Browse Games By Year : 1981

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Game	Year	Description
4 Fun in 1	1981	4-in-1 bootlegs of popular arcade games from 1981.
Armored Car アーマードカー	1981	Kinda Tutankham meets Rally-X. Typical Stern release.
Asteroids Deluxe アステロイドデラックス	1981	Space - destroy rocks, saucers and homing enemies
Astro Blaster アストロブラスター	1981	Space - Shoot aliens & dock with mothership
Astro Combat	1981	No summary.
Astro Fantasia アストロファンタジア	1981	No summary.
Astro Laser	1981	No summary.
Barrian バリアン	1981	No summary.
Battle of Atlantis バトルオブアトランティス	1981	No summary.
Big Kong	1981	No summary.
Billiards, The	1981	No summary.
Black Hole	1981	shoot splitting "neutron mines" and flying saucers
Black Widow	1981	Rare Taito game. Not to be confused with Atari's Black Widow, which came out in 1982.
Boarder Line ボーダーライン	1981	No summary.
Borderline ボーダーライン, Bōdārain	1981	drive Jeep, destroy enemy refineries - four stages with different gameplay - vertical shooter, dig-dug like maze, etc
Boxing Bugs ボクシングバグ	1981	No summary.
Buramzon	1981	No summary.
Caveman	1981	A full-sized pinball machine with a color monitor taking up the top center of the playfield. This predates Baby Pacman by about a year.
Challenger チャレンジャー	1981	Split and destroy "space bubbles" and enemy ships. Ship fires in three directions, and can "Warp" to the top or bottom of the screen. Dock with the Bonus Bug for bonus points.
Cosmic Avenger コスミックアベンジャー	1981	Scramble-like shooter.
Cosmic Pleiades コスミックプレアデス	1981	Bootleg of Pleiades(?)
Cosmos コスモス	1981	No summary.
Crazy Climber 2 クレイジークライマー２	1981	Sequel to Crazy Climber. Climb a building and avoid falling obstacles. A Japanese game featuring excrement that actually made it to the states!
Crazy Kong クレイジーコング	1981	A Donkey Kong clone (not a bootleg) made by Falcon.
Crazy Kong Part II クレイジーコングPARTⅡ	1981	A Donkey Kong clone (not a bootleg) made by Falcon.
Crush Roller クラッシュローラー	1981	Japanese version of "Make Trax."
Dambusters ダムバスター	1981	No summary.
Dark Warrior ダークウォーリア	1981	No summary.
Dazzler ダズラー	1981	No summary.
Demon Eye X	1981	No summary.
Donkey King	1981	No summary.
Donkey Kong ドンキーコング	1981	Guide Mario (jumpman) to rescue Pauline from Donkey Kong.
DS Telejong	1981	No summary.
Eliminator エリミネーター	1981	A 2- or 4- Player battle frenzy to be the first to destroy the Killer Bagel (actually a Death Star of sorts).
Eliminator 4	1981	4-player tabletop version of Eliminator.
End, The ジ・エンド	1981	Konami, released by Leijac (JP) and Stern (NA). Take-off of Space Invaders
Enigma II	1981	No summary.
Eyes アイズ	1981	Roam maze and kill monsters
Fantasy ファンタジー	1981	No summary.
Fitter フィッター	1981	No summary.
Flash Boy	1981	No summary.
Frenzy フレンジー	1981	Robots - Kill them all
Frisky Tom フリスキートム	1981	Maze game similar to "Pipe Dream."
Frog フロッグ	1981	No summary.
Frog & Spiders フロッグ＆スパイダー	1981	No summary.
Frogger フロッガー	1981	Guide frogs home across road and river
Funky Fish	1981	No summary.
Future Flash	1981	No summary.
Galaga ギャラガ	1981	Space - blast waves of alien bugs
Gallag ギャラガ	1981	No summary.
Gorf ゴーフ	1981	Space - defeat the Gorfian Armada over 5 different missions
Got-Ya	1981	No summary.
Grand Champion グランドチャンピオン	1981	No summary.
Hangly Man ハングリーマン	1981	No summary.
Hero	1981	No summary.
Hustler, The ザ・ハンター	1981	No summary.
Invelian Type 106	1981	No summary.
Jack Pottens's Poker	1981	No summary.
Jump Bug ジャンプバグ	1981	Guide jumping VW beetle through worlds
Jungler ジャングラー	1981	You're a centipede trying to shoot other centipedes while navigating through a maze.
Kaos	1981	No summary.
Kick	1981	Catch and burst balloons etc. Started life as "Kick" and was changed to KickMan after upright serial number #1600.
KickMan キックマン	1981	Catch and burst balloons etc. Started life as "Kick" and was changed to KickMan after upright serial number #1600.
Killer Comet	1981	No summary.
King & Balloon キング＆バルーン	1981	Shoot attacking ballons to guard king.
KO Punch	1981	No summary.
Lady Bug レディバグ	1981	Pac-Man clone with swinging doors. Your character is a lady bug.
Laser Base	1981	Asteroids-style shooter with a base instead of ship.
Lil Hustler	1981	See Video Hustler.
Lock n' Chase ロックンチェイス	1981	No summary.
Lucky Poker	1981	A Data East cassette poker game.
Magic Brush	1981	No summary.
Marine Deto	1981	No summary.
Mariner	1981	No summary.
Mars マーズ	1981	No summary.
Mazeman メイズマン	1981	No summary.
MegaTack	1981	No summary.
Meteoroids	1981	No summary.
Mirage	1981	No summary.
Miss Pac-Plus	1981	No summary.
Missle Sprinter	1981	No summary.
Monkey Donkey	1981	No summary.
Moon Shuttle ムーンシャトル	1981	Fly your shuttle through asteroid fields.
Moon War ムーンウォーズ	1981	No summary.
Moon War II	1981	No summary.
Mouse Trap マウストラップ	1981	A somewhat-inventive Pac-Man clone
Ms. Pac Attack ミスパックアタック	1981	Hack of MsPacman by Two-Bit Score.
Ms. Pac-Man Attacks	1981	No summary.
Ms. Pacman Plus	1981	No summary.
Munchyman	1981	A Pacman bootleg - one of the few to have its own dedicated cabinet.
New Bosconian ニューボスコニアン	1981	No summary.
New Grand Derby ニューグランドダービー	1981	No summary.
New Rally-X ニューラリーＸ	1981	Updated version of the racing game Rally-X with easier gameplay and the addition of a "lucky" flag.
New York New York	1981	No summary.
Omega Race オメガレース	1981	Space - zap things around track
Pac Gal	1981	No summary.
Paint Roller	1981	Paint the paths of the maze in this Pac-Man clone. Same as "Make Trax" and "Crush Roller."
Perachan ペラちゃん	1981	Strange Donkey Kong bootleg/clone
Percussor, The	1981	Orca Corp shooter
Pirranha ピラニア	1981	A bootleg game on Pac-Man hardware.
Planet Patrol	1981	No summary.
Pleiades Part 2	1981	No summary.
Pleiads	1981	The same play style as Phoenix. Move your ship left and right, and destroy the enemy characters. Several different waves, with the major difference from Phoenix being a wave where you have to land the ship.
Pleitek	1981	No summary.
Pliades Part 2 プレアデス	1981	No summary.
Polybius	1981	We need information.
Pulsar パルサー	1981	You drive through a maze while strange opponents fire at you. You must vanquish opponents before you move to the next maze. Watch for the maze to change, because as some walls disappear others materialize.
Qix クイックス	1981	Qix (pronounced "kicks") is a simple and elegant game in which you claim territory by drawing boxes to fill a rectangular space. You must avoid the Qix – sticklike objects that float and bounce through your space in unpredictable patterns. You can rack up more points for creating boxes more slowly, and besides the Qix, you must be careful of Sparx and Fuses which appear if your marker stops while you are drawing.
Quasar クエーサー	1981	No summary.
Radar Zone レーダーゾーン	1981	No summary.
Red Alert レッドアラート	1981	Save countries from nuclear attack
Red Baron レッドバロン	1981	fly around arena shooting down enemy planes and airships etc..
Rock Climber ロッククライマー	1981	No summary.
Round Up ラウンドアップ	1981	No summary.
Route 16 ルート１６	1981	Driving maze game
Satan of Saturn	1981	No summary.
Scramble スクランブル	1981	Space - Fly over planet surface and destroy base
Silver Land	1981	No summary.
Solar Quest	1981	Space - shoot things around a sun
Space Demon スペースデーモン	1981	No summary.
Space Force	1981	No summary.
Space Fortress	1981	No summary.
Space Fury スペースフューリー	1981	Space - defeat the Mekon
Space Odyssey スペースオデッセイ	1981	No summary.
Space Seeker	1981	No summary.
Spiders スパイダー	1981	No summary.
Star Hawk スターホーク	1981	Space - shoot ships over space station
Star Raker スターレイカー	1981	alien planet reskinned version of Borderline
Stargate	1981	Space - protect humanoids from aliens. Even more hyper-active sequel to Defender.
Strategy X ストラテジーＸ	1981	overhead, vertically scrolling shooter - tank!
Super Cobra スーパーコブラ	1981	Space - fly helicopter through caverns
Super Invaders	1981	Bootleg of Space Invaders.
Super Tank スーパータンク	1981	No summary.
Tactician タクティシャン	1981	Like Space Invaders except you get 30 seconds before a level to build up barricades, and the ships don't move in unison.
Tank Battalion タンクバタリアン	1981	No summary.
Tempest テンペスト	1981	Space - Blast through abstract 3-D "tubes"
Thief シーフ	1981	No summary.
Tower, The	1981	No summary.
Turbo ターボ	1981	Race through fake 3-D course
Turpin ターピン	1981	Maze collection game (Pac-man style) based around collecting items(turtle eggs) hidden in Question Mark '?' boxes around the screen and returning them home. A.K.A. "Turtles."
Ultra Dome ウルトラドーム	1981	Put hopping balls into dome within the time limit
Venture ベンチャー	1981	Adventure - get treasure from rooms
Video Hustler ビデオハスラー	1981	Pool game.
Voyager ボイジャー	1981	No summary.
Vs. Battle City	1981	No summary.
War of the Bugs ウォーオブザバグ	1981	Centipede Clone.
War of the Worlds ウォーオブザワールド	1981	No summary.
Warp Warp ワープ＆ワープ	1981	Shoot the beasties
Wizard of Wor ウィザードオブウォー	1981	Adventure - clear dungeons of monsters
Woodpecker	1981	No summary.
Zarzon ザーゾン	1981	No summary.