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