Translations:Horse Game History/26/en

Horses in early video games were often used as mounts, with little if any affect on the gameplay itself. In Atari's 1981 $stampede for the Atari 2600, the player rode on horseback to lasso runaway cattle. In the 1991 PC side-scroller $demon, the player rode on horseback to battle enemy fantasy creatures $ref3. The 1993 SNES side-scroller $game3 featured players on horseback in an "Old West" themed game $ref4.