Yet another compilation by Keypunch in which the company essentially stole freelance designers' works (most released as freeware or shareware on various BBS's), took out all credits, and sold them...

Striker is a fun freeware clone of Atari's Defender.

Arguably the best Atari ST game ever made, Sundog: Frozen Legacy is also one of the best sci-fi RPGs ever, period.

An early pioneer in the genre of American football that was not nearly half as good as NFL Challenge.

An early dungeon-crawl RPG, Avalon Hill's Telengard is among the first Roguelike games ever made for the PC.

One of the earliest pioneers in the RPG genre (the first entry Dunjonquest, was released in 1982!), Epyx' Temples of Apshai Trilogy are semi-fun dungeon hack RPGs with an almost...

Looking at game titles is one good way to tell the 'pioneers' in specific genres apart from the followers.

The first in the Transylvania series is one of Polarware's best known games.

Louis Stevenson's classic, Treasure Island, is probably the most famous pirate tale of all time.

In mid-1980s, a small company called Mark Data Products released 6 parser-based graphic adventure games similar to early Polarware and Scott Adams titles.