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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > The Goodmine > Year of the Game: Goons Decide the Best Year in Gaming
 
Bell_
Sep 3, 2006

Tiny Baltimore
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 This thread tickles people's nostalgia glands, so into this list of great years, I'm going to nominate 1982. I'm biased because of my favorite computer games, but it was Atar's best year (before it all went to poo poo), and the arcades had some memorable, timeless classics

Computer Games
-Choplifter (Apple II)
-Dungeons of Daggorath, one of my all-time favorites, was released for the TRS-80. A first-person real-time RPG ala Eye of the Beholder, you say?
-Microsoft Flight Simulator (MS-DOS)
-Ultima II (Apple II)
-Wizardry II

Atari 2600 Games
-Haunted House
-Pitfall
-Yar's Revenge

Arcade Games
-Dig Dug
-Donkey Kong Jr
-Joust
-Millipide
-Pole Position
-Q*bert
-Robotron 2064
-Sinistar
-Tron
-Tutankham
-Zaxxon

1982 was also the year the Commodore 64 came out, which sold like gangbusters and would amass a ridiculously huge library of games on its own

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Bell_
Sep 3, 2006

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Jay Rust posted:

Realtalk how did you guys even get started with your lists, did you pick a game you liked and then looked up other games that came out that year?
Mostly, but besides my favorite (Dungeons of Daggorath) I knew 1982 was busy; the arcades at animatronic pizza joints, bowling allies were full of games. E.T. the Extraterrestrial was released for the 2600 (well, that wasn't a good thing), but we had a spooky survival game,a classic side-scrolling shooter, and a ton of other games. Those I had to look up.

I don't know how different my life would have been with a Commodore 64 instead of a Trash 80, but the 64 was a pivotal moment for a lot of folks which would love playing computer games.

The mid to late eightees should be better represented too, thanks to the NES and eventually the SNES, and the early 90's breathed life into PC gaming. I'm sure someone is looking up when Tradewars 2002 and other BBS games came out and introduced neighborhood kids to early online gaming.

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