Cult Video Game Essentials

The movie of 007: Licence to Kill featured Hero of Cult Robert Davi but the computer game unfortunately did not. Instead ...

10-Yard Fight was a 1983 American football arcade game that  was one of the first games released on the NES. It was ...

In 1986 Access Software were the Godfathers of computer games. Their Leaderboard Golf game was universally acclaimed and they followed ...

Something frightening has been happening on Elm Street lately. It seems that with each waking day another gruesome discovery is ...

Action Force II: International Heroes is a video game released by Virgin Games in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum home computer ...

Action Force: International Heroes is a video game released by Virgin Games in 1987 for the Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64, ...

The ‘Action Max’ was a VHS based console system released in 1987 by ‘World of Wonders’. The console, which required ...

Released in January 1988, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance was a video game based on the first Dragonlance campaign ...

Amidar is an arcade game programmed by Konami and published in 1981 by Stern. Its basic format is similar to ...

"THE TIME AND ERA OF THIS STORY IS UNKNOWN. AFTER THE MOTHERSHIP "ARKANOID" WAS DESTROYED, A SPACECRAFT "VAUS" SCRAMBLED AWAY ...

Released in 1986, Asterix and the Magic Cauldron was a graphical adventure game that was released for the Amstrad PC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum home ...

Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior or "that game where you can chop the guy's head off" was released by Palace Software ...

Baseball was a video game made by Nintendo in 1983 for the Nintendo Family Computer, making it one of the first games released ...

Beach Volley was a video game developed by Ocean France for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum, released by Ocean Software in 1989 ...

Beast Wars: Transformers is a third-person shooter released by Hasbro Interactive on December 5, 1997 for PlayStation and May 31, 1998 ...

Remember that kid's video game where Hitler's head explodes at the end? Wait that wasn't Hitler! It did look like ...

Black Tiger was a 1987 platform game released for the arcades by Capcom. The hero of the game is a ...

Bubble Bobble is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986 and later ported to numerous home computers and ...

Epyx Sports released California Games in 1987 and introduced the world to a mulitiple sports event that included skateboarding, freestyle ...

Castlevania: Bloodlines is a platform game developed and published by Konami for Sega in 1994. It is the only Castlevania ...

Debuting in 1989 for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, and Commodore 64, Grandslam Entertainment's Chambers of Shaolin took much inspiration from ...

Clu Clu Land is an arcade and Nintendo Entertainment System game released in 1984 in Japan, later released in North ...

Cobra was a 1986 platform game based on the Sylvester Stallone film of the same name. It was developed and ...

Donkey Kong was released on July 9th 1981 by Nintendo and it went on to become one of the biggest ...

Donkey Kong Jr. Math was a Nintendoedutainment video game where players must solve math problems in order to win. It was ...

Double Dragon is a 1987 beat 'em up video game developed by Technōs Japan and distributed in North America and Europe ...

DreamMix TV World Fighters is a crossover fighting video game developed by Bitstep and published by Konami, Takara and Hudson for the ...

Duck Hunt is a light gun shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video ...

Dungeons of Daggorath was one of the first games that attempted to portray three-dimensional space in a real-time environment, using ...

Ecco the Dolphin was an action-adventure game originally developed by Ed Annunziata and Novotrade International for the Mega Drive and published by ...

Excitebike is a motocross racing video game franchise made by Nintendo. It debuted as a game for the Famicom in Japan ...

QP Unleashed takes a look at the phenomenon that is Fortnite ...

Friday the 13th The Game isn’t your typical video game as each play through has a 20-minute time limit for ...

Frogger is an arcade game introduced in 1981. It was developed by Konami, and licensed for North American distribution by ...

G.I. Joe is a rail shooter video game produced by Konami and released in 1992 exclusively for video arcades. It ...

G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a 1985 action shoot 'em up video game. It was developed and published ...

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a 1991 run and gun game published by Taxan for the Nintendo Entertainment ...

G.I. Joe: Cobra Strike is the title of a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1983. The game ...

G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor is the title of a Nintendo Entertainment System video game developed by KID and published ...

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is the title of a video game adaption of the film of the same ...

Ghosts 'n Goblins is a 1985 side-scrolling platform game developed by Capcom for video arcades and has since been released ...

Golden Axe is a side-scrolling, beat 'em up, hack and slash arcade video game released in 1989 by Sega for the ...

Golf is a sports-simulation video game released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was originally released in Japan in ...

Granny's Garden is an educational adventure game for the BBC Micro in 1983. It served as a first introduction to ...

Gyromite was a video game released in 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, designed for use with the Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.): ...

He-Man: Defender of Grayskull is a 2005 multi-platform action-adventure game follow up to the 2003 Game Boy Advance game He-Man: ...

Highlander was a video game tie-in to the Highlander movie that was released in 1986, the same year as the film. It was published by Ocean ...

Hogan's Alley is a 1984 video game by Nintendo. It was one of the first games to use a light ...

Ice Climber was a vertical platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Family Computer in Japan and the ...

Joust was an arcade game developed by Williams Electronics and released on July 16th 1982. The development of the game ...

Jungler is a maze-based arcade game developed by Konami in 1981. Distributed by Stern in the United States beginning in ...

Kettō Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyō Ketteisen is a video game for the Game Boy Color handheld. It was ...

Datasoft brought Mancopter (designed by Scott Spanburg) to Commodore 64 users in 1984 and featured the player controlling a person piloting ...

Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems was a2D action platform video game developed by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, ...

Match Day was a football computer game, published by Ocean Software in 1984. It was initially only available on the ...

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a 2015 stealth game, with high features of an action game, published ...

Well... where to begin. I can't explain to you how fresh of a game this is, with its dynamic gameplay/ ...

Middle-Earth Shadow Of War is the follow up to the 2014 sleeper hit Shadow of Mordor offering hack and slash ...

The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version is a one-on-one competitive fighting game, featuring two different game modes, a 1-Player Scenario Mode and ...

Hitting the NES in September 1987, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (later re-released just as Punch Out) was your chance to earn ...

QP Unleashed returns to review the Lucas Arts Classic Monkey Island ...

The 1984 Mr. Wimpy video game was a promotional tie with Wimpy restaurants with their logos, company mascots, and theme ...

Developed by Design Design and published by Piranha in 1986, Nosferatu the Vampyre was a computer game based on the film of ...

Operation Wolf aka Operēshon Urufu is a one-player shooter video game made by Taito in 1987. It spawned three sequels: Operation ...

Paperboy first arrived in 1985 from Atari Games and caused a revolution in the computer games market. School playgrounds across ...

Pit-Fighter is a 1990 arcade fighting game by Atari Games that broke new ground by using digitized live actors. The ...

Player Manager was developed by Dino Dini and Anco and released on the Amiga and Atari ST, way back in ...

Questprobe is a trilogy of graphical adventure computer games that came out in 1984/85 that features Marvel Comics characters. The games ...

Before the days of virtual reality gaming, GTA and online co-ops if a video game player really wanted to live ...

Renegade is a video game released in American and European arcades in 1986 by Taito. It is a westernized conversion ...

Developed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar of Vid Kidz and released by Williams Electronics (part of WMS Industries) in ...

Scooby-Doo Mystery was released by Acclaim in 1995 based on the Scooby-Doo animated series. The Sega Mega Drive version is a traditional adventure ...

Scramble aka Sukuranburu is a 1981 side-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game. It was developed by Konami, and manufactured and distributed ...

Produced by Don Bluth Studios, Cinematronics and Advanced Microcomputer Systems (later renamed RDI Video Systems), Space Ace landed in October 1983 and ...

Space Invaders is an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and ...

In 1982 Parker Brothers made history by releasing Spider-Man for the Atari 2600 - it wasn't only the first ever video ...

Spider-Man and Captain America in Doctor Doom's Revenge was a side-scrolling computer game starring Marvel Comics'superheroes Spider-Man and Captain America ...

Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game for the Super NES and Sega Genesis and ...

It was deemed the first violent video game! Released in 1979 it remains in the mind of cult gamers everywhere. It ...

Streets of Rage  is a side-scrolling beat 'em up released by Sega in 1991 for the Sega Genesis. It is ...

Sunset Riders is a side-scrolling run-and-gun style shoot-'em-up released by Konami as a coin-operated video game in 1991. The game is ...

The Adventures of Batman & Robin is a 1995 video game based on the popular DC Comics critically acclaimed animated cartoon ...

The Amazing Spider-Man is an action / puzzle platformer video game. The game was developed by Oxford Digital Enterprises Ltd., ...

Released in 1987, The Astonishing Adventures Of Mr Weems And The She Vampires was a video game developed by RamJam ...

Hitting the Commodore 64 in 1983, The Attack of the Phantom Karate Devils was developed by John Orthel for Phantom Software ...

The Punisher: The Ultimate Payback! released in 1991 by Acclaim Entertainment is the Game Boy version of the 1990 NES console ...

The Revenge of Shinobi takes place three years after the first game, the criminal organization Zeed from the original game ...

The Transformers was a platform / shoot 'em up game based on the Transformers franchise. It was written by Denton Designs and released ...

The Transformers: Mystery of Convoy is a 1986 Famicom video game developed by ISCO and published by Takara exclusively in Japan ...

In 1986 the Transfomers movement was in full swing and Activision did not want to be left behind! They soon ...

Track & Field aka Hyper Olympic (in Japan) is a 1983 Olympic-themed sports arcade game developed and published by Konami. The Japanese ...

Transformers aka The Transformers: Call of the Future, is an action role-playing game released by Takara in October 2003 for PlayStation ...

Transformers (also known as Transformers Armada: Prelude to Energon) is a PlayStation 2 video gamebased on the Transformers: Armada animated ...

Based on the film, the game is a third-person action-shooter. All the robots have at least five attack types: a ...

Transformers Animated: The Game is a video game for the Nintendo DS handheld based on the Transformers television incarnation, Transformers: Animated ...

Transformers Autobots is a video game based on fictional alien robots, Transformers. This version follows the plot of the 2007 ...

Transformers Decepticons is a video game based on fictional alien robots, Transformers. This version follows an alternate plot of the ...

Transformers G1: Awakening is a turn-based tactics mobile game in the Transformers franchise developed and published by Glu Mobile. It ...

Transformers: Prime – The Game is a brawler video game developed by Nowpro for the Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo ...

Transformers Universe was a third person multiplayer online battle arena game developed by British game develop Jagex Games Studio in ...

Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals is a 1999 versus styled fighting game based on the Beast Wars cartoon series and toy-line ...

Transformers: Cybertron Adventures is the Wii version of the video game Transformers: War for Cybertron. It was developed by Next ...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (marketed as Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Stealth Force Edition for Nintendo 3DS and Wii) ...

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is a third-person shooter video game developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision. It ...

Transformers: Human Alliance is an arcade rail shooter developed by Sega and released in 2013, based on the live action ...

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 third-person shooter video game based on the 2009 live action film Transformers: ...

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is an action-adventure video game based on the Transformers toy franchise. It was developed ...

A video game based on the cartoon series of the same name  was released by Takara in 1987 for the ...

Transformers: War for Cybertron is a third-person shooter video game developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision. It ...

Transformers: War for Cybertron - Autobots and Transformers: War for Cybertron - Decepticons are the Nintendo DS iterations of Transformers: War ...

In the distant future, the B.E.D.A. Corporation, a company involved in the development of electronic equipment and military weapons, is actually ...

WWF WrestleMania was a game developed by Twilight and published by Ocean Software in 1991 for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and DOS. It ...

Released in December 1980, Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I aka Zork I was an interactive fiction video game ...