The most interesting arcade games released in 1988

All the best and most popular games of the year, upcoming releases, and hits from the past. Use filters to narrow down search.

Arcade

Hostage: Rescue Mission

Arcade

January 23, 1988

One of the embassies in a more unidentified country was captured by terrorists. The threat of an international scandal and the worsening situation of hostages from hour to hour require the rapid intervention of a special unit. Who will lead it? Of course you, the player....

Impossible Mission II

Arcade

April 21, 1988

Impossible Mission 2 is a platformer, which is a continuation of the famous hit from 1984. Although the original was released on several hardware platforms (including Apple II), the game eventually did not hit the PeCet screens. Only four years later, Epyx thought about the owners of these machines and presented them with the second installment of the series.

Donald Duck's Playground

Arcade

April 22, 1988

Donald's sisters Huey, Dewey and Louie dream of their own playground in the park, where they could enjoy themselves all day long. Unfortunately, the devices necessary for this purpose are expensive and even collecting pocket money for a long time, they would not be able to equip it properly. But what is a good uncle from?

Arkanoid

Arcade

April 22, 1988

Arkanoid is a classic arcade game in which, using a small rack and balls, we have to destroy a brick wall, built in various configurations.

Paperboy

Arcade

April 23, 1988

The creators of Paperboy, which tells the story of the adventures of a boy who delivers the press to his homes every morning, try to convince us of how hard a piece of bread is the work of a newspaper player. The program, which is a direct conversion from scrubbing machines and developed by Magpie Computer Develepoments, once made a dizzying career, which resulted in its numerous adaptations to other hardware platforms (ten of them).

Shinobi (1988)

Arcade

May 3, 1988

Cult action game of SEGA company, which reigned in the game rooms at the end of the 80s of the XX century. The player plays the role of the title master of eastern martial arts, whose task is to break the terrorist network.

Rampage

Arcade

May 21, 1988

You remember the final scene from King Kong, when a giant monkey climbed to the top of a skyscraper and from there attacked flying units coming from all over the world. If so, and what's more, you would like to repeat these themes on your computer screen, Rampage is the perfect game for you.

Charlie Chaplin

Arcade

June 11, 1988

Born in 1889, Charlie Chaplin was probably the most famous silent film actor. At the end of the 1980s, Canvas devoted a unique computer game to this colourful character, who has made its mark in the history of cinematography in golden letters.

AAARGH!

Arcade

June 23, 1988

AAARGH! is an arcade game, in terms of the idea confusingly similar to the Activision hit called Rampage. The player plays the role of a huge lizard or cyclop, whose task is to regain the eggs hidden by the enemy, the human community.

Silpheed

Arcade

August 1, 1988

Classic shooting in a pseudo-three-dimensional environment, which will allow you to take on the role of the pilot of a space fighter called Silpheed. Your task is to destroy an alien Xacalite being who wants to conquer the United Universe.

Gauntlet

Arcade

August 8, 1988

Like most arcade games, Gauntlet also first appeared on coin-op slot machines. The programme debuted in 1985 thanks to the Atari concern and soon afterwards it became a model product for the shooting genre, offering bird's eye view.