When I was young and an excitable fellow, I hit upon the concept of being able to document something in its entirety.

This began with my keen appetite for collecting things from beer cans to matchbox cars, and continued with a 5th grade attempt to write down the name of every band in existence. A useless task that quickly failed. Another ongoing project was to document every standup, arcade-style video game I had ever seen (this was before the advent of the Atari). I had to SEE the game, but I didn’t have to play it, and many were quite similar but possesed different names, which counted for my purposes. Herewith, for your amusement, an impartial list (I swear that a few pages are missing) of video games from an earlier era, circa mid 80's. The highlighted games were ones I had fond memories of playing.

Perhaps a reference point should be made: I stopped compiling this list sometime around the release of Pole Position II.

10 Yard Fight
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Alien Attack
Alien Encounters
Alpine Ski
Amidar
Armour Attack
Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe
Astro Blaster
Astro Fantasia
Astro Fighter
Astron Belt
Baby Pac Man
Bagman
Basketball
Battlezone
Berzerk
Birdie King
Black Widow
Blue Print
Boomer Rang’n
Boothill
Breakout
Bubbles
Buck Rogers
Bump N Jump
Burgertime
Carnival
Centipede
Champion Baseball
Checkmate Fox
Circus
Circus Charlie
Cliff Hanger
Cloak and Dagger
Cobra Commander
Congo Bongo
Crash
Crazy Climber
Crazy Kong
Crossbow
Crystal Castle
Dark Planet
Dazzler
Defender
Destroyer
Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong Jr.
Double Play
Drag Racer
Dragon’s Lair

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New Capitalism attempt! Rivative, as you know, is an online magazine devoid of advertisements but sufficiently lardered with stories of success and artwork of equanimity. Now we hope to bring these elements firmly together with a cash-generated revenue stream we call "TODD'S TERRIFIC T-SHIRT OF THE WEEK"

Our new Executive Director of Commerce, Todd Sentz, devised a plan to increase our cash flow in hopes of courting a favorable rating from Wall Street. Looking around for valuable assets, Todd discovered a huge cache of very cool-looking t-shirts. He informed Rivative of the idea to sell these t-shirts whereby we would gain a percentage of the profit. We were enthused by the prospect!

In deference to a court-ordered mandate of disclosure, we must inform you that the earnings from these sales are projected at 17 dollars and 50 cents.

If you are interested in one of the shirts below, click and you will be whisked away to the eBay page where they are up for sale.

We hope you enjoy this brave new commercial face of Rivative.

Elevator Action
Exerion
Exidy
Extra Inning
Eyes
Fire Truck
Firefox
Fonz
Food Fight
Football
Frenzy
Frogger
Frontline
Galaga
Galaxian
Gorf
GranTrak 10
Great Guns
Gunfight
Gyruss
Head On
Hyper Sports
Jack and the Beanstalk
Journey
Joust
Jr. Pac Man
Jumbo Bug
Jungle King
Juno First
Kangaroo
Kaos
Kickman
Krull
Levvan
Lock’n Chase
Lunar Lander
M-4
Mach 3
Major Houck
Make Trax
Mappy
Mario Bros.
Mazer Blazer
Mega Zone
Millipede
Minefield
Missile Command
Monaco Gp
Monte Carlo
Moon Patrol
Moonshuttle
Mr. Do
Mr. Do’s Castle
Mr. Do’s Wild Ride
Ms. Pac Man
Night Bomber
Omega Race
Pac Man
Pac Man +
Peladnis
Pengo
Phoenix
Pole Position
Pole Position II
Pooyan
Popeye
Pro Soccer
Punch Out
Q Bert
Quix
Rally X
Rapid Fire
Reactor
Red Alert
Ripoff
Robot Bow
Robotron
Roc’n Rop
Rug Rats
Satan’s Hollow
Scramble
Sea Wolf
Shuffleboard
Sinistar
Sky Raiders
Slither
Solar Quest
Space Ace
Space Avenger
Space Duel
Space Fury
Space Invaders
Space Invaders Deluxe
Space Wars
Spector
Sprint
Spy Hunter
Star Castle
Star Encounters
Star Raiders
Star Tactics
Star Trek
Star Wars
Starfire
Stargate
Starhawk
Starship I
Strategy
Stuntcycle
Subs
Super Breakout
Super Bug
Super Cobra
Super Pac Man
Super Zap
Tac Team Wrestling
Tail Gunner 2
Tapper
Targ
Tempest
The End
The Pit
The Tomb
Thief
Time Pilot
Time Pilot ‘84
Tin Star
Track and Field
Tron
Turbo
Tutkanhanam
Two Tigers
TX-1
U Boat
Up’n Down
Vanguard
Victory
Video Pinball
Warp Warp
Wheels
Wild Westen
Wizards of Wor
Xevius
Zaxxon
Zoo Keeper

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