Retro Bucket List

A Ferrari, a coast road and a choice of branch at every junction; pick your radio station.

Four cyborg agents, a Persuadertron and a corporate world map to conquer.

Waddle around, throw snowballs and tip the iceberg; Disney's children's MMO, 2005 to 2017.

Isometric feudal fantasy on the C64, with one of the best 8-bit soundtracks ever written.

Two dragons trap monsters in bubbles across a hundred screens; the co-op that needs a second player for the real ending.

Adopt a pet and play flash games for Neopoints; the website of every 2000s childhood.

The Pacific from above, with a loop-the-loop to dodge; Capcom's 1984 shooter.

The hand-drawn third game, with the insult sword fighting moved to a boat.

Caleb, a pitchfork and a can of aerosol; the meanest of the Build-engine shooters.

Thirteen layers of parallax scrolling and a David Whittaker soundtrack; the Amiga demo everyone bought.

Four players, one screen, and a voice announcing that the Wizard needs food badly.

A dog detective and a rabbity thing on a road trip through American kitsch.

Handball with armour and bribes; the Bitmap Brothers at their most metallic.

Chris Sawyer's original: trains, buses and a rival to run out of business.

A pedal to duck behind cover and a light gun; the arcade shooter with a foot pedal.

Eight cars, a stock-car oval and the song about rolling start; the arcade cabinet of the 1990s.

Faster mazes and moving fruit; the fan hack that became the better game.

Hand-animated run-and-gun chaos; the prettiest sprites the arcade ever produced.

War has never been so much fun; squads of little men and a graveyard that grows.

Pixel rooms, furni and Bobba; the Finnish chat world.

A boy in a football helmet with a pogo stick; the smooth scrolling that started id.

Somersault past robots, search furniture, "another visitor; stay a while, stay forever".

Harvest spice, build a base, click and drag; the game that defined the real-time strategy.

Custom races, ship design and a galaxy to argue over; the 4X the genre still copies.

Two brothers punch their way across the city for one kidnapped girlfriend.

Split-screen racing through fog, night and desert; the Amiga two-player staple.

The underwater sequel, harder than the original in every way.

Anti-gravity ships to a Chemical Brothers soundtrack; the PlayStation as a club.

A run-and-gun of enormous levels and Chris Huelsbeck music; the C64 showing off.

Eight galaxies, wireframe ships and free trade; the game that invented open-ended space.