Favorite Game made before 1985 or extremely rare games.

[Doramius]

This forum is for listing your top 5 or 10 most favorite games made before the year 1985. It's also here for listing extremely rare or hardly heard of games, even through the 90's. Try not to list more than 15 or 20 games per person. I know I could list hundreds myself.

*Favorites
SPACE INVADERS
YARS REVENGE
DONKEY KONG
JAVANOID


*Rare
Carrier Aces - Super Nintendo
GORF
Dragons Lair - Arcade Version

[Hardcoreruss]

Dragons Lair, that was the cartoony one ? with the yellow blob ?

[Doramius]

It was cartoon......Yes. If by BLOB, you mean the Lava or Mud Monsters......Yes.
I remember when that was the most ultimate graphics available at the time for an arcade game. Some of them had a couple of extra TV screens on the top of the machine because so many people would crowd around it. Try to find those machines today, and for a reasonable price. However, I think they released it a few years ago for PC in it's original game play.

[Guest]

Zaxxon,Jungle King,DK,burgertime

rare-mousetrap

[stiltman]

*Rare
GORF

GORF on PC using MAME

[curryman]

Caverns of mars and Dr Who for the Atari 400.
Absoloutely Brilliant.
If anyone knows where i could possibly get them please let me know.
......and before anyone starts moaning, I don't mean illegally

[awlchu]

Star Raiders on Atari 400/800
Ultima on Commodore 64/128

[Doramius]

I also remember having fun with Lunar Lander, which at that time I also remember was incredibly difficult.

[tgpo]

I loved the Jill of the Jungle games on our old PC. Fun game.

[Rookie64]

Popeye (Coleco)
Mr. Do (Coleco) - was something like Dig Dug Deeper
Donkey Kong Jr (Coleco)
Adventure (Atari) - this would get big laughs today...the dragons looked like seahorses
Pinball (Atari)

In the early '90s, I got a 3DO and Dragons Lair was a favorite - looked exactly like the arcade version
Don't know how rare that is today but this 3DO -

http://www.playerschoicegames.com/3DO.htm

I still have mine.


For PC, I'm a big fan of the King's Quest series from Sierra

[housepig]

Elevator Action
Qix
(I have both of these in my basement)

Roc 'n' Rope
Joust
Berzerk
Sinistar
Donkey Kong Jr.

not sure when Black Tiger came out, that was a good one.

[stiltman]

Robotron RULES!

[indolikaa]

Star Raiders for the Atari 2600, and the original arcade stand-up console Galaxians.


I owned them both. Never mastered either, but sure had a lot of fun trying.

[BJ_M]

euchre
chess
risk
backgammon
checkers
cribbage
scrabble
yatzee
monopoly

[Guest]

euchre
chess
risk
backgammon
checkers
cribbage
scrabble
yatzee
monopoly

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[BJ_M]

euchre
chess
risk
backgammon
checkers
cribbage
scrabble
yatzee
monopoly

You must prefer snailmail to email

no -- i just prefer games where i can interact with other people and the family..

[Ironballs]

Defender and naked twister

[teegee420]

I always liked Centipede and Galaxian.

[Guest]

euchre
chess
risk
backgammon
checkers
cribbage
scrabble
yatzee
monopoly

You must prefer snailmail to email

no -- i just prefer games where i can interact with other people and the family..

Thats cool.But I like single rpgs to get away from that sometimes

[budz]

space invaders, centipede or was it millipede?
missile command, pacman & ms.pacman

[Sifaga]

These games gave me blisters on my thumb

Space Invaders
Defender
Galaxian
PacMan

[offline]

Ally Cat - rare 1st graphic game for IBM
Dig Dug
Targ
Miner 69er
Leisure Suit Larry 1
Microsoft Olympics - very rare Apple II game
Galaxia
phonex
Mission
LHX Chopper
Castle Wolfenstein - Apple version
Castle Wolfenstein - PC version
Jill of the Jungle & anything by Apogee Games

[fmctm1sw]

Why do you guys keep doing this to me? I was an avid collector of classic games and system up to about two years ago. You're going to make me start digging through my stuff again. I noticed a lot of people mention games that were arcade ports to various home video game systems, both Atari 2600 line and the 8 bit line (Atari 5200/Atari 400/800/XEGS/etc.). My favorite arcade game was probably "Punch Out" and later I think they made "Super Punch Out." I also liked "Mat Mania." Defender was actually a fairly decent port to the Atari 2600. I also like it's sister arcade game "Stargate." If you want rare games, look for ones that came out around the time of the home video game market crash (Winter 1983/Spring 1984. I know of Atari 2600 games that sell for over $1000 easily. Look up "Quadrun" or "Eli's Ladder." Even hotter sellers are the prototype games like "Swordquest: Airworld" or "Swordquest: Waterworld." The biggest flop for the 2600 was E.T. Atari paid millions for the rights and nobody bought the game. Rumor has it thousands of copies of this game are in a landfill in California somewhere. Pac-Man was considered a terrible game as well, as it was rushed to the market. Ms. Pac Man is better and Jr. Pac Man is the best of the three IMO. I sold a lot of my games (that's how I have this computer and DVD burner) but I still have a lot of stuff. I love to talk old games if anyone is interested (in case you couldn't tell).

*edit* I saw someone mention a 3DO. What ever happened to all that stuff? 3DO, Neo-Geo, Turbo Graphix 16, etc...

[tgpo]

I also loved Battle Chess. I thought it was awesome at the time to actually see the pieces react and fight with each other.

[Ripper2860]

Zork was a favorite of mine, as was the original King's Quest.

Anyone ever heard of a Mindquest PC? Great PC with awesome graphics (around the time of the PC/XT) which had dedicated graphics processor and co-processor. It had an an awesome alien flyer game called Viper !!!

Some of the early Bethesda Softworks games were quite cool, although some of the names escape me !!

[freestyler]

I remember playing Alley Cat, that was a pretty fun game!

[Capmaster]

There was a hand-held lcd game called Tank that I was hooked on.

[teegee420]

My hand-held game of choice was Defender. I really loved my Galaxian mini-tabletop too.

[Capmaster]

The three Atari games I liked the most were Space Invaders, Breakout and Pinball. All the hours I spent playing those .....

[teegee420]

The three Atari games I liked the most were Space Invaders, Breakout and Pinball. All the hours I spent playing those .....

The little bastards growing up today just don't know how good they have it, do they? My little 12 year old cousin utters the word "Atari" with so much contempt I want to slap the shit out of him.