All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'casual, Pocket, Atari' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us Alley Cat is a game created in 1984 for the PC and Atari 800. In the game the player controls a cat trying to get the best things in life, such as mice and fish, while avoiding bad things like dogs and brooms.

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]]> 13 Jan 2007 02:32:44 Journey To The Planets is a game written in 1983 for the Atari 800XL by a company called JV Software/Roklan Systems, and specifically by a gentleman named Jack Verson. It features a space traveler who visits various alien worlds, solves puzzles on them, and collects items to carry back to his ship.

It's pretty routine fare, and the gameplay is quite easy and forgiving, but what really draws the player into the game is the minimalist environment. It has the same appeal as the original Myst - uninhabited worlds, inexplicable objects - though, of course, it predates Myst by a decade. To today's gaming crowd, its blocky graphics and simplistic gameplay may not appeal, but for its time it was more than enough.

]]> 13 Dec 2006 10:26:17 Chip is willing to do anything for Melinda the Mental Marvel, more than anything, because he wants to join melinda's exlusive computer club, the Bit Busters. Finally Melinda has offered him membership, but on one condition! Chip must find his way from one end of Melinda's magical clubhouse to the other, picking up cosmic computer chips along the way.

]]> 06 Feb 2007 07:49:36 The game starts with three frogs. The player guides a frog which starts at the bottom of the screen. The lower half of the screen contains a road with motor vehicles, which in various versions include cars, trucks, buses, taxis, and/or motorcycles speeding along. The upper half of the screen consists of a river with logs, alligators, and turtles. The very top of the screen contains five "frog homes"â€â€

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