Favorite early-80s video game?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Favorite early-80s video game?

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[sakabatou]

1. Late 80s sure

Early 80s, no

[bridgit]

2. Other (tell us!), astro blaster & asteroids...

:thumbsup:

[texas1928]

3. Tank Battle.

Ok Late 70's.

[liberaltrucker]

4. Centipede

I've tried to download it for ages, but can't find a link.

:(

[Deja Q]

5. Millipede is better - and clearance bins in software stores have both...

I'm buying it tomorrow. :bounce:

[liberaltrucker]

12. I stand corrected

Not a spring chicken, ya know.
Thanks for the advise.

:yourock:

[yellowdogintexas]

11. I loved Centipede and Millipede. They were tons of fun. nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Polaris

[jpgray]

7. Missile Command

Impossible to win, but strangely addicting. Ooh, or Asteroids.

[GirlinContempt]

37. Yeah, Asteroids was great

[Huckebein the Raven]

8. Outrun

[Sugar Smack]

9. Dig Dug-

because I'm a bit of a sicko.

:blush:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

20. I like Dig Dug too. n/t

[InvisibleTouch]

10. Time Pilot and Cosmic Ark. n/t

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Galaga.

[nytemare]

16. Yep, that and Galaxian.

:D

[TheBaldyMan]

33. I was embarrassingly good at that game

I used to attract crowds who watched me play.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

14. Zelda

Great game. The classic is the best.

[jpgray]

15. That's mid-late eighties

:eyes:

:D

[FunkyLeprechaun]

18. Awwwwwww

I was born in '81 so... anything like Zelda feels like the early 80's to me.

[djeseru]

17. Asteroid, of course.

No one else played it, so I did. :)

[HughBeaumont]

19. Tempest and Dig Dug

There was a way on the older Tempest machines to get your high score between 140 and 160 thousand, lop the last two digits off your score just right, and you'd have all kinds of shit ranging from 40 free games to unlimited extra men to starting on whatever level you wanted. I have Tempest on my PC and Dig Dug on my PS2.

[Catchawave]

21. Other: Frogger !

[SeattleGirl]

22. Asteroids, of course!

In the words of my ex, "Asteroids is hell, and that's why I love the game!"

[jpeg]

23. Zaxxon!

And there was a laser disc game called Star Rider that blew my young mind.

[fishwax]

38. Zaxxon was awesome

:thumbsup:

[fishwax]

24. I can't believe nobody has mentioned Pitfall

Though my favorite, personally, was Yar's Revenge :D:thumbsup:

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. I was going to mention it...but you did.

:P

[Redstone]

25. ROBOTRON: 2084. The only video game I ever liked.

Redstone

[Aristus]

26. Riddle of the Sphinx. A pretty complicated (for the time) game by

Activision. It took two people to play it. At least, that's how my brother and I played. One to play, and one to read the pamphlet that came with it. It talked you through the game, what prizes to seek out, how to renew your energy, how to avoid being killed by asps and scorpions and stuff. It was pretty cool. And it had an actual ending, and you could win. It wasn't like a lot of those games that just keep upping the ante until you lose.

[XemaSab]

28. In the mid 80's

I really dug Scarab of Ra and Crystal Quest.

I downloaded those for the iMac so I could still play them.

Good times.

[reyd reid reed]

29. Asteroids, definitely.

My kids love playing it, too. They have these Namco museum things for Gamecube...Asteroids and Dig-Dug and Pole Position and Pac Man and all that stuff.

[Broken_Hero]

30. its a tie for me...

I voted other, and my tie is Wizards of War, and Zaxxon for the Commodore 64...I spent countless hours playing both games, they were the shit, for their time...:)

[tuvor]

31. Holy crap! You put Moon Patrol up there!

I thought I was one of the few who remembered that game. Spent waaaay too many quarters on that one.

[CanuckAmok]

32. Scramble.

I could play it for hours and never get bored.

[NMMNG]

Frogger

Hop, hop, hop, hop, splat!

[RogueTrooper]

34. Amidar

[El Fuego]

35. Ms pac man!!!!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

36. Jumping Jack on the Speccy.

Jumping Jack is quick and bold
With skill his story will unfold

I completed it for the first time almost 20 years later when I really should have been studying.

2nd best would be a toss up between Hungry Horace and Horace Goes Skiing.

[TK421]

39. Haunted House for the Atari 2600

[TallahasseeGrannie]

40. snake bite, galaxian, wavy navy, frogger, crystal raid

[veganred]

41. The forgotten ones

Galaga and Frogger.

I have Namco's 50th Anniversary game for PS2 which includes a lot of awesome oldies. In addition, I have the Atari Anthology as well which includes great games. Check them out.