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Amidar is a maze video game developed by Konami and released in arcades in 1982. It was distributed in North America by Stern. Parker Brothers published an Atari 2600 version in late 1982, and Casio released a port for the PV-1000 in 1983. Amidar was the first in the grid capture sub-genre of maze games and was highly cloned in arcades and for home systems.

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Gorf is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed by Dave Nutting Associates and published by Midway Manufacturing for arcades. It features five distinct levels, the first of which is based on Space Invaders and another on Galaxian. The game makes use of synthesized speech for the Gorfian robot which taunts the player, powered by a speech chip. Gorf allows the player to buy two additional lives per quarter before starting the game, for a maximum of seven lives.

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is a 1987 platform game developed and published by Data East for arcades. A Nintendo Entertainment System port followed, which was released in Japan by Namco the same year and in North America by Data East in 1988. Players take control of the title character Jinborov Karnovski, or "Karnov" for short. Karnov is a strongman popularly illustrated as being from an unspecified part of the Soviet Union's Central Asian republics, as shown on the arcade flyer.

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Gravitar is a 1982 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. Using the same "rotate-and-thrust" controls as Asteroids and Space Duel, the game was known for its high level of difficulty. It was the first of more than twenty games that Mike Hally designed and produced for Atari. The main programmer was Rich Adam, and the cabinet art was designed by Brad Chaboya. An Atari 2600 version programmed by Dan Hitchens was released in 1983.

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Jungler is an arcade maze game developed by Konami and released in 1981. Distributed by Stern in the United States beginning in 1982, the game has players controlling a multi-segmented creature attempting to destroy similar enemy creatures by either shooting them or eating them. A sequel titled Battle Jungler was planned for the PC Engine on 1992, but was cancelled.

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is a 1981 maze video game developed and published by Sun Electronics for arcades. The game was released by Tehkan (not yet a video game developer by its release) in Europe and Centuri in North America. It was ported to the Arcadia 2001 console. An enhanced version was released in Japan as Route-16 Turbo for the Famicom in 1985.

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is a 1981 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Namco for Japanese and European arcades; it was distributed by Midway Manufacturing in North America. The goal is to earn as many points as possible by destroying enemy missiles and bases using a ship which shoots simultaneously both the front and back.

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Zynaps is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game published by Hewson Consultants for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 in 1987 and for the Atari ST in 1988 and the Amiga.

Megamania is a fixed shooter video game developed by Steve Cartwright for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1982. In the game, a pilot of an intergalactic space cruiser has a nightmare where his ship is being attacked by food and household objects. Using the missile launcher from their space cruiser, the pilot fends off the attackers. The game was later released for the Atari 5200 and Atari 8-bit computers.

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Zzyzzyxx is a 1982 platform game developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems and published by Cinematronics for arcades. It was retitled Brix for release as a conversion kit in 1983; the title screen and marquee were the only changes.

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is a 1985 action video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was only released in Japan on September 20, 1985. It was ported to personal computers by Mastertronic, which unlike the arcade version was released outside Japan.

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