Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
159 games like Spellbound Dizzy · 1981 – 2017
Nintendo console exclusive
Big Red Software · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +5
Grand Dizzy was feeling very down one day, so Dizzy and Daisy decided to cheer him up by baking him his favourite food, cherry pie. "Pogie pinched the cheeries!" she cries, as she saw Pogies pawprint in the cupboard. Pogie promptly darted o
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Software Projects · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit +10
Jet Set Willy is a flip-screen platform game in which the player moves the protagonist, Willy, from room to room in his mansion collecting objects. Unlike the screen-by-screen style of its prequel, the player can explore the mansion at will
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Antony Crowther · Commodore C64/128/MAX, Windows, ZX Spectrum
Wanted: Monty Mole is a platform video game that was published in 1984 by Gremlin Graphics. Versions were released for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 home computers. The player controls the titular mole who has to travel around a coal mi
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Big Red Software · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +5
The Evil Wizard ZAKS is back! Like all Evil Wizards he had made certain arrangements against his premature demise... He has exacted a terrible revenge by transporting the YOLKFOLK to a stange Fairy-Tale World and casting evil spells on them
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David Jones · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore 64 +4
Magic Knight has been sent to the Castle of Spriteland by the King of Ibsisima in order to find a special present for Princess Germintrude. If Magic Knight is successful in his quest, he may have proved himself worthy of joining the famous
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Oliver Twins · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
You will need skill and quick reflexes to survive in the dangerous castle complex. Watch out for the guards who shoot bolts at you with their crossbows, you can duck or jump to avoid them, or even run away. If you get hit you will lose vita
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Linel · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Exolon is a classic side-scrolling action game developed by Hewson Consultants and released in 1987 for various 8-bit home computer platforms. Players control Vitorc, a space marine equipped with an armored exoskeleton suit, as he navigates
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The Big Red Software Company · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
Seymour Goes to Hollywood, also known as Seymour at the Movies, is a platform and adventure game developed by Big Red Software and originally published in Europe by Codemasters in 1991. Players control Seymour, a small potato-like creature
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Oliver Twins · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Ghost Hunters is an action game written by the Oliver twins and published by Codemasters
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Nintendo exclusive
Imagineering · Game Boy
Starring: A Boy and His Blob The Rescue of Princess Blobette tells the story of a young, male protagonist and his blob companion as they attempt to rescue the latter's girlfriend, the titular Princess Blobette. The damsel in distress has b
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +2
The game starts where Dan lands his airship on the top of the evil Dr Blitzen's hideout. The aim of the game is to find eight sticks of dynamite that are placed randomly around the playing area whilst avoiding the perils of the game such as
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Konami · MSX
Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious (Majou Densetsu II: Galious no Meikyuu in Japan) is a screen-by-screen action adventure platformer released originally for MSX in 1987. It can be considered an early example of a Metroidvania game with fre
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Nintendo exclusive
Rare Ltd. · Game Boy Advance
The portable resurrection of a classic Spectrum series. The game is separated into two modes of play: the 3D exploration mode and the 2D platforming sections. The 3D exploration mode is how Sabreman gets around the eight different themed w
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Stamper brothers · Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Sabreman must search out the lost sections of the Wulf amulet in this colourful flick screen maze game whilst fighting off the many beasts, and the Wulf itself, that inhabit the jungle before making his final escape.
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Stamper brothers · BBC Microcomputer System, ZX Spectrum
The game takes place within a castle in which the player must seek out the "Golden Key of ACG" through unlocking doors and avoiding enemies. It was Ultimate's second game to require 48K of RAM; most of their previous games for the Spectrum
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Playing a thoroughly drab, mundane and predictable character, your aim is to become interesting enough to reach the Pleasuredome. After discovering a gruesome murder, your interest in something greater than the routine of 80s Liverpool is a
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16, Commodore 64 +4
Monty On the Run is a platform-style game featuring Monty Mole, a coal thief fleeing across Europe to escape the Intermole agency. Players navigate Monty through 80 screens representing European landmarks, using various movement techniques
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Edge Games · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE +3
A isometric 3D arcade adventure game released under three different titles for several 8-bit and 16-bit platforms.
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PlayStation exclusive
Rhythm and Hues Studios · PlayStation
Eggs of Steel: Charlie’s Eggcellent Adventure is a platform game released in 1998 for the PlayStation. Players control an anthropomorphic egg named Charlie as he explores a surreal, industrial world filled with traps, enemies, and puzzles.
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Datasoft · Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +9
Bruce Lee is a video game designed by Ron J. Fortier, with graphics by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. It was originally developed for the Atari 8-bit family and published in 1984 by Datasoft, along with a port for the Commodore
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
A action game in the style of Marble Madness for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. Help Bobby the ball bearing rescue his lost brothers and his cousin.
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Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Repton, the eponymous protagonist, walks around an underground maze in a quest to find all the diamonds (some being held in safes, their release being triggered by finding and collecting a key) within a time limit in each of several levels,
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
As the outlaw Robin of Sherwood, you aim to win recover the prize of the Silver Arrow from the Sheriff of Nottingham. Before you can enter the contest to recover the arrow, you must purchase your equipment from a tree spirit (Ent) hiding in
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Sega console exclusive
Bizarre Creations · Amiga, Sega Genesis
Wiz and Liz are magicians. They live on the planet Pum and brew potions and cast spells. They also tend to rabbit-like creatures called "wabbits". One day, a concoction goes awry and sends all the wabbits to distant parts of Pum. Wiz and Li
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Apple II, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +2
ALF must collect parts of his spacecraft in this top-down action game.
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Nintendo exclusive
ASCII Corporation · SNES
The story of the game is that the sacred rainbow has shattered into seven pieces and it's up to Ardy to obtain them all again. Whoever collects all seven pieces will receive one wish. An evil king named Visconti has already gotten one piece
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Bo Jangeborg · ZX Spectrum, Amstrad PCW, Amstrad CPC
An isometric 3D action-adventure and the second series in the Chronicles of the Land of Fairlight.
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Edge Games · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +4
In the earliest licensed entertainment videogame of Jim Davis' lazy cat cartoon character, you play Garfield in his attempt to rescue Arlene from the cat pound. The primary gameplay involves object manipulation, gaining objects either by pi
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Softek · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE +2
In the earliest licensed entertainment videogame of Jim Davis' lazy cat cartoon character, you play Garfield in his attempt to rescue Arlene from the cat pound. The primary gameplay involves object manipulation, gaining objects either by pi
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Atari exclusive
Atari 2600
Poor Teddy. He's had a bad dream and now he wants his mommy. How about giving him a hand? Steer him toward the magical stardust ladders. Help him avoid the nasty dream demons who try to block his path. (Mom's sending special kisses to help
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Core Design · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari Jaguar +7
Switchblade is a computer platform game developed by Core Design and released by Gremlin Graphics in 1989. The player guides the protagonist, Hiro, through a flip-screen platform environment with a subterranean setting. Unexplored areas of
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
A action platformer, with over 104 rooms, following the adventures of a Viking awoken in 1983 who plans to conquer Britain.
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Android, Browser, Ouya +2
Don't Look Back is a game about fantasy. Just to warn you, it can be quite tricky in places...
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Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Android +5
Slightly Magic is a platform game not unlike Codemasters' own Dizzy and Seymour series, but is generally shorter and easier than most other games of that genre. In addition to standard inventory puzzles of Dizzy games, Slightly Magic intro
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Nintendo exclusive
Konami · NES
Snake's Revenge is a stealth action-adventure game developed by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Serving as a standalone sequel to Metal Gear, it was released in North America and the PAL region, capitalising on the internation
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Nintendo console exclusive
Gary Biasillo · Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +2
Target: Renegade is a scrolling beat'em up (or flip-screen on certain versions) computer game released on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum systems in the late 1980s by Ocean Software on their "Imagine" label, as well as a Ninte
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apex computer productions · Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari ST/STE, Amiga
The inhabitants of the pretty but insignificant planet Blot decided to leave to find a trendier planet, and escape being called the Blotians, a most unhip name. Until they such a planet, they call themselves the Fuzzy Wuzzies. Their colony
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Apex Computer Productions · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +2
The inhabitants of the pretty but insignificant planet Blot decided to leave to find a trendier planet, and escape being called the Blotians, a most unhip name. Until they such a planet, they call themselves the Fuzzy Wuzzies. Their colony
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Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +2
Ninja Rabbits is a side scrolling beat 'em up released in the UK on multiple platforms.
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Atari console exclusive
Taito · Arcade, Atari 5200
Piloting a pie-shaped spacecraft, you must move from sector to sector collecting treasure while avoiding enemies and corner-mounted lasers. The more treasure you have with you the higher your bonus when you reach the goal. A "thief" roams t
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Atari console exclusive
Gremlin Interactive · Amiga, Atari Lynx, Atari ST +1
Switchblade II is a computer action game. It was released for the Amiga and the Atari ST by Gremlin in May 1991, and for the Atari Lynx in 1992. A sequel to Switchblade, Switchblade II is an action-platformer. The action is viewed from the
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Taito · Arcade, Atari ST, FM Towns +7
Tiki, a sneaker-wearing kiwi who must save his lover Phee Phee and several of his other kiwi chick friends who have been kiwi-napped by a large blue leopard seal. The player has to navigate a scrolling maze-like level, at the end of which t
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Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX
The evil Goblin has used his magical abilities to ensnare all the toys in the neighborhood to go into his underground lair. Thing bounces to the rescue, and resolves to retrieve them from his 4 storey underground lair. To do this he must co
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Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development · Nintendo 64, Wii, Wii U
Baby Bowser has taken the Super Happy Tree and cast a spell on Yoshi's world, turning it into the pages of a picture book. The only Yoshis not affected by the spell were six hatchlings that were still protected by their shells. It's up to t
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Arcade, MSX
Wiz is an action game. Play as Wiz, a wizard who controls 8 types of Magic to fight from the Depths, to the Land Realm, and finally into the Sky Realm. Defeat the monsters standing in your way, and make it to the Sky Realm to face off with
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Nintendo console exclusive
Level-5 · Android, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch 2 +1
In the curious village of St. Mystere, townsfolk speak to each other in riddles, lock their doors with sliding puzzles and hide their secrets within brainteasers. When a wealthy baron passes away, his will reveals an elusive treasure hidden
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
Linux, PS3, PlayStation Vita +3
The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago.
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Oddworld Inhabitants · Game Boy Color, OnLive Game System, PlayStation +3
Abe’s peaceful retirement was shattered when visited by a vision from the Three Weirdos. Abe learned the Magog Cartel was mining Necrum, the sacred Mudokon city of the dead, to collect bones to make super-addictive SoulStorm Brew. After fr
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