15 PC Games Which Will Take You Down The Nostalgic Lane..!!

Road Rash is a vehicular combatracing video game developed and published by Electronic Arts, originally in 1991. The player competes in illegal road races and must finish in either 3rd or 4th place (game specific) and up in every race of a “level” in order to proceed to the next.

Contra is a 1987run and gunaction gamedeveloped and published by Konami originally released as a coin-operated arcade game on February 20, 1987. Contra employs a variety of playing perspectives, which include a standard side view, a pseudo-3D view (in which the player proceeds by shooting and moving towards the background, in addition to left or right) and a fixed screen format (in which the player has their gun aimed upwards by default).

Mario is a fictional character in the Mario video game franchise, created by Nintendo’s Japanese video game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as the company’s mascot and the eponymous protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Depicted as a short, pudgy, Italianplumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, his adventures generally center upon rescuing Princess Peach from the Koopa villain Bowser. His younger brother is Luigi.

Dave is a 1988 computer game by John Romero. It was developed for the Apple II and DOS as an example game to accompany his article about his GraBASIC, an Applesoft BASIC add-on, for the UpTime disk magazine. The object of the game is to collect gold cups to move on to the next level. Since the original 1988 publishing of Dangerous Dave on UpTime, there have been three sequels and three ports of the original to other platforms.

Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. “Tetriminos” are game pieces shaped like tetrominoes, geometric shapes composed of four square blocks each. A random sequence of Tetriminos fall down the playing field (a rectangular vertical shaft, called the “well” or “matrix”).

Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan on May 21, 1980. It was created by Japanese video game designer Toru Iwatani. The player controls Pac-Man through a maze, eating pac-dots (also called pellets or just dots). When all pac-dots are eaten, Pac-Man is taken to the next stage. Between some stages one of three intermission animations plays. Four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) roam the maze, trying to catch Pac-Man.

Prince of Persia is a 1989fantasycinematic platformer originally developed and published by Brøderbund and designed by Jordan Mechner for the Apple II. The game is set in ancient Persia. While the sultan is fighting a war in a foreign land, his vizier Jaffar, a wizard, seizes power. His only obstacle to the throne is the Sultan’s daughter (although the game never specifically mentions how). Jaffar locks her in a tower and orders her to become his wife, or she would die within 60 minutes (extended to 120 minutes in the Super NES version, which has longer and harder levels).

Duck Hunt is a light gun shootervideo game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console and subsequently for PC. The objective is to shoot moving targets on the television screen in mid-flight. The game is played from a first-personperspective and requires the NES Zapperlight gun, which the player aims and fires at the screen. Aim is to shoot as many ducks as possible before the player runs out of the rounds.

Bomberman is a strategic, maze-based video gamefranchise originally developed by Hudson Soft. The general goal throughout the series is to complete the levels by strategically placing bombs in order to kill enemies and destroy obstacles. Exploding bombs can set off other bombs, kill or injure enemies, and destroy obstacles. However, they can also kill or injure the player character, destroy powerups, and sometimes “anger” the exit, causing it to generate more enemies.

Pinball is a pinballvideo game developed by Cinematronics and published by Maxis in 1995. It featured pre-rendered3D graphics and three tables: Space Cadet, Skulduggery, and Dragon’s Keep. 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet is a version of that table bundled with Microsoft Windows. It was originally packaged with Microsoft Plus! 95 and later included in Windows NT 4.0, Windows Me, Windows 2000, the 32-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Excitebike  is a motocrossracingvideo game franchise made by Nintendo. Whether the player chooses to race solo or against computer-assisted riders, they race against a certain time limit. The goal is to qualify for the Excitebike (the championship) race by coming in at third place or above in the challenge race (preliminary race). The times to beat are located on the stadium walls (for first place) and in the lower left corner (for third place).

Battle City is a multi-directional shooter video game for the Family Computerproduced and published in 1985 by Namco. The player, controlling a tank, must destroy enemy tanks in each level, which enter the playfield from the top of the screen. The enemy tanks attempt to destroy the player’s base (represented on the map as a bird, eagle, or Phoenix), as well as the human tank itself.

Circus Charlie is an action/platform game originally released by Konami in which the player controls a clown named Charlie. The game was a hit arcade game in 1984, which also had a successful release on the MSX in the same year, followed by ports to the Nintendo Famicom in 1986 by Soft Pro and the Commodore 64 in 1987. It was released along with other Konami classic games on the Nintendo DS compilation Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits.

Popeye  is a 1982 arcade platform game developed and released by Nintendo based on the Popeye characters licensed from King Features Syndicate. Unlike most platform games, the player cannot jump; the only button is “punch.” The game was licensed by Atari for exclusive release in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and featured in an Atari designed and manufactured cabinet. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Popeye.