Classic Video Games I

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Across
  1. 3. Stern detects one in your pocket
  2. 7. A Taito America creation whose more fitting name might have been Mason (2 wds.)
  3. 8. He fills the maze instead of eating its dots on the TI-99/4A (2 wds.)
  4. 9. This was adapted by Cinematronics from the home to the arcade (2 wds.)
  5. 14. Collect Pods from planet surfaces in this pack-in
  6. 16. The only way to win at these is not to play -- except on the ColecoVision
  7. 17. Keys unlock them in Riddle of the Sphinx
  8. 19. A Qix premise with pre-defined lines
  9. 21. Murderous O2 insects (2 wds.)
  10. 24. This 2600 game was originally titled Rescue Terra II (2 wds.)
  11. 25. Shoot-'em-up Chess on an eight-bit board
  12. 28. You never reach it in Battle Zone
  13. 29. There could be a robber, patron or courier behind every door in this Sanritsu-developed arcade game (2 wds.)
  14. 30. This sequel for the Genesis alternates between top-down, multi-directional scrolling and side-view, forced horizontal scrolling (3 wds.)
  15. 34. The mine explorer with paint on his boots (2 wds.)
  16. 35. The Gorf phase with circular enemy flight patterns (2 wds.)
  17. 36. Three sixteen-bit characters who have to work together unless they want to remain Lost
  18. 38. He attacks you on the O2
  19. 39. Light fixtures can be weapons in this type of arcade Action
  20. 40. Sega's talking, color vector take on Asteroids (2 wds.)
Down
  1. 1. The first Frogger-style arcade game (2 wds.)
  2. 2. Eat this to temporarily turn the tables on the Monsters
  3. 4. Botanical animals can trap you here in the second Zork
  4. 5. Otto's happier, bow-wielding cousin
  5. 6. Raid this Bay on the C64
  6. 10. The first arcade game to accept initials for high scores (2 wds.)
  7. 11. One phase in the Sega coin-op Borderline is this entire 2600 game
  8. 12. They hardly appear in the film but multiply in the game (2 wds.)
  9. 13. Synapse's scrolling float-and-shoot that gets heavy with burgers
  10. 14. Exidy's balloon-topped original
  11. 15. The Zone made of visible code
  12. 18. He's Incredible in this name-changed Astrocade conversion
  13. 20. An anatomical exploration adventure
  14. 22. The first Snake/Worm-type arcade game, released by Gremlin
  15. 23. GCC's color vector game for Atari
  16. 26. The first Vid Kidz release
  17. 27. The alternative title of Infocom's Spellbreaker, seen at the occasional game-start
  18. 29. The Fun Games coin-op that found itself in VCS Combat
  19. 30. The Suit similar to the raccoon skin in Super Mario's third NES game
  20. 31. The Capcom Pirate Ship that greatly expands upon the Pengo paradigm
  21. 32. The fast and red non-fire breather
  22. 33. This type of controller gets you into the Indy 500
  23. 37. This Targ sequel adds changing playfields