Favorite 1980s computer games

[baseline bum]

Has to be Commodore 64, Apple II, old school DOS, or Amiga. A few of my favorites:


Shogun (1986)
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Flightmare (1984)
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Karateka (1984)
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Ninja (1986)
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Leisure Suit Larry (1987)
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Castle Wolfenstein (1981)
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[The Reckoning]

tecmo bowl and rbi baseball

[NASpurs]

Only two games I can remember playing on a PC during that time are Oregon Trail and Tank Wars on DOS... or they were 80s games I played in the early 90s.

[TDMVPDPOY]

on commo64..that monsters game where u can play as gorilla, dinosaur and some other monster to beat down buildings and eat humans

i think that was also on t he amiga...

[ElNono]

on commo64..that monsters game where u can play as gorilla, dinosaur and some other monster to beat down buildings and eat humans

i think that was also on t he amiga...

And the Arcades.... you're thinking of Rampage

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[TDMVPDPOY]

there was another game i also played on the pc back then

it was rpg..collect keys through mazes to enter doors to next stage..it seem like it couldve go on forever....

[ElNono]

My list would include:

C= 64 and Amiga:
- All the LucasArts SCUMM adventure games (Maniac Mansion, Zack McKraken, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, etc)

C= 64:
- Impossible Mission
- Bruce Lee
- International Karate +
- The Last Ninja 2
- Leaderboard Golf
- Epyx Summer/Winter/California Games
- Airborne Ranger
- Giana Sisters
- Street Rod
- Grand Prix Circuit

Amiga:
- All the Cinemaware games (Defender of the Crown, The King of Chicago, The Three Stooges, Rocket Ranger, Wings, etc)
- Most of the Psygnosis games (Lemmings, Barbarian, Shadow of the Beast, etc)
- Most of the Delphine Software games (Flashback, Another World, Out of this World)
- Prince of Persia
- Sensible Soccer
- Kick Off
- F-18 Interceptor
- Dragon's Lair
- Pinball Dreams/Pinball Fantasies
- Pirates!
- Formula One Grand Prix
- Worms
- Cannon Fodder
- Elite II
- Player Manager

And I'm probably missing a whole lot... some of the Amiga games might be from the early 90's tho...

[Infinite_limit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zyQ_OVyhNE

[DJR210]

Oregon Trail is pretty much the only PC game I played back then.

[baseline bum]

- Epyx Summer/Winter/California Games


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[leemajors]

I played King's Quest and BC's Quest for Tires but mainly NES and Atari. Grammar Examiner at school on the 5th grade classroom Apple

[UZER]

Apple IIe (green monitor ) hand me down...

Oregon Trail
Bop N Wrestle
Westward Ho!

[jeebus]

tbh this was my game back in the 80s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcRbqxMzKg

also had a soft spot for this one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRE1LKwD8zY

[lefty]

Amiga :

- Silkworm :cry omg
- Battle Squadron :cry
- Xenon 2
- Kick Off :cry
- Sensible Soccer
- TV sports basketball :lol Melvin Cross Dunk !
- Shadow of the Beast 1 and 2
- Strider
- Fright Night
- Great Courts
- Tennis Cup
- Chuck Rock :lol
- Rick Dangerous
- International Karate +2
- Turrican
- Speedball
- F16 and F18, also F29 Retaliator
- Super Hang On
- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 :cry
- Chase H.Q :lol
- Prince of Persia
- Flashback

[ElNono]

Some more Amiga ones...

- Marble Madness
- Test Drive series

[Wild Cobra]

For an 80's game, I have to go with Lode Runner on the C-64.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWwyhymcDxI

Missed by 1 year is my favorite, The Killing game show on the Amiga. 1990...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZoYUgilkI

The intro is long, and it starts with some bad game-play. If you want to see the game play at level 1 start, jump to 8:39.

[baseline bum]

Some more Amiga ones...

- Marble Madness


Damn Marble Madness was great on DOS. Must have really been incredible on Amiga. Time to install an Amiga emulator and check it out.

Amiga >>> Commodore 64 >> Apple II > DOS

[baseline bum]

Speaking of Commodore 64 >>> DOS, check out the difference in Shogun!

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[ElNono]

Damn Marble Madness was great on DOS. Must have really been incredible on Amiga. Time to install an Amiga emulator and check it out.

It was one of the very first Amiga games, alongside The Bard's Tale and Defender of the Crown...

[baseline bum]

It was one of the very first Amiga games, alongside The Bard's Tale and Defender of the Crown...

How did Atari ST ever stack up to Amiga and C64? I only had DOS, but every game you bought back then they'd advertise DOS, Amiga, C64, and Atari ST ports.

[ElNono]

How did Atari ST ever stack up to Amiga and C64? I only had DOS, but every game you bought back then they'd advertise DOS, Amiga, C64, and Atari ST ports.

The Atari ST and Apple II never took off in Argieland... for computers, it was:
- ZX Spectrum
- Commodore 64/128
- Amiga and PC-DOS, with Amiga having an edge until VGA came about and Commodore died

[TDMVPDPOY]

there was a system out in asia during the same period 1987

it was white and red....they were the first that had cartridge with 100 games on it...i lol how most of them were just replica games, but they did have some really good games

if ur asian and u had this console? u were cooler then the sega, nintendo boys

http://img3.178.com/chanye/201305/161804361555/161804453789.jpg

[lefty]

^
Yeah my neighbor had one.... Best console ever

Also had an adapter for NES cartridges

[leemajors]

that was ninetendo's first effort i believe, the famicom

[Wild Cobra]

It's a 1993 game, but it was one of my favorites:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09CCtYC3noQ

[Drachen]

I loved the game Starflight. It is the reason that I became computer literate (because I had to keep tweaking the autoexec.bat and the config.sys

[baseline bum]

The original Vice City on Commodore 64 was pretty badass

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[anakha]

Original Carmen Sandiego on the Apple II FTW.

[TDMVPDPOY]

found the game i was talkin..gauntlet 1, this was release on various platforms..i played this, never managed to finish it...this was when i was around 5-6 yrs old

[xellos88330]

GI JOE (Commodore 64)
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Pitfall (Commodore 64)
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Choplifter (Commodore 64)
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Hunt the Wumpus (Texas Instruments)
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A-Maze-Ing (Texas Instruments)
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Q-Bert (Commodore 64)
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These are just a few that I liked. There are a ton more like Lode Runner, Quest for Tires, and others that I don't remember the name to.

[ElNono]

Yeah, Choplifter and Pitfall were absolute classics on the C= 64...

Lots of nice arcade ports too, like Commando, Frogger, QBert, etc...

[Infinite_limit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A54blk-ojA4

[Wild Cobra]

Here's one of the games I spent several hours on:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Earthorbitstations.jpg

I also especially liked the Sid Meier games Kennedy Approach, Pirates, and Gunship.

[xellos88330]

I also forgot Spy vs. Spy.

[Wild Cobra]

I also forgot Spy vs. Spy.
Yes, that was good!

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Been looking and I can't find the name of it for the life of me, but there was this submarine game that I played the hell out of in wood shop in middle school. This was mid-90s but the teacher had a bunch of older games on it that we would play when if we finished projects early. Since the class consisted of overachieving honors student me and 15 stoners I had a tendency to have a lot of free time on my hands.

Basically you controlled a sub that was always facing right. The screen never scrolled so it felt more like you were a captain of a ship trapped in a giant fish bowl. The really weird thing I remember is that your ammo refills were delivered by a big ass whale. And if you accidentally it the whale would eat your sub. Good times.

[vander]

only ones I remember are

Captain Comic
StarGoose
Sim City

[resistanze]

1990 but still:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KclrfaiEHVU

I loved DOS games because of how radically different the sound/music quality could be depending on your drivers :lol

[lefty]

lol PC games in the 90s

Now they are good of course, but back in the days it was Amiga FTW

[resistanze]

:lol I remember these specially made abortion computers in elementary school - the UniSYS ICON:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Unisys_Icon_System_s1.jpg
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=971


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNC631f0Jxs

One of the games on the PC. They made a spin-off called Cross Country USA.

[NASpurs]

My favorite games were the ones with the security question in the beginning of the game that told you to look on pg. 54 of the manual, third paragraph, fifth sentence and sixth word for the password. Yeah those fucking manuals were huge too.

[leemajors]

lol PC games in the 90s

Now they are good of course, but back in the days it was Amiga FTW

Tie fighter was the shit son

[lefty]

My favorite games were the ones with the security question in the beginning of the game that told you to look on pg. 54 of the manual, third paragraph, fifth sentence and sixth word for the password. Yeah those fucking manuals were huge too.

:lmao shiiiiiiiiiiit I forgot about that

Also the games that came with a round thingy where you had to look up a ramdom letter-number combo password

[leemajors]

:lmao shiiiiiiiiiiit I forgot about that

Also the games that came with a round thingy where you had to look up a ramdom letter-number combo password

90s BAC calculators looked the same too

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