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Subject: '80s PC Games
Written By: yelimsexa on 07/01/15 at 6:36 am
While there has been a thread previously for the '90s, the '80s were just as important in terms of PC gaming online, so much that in the middle of the decade it was the center of electronic gaming attention after the Video Game Crash of 1983 and prior to the rise of the NES. Of course, this was known for using floppy disks (remember those?) and command prompts such as DOS to start each game, with graphics ranging from monochrome (usually black/white, black/green, or white/blue), to later in the decade only a few colors, usually a combo of Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black/White for IBM/PC clones, known as "CGA" graphics, or blue/orange/magenta/green/black/white on some later Apple II PCs. Even though it was the early '90s at the time, I remember playing lots of different Apple educational games, many by the company MECC. Of course The Oregon Trail is the most popular, followed by Number Munchers and Word Munchers. Other titles that were popular were F-15 Strike Eagle, Karateka, Beachhead, Summer Games and Winter Games (at least it wasn't horrible like some other ports like on the NES), Zork I, the chess version known as Sargon, the Exodus series, the Ultima series RPG, Math Blaster, a Music Construction Set, and much more. Of course many of these games are available online on sites such as the Internet Archive and you'll appreciate how much people had to think back then just to get primitive graphics. Around the time the '80s ended, there was quite a boom in graphics and storage capibility, and that continued through the '90s and into the '00s as games got more and more sophisticated.
We had a similar thread on this subject back in 2004, but that was before the rise of online video sites, so please feel free to posts videos of your favorite '80s PC games!
http://www.inthe00s.com/archive/inthe80s/1079025195.shtml
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: wsmith4 on 07/01/15 at 9:00 am
My all-time favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC3rqDQopKs
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Elor on 07/01/15 at 10:20 am
My all-time favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC3rqDQopKs
Fixed that for you. (you have to remove the "s" from "https" and just leave http in the URL then it works)
And yes, I loved that game too on my C64. :)
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Howard on 07/01/15 at 1:18 pm
http://pc.mmgn.com/Lib/Images/Articles/Normal/The-Evolution-of-Games-1059010.jpg
Asteroids
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: robby76 on 07/01/15 at 5:16 pm
We had floppy discs which loaded games to our Apple II pc. Our faves were Wavy Navy and a Strip Poker game...
YSs5BEpFy34
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Howard on 07/02/15 at 2:10 pm
We had floppy discs which loaded games to our Apple II pc. Our faves were Wavy Navy and a Strip Poker game...
YSs5BEpFy34
Wow Rob, you were able to play strip poker? :o
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: robby76 on 07/03/15 at 3:03 am
Wow Rob, you were able to play strip poker? :o
Haha, yes it was highly pixelated and not in colour but we had the game. Not even sure my Mum knew we had it. And I don't think we knew how to play it properly either. ;D
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/43067-strip-poker-a-sizzling-game-of-chance-apple-ii-screenshot-suzi.gif
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: robby76 on 07/03/15 at 3:05 am
Another game we had but didn't know how to play was GI Joe...
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/I7hkxzbyyFY/hqdefault.jpg
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Howard on 07/03/15 at 7:13 am
Haha, yes it was highly pixelated and not in colour but we had the game. Not even sure my Mum knew we had it. And I don't think we knew how to play it properly either. ;D
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/43067-strip-poker-a-sizzling-game-of-chance-apple-ii-screenshot-suzi.gif
The girls in the game actually stripped to their bra and panties? :o
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Howard on 07/03/15 at 7:15 am
Another game we had but didn't know how to play was GI Joe...
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/I7hkxzbyyFY/hqdefault.jpg
Where's Sgt.Slaughter? ???
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Howard on 07/03/15 at 7:16 am
http://pcmedia.gamespy.com/pc/image/article/104/1040904/tgif-this-game-is-free-12-maniac-mansion-deluxe-20091030094846525.jpg
Gamespy
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 09/09/15 at 9:29 am
My Dad had the flight simulator. I used to be pretty good at missing the runway. :)
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/09/15 at 9:30 am
My Dad had the flight simulator. I used to be pretty good at missing the runway. :)
...so you took a crash course? ;D
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 09/09/15 at 9:40 am
Which is why I'm not a pilot. :D
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Howard on 09/09/15 at 2:20 pm
My Dad had the flight simulator. I used to be pretty good at missing the runway. :)
How'd you do?
Subject: Re: '80s PC Games
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/09/15 at 2:21 pm
My Dad had the flight simulator. I used to be pretty good at missing the runway. :)
How'd you do?
...so you took a crash course? ;D
Which is why I'm not a pilot. :D