castpixel

Go on the wildest of adventures. Just be sure when you come back, a steady foundation is waiting for you. Build it up and you can reach for the stars.

Your goal is to stop the platforms at the right moment, so the girl won't fall.
Climb high enough, and you'll reach the ending.

Wobble Jump

Players help the eponymous Mr Henry collect gems whilst struggling against the floors which seem to have a mind of their own.

Mr Henry and his Magical Hat

A 2D pixel-art fighting game featuring 8 of the greatest scientists in history You got to choose 8 scientists to fight with each other. Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Alan Turing, Pythagoras, Nikola Tesla and Stephen Hawking. Each one of them have a special move based on their real life legacy.

Science Kombat

Gameplay Video

A tie-in game to Adult Swim's "This House Has People in It".

Boomy the Cat

Bitbaboon

PlatinumGames

Sega Games

"SEGA’s favourite Umbran Witch climaxes her way onto PC! Thrill to her signature beehive do in 8-bit pixelated glory! Jump! Shoot! Score! Being bad never felt so retro. "

Originally used as a mini-game on the 404 page of Platinum Games Japanese website in 2015.

SEGA's take on 2017 April fool joke. Ultimately the game was released on Steam to share an announcement website that has a countdown clock ending on April 11th.

8-Bit Bayonetta

Trailer

Platdude beans odd crocodiles in the head with golf balls and tees.

Platdude in Swamp Golf

Flappy Bert is a Flappy Bird parody, available on the official Sesame Street website.

Sesame Street: Flappy Bert

Askiisoft

A Molyjam inspired platformer from Askiisoft, which seeks to answer the question "What if the pause button was a weapon?"

Pause Ahead

Nickelodeon

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donnie Saves A Princess is a Flash-based browser game released on the Nickelodeon website in April of 2013. Donatello falls asleep while playing video games, and dreams that he goes through several TMNT-ized classic games to rescue "princess" April. At the end of each level, he encounters one of his brothers, dressed up like the princess that fits that level's theme. After he rescues each, they say, "The princess you are looking for is in/on another dungeon/castle/space ship."

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donnie Saves a Princess

The Border Lands is a 2D top-down browser version of the popular console game Borderlands 2. The game has cool 2D 16-bit graphics and authentic map locations to explore. Before starting, you can choose from 4 of the original characters from Borderlands 2 – Salvador, Maya, Zero or Axton - each character has unique abilities and differing skills.

The Border Lands

CollectorVision Games

studiopina

Newgrounds

Electric Adventures

Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death is a retro platformer that started as a Flash game before being ported to various older and modern platforms.

Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death

WildTangent

16-bit platformer featuring Captain America.

Captain America: Shield of Justice

Gameplay video

I-Mockery

Abobo's Big Adventure is a freeware parody Flash game. Inspired by various video games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the game features Abobo, a boss character from the Double Dragon franchise, traveling through the worlds of several different games to save his son. Developed by I-Mockery founder Roger Barr, Abobo's Big Adventure was released in January 2012 to positive critical reception.

Abobo's Big Adventure

Retro brawler based on the Grindhouse spin-off starring Rutger Hauer.

Hobo with a Shotgun

Kabam

Wild Shadow Studios

DECA Games

Team up with dozens of players and battle through the Realm of the Mad God, Oryx. With a retro 8-bit style, Realm is an evolution of traditional MMO gameplay. A dozen classes and hundreds of items to discover means Realm is easy to play but difficult to master.

Realm of the Mad God

Tower of Heaven is a retro-style platformer with black and green color palette reminiscent of GameBoy games and a chiptune soundtrack.

You play as a lone traveler trying to ascend the Tower of Heaven despite the will of a spiteful deity residing at the top of the world. There are no enemies, but the levels are full of obstacles like spikes or buzz-saws which you need to overcome by careful jumping. Each level is timed. To make things harder as you ascend the deity introduces new rules, like "you can't touch golden blocks" or "you can't go left".

Browser version features some additions to the original Windows game:

- A new secret area;
- Extended ending for finding all secrets;
- Additional music, sounds, and graphics;
- Various gameplay / graphical fixes;
- Level creator that lets the players make and import custom levels.

Tower of Heaven

Distractionware

Terry Cavanagh

Don't Look Back is a game about fantasy. Just to warn you, it can be quite tricky in places...

Don't Look Back

Atari

Good Deal Games

Tactical Neuronics

Shield Shifter is a homebrew Atari 2600 game developed by John Reder / Tactical Neuronics. It was given a limited cartridge release by Good Deal Games. Shield Shifter was later included on the Atari Flashback series of plug-and-play consoles, starting with the Atari Flashback 5 in 2014, and most recently on the Atari Flashback X Deluxe in 2019.

The player controls a turret at the bottom of the screen, firing up at three shield layers that loop horizontally. The goal is to create an opening in the third layer and hit the insectoid hiding behind it, which continuously fires at the player.

Deliberately Retro Browser Games