Browse Games By Year: 1981

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	Game	Year	Description
	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.
	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 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	1981	No summary.
	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.
	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.
	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	1981	A Stern 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	1981	No summary.
	Frog & Spider	1981	No summary.
	Frogger	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 (ギャラグ)	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	1981	No summary.
	Hero	1981	No summary.
	Hustler, The	1981	No summary.
	Intruder	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.
	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 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.
	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."
	Percussor, The	1981	No summary.
	Pirranha	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.