Billboard Top Computer Software Entertainment Sales for 1983-10-08

Told in second person, you play an AFGNCAAP (an Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally-Ambiguous Adventure Person) who begins in a serene setting, a house nestled in a thick forest. But your adventure really begins when you discover that the house leads to an expansive dungeon of forgotten lore and you must recover it's treasures from a tricky thief.

A combat helicopter must save as many rebels as possible from the p.o.w. camps set up by the evil Bungeling Empire and take out all enemy forces that stand in its way back to safety in this side-scrolling shoot 'em up.

You pilot an attack shuttle whose mission is to strafe the enemy's "Asteroid City". Destroy fuel tanks, gun implacements, missiles, fighters and a large enemy robot.

In this arcade game, you must help a frog cross a highway and a river while avoiding obstacles so he can get to his home safely.

A character named Lode Runner must traverse and dig through fanciful designs of architecture to collect tons of gold, while utilizing physics and avoiding man-crushing, though foolish, guards.

Arcade video game and the first in the "Donkey Kong" series in which Jumpman (later retconned to be Mario) runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong.

Trebor was a mad overlord who went off on the deep end after acquiring a magical amulet of immense power. The amulet ends up being snatched away from Trebor by his arch nemesis Werdna. Werdna was not sure how to properly use the amulet, only to accidentally cause an earthquake which creates a newly formed ten level dungeon under Trebor's castle. In order to avoid the embarrassment, Werdna declared that the dungeon system is Trebor's new lair for his monsters. Trebor on the other hand, declared that the dungeon system will be his new proving grounds for adventurers to prove their worthiness of becoming Trebor's new honor guards. Hiding the actual truth from Werdna that these adventurers will be instructed to steal back the amulet for Trebor.

It all started with your great-great-grandfather who was a High Admiral and one of the founding officers of the Patrol. All generations since then have served in the Patrol. Now it's your turn and two years into you are still a lowly Ensign Seventh Class. Your direct report, Blather, is really making your life miserable. Are you really Stellar Patrol material?

Sowing the seeds of evil in every man's soul.

Alienators have penetrated Jupiter headquarters' defenses and are threatening to destroy it by planting bombs. Only one man can jump his way through to defuse all of them.

20 years after the defeat of Minax, a volcanic isle has appeared in the southern seas. Evil seems to iminate from this place. You and 3 others have been called forth to go answer the mystery and riddle of the isle, Exodus.

Castle Wolfenstein is 2D stealth-based action-adventure game set in World War II. The game's main objective is to traverse the levels of the castle to find the secret war plans and escape alive.

A text adventure in which the player takes control of a police detective working near Los Angeles. The year is 1938, and on this stormy February night a wealthy but frightened man has asked the detective for protection. In spite of his best efforts, a death occurs, and the hero has twelve hours to solve the mystery and try to arrest the killer. If the player thinks there is enough evidence against one or more suspects to convince a jury of their guilt, he can arrest them and conclude the case.