In case you were wondering who this exitzer0 person is, he’s the one that helped me do the Game Box Resume project a little while back.
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Miracle Piano |
| It’s a MIDI keyboard that hooks into your NES. The bundled game had several exercises to teach you how to play a real piano.
A bit more information can be found here. |
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Night Trap |
| It was the first Full Motion Game on the Sega CD. It apparently wasn’t very good, but it was a first.
exitzer0 adds: “Along with Mortal Kombat, Night Trap was one of the reasons for the ESRB. The FMV cut scenes caused great controversy in the gaming scene.” Here is a review I found. |
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Mario Paint |
| Not technically a game, it was more of a creativity tool for the Super Nintendo, allowing users to create simple (and some not so simple) drawings and rudimentary animation. One of the few titles that used the SNES Mouse.
Some additional information is available here. |
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Pac-Man |
| Pac-Man was the game of most of the 1980’s, hugely popular in it’s time, and still very well known today.
Had at least one song (Pac-Man Fever) written about it, was the namesake of a medical condition (Pac-Man Elbow), and invaded the consciousness of the populace in about a billion other ways. “The enemies are four little ghost-shaped monsters, each of them a different colour – blue, yellow, pink and red. I used four different colours mostly to please the women who play – I thought they would like the pretty colours. exitzero adds: “Besides the fact that Pac-Man is a pill popper that sees ghosts chasing him (sounds like a bad drug trip), he goes from eating fruits and birds, but then he starts eating bells and eventually KEYS! Oh the indigestion. What may be even better than that is what the name almost was. Pac-man was almost called Puck-man… oh the hilarity those mischevious no-gooders would have performed.” “Think what the vandals would have done to the marquees…” -Ed. |
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Paperboy |
| Nothing too unusual here, just your average paper boy delivering papers to houses while being chased by dogs, lawn mowers, Death, remote controlled cars, and various other etcetera. No, the really unique thing about this game? The handlebar controller!
exitzer0 adds: “Quite possibly the worst neighborhood ever to be a paperboy in. It looks worse than being the paperboy in an Afganistan neighborhood. The arcade version of this game had one of the coolest controllers I can remember. It was the first game in my memory to use actual handlebars as a controller.” |
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Pit Fighter |
| Generic fighting game that was one of the first to use digitized images for the images of the characters. | |
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Pitfall! |
| One of the flagship games of the Atari 2600, the game was designed by video game icon, David Crane. Mr. Crane was one of the founders of Activision, and developed one of the most bizarre games for the NES, A Boy and His Blob.
exitzer0 adds: “Pitfall Harry, why don’t you walk around those pits and lakes? There is obviously room around them.” “But then we wouldn’t hear that amazing Tarzan yell!” -Ed. More information is can be found here. |
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Pokemon |
| Love them or loathe them, the bizarre little monsters have almost completely sewn up the handheld market for Nintendo. The oddly addictive little game has spawned numerous games across three Nintendo systems, a comic book, an animated series, and a collectible card game. | |
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Pong |
| How could I do a list like this and not include one of the first video games? Pong-Story has a ton of information on the history of this pioneering game.
exitzer0 adds: “This game was the ice-breaker to the home game systems.” |
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Scorched Earth |
| Easy to learn game with almost unlimited variety that managed to find its way onto nearly every computer I ever used in the late ’90s.
Amazingly, the game is still available for download here. |