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.

In 1984, First Star released a low profile, unassuming puzzler called Boulderdash that would become the company's best selling series and sparked numerous clones even decades after its release.

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is a simple but fun CGA shooter based on SEGA's arcade game of the same name.

A semi-historical abstraction of medieval warfare, this game lived down to Avalon Hill's early standards in computer gaming.

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.

Some interesting info on this obscure Roguelike RPG from Balrog's page: "Here's an obscure Telengard clone for the PC, possibly written before Telengard itself was ported to MS-DOS.

"A faithful rendition of the classic boardgame, its graphics and computer intelligence were probably never state-of-the-art, the AI was learning disabled and multi-player options were clumsy.

Computer Dots is a fun little would-be coffee-break game.

Datasoft's Apple II classic Conan: Hall of Volta is one of the best cross-genre action games I have ever played, bar none.

Congo Bongo is an extremely faithful port of Atari's famous jump-n-run platform arcade game, which in itself is a blatant ripoff of Donkey Kong, presented in Zaxxon-style isometric perspective.