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184 games like Mega Run · 1982 – 2014




Grandslam Entertainments · Amiga, Amiga CD32
Base Jumpers was the second release by Aaron and Adam Fothergill's Shadow Software outfit for publisher Rasputin and was very simple in concept. In a 2D platform gaming style, players run up to the top of towers, trying to combine 3 letter
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Apple II, Commodore VIC-20, Texas Instruments TI-99 +1
You have to reach the flag at the top of each level while evading the oncomming cannonballs.
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, NEC PC-6000 Series +1
Try to climb to the top of the Grand Canyon, while avoiding various obstacles.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Chunsoft · FM-7, MSX, NEC PC-6000 Series +5
Door Door is a single-screen platformer first released in 1983 for the NEC PC-6001.
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English Software · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Atari 400 +4
Music notes have escaped throughout the world, and Jet-Boot Jack must collect them up. There are ten levels, the first five of which can be played from the main menu. Gameplay is platform-based, and largely involves progressing down the lev
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Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit +2
Music notes have escaped throughout the world, and Jet-Boot Jack must collect them up. There are ten levels, the first five of which can be played from the main menu. Gameplay is platform-based, and largely involves progressing down the lev
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Atari console exclusive
Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit +4
Deep inside a long-lost diamond mine is the secret Temple Chamber of a forgotten civilization. There, a priceless Golden Crown sits high on a pedestal, vulnerable to plundering explorers seeking to control its power. but this treasure is je
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Atari · Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari System +3
The player maneuvers Peter, a cartoon rodent, through various environments to collect objects and take them back to his nest within a designated time. Enemies, referred to as "The Gang", include cats, dogs, owls, and spiders, and must be av
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Magnavox · Magnavox Odyssey 2, Odyssey, Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000
You play a miner named Pickaxe Pete, and you start off in the middle of the screen with a pick-axe. There are three doors from which boulders are coming, bouncing down the mine-shafts; every time Pete destroys one of these he gains 3 points
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Vectrex
The evil Spud has taken Spike's girl, Molly, and Spike must make his way through various levels on platforms and ladders to rescue Molly. You must move the ladder from platform to platform and jump gaps to retrieve the key that will set Mol
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MSX, ZX Spectrum
Bug Byte's Turmoil is a platform game where Mick The Mechanic steals the sheik's cars, collecting oil while avoiding Arabian bodyguards. Through 26 screens with hazards like springboards and disappearing walls, Mick's goal is to pour oil in
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Imagine Software · Commodore VIC-20, VIC-20
Using the elevators and platforms in each level you have to serve your customers on the other side of the screen.
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Atari console exclusive
Arcade, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit +3
Originally available for home computers in the '80s, developer First Star Software has ported Bristles to the Atari 5200. Featuring eight different game screens and six levels of platforming action, players must attempt to paint a house whi
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Datasoft · Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +3
The Goonies is based on the Steven Spielberg film of the same name. The game is divided into a series of eight screens based on scenes from the film, each of which contains puzzles that must be solved by coordinating the activities of two
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Taito · Arcade, Switch, Sega Genesis
Thunder Fox is a side-scrolling arcade action game created by Taito, starring Thunder and Fox as they fight through fast-paced stages. Built around simple controls (attack, jump, and a weapon button) its core combat stays fluid and punchy w
57 rating2 listsOften paired


Gaelco · Arcade
Big Karnak is a scrolling platform "Hack and slash" arcade game released in 1991 by Gaelco. The game takes place in an Ancient Egypt setting. You control a pharoh that attempts to fight through several different levels fighting deadly enemi
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Nintendo console exclusive
Koichi Nakamura · FM-7, MSX, NEC PC-6000 Series +6
Door Door is a single-screen platformer first released in 1983 for the NEC PC-6001.
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Sega console exclusive
Realtime Associates · Sega Saturn, Windows
Bug! is a platformer where you play as a bug who must go through 6 worlds in order to rescue his family who has been kidnapped.
76 rating4 listsOften paired


Interactive Television Entertainment · Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Legacy Mobile Device +2
The evil witch Scylla has trapped Hugo in a mirror, and now it's up to you to rescue him. In Hugo and the Evil Mirror, you must save Hugo in three different worlds, each guarded by dangerous monsters. Use the freeze gun to turn enemies into
55 rating3 listsOften paired


This action platformer game is based on a fake NES tribute video for the John Wick movie for what might've looked like if a NES game was released back in the day.
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Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo Software Technology · Nintendo DS
Aura-Aura Climber is a DSiWare platformer, published by Nintendo. The goal is to climb back to the sky using Aura-Aura's grapple arm, while avoiding enemies and obstacles as fast and accurately as possible.
78 rating2 listsOften paired


Gremlin Interactive · Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Commodore 16 +5
The player controls a tennis ball which is used to navigate courses, composed of numerous tiles, which are suspended high above ground. The ball must be bounced past walls and over enemies; coming into contact with either, or plummeting ove
60 rating5 listsOften paired


Dragon 32/64, TRS-80 Color Computer
Cuthbert has to find the exit to the mine in which he trapped before he runs out of oxygen.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Codemasters · Amstrad CPC, NES, ZX Spectrum
Super Robin Hood is a side scrolling puzzle platformer developed by Codemasters, published by Camerica and was on the Quattro Adventure multicart released for the NES in 1993.
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Atari exclusive
APh Technological Consulting · Intellivision, Atari 2600
Frog Bog is a video game released by Mattel Electronics in 1982, developed by APH Technological Consulting. Players control a frog on a lily pad, competing to catch the most insects within a three-minute time limit. The challenge involves u
70 rating1 listOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Brainchild Design · Linux, MS-DOS, Wii +2
Jump! is an Xbox Live Indie platformer, developed by Arkedo Studios, in which the player must collect bombs before they explode.
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Sega console exclusive
Arcade, Game Gear
The Berlin Wall is a platform arcade game. The player takes control of a boy who must use his hammer to break the blocks that form part of the platform levels that form each stage. These holes act as traps for the many patrolling monsters a
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Mass Creation · Android, PlayStation Vita, Xbox +1
A tropically themed runner where the player must escape hordes of hungry cannibals.
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Data East · Arcade
A fast moving platform game in which the player controls the Indiana Jones-esque and unfortunately named 'Edward Randy'. The levels are an inventive mix of standard platform action and 3-D scrolling levels; the latter usually having the pla
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Atari exclusive
Data Age · Atari 2600
The player is trapped in a crashed nuclear submarine which has begun taking on water. They need to escape by making their way up the levels of the submarine one at a time. Each floor has two hatch keys that need to be collected in order to
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Nintendo exclusive
Game Boy
A police officer named Tony and his sister are forced to go inside an unidentified flying object by a group of aliens who are planning to invade the galaxy. They are later exiled to a distant planet after refusing to engage in espionage for
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David Whittaker · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Obliterator is a side-scrolling action-adventure game published by Psygnosis in 1988. It was released for Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and MS-DOS. The game was programmed by David H. Lawson with graphics by Garvan Corbett and
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ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
Sir Lancelot is a platform game where players guide the titular knight through 24 castle screens in search of treasure. Each level requires collecting all objects within a time limit to reveal the exit. The game features fixed-pattern enemi
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX +2
Lazy Jones is essentially a collection of fifteen smaller sub-games. The game takes place inside a hotel with three floors, connected by an elevator. The character is a lazy hotel employee who does not much care for his work, but prefers to
90 rating2 listsOften paired






Google · Browser
A game that can be found in the Google Chrome browser when offline.
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Sega exclusive
Game Gear, Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
One of many games based on the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, the version for Sega's 8-bit systems combines side-scrolling shooting action and platforming levels. In each of the five stages of the game, one escaped dinosaur species must b
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Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, Commodore 64 +3
A action game written by Tony Ngo that was published for various 8-bit platforms. The player controls Sam who must climb to the top of a 48 story building and collect a suitcase full of money while avoiding being knocked off the building by
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Timed SNK exclusive
ADK · Arcade, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD +3
The planet Raguy was once a beautiful place, until the evil Daruma tribe invaded, bringing pollution that corrupted the land. You, as Blue, are a specialist of the Leaf Dump, and you love Princess Fa of the Raguy family. Unfortunately, Prin
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Nintendo exclusive
Tose Co. · Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 3DS
The Master Traveler takes on the Monsters of the World. Play as the ninja Maru in this action-packed side-scrolling game that will take you on a journey across the world. While Maru is out for a walk with his girlfriend Cori, an evil samur
59 rating3 listsOften paired
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Eidos Interactive · Game Boy, SNES, Sega CD +2
The Lawnmower Man is the game based on the 1992 movie of the same name (itself loosely based on a Stephen King short story) starring pre-Bond fame Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence Angelo, a scientist working for Virtual Space Industries in "P
60 rating5 listsOften paired


Konami · Arcade, Switch, PS4 +2
Mr. Goemon is a side-scrolling-platform game developed by Konami in 1986. Enemies charge and grab the character, ending his life unless the player jostles the control stick to break free. Later enemies also have projectile weapons that the
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A&F Software · Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC +11
Chuckie Egg is an action platformer featuring a turn-based multiplayer mode. As Hen-House Harry, the player must collect the twelve eggs positioned in each level, before a countdown timer reaches zero. In addition there are piles of seed wh
82 rating5 listsOften paired
Nintendo exclusive
BubbleZap · SNES
A homebrew Donkey Kong clone for the SNES, released as an open-source game on the web and later released as a physical cartridge by Piko Interactive.
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +1
A Frogger or Freeway clone written by Vic Leone and published by Datamost for the Apple II, C64 and Atari 8-bit home computers.
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Imagic · Intellivision
Horrible Hank has grabbed Tiny Mabel and climbed the old Mutton Building. Only Bashful Buford can save her. Help him scale the building - but watch out for those rolling boulders! birds and bats swoop down on Buford, and he leaps over scurr
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