Stakes Winner is a fun little arcade horse racing game with colourful cartoony graphics. Image source: International Arcade Museum I feel like there should have been more retro games featuring the flying horse Pegasus – there was a side-scrolling Amiga shoot-em-up (called Pegasus) but it wasn’t as good as Phelios. It was also released on the Sega Mega Drive in 1990 and it’s a fairly decent port but lacks the scaling and rotating sprites found in the superior arcade version. After each level, you see an image of a scantily clad Artemis being imprisoned – according to Wikipedia the game never released in US arcades because of this but honestly, it’s tame by today’s standards! The game has good music, nice graphics and interesting scaling/rotational effects and if you like unusual shoot-em-ups which don’t feature planes and spaceships it’s worth a look.
The game features the mythical flying horse Pegasus which you ride as you attempt to rescue the princess Artemis and defeat a range of mythological beasts. Phelios, from Namco, is a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up first released in arcades in 1988. Activision went on to develop famous games such as Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and Destiny. Both games were developed by Activision which was the first independent third-party developer set up by a group of ex-Atari developers (before they existed games were developed by the company that owned the console). These games look incredibly basic by today’s standards but at the time, seeing them in action made me want an Atari so badly (I did eventually get my Atari 2600). This is one of the first video games I ever laid eyes on whilst at a neighbours house – I watched them play this game and Pitfall on an Atari. The different coloured cattle travel at different speeds and need to be captured before they leave the screen. The game sees you chasing stampeding cattle which you need to capture with your lasso. Stampede is one of the earliest examples of a video game featuring a horse. This is my top 10 retro video games featuring horses. Nevertheless, there were some classic retro games that featured our equine friends and these are some of my favourites. Riding horses seems to have been a lot less popular in retro games though, possibly due to the technological limitations of the hardware. It’s one of my favourite things to do in a video game and there’ve been some brilliant modern games which featured horse riding such as Battlefield 1 and Zelda Breath of the Wild. This got me thinking about video games that let you ride horses and how great it is to gallop around on your trusty pixelated steed. In the UK even people who have no interest in horse racing will place bets and tune in to watch this famous race. > Want to learn more about how I put my sets together, discover my other vintage content, or join the Retro Game Champion community on Discord, Twitch, and your socials? Head to, I would love to welcome you.This weekend millions of people around the world will watch The Grand National horse race at Aintree. sbi files (which are in different sets of mine here).įile count (uncompressed - entire single disc collection): 14,312įile size (uncompressed - entire single disc collection ): 988.95 GB Items removed: Non-working dumps, duplicates, versions not in English when English is available, games not in English that require proficiency in that language to play, homebrew titles, independent tech demos, and multi disc games or games that require separate.
Special items included: Prototypes, titles not in English (but only if they are easy enough to play without knowing the language), unreleased titles, official kiosk discs, official tech demos, Action Replay 2, Code Breaker, Front Action Replay, GameShark, GameShark CDX, developer discs, bonus discs, multi-disc titles with discs that ran independently, and English-patched translations.
sbi files to run can be found in my other sets here. Other PlayStation games that require multiple discs or that need. This collection (Part 1: 1-G) only contains titles that had a single disc with no other required files. It's a long story, but Nintendo eventually scrapped the idea and Sony developed the PlayStation instead.
Sony was first working with Nintendo to create a CD add-on for the SNES.