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Arcade games are video games commonly installed in cabinets and placed in bars; they were very common in the '80s.

Slam Tilt amiga

Slam Tilt is a pinball simulation developed by Liquid Dezign and published by 21st Century Entertainment in 1996 for Amiga. The game required the AGA chipset, like the one present on the A1200.

Year: 1996 Genre: Arcade

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Gradius msxnes

Gradius is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up developed and published by Konami, initially in 1985 as an arcade. The game was ported to MSX and NES in 1986 and released outside Japan with the name "Nemesis.

Year: 1986 Genre: Shooter

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The New Zealand Story amigapc-engine

The New Zealand Story is one of the most famous arcades created by Taito. It was released as a coin-op in 1988. Many home computer versions, including Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum, were released in 1989.

Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer

arcade coin-op conversion multi-directional platform-shooter platformer

Pac PC 2 dos

Pac PC II is one of the best freeware clones of the original Pac-Man, probably the most popular arcade of all times..

Year: 1995 Genre: Arcade

arcade freeware maze chase remake

Frogger atari-8-bitatari-5200

Frogger is an arcade created by Konami and one of the most popular video games ever created. It was released for the first time in 1981, and it has been ported to almost all platforms since then.

Year: 1982 Genre: Arcade

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Shinobi sega-master-systemamstrad-cpcamiga

Shinobi is an arcade game created by SEGA in 1987, ported almost immediately to the Master System and later to many other platforms. In the game, you control a ninja ("shinobi" mea...

Year: 1988 Genre: Brawler

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Xevious msxatari-st

Xevious is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade released by Namco in 1982 and ported to multiple platforms. There were releases for MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and Apple II.

Year: 1987 Genre: Shooter

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Ghosts 'N Goblins amiganescommodore-64game-boy-color

Ghosts 'N Goblins is a popular arcade released by Capcom in 1985 and later ported to many home platforms. The Amiga version was published by Elite in 1990, several years after the original Capcom coin-op.

Year: 1986 Genre: Arcade

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Rodland amiga

Rodland (aka Rod-Land or Rod Land) is a platformer developed and published by Jaleco in 1990 initially in arcades only. In the following years, it was ported to multiple other plat...

Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer

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1943: The Battle of Midway amiganes

1943: The Battle of Midway is a shoot 'em up developed and published by Capcom for arcade machines in 1987. Later on, the title was ported to several computers and consoles such as...

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

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Paperboy 2 amigagenesis

Paperboy 2 is an arcade game developed by Tengen and published by Mindscape, originally released for 8-bit systems in 1991. The initial NES, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum were followed by Amiga, MS-DOS, SNES, and Mega Drive/Genesis.

Year: 1991 Genre: Arcade

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Choplifter! commodore-64sega-master-systemapple-iiatari-5200

Choplifter! is a helicopter simulator/action-adventure created by Dan Gorlin for the Apple II and published in 1982 by Brøderbund. The game was converted to Atari 8-bit, VIC-20, C...

Year: 1983 Genre: Arcade

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Lady Bug commodore-64

Lady Bug is a conversion for Commodore 64 of the popular arcade released by Universal in 1981, similar to Pac-Man. The game was designed by Kazutoshi Ueda, also the author of Mr. Do.

Year: 1984 Genre: Arcade

arcade coin-op conversion maze chase

Silkworm amiga

Silkworm is a side-scrolling shooter arcade developed by Tecmo and released initially in 1988. In 1989 the game was ported to Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum by Random Access.

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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