Ltd., SystemSoft, Soft Pro International

The object of the game is to pick up all the gold pieces (which appear as piles of gold) and get them to the top. Using non-violent methods, enemies had to be overcome. Bumping into enemies cost the player a life and all of his hard-earned gold pieces. Fifty of the hardest levels ever designed are used and they had to be tackled in proper sequential order. While games can be saved, the player automatically loses a life for restoring his game.

PlatformPuzzleStrategy

Choplifter!

Dan Gorlin, Soft Pro International, Brøderbund Software

Choplifter is military themed scrolling shooter where you play as a pilot. Take off from your home base and fly across a horizontally-scrolling playfield of rugged terrain to reach the enemy Bungelings' barracks. There, you must land and rescue a group of helpless hostages and return then to your base. To hinder your mission, the enemy will attack with an array of armaments including tanks, jets, and dangerous air mines. To complete a perfect game, you must rescue all of the 64 hostages.

ArcadeShooter

Drol

Brøderbund Software, Sega, Soft Pro International

Drol is an SG-1000 game released in 1985. Originally developed by Brøderbund for various home computers in the west, it was brought to the SG-1000 by Sega and released exclusively in Japan. You play as a robot who must rescue his children.

ArcadePlatform

Lode Runner: Lost Labyrinth

Pack-In-Video, Brøderbund Software

This TurboGrafx-16 release of Lode Runner allows users to create and save levels, much like the original computer-based releases. A very straightforward conversion of a popular puzzle platform game. You must collect the piles of gold on each level, while avoiding the robots on patrol. To defend yourself, you are able to shoot holes in the platforms to your left or right, and these will capture the robots for a short time before they climb out again. Once you have collected all the gold, make your way to the top of the screen for the next level. The game also includes a level editor.

PlatformPuzzle

Living Books: Just Grandma and Me

Living Books, Brøderbund Software, Random House

Just Grandma and Me was the very first Living Books PC CD-Rom game from 1992 based on the 1983 book of the same name written by Mercer Mayer. It is an interactive storybook about a boy and his Grandma at the beach.

Point-and-clickVisual Novel

The Last Express

Smoking Car Productions, Brøderbund Software

A point-and-click adventure game that takes place on a European train shortly before the outbreak of World War I. The game attempts to simulate real time with a non-linear story and dozens of fully voiced characters.

AdventurePoint-and-clickPuzzle

Loopz

Audiogenic, Data Design Interactive, Songbird Productions, Brøderbund Software, Mindscape

Loopz is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Ian Upton for the Atari ST in 1989. He previously worked as head game designer for Audiogenic, who acquired exclusive rights to the game, then in 1990 arranged for Mindscape to publish it for computers in North America and consoles worldwide. The Nintendo Entertainment System version (programmed by Bits Studios) and the Game Boy version (programmed by Argonaut Software) were released in 1990. Audiogenic published versions of the original game for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga, and IBM PC in 1990 and 1991.

PuzzleStrategy

Alien Tales

Brøderbund Software

Earthlings are challenged to prove that classic children's books were written not by the wacky aliens who claim to be the author, but by actual humans on Earth by showcasing their knowledge of the plot and the authors themselves in a series of games on this intergalactic game show.

Quiz/Trivia

The Battle of Olympus

Infinity, Brøderbund Software, Nintendo, Imagineer

The Battle For Olympus was developed by Infinity and Radical Entertainment for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Nintendo GameBoy. It was released in 1988, the year after Zelda II was released. The game borrowed many concepts from the popular Zelda game, utilizing various special weapons and tools as the game progresses.

Adventure

Timeball

Hudson Soft, Tonkin House, Now Production, NEC, Brøderbund Software

Get wrapped up in this mind-bending game that will test your mental agility. The action seems simple -- just keep a ball rolling through a winding maze by shifting around pieces of tubing. But the action is intense! Race against time and the track to keep the ball from crashing. There are 100 challenging levels -- plus the unique edit feature lets you build your own puzzles!

Puzzle

Royal Flush

Amtex, Brøderbund Software

Royal Flush is a simulation of the real life pinball machine of the same name by Gottlieb. The main focus lies on a realistic feeling and the ball physics. The game is played with just four buttons: two to handle the two paddles, one to release the balls, and one to simulate the shaking on a real pinball machine.

PinballSimulator

Rugrats Adventure Game

Brøderbund Software

Point-and-click adventure game where Nickelodeon's famous talking babies must rescue Tommy Pickles's Reptar doll from being eaten by monstrous garbage truck Hubert and stop aliens from invading the Earth.

Adventure

Wibarm

Arsys Software, Brøderbund Software

"Wibarm", is an early role-playing shooter, combining run and gun shooter gameplay with role-playing video game elements. In Wibarm, the player controls a transformable mecha robot that can shift between walking mode, a tank, and a flying jet. The viewpoint switches between several different perspectives: a 2D top-down perspective while flying, a side-scrolling view during on-foot outdoor exploration, a fully 3D polygonal third-person perspective inside buildings, and arena-style 2D shoot 'em up battles during boss encounters.

Role-playing (RPG)Shooter

The Playroom

Brøderbund Software

An educational game which is set in a child's bedroom.

Math Workshop

Brøderbund Software

Come into the math workshop, where there are loads of activities to improve your critical math skills. The areas covered are: Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Equivalencies, Estimation, Fractions, Pattern Recognition, Shape Orientation, Shape Recognition, Scale, Symmetry, Problem Solving.

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The Treehouse

The Guardian Legend

Living Books: Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare

Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?

Orly's Draw-A-Story

Championship Lode Runner

Choplifter!

Drol

Lode Runner: Lost Labyrinth

Living Books: Just Grandma and Me

The Last Express

Loopz

Alien Tales

The Battle of Olympus

Timeball

Royal Flush

Rugrats Adventure Game

Wibarm

The Playroom

Math Workshop