#80s arcade game

[zablionsea]

This day, 40 years ago, Namco released the arcade game “Mappy” in Japan. In this game, you play as Mappy, a Micro Police officer tasked with retrieving stolen goods from a mansion while trying to avoid Nyamco and his Mewkies (Goro and Meowkies in English). You bounce on trampolines, open and close doors, drop bells, and run over trap doors while the Mewkies doggedly pursue you.

Happy Birthday, Mappy!

Source of release date

[retrogamingblog2]

Donkey Kong mural in Concord, New Hampshire

[starshinehavoc]

[elbiotipo]

Perhaps the worst game design choice in Skyrim is when you are told to go kill nameless bandits who you can't talk to and just exist as random enemies, and then when you're fighting one they yell "I yield" and you're okay, that's fair, I'm just here to get some random sword I don't actually want to kill you and after all, the game tips say that if they yell "I yield" you can sheathe your sword and they'll stop fighting

Then you find out that's COMPLETELY FALSE, the game does NOT allow you to do that, the nameless bandits like all enemies in the game are programmed to fight to the death, and that's what you do, you fight them to death, because they have no names no lives or anything, they are there to keep attacking you and fight to the death for a chest with 124 gold and boots with a bonus to enchantment.

Or what's worse, the game makes them yell "PLEASE NO MORE" or "I YIELD" JUST as you deliver the killing blow. It would be an interesting comment on violence in videogames if it wasn't just a fakeout because the nameless bandits aren't actually coded to do anything but to fight you to death.

Okay, that's a bunch of poor game design choices, not just one.

[cupidkissez]

💫Star Worlds Arcade - DeKalb, IL, USA💫

[tvneon]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Spy Hunter (1984)

[cowboyphilosophy]

[pixelfireplace]

NES Advantage - Nintendo - 1987

source: archive.org

[neonlightsworld]

Spy Hunter - Retro Gaming (1983)

[heartnosekid]

robotron: 2084 🕹️ | brokenarcade on ig

[yodaprod]

Spy Hunter, Midway (1984)

[retrogamingblog2]

Donkey Kong mural in Concord, New Hampshire

[arconinternet]

Poly-Play (In-browser, Arcade, VEB Polytechnik, 1985/1989)

Soviet East German arcade multi-game cabinets - each of these versions has some games the other doesn't. You can play them in your browser here.

Controls: arrows, Ctrl & 5 (1's unneeded here).

Tip: you can make the screen less wide by pressing Tab, then using arrows and Enter to select Video Options and then Screen #0, and turning Maintain Aspect Ratio on, then leaving the menu with Tab.

[theactioneer]

Street Fighter (Capcom, 1988)

[vintagegeekculture]

Taito arcade art for the Superman game, 1988. Based on Jose Luis Garcia Lopez style sheets.