The best sideways scrolling shooter of the decade.Īlongside Dungeons and Dragons the cartoon series, it brought tales of orcs, wizards and elves into the mainstream. Personally, we found it hard to not try and kill everyone and everything that greeted us, which usually ended in them ?cleaving our skull?.įew games have brought out the inner geek as much as this masterpiece. Infuriating it may have been, but The Hobbit was insanely addictive. Remains one of the most addictive games of all time. Has there ever been a more infuriating yet satisfying game?
We once went without food for a day playing this game. OK, graphics have moved on quite a bit since 1982, but, who cares, it was a brilliant game. Just take your average beat-em-up and then add a third player. OK, it's easy to scoff at it now, but Outrun was essential game-playing during the 80s. Probably the best ever game released on the C64. Is it just us, or did that game go on forever?Ī strategy game which has withstood the test of time.īrought the genius of Pac-Man to a new generation of gamers.Ī game which almost drove you insane trying to get that bloody rocket around various caves ? but you kept coming back for more. Sure, the blocky graphics could be better, but they did what a lot of developers seem to forget these days ? they were immensely playable. However, there were games during this era which still work today. Then there was the terrible sound and the seemingly endless amount of time you had to stare at the loading screens.
They usually involved breaking your joysticks or C64, Spectrum or Atari keyboards just to make a mess of pixels and garish colours move across a screen as fast as possible. We love to reminisce about these old games ? but have you actually gone back and played on them? Sheesh! Let's face it – nostalgia apart – there was a lot of games which sucked around that time. Now, some of our younger readers are probably thinking there were no decent games during that time. It's time to grab your joysticks and join us on a trip down Memory Lane, as we look back at the best computer games of the 1980s.
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