Early 1980's computer games you liked

[x-g.o.p.er]

Remember the game "President Elect" for the Apple computer?

I LOVED that game. No graphics, but it was a blast. I'd love to play that game again, or any presidential election scenario game.

What are/were some of tyour favorites?

[TZ]

1. Aside from Pong,which I think was pre-1980

I loved my Atari games..particularly "Adventure". How fun was it to slay dragons with a little yellow arrow,er sword....:)

[pinniped]

2. Lode Runner!

You could build your own levels.

[DS1]

13. good choice

played that game for hours

[fishwax]

56. doesn't get much better than lode runner

Man, that game was fun. :toast:

[trotsky]

3. ZORK

And who could forget Oregon Trail?

[mainegreen]

4. Oregon Trail!

:D

[x-g.o.p.er]

5. Loved Oregon Trail!!!

You actually had to type "B-A-N-G" really fast to shoot food!!!

Ah, back when we thought that was cutting-edge technology.

[RebelOne]

7. I played Zork I, II and III.

[qnr]

65. Pretty much any Infocom game. I loved their packaging too :) n/t

[Frank Cannon]

6. Bilestoad

I was big into D-and-D at the time, playing 20 hours at a stretch, so I took the occasional "rest break" from that by playing this game on the Apple II and Adventure on the Atari 2600.

Those were good times.

[semillama]

34. Wow. I totally forgot about that game

but now I remember sitting in our basement playing it!

[Orsino]

8. Wizardry. n/t

[meegbear]

9. Ms. Pacmam ...

liked her feminist ways.

[AllegroRondo]

10. Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

another 'text only' game, but darn fun

and Akalabeth, a D&D type tromp across the wilderness looking for dungeons. line graphics from a top-down view only.

[RebelOne]

25. I remember that game. It was a good one.

I don't remember if I ever got to the end.

[Lil Missy]

11. Bubble Bobble n/t

[MediaBabe]

27. My kids LOVED Bubble Bobble! n/t

[pokerfan]

12. How about late 1970's?

The first computer game I ever played was the first adventure game and I played it on the department's HP1000 which looked like this:

[DS1]

14. Castle Wolfenstein

and its sequel

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Agreed

[NewJeffCT]

22. I remember that one

good game - a lot of fun

[democracyindanger]

16. Apple ][ game emulator

http://www.virtualapple.org/

[deepthought42]

17. Oh let's see...

I played alot of Super Solver games (Math, Spelling, etc). Also played Manhole, King's Quest, 3-Demon... Ah, the days when floppy disks were floppy... :freak:

[Inchworm]

18. Pitfall and Oregon Trail

I think Pitfall was then.

Alligator! Jump- down- jump- jump - up - swing ...

:hi:

[ThatsMyBarack]

19. ASCII Man

This was the version of Pac-Man which we had on our IBM computer, complete with a black-and-green monochrome. Most everyone in my neighborhood had Ataris, but the IBM PC was the closest thing to an Atari my mom would let us have.

[youthere]

20. There was a pirate game we used to play, everything was in DOS.

no graphics..you had to type in the commands like, "Run attack" or "List Booty"...ah the good old days...this was very early 80's..maybe late 70's.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

21. Elite

I logged more hours on Elite than any other game in the early 80s on my C64.

And anything, and I mean anything made by Infocom. Zork, Zork II, Zork III, Planetfall, Witness...you name it.

[DS1]

28. nice!

I found a downloadable version a few years ago

[WritingIsMyReligion]

23. Wait....they had computers in the early 80s?

:P :P :P

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

41. Yes, those things existed

before you.
:P

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

54. Wiiiiiiiild.

:P :P

:hi:

[spinbaby]

24. Crystal Quest

Lord, was that fun!

[HERVEPA]

26. Not sure of the date, but Dark Castle

[dropkickpa]

29. Salmon Run

A stupid game we had to program ourselves (I can't remember the name of the magazine we got the program from). Took us FOREVER to get it bug free, but it was fun once it ran.

[hunter]

30. Pengo.

http://ekranownia.atari8.info/galeria.php?lit=p

[HamstersFromHell]

31. M.U.L.E.

nothing else in the era compares.

Did play a lot of Miner 2049'er, Oregon Trail, Seven Cities Of Gold and Zaxxon on my old Atari 800. Can remember coming home from work, booting the cassette, making dinner and eating and by then the game would be loaded and ready to play. :P

When I bought my Atari ST I played F-15 Strike Eagle, Kill A Happy Face (MIDI Maze), Little Computer People, and (my favorite from the time) Lemmings.

[fishwax]

57. my older brother and his friends used to play that game for hours

They could kill a whole Saturday that way, no problem :)

[qnr]

62. You know M.U.L.E. is available online? Can't remember where, but I've

been to the site.

[KitchenWitch]

32. Hunt the Wumpus

Lunar Lander

[Parche]

33. YESSSS

I loved that game, played it all the time, I think it was SSI?

They had another game i loved, called 'Carrier Force' aircraft carriers in pacific
awesome game

:hi:

[x-g.o.p.er]

36. Never played Carrier Force, but I saw Fighter Command in there,

Which was an AWESOME Battle of Britain game. You controlled the game at the strategic level, as either the commander of the RAF or the German Luftwaffe.

THAT game was a lot of fun.

[semillama]

35. I remember one for the Apple that was called "Suicide" I think

Basically, you had control over a trampoline and had to move it bounce back little guys who were jumping off a building. On the way down, they had smiles, but when you bounced them back, they would frown.

[gbate]

37. Galaxian and its cousin Galaga.

[NaturalHigh]

53. Galaga was my favorite.

If I had invested all the quarters I spent on that game, I'd be rich.

[LSK]

38. Archon

[qnr]

64. First thing I thought of when I saw the chess game in Harry Potter n/t

[madinmaryland]

39. Clowns and Balloons on the old TRS-80's.

:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

50. Valkyrie, Santa Paravia, Outhouse, Kamikaze, in the same beasts. -nt

[Seeking Serenity]

40. Asteroids

Didn't do video games when I was a young'un, but I did have a certain aptitude for "Asteroids."

[TheMightyFavog]

42. What? Nobody mentioned Wasteland?

The spiritual predecessor to the Fallout series.

/Still pissed off that Fallout 3 is not going to be isometric like 1 and 2.
//Still scared that Bethesda Is going to screw up Fallout 3
///Then again., there is talk of a Fallout MMORPG done by the original Interplay team
////Dammit, I'm lapsing into my Fark habits.

[Fox Mulder]

43. Odell Lake

It wasn't made in the early 1980s (made in '86) and it was kind of corny, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell_Lake_%28computer_game%29

Edited to add was Oregon Trail early 80s? I loved that game.

[TheMightyFavog]

47. I remeber playing Odell Lake...

I recall we called the Dolly Varden "The fish with the big fins."

[Alexander]

44. Ultima

All of them were excellent.

[Bucky]

45. Tank games. Who doesn't love the idea of enemy tanks duelling in a maze?

[many a good man]

46. Nibbles.bas

QBasic!

[lizerdbits]

48. Probably mid 80's

We had a Commadore 64 which had Dig Dug and some other things I can't remember.

[Jamastiene]

49. Pac Man

I soooooo suck at Pac Man to this day, but I still absolutely love it. I've got jrok's PacPC and it's the closest you'll ever find online to emulating the real Pac Man. I think my high score is currently only around 24,000, but I still love it, even though I suck so bad at it. I have Mrs. PacPC too. It's just like Mrs. Pac Man too. They were both free too. :woohoo:

http://www.jrok.com/games.html

[Mezzo]

51. Frogger. nt

[RushIsRot]

52. Does anybody remember Yar's Revenge?

[fishwax]

58. oh yeah -- used to play that one *all* the time

[RushIsRot]

59. My son and I liked playing it. He got pretty good. I got better.

[tandem5]

55. moon patrol nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

60. My favorite game was from 1962

Space War!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar%21

[eShirl]

61. you mean home computer games, right?

I see a lot of people are answering with arcade games of the period.

The ones I remember playing the most on our TRS-90 model III were "Taipan," "Star Trek," and that Scott Adams text adventure game that I think was titled "Vampire" or "Transylvania" or something like that.

[qnr]

63. Star Raiders on the Atari 8-bits, and Dungeon Master on the Atari ST n/t

[Left Brain]

66. Kaboom