1981AVADefend
After Defender · Williams
Defender rebuilt from the original's documented behaviour: smart bombs, hyperspace, humanoid rescues and the hall of fame.
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1981
1982AVATron
After Robotron: 2084 · Williams
Twin-stick arena shooter. Save the last human family from wave after wave of grunts, brains and enforcers.
1981AVATempest
After Tempest · Atari
Ride the rim of the tube in red vector wireframe, with gamepad support and the warp between levels.
1979AVALander
After Lunar Lander · Atari
Wireframe terrain, a fuel gauge and a landing pad. Watch your vertical speed, and the asteroids.
1979AvaRoids
After Asteroids · Atari
Inertia, wraparound space, saucers with an alert siren, and controller support.
1981AVARace
After Omega Race · Midway
Bounce off the octagon's walls while droids lay mines. Spawn protection and explosions included.
1979AVAGunner
After Tailgunner · Cinematronics
Defend the rear of your ship in 3D vector space. Now with Capitol Ship mini-bosses, turrets and missiles.
1980AVACastle
After Star Castle · Cinematronics
Shoot through three counter-rotating rings to hit the cannon, while it fires through the gaps and homing mines close in.
1983AVATrek
After Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator · Sega
Command the Enterprise from a 3D main viewer and tactical scanner against Klingons, anti-matter saucers and Nomad, docking at starbases to refill.
1983AVAWars
After Star Wars · Atari
Dogfight TIE fighters, skim the Death Star's towers, then run the trench past Vader and put a torpedo down the exhaust port.
1980AVAZone
After Battlezone · Atari
Tank combat through the periscope on a wireframe plain: radar, tanks, missiles, supertanks and the saucer, under the volcano.
1983AVASinstar
After Sinistar · Williams
Mine planetoids for Sinibombs while workers build the Sinistar piece by piece. Beware, I live!
1980AVABerzerk
After Berzerk · Stern
Shoot your way through a maze of electrified rooms and talking robots before Evil Otto bounces in. Intruder alert!
1980AVAMissile
After Missile Command · Atari
Defend six cities from warheads, MIRVs, bombers and smart bombs with three missile bases, until THE END.
1982AVAGravitar
After Gravitar · Atari
Fight the star's pull, raze bunkered planets, tractor fuel aboard and escape the reactor before it blows.
1978AVAInvaders
After Space Invaders · Taito
The march of the invaders, synthesised sound effects and full gamepad support.
1981AVAGalaga
After Galaga · Namco
Swooping waves, a breathing formation, and a tractor beam: lose a fighter, win it back, and fly two at once.
1982AVAJoust
After Joust · Williams
Flap your ostrich above the buzzard riders: the higher lance wins. Grab the eggs before they hatch; two can play at once.
1980AVACentipede
After Centipede · Atari
Shoot the centipede apart in a field of mushrooms while the spider, flea and scorpion close in. Steer with the mouse like a trackball.
1982AVAMoonPatrol
After Moon Patrol · Irem
Drive the moon buggy from A to Z: jump craters and mines, shoot rocks and tanks ahead and saucers overhead, and beat the clock to each checkpoint.
1980AVAPacMan
After Pac-Man · Namco
Clear an original maze while four ghosts hunt you, each its own way; eat an energizer and turn the chase round. Fruit, coffee breaks and a rising siren.
1981AVAKong
After Donkey Kong · Nintendo
Climb the building site to rescue the captive: jump the ape's barrels, grab a hammer, ride the lifts and pull every rivet to bring him down.
1981AVAFrogger
After Frogger · Konami
Hop five frogs home across the traffic and the river: ride logs and diving turtles, dodge the snake and the crocodiles, and beat the clock.
1982AVADigDug
After Dig Dug · Namco
Tunnel through four layers of earth, pump the monsters up until they pop, dodge the fire, and drop rocks on whatever's below.
1982AVABurgerT
After BurgerTime · Data East
Walk the burger layers down the floors onto the plates while a sausage, an egg and a pickle chase you; pepper them, squash them, or take them for a ride.
1982AVAQ-Bert
After Q*bert · Gottlieb
Hop diagonally round a pyramid of cubes changing every colour; dodge the bouncing balls, lure the viper off the edge from a spinning disc, and curse when caught.
1981AVAQix
After Qix · Taito
Draw lines across the open field and close them on the border to claim ground, while the qix tumbles about and the sparx run the border after you.
1983AVALodeRunner
After Lode Runner · Broderbund
Gather every piece of gold and climb out the top; dig holes to trap the guards. Eight original levels and a level editor for making your own.
1982AVAXevious
After Xevious · Namco
Zap what flies and bomb what's on the ground through the sight ahead; find the hidden Sol towers and bring down the Andor Genesis by its core.
1986AVAArkanoid
After Arkanoid · Taito
Break every brick through twelve original rounds with lasers, three balls and the way out at the side, then face the Monolith; mouse or keyboard.
1981AVAScramble
After Scramble · Konami
Fly six stages of mountains, caves, city and maze to the enemy base, laser ahead and bombs below, hitting fuel tanks to keep the gauge from running dry.
1986AVABubble
After Bubble Bobble · Taito
Blow bubbles to trap the monsters, then pop a crowd at once for double, double, double; collect EXTEND and keep ahead of the Shade.
1985AVAGauntlet
After Gauntlet · Atari Games
Choose warrior, valkyrie, wizard or elf and fight down through endless dungeons; shoot the generators, find food and keys, and only magic stops Death.
1982AVATimePilot
After Time Pilot · Konami
Your plane holds the centre while the sky wheels round it: dogfight through 1917, 1943, 1966, 1988 and 2061, down each era's great ship, and warp ahead.
1984AVA1942
After 1942 · Capcom
Take off from the carrier and fight up the ocean through fighter waves, red squadrons and bombers; loop out of trouble, down the great bomber and land on the next carrier.
1983AVASPYHunter
After Spy Hunter · Bally Midway
Drive a road that forks, bridges and turns to river: run raiders off it, dodge blades, gunmen and the helicopter's bombs, take oil, smoke and missiles from the armoury van, and spare the innocent.
1986AVARampage
After Rampage · Bally Midway
Be a giant bear, crocodile or rat: climb the buildings and punch them down, eat the people in the windows, swat helicopters and stamp on soldiers, and flatten a new city every day.
1985AVAPaperboy
After Paperboy · Atari Games
Ride Larkspur Lane Monday to Sunday throwing papers into subscribers' mailboxes: miss one and they cancel, break their window and they cancel too, while dogs, cars, mowers and a tornado get in the way.
1983AVATapper
After Tapper · Bally Midway
Run a soda fountain across four bars: pour and slide fizz to cowboys, sports fans, punks and aliens, catch the empties before they smash, and beat the Fizz Bandit's shell game between levels.
1984AVAMarble
After Marble Madness · Atari Games
Roll a glass marble down six isometric courses against the clock: ramps, catwalks and drops, steelies that knock you off the edge, gulpers, acid and rippling waves. Spare seconds carry over.
1982AVALightCycle
After Tron · Bally Midway
Four games on a neon grid each level: a light-cycle race, a tank maze with bouncing shots, a gate to reach through swarming grid bugs, and a spinning shield to shoot through into the core.
1983AVAElevatorAction
After Elevator Action · Taito
Work down an office tower from the roof to the getaway car, riding the lifts and grabbing the secret papers behind every red door, while agents in black hats shoot high and low. Shoot the lamps down on them.
1982AVAPolePosition
After Pole Position · Namco
Qualify with one flying lap for a place on the grid, then race four laps of a pseudo-3D circuit against seven cars: change gear, brake for the bends, and keep off the billboards before the clock runs out.
1982AVAZaxxon
After Zaxxon · Sega
Fly an isometric fortress by your shadow and the altimeter: through the holes in its walls, under force fields, shooting fuel tanks to stay aloft. Then fighters in open space and the Goliath robot at its heart.
1977AVASpaceWars
After Space Wars · Cinematronics
The needle against the wedge in glowing vector lines, around a sun that pulls. Torpedoes and fuel run out, and hyperspace gets riskier with every jump. Beat the computer arena by arena, or a friend to seven.
1982AVABlackWidow
After Black Widow · Atari
A twin-stick spider defends its glowing web from gnats, beetles, egg-laying hornets, bombers and slayers. Every kill drops bounty that drifts to the edge: grab them in a row for more each time.
1982AVAMrDo
After Mr. Do! · Universal
A clown digs through the garden after the cherries while monsters follow down his tunnels. Drop apples on them, roll the power ball after them, and win the letters of EXTRA.
1984AVAKungFu
After Kung-Fu Master · Irem
Fight up five floors of a temple to free Mei: shake off clingers, duck and jump the knives, low-kick imps and snakes, and read each keeper's wind-up, from Bo of the Staff to the Jade Master.
1983AVAMappy
After Mappy · Namco
A police mouse takes the loot back from the cats' mansion, bouncing up its trampoline shafts before they break, slamming doors in cats' faces, and sweeping whole rooms with power doors.
1983AVACrystalCastles
After Crystal Castles · Atari
A bear gathers the gems of isometric castles, up stairs and along walkways, before the grubs eat them: jump the orbs and walking trees, run from the bees, and wear the magic hat to squash the lot.
1983AVAGyruss
After Gyruss · Konami
Circle the rim and fire into the depths as squadrons spiral in, form up and dive: warp from planet to planet all the way to Earth, shoot the bright satellite for a double shot, dodge the meteors, and clear the chance stages, all to a driving arrangement of Bach's Toccata.
1981AVAWizardOfWor
After Wizard of Wor · Midway
A dungeon shoot-out: stalk prowlers through mirrored neon corridors while unseen shades and phantoms close in on the radar, then slay the wisp before it flies, and face the wizard himself.
1982AVAPengo
After Pengo · Sega
An ice-block maze game: kick blocks sliding across the ice to squash the mites, shake the walls to daze them, smash their eggs before they hatch, and line up the three star blocks for a big bonus.
1980AVAPhoenix
After Phoenix · Amstar / Centuri
A bird-blasting shooter: two waves of swooping Flitters, then great Emberwings whose wings grow back as fast as you shoot them off, then bore through the mothership's hull to reach the Warden. Raise the shield when it gets too hot.
1982AVADKongJr
After Donkey Kong Jr. · Nintendo
Climb to free Papa from the Keeper's cage: two vines up fast, one vine down fast, drop fruit on the Nippers, ride over the pit past the Sparks, and push six keys up their chains into the lock.
1981AVABosconian
After Bosconian · Namco
A free-flying space shooter with guns fore and aft: hunt every base on the radar, shoot out its six pods or fire straight down its opening into the core, and don't let the spy ship get away or it's condition red.
1980AVAWarlords
After Warlords · Atari
Four castles, one dragon: guard your warlord behind his walls with a sliding shield, catch the dragon's fireballs and fling them at your rivals, and be the last lord standing.
1980AVARallyX
After Rally-X · Namco
Race a rally car round a scrolling maze of city streets for ten flags while pursuit cars hunt you down: lay smoke to spin them out, grab the double and fuel flags, and don't run dry.
1985AVASarge
After Sarge · Bally Midway
A top-down tank battle across boulders, deep ruts and ruined buildings: hold off round after round of enemy tanks alone, or go head to head with a friend, first to five hits.
1979AVAGalaxian
After Galaxian · Namco
A swaying swarm of 46 aliens that peel off to dive at your fighter, firing as they come; commanders bring guard escorts, and shooting the escorts first is worth 800.
1981AVAGorf
After Gorf · Midway
Five missions against a taunting Overlord: a marching armada under a force field, laser-firing Lancers, a diving swarm, ships out of a warp, and a Dreadnought whose core hides behind a turning shield.
1981AVASatansHollow
After Satan's Hollow · Bally Midway
Shoot down swooping flocks of gargoyles and imps, carry the bridge pieces they leave across to the lava chasm, then cross the finished bridge to face the Devil, his fire and his pitchforks.
1980AVARedBaron
After Red Baron · Atari
A first-person biplane dogfight in glowing vector lines: bank, climb and dive after enemy squadrons over a countryside of mountains, shoot down zeppelins and strafe the flak guns below.
1981AVASpaceFury
After Space Fury · Sega
A colour vector shooter: the one-eyed Commander's fleet builds itself around you, pieces assembling into Raiders and Raiders merging into Marauders, while you dock with add-on modules for more firepower.
1981AVAStargate
After Stargate · Williams
A planet-defence scroller: snatch colonists back from the Snatchers before they turn into Changelings, with smart bombs, a cloak, hyperspace and a gate that warps you three waves ahead.
1981AVAVanguard
After Vanguard · SNK
A cave-flying shooter with four guns: fight through five zones on fuel you only win back by destroying things, surge through enemies from charge pods, and break the Warden's turning shield.
1983AVAMajorHavoc
After Major Havoc · Atari
A vector adventure in three parts: shoot down a station's fleet, dock gently in its bay, then run its maze on foot past Sentries, Embers and Lasers to set the core and escape before it blows.
1980AVAMoonCresta
After Moon Cresta · Nichibutsu
A space shooter whose three-stage rocket is also your lives: dock the next stage for more guns, lose them one at a time to Gogglers, Splitters and Zippers, and dodge the meteor storm.
1981AVAVenture
After Venture · Exidy
A dungeon raid with a bow: slip past the Lurkers in the halls, then raid each room for its treasure among goblins, spiders, trolls and a fire-breathing dragon, before a Lurker comes in after you.
1982AVALiberator
After Liberator · Atari
A planet-bombing shooter: four ships and one sight round a world turning in space. Turn it to bring its bases round, bomb them, and blast the rockets and raiders they send at your fleet.
1984AVABombJack
After Bomb Jack · Tecmo
A leaping, gliding bomb hunt: take all 24 bombs in each of five painted rounds, the lit one for double, while wind-up robots drop in and take to the air as hawks, orbs, saucers and wisps.
1982AVASpaceDuel
After Space Duel · Atari
A colour vector shooter: fly one ship, or twins on a tether that swing round as one, against wireframe cubes, prisms, spinners, homing mines and a saucer, with a shield that only refills between waves.
1983AVAJunoFirst
After Juno First · Konami
A grid shooter: race up a banded grid after vanes, drones, hoppers and pods, shoot the astronaut for a bonus streak, and clear each wave before the clock runs out and they turn furious.
1982AVAMillipede
After Millipede · Atari
A garden shooter: a gnome archer against a millipede winding down through the mushrooms, with DDT clouds for triple points, and spiders, earwigs, beetles, bees and mosquitoes, each with a trick of its own.
1980AVACrazyClimber
After Crazy Climber · Nichibutsu
Scale skyscrapers hand over hand to the helicopter on the roof, past windows that shut on your fingers, falling flowerpots and dumbbells, a stone gargoyle, a vulture and sparking neon signs.
1980AVAArmorAttack
After Armor Attack · Cinematronics
A colour vector tank battle: drive a jeep with a swivelling gun through city streets, using the buildings as cover against tanks that take two hits and a gunship whose rockets fly over the rooftops.
1980AVARipOff
After Rip Off · Cinematronics
A colour vector defence: guard eight fuel canisters with one tank while runners, gunners and hunters come in from every side to hook them and tow them off the screen. No lives; the game ends when the fuel is gone.
1985AVACommando
After Commando · Capcom
Run and gun up a scrolling battlefield to the enemy fort: fire eight ways, lob grenades over sandbags and rivers, blow up pillboxes, free prisoners from their guards, and hold the rush at the gate.
1985AVAGunSmoke
After Gun.Smoke · Capcom
Walk a frontier trail with a six-gun in each hand, firing up-left, up or up-right at outlaws, window gunmen and riders, shooting open barrels for boots, a rifle and a horse, and bringing in a wanted man at every hideout.
1981AVASolarQuest
After Solar Quest · Cinematronics
A colour vector shooter round a sun whose gravity pulls on everything, ship, enemy and shots alike: shoot down fighters, orbiters, hunters and cruisers, then rescue their crews from escape pods before they fall in.
1983AVAMarioBros
After Mario Bros. · Nintendo
Bump the pests over from beneath the ledges they walk on, then kick them off before they get up again: shellbacks, two-bump clawcrabs and hopflies, a jolt block, a fireball and bonus coins, with an original hard-hatted mechanic.
1982AVAJungleHunt
After Jungle Hunt · Taito
Four scenes a round: swing from vine to vine over a swamp, swim a river of snapping crocodiles with only a knife and your breath, dodge boulders bounding down a hill, and jump the poachers to rescue a photographer.
1982AVABumpNJump
After Bump 'n' Jump · Data East
Race a buggy up a winding road through the four seasons, bumping saloons and hot rods off the road, jumping to land on lorries, and leaping the gaps where the road ends at the river, flat out.
1983AVAFoodFight
After Food Fight · Atari
Race across the lawn to an ice cream cone before it melts, grabbing peas, pies and melons from the piles and pelting the chefs who climb out of the manholes to stop you, while they throw it right back.
1985AVAChoplifter
After Choplifter · Sega
Fly a rescue chopper over the border, shoot open the barracks, land while the hostages run aboard, and fly them home to the pad through tank shells, jets and drifting air mines.
1984AVATimePilot84
After Time Pilot '84 · Konami
Wheel a jet round the sky over oceans, deserts, ice, cities and orbit, locking homing missiles onto interceptors and gunships, then knock out a carrier's turrets to open its core.
1981AVALadyBug
After Lady Bug · Universal
Run a ladybug round a hedged garden eating flowers, swinging revolving gates shut behind you to bar the bugs, spelling SPECIAL and EXTRA in colour-changing letters, and steering clear of the skulls.
1986AVASuperSprint
After Super Sprint · Atari Games
Race three rival sprint cars round six overhead tracks, sliding through the bends, dodging oil and a whirlwind, and grabbing wrenches to upgrade your car. Hit a wall hard and the helicopter brings a new one.
1982AVAPooyan
After Pooyan · Konami
Ride a lift up the cliff as the mother pig and shoot the wolves' balloons as they float down, or up, before they reach the ledges to bite or the top to roll a boulder down on you.
1984AVACastlesOfDrCreep
After The Castles of Dr. Creep · Broderbund
Escape seven castles of doorbells, keys, trapdoors, lightning, ray guns, force fields and matter transmitters, with a mummy and a monster after you. A synthesised voice bids you welcome; two can play at once.
1984AVAImpossibleMission
After Impossible Mission · Epyx
Search a mad professor's complex of rooms and lifts for the six punch cards of his password, somersaulting his robots, then piece the cards together in your pocket computer before six hours run out. He speaks, too.
1984AVABoulderDash
After Boulder Dash · First Star Software
Dig for diamonds through eight original caves as boulders tumble and roll behind you, dodging fireflies, crushing butterflies into gems, shutting in the slime and dropping rocks through the magic wall.
1982AVAZektor
After Zektor · Sega
Fly a thrust-and-turn fighter over eight vector cities as probes dive on the towers and seekers hunt you down, then break into a fortress of turning rings, while mission control calls it out in a synthesised voice.
1985AVAGhostsNGoblins
After Ghosts 'n Goblins · Capcom
Run, jump and throw lances through a graveyard, a haunted village, frozen caverns and a demon's tower to rescue the princess, losing your armour at the first hit and facing a boss at the end of every stage.
1985AVAGradius
After Gradius · Konami
Fly the Halcyon through four alien strongholds, shooting down red fliers for capsules and spending them on the power gauge for speed, missiles, lasers, trailing drones and a guard, while the ship's computer calls each one out.
1986AVAUridium
After Uridium · Hewson
Fly low and fast over eight alien dreadnoughts, rolling on your side through gaps in their towering fences and looping round to turn, then shoot their fuel pods, land on the strip and stop the reactor's lights on a prize.
1985AVAParadroid
After Paradroid · Hewson
Clear six decks of a freighter whose droids have turned, as a weak link unit that takes over any droid it beats in a transfer duel of wires and pulses, moving up the classes before each host burns out.
1986AVAOutRun
After Out Run · Sega
Race a red convertible down a pseudo-3D road against the clock, with the radio on, through fifteen stages in a branching tree, choosing left or right at every fork on the way to one of five goals.
1987AVARType
After R-Type · Irem
Fly into a living empire of bone and metal with an indestructible orb that shields, bites and flies off on its own, red, blue and yellow lasers, and a charged beam for bosses like the Hollow Mother and the Serpent.
1983AVAManicMiner
After Manic Miner · Bug-Byte
Miner Tom works through ten caverns, collecting every key and reaching the portal before the air runs out, past patrolling guardians, conveyors and crumbling ledges, to In the Hall of the Mountain King.
1984AVASpyVsSpy
After Spy vs Spy · First Star Software
Two spies, one embassy, two views at once: search the furniture for the five secret things, booby-trap furniture and doors with bombs, springs, pails and guns, club the other spy when you meet, and get to the airport first.
1984AVABungelingBay
After Raid on Bungeling Bay · Brøderbund
Fly a helicopter off your carrier to bomb six island factories past flak and jets, landing back on the deck to refit, and stop the shipyard before its battleship sails out to sink the carrier.
1985AVAFractalus
After Rescue on Fractalus! · Lucasfilm Games
Fly a fighter from the cockpit over ray-marched fractal mountains, land beside downed pilots and open the airlock when they knock, unless the face at the canopy is a Jaggi's, then climb back to the mother ship.
1984AVAKnightLore
After Knight Lore · Ultimate Play the Game
Guide the cursed Sabreman through isometric castle rooms of spikes, holes, guards and spiked balls, gathering the charms the wizard's cauldron asks for in daylight, before forty days are out; by night he's a wolf.
1988AVAExile
After Exile · Superior Software
Fly a jetpack against gravity and momentum down through caves of water, draughts, coloured doors and their keys, birds, wasps, imps and turrets, carrying your crashed ship's power pods back up to it.
1984AVAArchon2
After Archon II: Adept · Free Fall Associates
Order's and Chaos's adepts cross a board of Fire, Water, Air and Earth rings, spending mana to call elementals and demons, heal, weaken, imprison and banish, and every meeting is fought out in a real-time arena.
1985AVAMailOrderMonsters
After Mail Order Monsters · Electronic Arts
Order a monster from the catalogue, fit it out with claws, horns, flame, lasers, rockets and acid, and fight Duels and Destruct-o bouts through four leagues for the prize money to buy bigger.
1985AVAMercenary
After Mercenary · Novagen
Crash-landed in a solid 3D city, fly a skimmer on jobs for the Palyars and the Mechanoids, bringing down relay towers and fetching crates while the other side's drones hunt you, until you can buy passage off Targ.
1984AVAJetSetWilly
After Jet Set Willy · Software Projects
Willy's party is over: put away every flashing item in a 24-room mansion, through doorways and gaps between floors, before midnight, or Maria won't let him into bed.
1987AVAHeadOverHeels
After Head Over Heels · Ocean
Two captured spies, one who jumps high and one who runs and leaps: swap between them across isometric castles, find each other, join up, and win the crown only the two together can reach.
1986AVAThrust
After Thrust · Superior Software
Turn and thrust down through each planet's caverns past the limpet guns, lift the pod with your tractor beam, and tow it out into space as it swings on its rod beneath you.
1987AVANebulus
After Nebulus · Hewson
Climb a tower that turns beneath you, round its ledges and through its doorways, past rolling balls and flying eyes that knock you off, to the top before the time runs out.
1986AVASentinel
After The Sentinel · Firebird
Absorb trees for energy, stack boulders, and transfer from synthoid to synthoid up a solid 3D landscape, out of the turning Sentinel's sight, until you can look down on it and absorb it.
1986AVAStarglider
After Starglider · Rainbird
Fly the last AGAV over a solid 3D alien world: lasers for the walkers, tanks and fighters, homing missiles for the great Starglider bird, recharging under the power lines between pylons.
1984AVATetris
After Tetris · Soviet Academy of Sciences
Turn and slide the seven falling pieces to fill whole rows; four at once scores most. Thirty speeds, a sky for every level over onion domes, and Korobeiniki hurrying when the stack nears the top.
1994AVAPuzzleBobble
After Puzzle Bobble · Taito
Aim the launcher and bank bubbles off the walls into the pile: three of a colour burst, whatever's left hanging falls, and the ceiling keeps coming down across thirty rounds.
1991AVALemmings
After Lemmings · Psygnosis
The lemmings walk straight into any danger: give them skills to climb, float, block, build, bash, mine, dig or go off, and save enough of them across sixteen levels the computer proves before they're kept.
1982AVAPitfall
After Pitfall! · Activision
Twenty minutes to find all 32 treasures in a jungle of 128 screens: jump the logs, fires and cobras, swing over the tar on the vines, hop the crocodiles, and take the tunnel three screens at a time.
1984AVAHero
After H.E.R.O. · Activision
Fly your prop-pack down twenty ever-deeper mines to rescue the trapped miners: dynamite the walls, laser the spiders, bats, moths and snakes, and keep clear of the molten rock before your power runs out.
1983AVAChuckieEgg
After Chuckie Egg · A&F Software
Hen-House Harry runs, jumps and climbs the ladders to collect every egg in eight henhouses before time runs out, dodging the hens; from the second round the big duck is out of her cage and after him.
1989AVAPrince
After Prince of Persia · Brøderbund
One hour to escape the dungeons and climb the palace to the princess: run, leap the gaps, climb the ledges, mind the spikes, choppers and loose floors, open the gates, and duel the guards across eight levels.
1982NEWAVARiverRaid
After River Raid · Activision
Fly up a winding river through 48 sections, shooting the ships, helicopters, jets and the bridges in your way, and keep the tank topped up by flying low over the fuel depots.
1983NEWAVAJetpac
After Jetpac · Ultimate Play the Game
Carry your rocket's sections to the pad, fuel it pod by pod as they fall, and blast off to the next planet, lasering a new kind of alien on every one.
1984NEWAVAKarateka
After Karateka · Brøderbund
Fight through the warlord's fortress guard by guard, punching and kicking high, middle or low where each isn't guarding, knock down the eagle, and meet the princess as a friend, not a fighter.
1989NEWAVAPopulous
After Populous · Electronic Arts
Be a god: raise and lower the land so your people can settle and grow from tents to castles, and call down earthquakes, swamps, volcanoes and Armageddon on the evil god's people.
1981NEWAVAAmidar
After Amidar · Konami
Paint every line of the board to fill in its boxes while the warriors cross it in their fixed staircases; jump over them, and fill the four corners to turn the tables.
1987AVADungeonMaster
After Dungeon Master · FTL Games
Free four champions from the Hall of Mirrors and take them down the Deepvault in real time: rune magic, torches and hunger, eight levels of puzzles, and Vorthane the Unmade below.
1983AVAMule
After M.U.L.E. · Ozark Softscape
Four colonists on the world of Verdance: claim land, lead robot mules out to farm, power and mine it, and haggle in live auctions to get rich without starving the colony.
1984AVACitiesOfGold
After Seven Cities of Gold · Ozark Softscape
Sail west for the Crown to a new continent every game: chart its coasts, trade with six peoples, found trading posts, and seek the seven golden cities over a twenty-year career.
1983AVAArchon
After Archon: The Light and the Dark · Free Fall Associates
Dawn against Dusk on a board of shifting light: every capture is a real-time duel in the arena, with seven spells per leader, five power points to hold, and a computer foe that knows its odds.
2002AVADungeonSeige
After Dungeon Siege · Gas Powered Games
The opening chapter on the road to Glacern: pausable real-time party combat, skills that rise by use instead of classes, and one continuous world that streams in with no loading screens.
1985AVAUltima4
After Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar · Origin Systems
Become the Exemplar of Merovale by what you do, not what you say: eight virtues, typed conversations, shrines and mantras, two moons and their moongates, reagent magic, and the Codex at the bottom of the Undermere.
1987AVAPirates
After Sid Meier's Pirates! · MicroProse
A life on the Saltwind Sea: sail by the wind, trade, take prizes in broadside battles and boarding duels, rise from Ensign to Duke in four crowns' favour, piece together treasure maps, and retire before your crew mutinies.
1991AVACiv
After Sid Meier's Civilization · MicroProse
Lead an original people from 4000 BC to the stars: found and grow cities, learn sixty-two discoveries, raise wonders, treat or war with rival rulers, and win by conquest, by score, or by launching the Starward Ark.
1993AVAOrion
After Master of Orion · MicroProse
Lead an original star-faring people from 2300: explore and settle worlds, balance every colony's five sliders, research ninety discoveries, design warships, watch the battles play out, and win the Galactic Council's vote or conquer every rival.
1988AVARadiance
After Pool of Radiance · SSI
A company of six takes back the ruined city of Corvane for its council: first-person streets, tactical grid battles, memorised spells, and the Hollow Regent waiting at the Lumen Well.
1981AVAWizardry
After Wizardry · Sir-Tech
Six adventurers, a ten-level wireframe maze, and the mad archmage Morthrain waiting at the bottom.
1982AVAGard
After Telengard · Avalon Hill
The 50-level dungeon rebuilt room for room, in real time, with a Modern mode that adds an automap and no time limit.
1983AVAUltima3
After Ultima III: Exodus · Origin
Party creation, towns, dungeons, gem socketing and an OpenAL soundtrack.
1985AVABardsTale
After The Bard's Tale · Interplay
Skara Brae and its catacombs, procedural music that darkens as you descend, and a second tower to delve.
1986AVAMMB1
After a 1986 classic
First-person party dungeon crawl with towns, automap, riddles, daily challenges and a map editor.
1990AVABand
After Angband · Angband team
Angband 4.2 in C#. Its game data is checked against 4.2.5 on every build.
1986AVAFlight
After Starflight · Binary Systems
Crew, starships, alien diplomacy, planet surveys by terrain vehicle, and real-time combat.
1984AVAElite
After Elite · Acornsoft
Trading, docking and dogfights across eight galaxies, rendered in wireframe.
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On Linux some games need aplay for sound, or SDL2 for gamepads on ARM. Each game's README says which.
Original creations
Games of my own design rather than rebuilds of a classic. Builds follow every push, so expect work in progress.
In developmentAVAAshenReliquary
Action RPG · Pathfinder 2e rules · Isometric · Dark fantasy
An isometric dark-fantasy action RPG in the style of Grim Dawn, with character building on Pathfinder 2e rules: walk the Gallows Road from the hanging tree to the refugee camp.
- Six ancestries, backgrounds and classes, with Pathfinder's typed bonuses, degrees of success and conditions in real time
- Loot with runes and affixes, stat comparisons, a trader, shrines, saves and a full HUD
- Flare's open-licensed art, positional OpenAL sound and music from seven free packs
The workbench
Editors, controls and utilities, also cross-platform with Avalonia.
AVA Modeler
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 10 · 3D · Lua
A cross-platform recreation of the classic mid-1990s standalone 3D modeler, inspired by LightWave Modeler 4 and 5, with a Layout workspace that animates and ray-traces what you build.
- The classic quad view, ten foreground/background layers and the Objects, Modify, Multiply and Polygon tools, with booleans, drills and MetaNURBS
- Reads and writes LightWave LWOB objects byte for byte, plus LWO2, OBJ and VideoScape GEO; Lua macros and .NET plugins
- Layout: TCB keyframes, bones, lights and cameras, LWS scenes, and a multithreaded ray tracer
AVAUIDesigner
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 10 · Roslyn
A drag-and-drop WYSIWYG designer for Avalonia .axaml files, like the classic WinForms designer.
- 54 Avalonia controls, rendered live with the Fluent theme as you place them
- Snap lines, grid snapping, align and distribute, and two-way sync with the XAML
- Writes event handlers into your code-behind with Roslyn, never overwriting your code
SPLITZ movie.mkv 4.37 GB max 1 GB movie.mkv.001 1.00 GB movie.mkv.002 1.00 GB movie.mkv.003 1.00 GB movie.mkv.004 1.00 GB movie.mkv.005 0.37 GB 5 chunks · JOINZ rebuilds the original
Splitz_n_Joinz
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 10
Splits a file into numbered chunks of a size you choose, and joins them back into the original.
- Chunks of any maximum size, in bytes, KB, MB or GB, named file.001, file.002 and on
- Point Joinz at any one chunk: it finds the rest and lists any that are missing
- Never touches the original, and builds a join aside, moving it into place only when complete
AVASvgMaker
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 9
Visio-style diagram editor. Reads .vsdx; exports SVG, PNG, PDF, Mermaid and .vsdx.
- 167 stencils: flowchart, BPMN, UML, network, electrical, logic and more
- Connectors that route themselves round shapes, and round each other
- Opens Visio, SVG and Mermaid; exports SVG, PNG, PDF and .vsdx
DORI
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 8
Directory Opus reimagined: a cross-platform file explorer in .NET and Avalonia.
- Two panels with folder tabs, after the Amiga's Directory Opus
- Compares and syncs folders, by date or by content hash
- Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3 and 40 more, through rclone
AVAQueryBuilder
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 9 · SQL Server
Graphical query builder for Microsoft SQL Server.
- Builds SELECT queries as a diagram of tables, joins and filters
- 25+ derived fields, GROUP BY with HAVING, sorting, TOP and DISTINCT
- Finds SQL Servers on the network, runs the query and shows the rows
CirqAvalonia
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 10
Electronic circuit simulator: draw a schematic and watch it run on a live oscilloscope.
- 186 parts: RLC, transistors, op-amps, the 555, 74xx and 4000 logic, displays
- SPICE-style analog solver and event-driven digital logic in one simulation
- Live triggered scope, frequency response, FFT and protocol decoding
CCReimagined
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 10
CODE Complete rebuilt: point it at a database table and it writes the C# data class.
- Browses SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite and Oracle
- Writes a typed C# class: async read, add, update, delete and list getters
- Browse one engine and generate for another, to port a table between them
ControllerExplorer
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 9 · HID
Shows the raw bytes a USB or Bluetooth game controller sends, live, for writing code that reads it.
- Lists every connected USB and Bluetooth controller by VID:PID
- Each byte live in hex and binary, lit up the moment it changes
- Xbox-style pads read through XInput on Windows, HID everywhere else
DATASET A DATASET B SIM John Smith Jon Smyth 0.91 P. Raghunathan P. Ragunathan 0.96 Acme Corp. ACME Corporation 0.88 Mary O'Neil Mary ONeill 0.90 Dave Kowalski David Kowalsky 0.86 threshold 0.85 · 5 pairs · export xlsx
Vector Match Engine
Application · C# · Avalonia · .NET 8 · ML.NET · SQL Server
Finds the same person or company across two Excel sheets with no shared key and the names spelled differently.
- Each row becomes a 512-dimension vector of character trigrams, so typos stay close
- Every record in A scored against every one in B, above a threshold you set
- Matched pairs side by side, exported to a formatted Excel workbook
TODO DOING DONE #21 Avatars #17 Search #12 Login #22 Reports #18 Audit #13 Kanban #23 Webhooks #15 OIDC #24 Exports #16 Invites
ProjectJA
Web application · C# · Blazor · .NET 10 · PostgreSQL
A lightweight Jira-style issue tracker, in the making, to run as SaaS or on your own server.
- A drag-and-drop kanban board that updates live in every open browser
- A database per tenant for SaaS, or one Docker stack on-prem
- Full-text search, invites, single sign-on (OIDC) and an audit log
AVASdCanvas
Control · C# · Avalonia · .NET 9
On NuGet · v1.0.1 · 188 downloads
Structured drawing canvas that code can populate and users can interact with.
- Graph-paper canvas of entities joined by arrowed connectors
- Snap to grid, automatic placement, and dragging with live connectors
- Click, double-click, right-click and hover events carry your metadata
AvaloniaDiagramerControl
Control · C# · Avalonia
On NuGet · v1.0.0 · 190 downloads
The VB.Net-era LineChart control, rebuilt for Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Up to ten data series, with polynomial trend lines
- Animated flashing to pick one series out of the rest
- Grid, knot markers and banded backgrounds; every colour and font styleable
Avalonia3DCanvas
Control · C# · Avalonia · .NET 9
On NuGet · v1.0.0 · 226 downloads
3D object viewer for Avalonia and .NET 9.
- Loads .3DS, .OBJ, .STL, .PLY and .FBX models
- Wireframe drawing, centred and scaled to fit automatically
- Smooth rotation on all three axes, at any speed
AvaloniaTimeLineControl
Control · C# · Avalonia
On NuGet · v1.0.1 · 329 downloads
Timeline control for Avalonia applications.
- Up to ten timeline rows side by side
- 30 chicklet styles: ten colours, each a box, a circle or a triangle
- Wheel and keyboard scrolling, weekends, month labels and overlap markers
SyntaxColorizer
Control · C# · Avalonia · .NET 8 · NuGet
On NuGet · v1.0.2 · 524 downloads
Syntax-highlighting text box for Avalonia, with no dependencies beyond Avalonia itself.
- Highlights 38 languages as you type, from C# and Rust to T-SQL and Mermaid
- 14 built-in colour themes, and line numbers you can switch off
- Linting with your own rules, and an MVVM-friendly design
On NuGet
Avalonia controls, ready to add to a project of your own: 7 packages, 2,080 downloads so far.
NuGet · v1.0.2 · .NET 8
SyntaxColorizer
A syntax highlighting TextBox control for Avalonia with support for 37 programming languages and 14 built-in color themes. Features real-time highlighting, line numbers, and linting infrastructure.
dotnet add package SyntaxColorizerNuGet · v1.0.2 · .NET 9
LAWgrid
A highly customizable data grid control for Avalonia UI with built-in support for multiple databases including SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and DB2.
dotnet add package LAWgridNuGet · v1.0.1 · .NET 8
AvaloniaTimeLineControl
A powerful timeline visualization control for Avalonia applications.
dotnet add package AvaloniaTimeLineControlNuGet · v1.0.0 · .NET 9
Avalonia3DCanvas
LWO) with automatic rotation and canvas resizing. Features wireframe rendering, customizable line colors and thickness, and smooth animation.
dotnet add package Avalonia3DCanvasNuGet · v1.0.0 · .NET 9
AvaloniaDiagramerControl
A powerful, customizable multi-series line chart control for Avalonia UI applications.
dotnet add package AvaloniaDiagramerControlNuGet · v1.0.1 · .NET 9
AVASdCanvas
An Avalonia canvas control for rendering structured diagrams with colorized labeled entities, connectors with configurable endpoints, a graph-paper grid background, drag-and-drop, hit testing, and arbitrary…
dotnet add package AVASdCanvasNuGet · v0.1.1 · .NET 9
LawTreeView
An Avalonia tree-view control with drag-drop reordering, icons, selection, keyboard navigation, hover/selection styling, and a context menu.
dotnet add package LawTreeViewDay job
Healthcare records, reporting and code generation: the systems that pay for the arcade.
Behavioral health EHR · private repo
CARES
Electronic health records with reporting, records management and a web portal.
Query builder · private repo
Cares Query Reporter
Point-and-click database queries, with client-specific builds.
Data-access framework
CODE Complete
A database abstraction tool that grew into a full data-access code generator.
REST service
Code Generation API
CODE Complete's generation as a RESTful API for enterprise deployment.
Hall of fame
The originals, oldest first, and what each became here.
High scores
| Rank | Year | Original | Rebuilt as |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1977 | Space Wars | AVASpaceWars |
| 2nd | 1978 | Space Invaders | AVAInvaders |
| 3rd | 1979 | Asteroids | AvaRoids |
| 4th | 1979 | Galaxian | AVAGalaxian |
| 5th | 1979 | Lunar Lander | AVALander |
| 6th | 1979 | Tailgunner | AVAGunner |
| 7th | 1980 | Armor Attack | AVAArmorAttack |
| 8th | 1980 | Battlezone | AVAZone |
| 9th | 1980 | Berzerk | AVABerzerk |
| 10th | 1980 | Centipede | AVACentipede |
| 11th | 1980 | Crazy Climber | AVACrazyClimber |
| 12th | 1980 | Missile Command | AVAMissile |
| 13th | 1980 | Moon Cresta | AVAMoonCresta |
| 14th | 1980 | Pac-Man | AVAPacMan |
| 15th | 1980 | Phoenix | AVAPhoenix |
| 16th | 1980 | Rally-X | AVARallyX |
| 17th | 1980 | Red Baron | AVARedBaron |
| 18th | 1980 | Rip Off | AVARipOff |
| 19th | 1980 | Star Castle | AVACastle |
| 20th | 1980 | Warlords | AVAWarlords |
| 21st | 1981 | Amidar | AVAAmidar |
| 22nd | 1981 | Bosconian | AVABosconian |
| 23rd | 1981 | Defender | AVADefend |
| 24th | 1981 | Donkey Kong | AVAKong |
| 25th | 1981 | Frogger | AVAFrogger |
| 26th | 1981 | Galaga | AVAGalaga |
| 27th | 1981 | Gorf | AVAGorf |
| 28th | 1981 | Lady Bug | AVALadyBug |
| 29th | 1981 | Omega Race | AVARace |
| 30th | 1981 | Qix | AVAQix |
| 31st | 1981 | Satan's Hollow | AVASatansHollow |
| 32nd | 1981 | Scramble | AVAScramble |
| 33rd | 1981 | Solar Quest | AVASolarQuest |
| 34th | 1981 | Space Fury | AVASpaceFury |
| 35th | 1981 | Stargate | AVAStargate |
| 36th | 1981 | Tempest | AVATempest |
| 37th | 1981 | Vanguard | AVAVanguard |
| 38th | 1981 | Venture | AVAVenture |
| 39th | 1981 | Wizard of Wor | AVAWizardOfWor |
| 40th | 1981 | Wizardry | AVAWizardry |
| 41st | 1982 | Black Widow | AVABlackWidow |
| 42nd | 1982 | Bump 'n' Jump | AVABumpNJump |
| 43rd | 1982 | BurgerTime | AVABurgerT |
| 44th | 1982 | Dig Dug | AVADigDug |
| 45th | 1982 | Donkey Kong Jr. | AVADKongJr |
| 46th | 1982 | Gravitar | AVAGravitar |
| 47th | 1982 | Joust | AVAJoust |
| 48th | 1982 | Jungle Hunt | AVAJungleHunt |
| 49th | 1982 | Liberator | AVALiberator |
| 50th | 1982 | Millipede | AVAMillipede |
| 51st | 1982 | Moon Patrol | AVAMoonPatrol |
| 52nd | 1982 | Mr. Do! | AVAMrDo |
| 53rd | 1982 | Pengo | AVAPengo |
| 54th | 1982 | Pitfall! | AVAPitfall |
| 55th | 1982 | Pole Position | AVAPolePosition |
| 56th | 1982 | Pooyan | AVAPooyan |
| 57th | 1982 | Q*bert | AVAQ-Bert |
| 58th | 1982 | River Raid | AVARiverRaid |
| 59th | 1982 | Robotron: 2084 | AVATron |
| 60th | 1982 | Space Duel | AVASpaceDuel |
| 61st | 1982 | Telengard | AVAGard |
| 62nd | 1982 | Time Pilot | AVATimePilot |
| 63rd | 1982 | Tron | AVALightCycle |
| 64th | 1982 | Xevious | AVAXevious |
| 65th | 1982 | Zaxxon | AVAZaxxon |
| 66th | 1982 | Zektor | AVAZektor |
| 67th | 1983 | Archon: The Light and the Dark | AVAArchon |
| 68th | 1983 | Chuckie Egg | AVAChuckieEgg |
| 69th | 1983 | Crystal Castles | AVACrystalCastles |
| 70th | 1983 | Elevator Action | AVAElevatorAction |
| 71st | 1983 | Food Fight | AVAFoodFight |
| 72nd | 1983 | Gyruss | AVAGyruss |
| 73rd | 1983 | Jetpac | AVAJetpac |
| 74th | 1983 | Juno First | AVAJunoFirst |
| 75th | 1983 | Lode Runner | AVALodeRunner |
| 76th | 1983 | M.U.L.E. | AVAMule |
| 77th | 1983 | Major Havoc | AVAMajorHavoc |
| 78th | 1983 | Manic Miner | AVAManicMiner |
| 79th | 1983 | Mappy | AVAMappy |
| 80th | 1983 | Mario Bros. | AVAMarioBros |
| 81st | 1983 | Sinistar | AVASinstar |
| 82nd | 1983 | Spy Hunter | AVASPYHunter |
| 83rd | 1983 | Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator | AVATrek |
| 84th | 1983 | Star Wars | AVAWars |
| 85th | 1983 | Tapper | AVATapper |
| 86th | 1983 | Ultima III: Exodus | AVAUltima3 |
| 87th | 1984 | 1942 | AVA1942 |
| 88th | 1984 | Archon II: Adept | AVAArchon2 |
| 89th | 1984 | Bomb Jack | AVABombJack |
| 90th | 1984 | Boulder Dash | AVABoulderDash |
| 91st | 1984 | Elite | AVAElite |
| 92nd | 1984 | H.E.R.O. | AVAHero |
| 93rd | 1984 | Impossible Mission | AVAImpossibleMission |
| 94th | 1984 | Jet Set Willy | AVAJetSetWilly |
| 95th | 1984 | Karateka | AVAKarateka |
| 96th | 1984 | Knight Lore | AVAKnightLore |
| 97th | 1984 | Kung-Fu Master | AVAKungFu |
| 98th | 1984 | Marble Madness | AVAMarble |
| 99th | 1984 | Raid on Bungeling Bay | AVABungelingBay |
| 100th | 1984 | Seven Cities of Gold | AVACitiesOfGold |
| 101st | 1984 | Spy vs Spy | AVASpyVsSpy |
| 102nd | 1984 | Tetris | AVATetris |
| 103rd | 1984 | The Castles of Dr. Creep | AVACastlesOfDrCreep |
| 104th | 1984 | Time Pilot '84 | AVATimePilot84 |
| 105th | 1985 | Choplifter | AVAChoplifter |
| 106th | 1985 | Commando | AVACommando |
| 107th | 1985 | Gauntlet | AVAGauntlet |
| 108th | 1985 | Ghosts 'n Goblins | AVAGhostsNGoblins |
| 109th | 1985 | Gradius | AVAGradius |
| 110th | 1985 | Gun.Smoke | AVAGunSmoke |
| 111th | 1985 | Mail Order Monsters | AVAMailOrderMonsters |
| 112th | 1985 | Mercenary | AVAMercenary |
| 113th | 1985 | Paperboy | AVAPaperboy |
| 114th | 1985 | Paradroid | AVAParadroid |
| 115th | 1985 | Rescue on Fractalus! | AVAFractalus |
| 116th | 1985 | Sarge | AVASarge |
| 117th | 1985 | The Bard's Tale | AVABardsTale |
| 118th | 1985 | Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar | AVAUltima4 |
| 119th | 1986 | Arkanoid | AVAArkanoid |
| 120th | 1986 | Bubble Bobble | AVABubble |
| 121st | 1986 | Out Run | AVAOutRun |
| 122nd | 1986 | Party RPG classic | AVAMMB1 |
| 123rd | 1986 | Rampage | AVARampage |
| 124th | 1986 | Starflight | AVAFlight |
| 125th | 1986 | Starglider | AVAStarglider |
| 126th | 1986 | Super Sprint | AVASuperSprint |
| 127th | 1986 | The Sentinel | AVASentinel |
| 128th | 1986 | Thrust | AVAThrust |
| 129th | 1986 | Uridium | AVAUridium |
| 130th | 1987 | Dungeon Master | AVADungeonMaster |
| 131st | 1987 | Head Over Heels | AVAHeadOverHeels |
| 132nd | 1987 | Nebulus | AVANebulus |
| 133rd | 1987 | R-Type | AVARType |
| 134th | 1987 | Sid Meier's Pirates! | AVAPirates |
| 135th | 1988 | Exile | AVAExile |
| 136th | 1988 | Pool of Radiance | AVARadiance |
| 137th | 1989 | Populous | AVAPopulous |
| 138th | 1989 | Prince of Persia | AVAPrince |
| 139th | 1990 | Angband | AVABand |
| 140th | 1991 | Lemmings | AVALemmings |
| 141st | 1991 | Sid Meier's Civilization | AVACiv |
| 142nd | 1993 | Master of Orion | AVAOrion |
| 143rd | 1994 | Puzzle Bobble | AVAPuzzleBobble |
| 144th | 2002 | Dungeon Siege | AVADungeonSeige |
Player profile
I'm now an old architect in a small piece of a very large company that bought us about twelve years ago. I've been into computers since grade school in the late '70s, and I still like building things end to end.
At work I'm focused on modernization. At home it's local LLMs, single-board computers, and recreating the games that got me hooked, built from their documented behavior and released for every platform I can reach.
- Class
- Architect
- Since
- Late 1970s
- Weapons
- C#, .NET, Avalonia
- GitHub
- Harlock123
- lonnie-watson