The eight-way joystick controls the movements of the Turtle, the jump button makes them jump and the attack button makes them hit in front of them using their weapon.

In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario and in a two-player game, a second player controls Mario's brother Luigi as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist Bowser.

In retrospective interviews, Yu Suzuki has classified Out Run not as a racing game, but as a "driving" game.

Points After Touchdown are automatic (however, if a team was ahead by a large margin, there was a chance the PAT could be missed), but Field Goals are still manual.

Three others to choose from: Test (resembling Indianapolis Motor Speedway), Seaside (resembling the 1982 United States Grand Prix West circuit in Long Beach), and Suzuka.

Each off-road race is four laps around the track. Players must stay ahead of all the computer-controlled trucks in order to remain in the game.

The game uses a two-joystick control scheme; the left joystick controls the on-screen character's movement, while the right controls the direction the character's weapon fires.

A tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov.

The object of the game is to use the two joysticks to tip the bar back and forth and maneuver the ball up to a specific lit hole on the playfield, while avoiding unlit holes.

Attack the Japanese air fleet that bombed the American aircraft carrier, pursue all Japanese air and sea forces, fly through the 16 stages of play, make their way to the Japanese battleship Yamato and destroy her.

A side-scrolling beat 'em up for up to four players, with each one playing as a member of the Simpsons family.

The gameplay of NBA Jam is based on Arch Rivals, another 2-on-2 basketball video game. However, it was the release of NBA Jam that brought mainstream success to the genre.

There are several changes in standard moves: a crouching punch and turnaround kick are added, low and high kicks have greater differentiation.

The Asteroids Deluxe arcade machine is a vector game. This means that the game graphics are composed entirely of lines which are drawn on a vector monitor.

Originally released as an arcade game in 1988 and is based on the recreational sport tubing.

Immensely popular from original release to the present, Pac-Man is considered a classic of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of 1980s popular culture.

Released in North America in January 1982, it is one of the most popular arcade video games of all time.

The gameplay of Galaga puts the player in control of a spacecraft firing on the enemies, and once all enemies are vanquished, the player will proceed to the next stage.

COMING SOON -- Based on the Disney motion picture Tron released in the same year. The game consists of four subgames inspired by the events of the science fiction film.

The objective is to change the color of every cube in a pyramid by making Q*bert hop on top of the cube while avoiding obstacles and enemies.

Eliminate underground-dwelling monsters by either inflating them with an air pump until they explode, or by dropping rocks on them.

In the game, Mario (originally named "Jumpman") must rescue a damsel in distress named Pauline, from a giant ape named Donkey Kong.

This game is the sequel to the video game Donkey Kong, which featured Mario as the hero and Junior's father as the villain (while in this game, it's the other way around).

Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his brother Luigi, defeats creatures from the sewers below New York City.

A vertically oriented shoot 'em up arcade game where the player defends against centipedes, spiders, scorpions and fleas, completing a round after eliminating the centipede.

1982 arcade game by Atari, Inc. and is the sequel to the arcade hit, Centipede.

The game draws inspiration from the James Bond films and was originally supposed to carry the James Bond license.

Produced in association with Budweiser, [apper puts the player in the shoes of a bartender. The player must serve eager, thirsty patrons before their patience expires.

The game is a tube shooter, a type of shoot 'em up where the environment is fixed and viewed from a three-dimensional perspective.

The game features gameplay similar to that of Atari's Star Wars game with players piloting an X-wing or a Y-wing in first or third person perspective and battling Imperial forces.

Using a joystick and a firing button that activates a laser-like weapon, the player navigates a simple maze filled with many robots, who fire lasers back at the player character.

One of the forerunners of modern video gaming and helped expand the video game industry from a novelty to a global industry.

The Phoenix mothership is one of the first video arcade game bosses to be presented as a separate challenge.

Dirk the Daring is a knight attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe who has locked the princess in the foul wizard Mordroc's castle.

Resembles a mix of Breakout and Quadrapong, up to 4 players play the game at the same time, the "forts" in the four corners are brick walls that could be broken with a flaming ball.

Space Duel released in 1982 by Atari Inc. is a direct descendant of the original Asteroids, with asteroids replaced by colorful geometric shapes like cubes, diamonds, and spinning pinwheels

The game was endorsed by professional off road racer Ivan Stewart.

A side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the Marvel Comics characters of the same name.

Debuted as a game for the Famicom in Japan in 1984 and as a launch title for the NES in 1985. It is the first game of the Excite series.

Gauntlet is a 4 player fantasy-themed hack and slash 1985 arcade game by Atari Games