Click and compare - it's in your hands:

Wipeout (1995) hurled you into anti-gravity racing where the tracks looked like nightclub flyers and the speed felt borderline irresponsible.

Wipeout

1995 • PC • PS1 • Saturn

Pixel8Games 89% Users -

Speed with teeth

Duke Nukem 3D (1996) swaggered into the shooter scene chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.

Duke Nukem 3D

1996 • Mega Drive • PC

Pixel8Games 91% Users -

No manners. No mercy.

Bruce Lee blended martial arts, platforming, and exploration into something quietly special.

Bruce Lee

1984 • Amstrad • BBC • Commodore 64 +1 more

Pixel8Games 84% Users -

What's your style?

Raid Over Moscow (1984) served Cold War panic as an arcade sampler platter: launch the interceptor, dodge defences, blow the silos, then head for the Kremlin like you'd lost a bet.

Raid Over Moscow

1984 • Amstrad • Apple II • Atari 8-bit +2 more

Pixel8Games 80% Users -

The empire strikes back

Gilligan's Gold (1984) sent you scrambling through a three-screen mine, hauling sacks of gold back to a wheelbarrow while outlaws tried to turn payday into a funeral.

Gilligan's Gold

1984 • Amstrad • Commodore 64 • Spectrum

Pixel8Games 62% Users -

A man with a cart of gold

Quake III Arena (1999) ditched campaigns, locked the doors, and invited everyone inside to settle arguments with rockets.

Quake III Arena

1999 • PC

Pixel8Games 92% Users -

Having a fragging feeling

Marble Madness (1984) looked cute until the timer started screaming and your marble began sliding like it hated you.

Marble Madness

1984 • Amiga • Amstrad • Arcade +6 more

Pixel8Games 74% Users -

Don't blink

Half-Life (1998) turned a routine day at Black Mesa into the worst workplace induction imaginable.

Half-Life

1998 • PC

Pixel8Games 94% Users -

What could possibly go wrong?

Gauntlet (1985), by Atari Games, cheerfully tossed players into a neon-soaked fantasy dungeon where health drained faster than loose change in an arcade pocket.

Gauntlet

1985 • Amstrad • Apple II • Arcade +2 more

Pixel8Games 77% Users 100%

Eat the food. Survive the dungeon.

Exile (1988) dropped you into a vast alien cave system, handed you a jetpack, and then refused to explain much else.

Exile

1988 • Amiga • BBC • Commodore 64 +1 more

Pixel8Games 85% Users -

Physics fights back

Doom started as a quiet Mars assignment and immediately escalated into shotguns, demons, and a full-blown trip to Hell.

Doom

1993 • PC • PS1 • SNES

Pixel8Games 94% Users -

One hell of a blast.

Get Dexter (aka Crafton & Xunk) dropped you into a glossy isometric sci-fi maze where an android and his tiny sidekick had to blag, dodge and gadget their way to an all-important code.

Get Dexter

1986 • Amstrad

Pixel8Games 82% Users -

Crack the code, survive

Bubble Bobble (1986) turned monster-hunting into something suspiciously adorable.

Bubble Bobble

1986 • Arcade • Atari ST • BBC +1 more

Pixel8Games 76% Users -

Bursting with joy

Impossible Mission (1984) politely greeted players with an ominous “Stay awhile… stay forever!” before immediately trying to kill them.

Impossible Mission

1984 • Amiga • Amstrad • Commodore 64

Pixel8Games 93% Users -

Stay a while. Stay forever!

Ghostbusters (1984) dumped you into a bouncy, cash-hungry loop of buying gear, cruising the city, and praying you earned enough to keep the business afloat.

Ghostbusters

1984 • Amstrad • Apple II • Atari 8-bit +6 more

Pixel8Games 76% Users -

Busting makes you feel good

Target: Renegade (1988) strutted in like a street brawler with a bad attitude and a worse neighborhood.

Target Renegade

1988 • Amstrad • Commodore 64 • NES +1 more

Pixel8Games 75% Users -

Street justice, cheap shots

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