Tongue in cheek stuff here....after feeling terribly old from not recognizing or not playing any of the games listed by others..
1) Kings Quest 4
2) Space Quest 2
3) Leisure Suit Larry 2
4) Ultima V
5) Starflight 1 & 2
6) Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
7) Sentinel Wars
8) Pong........ ;)
(feel free to list 'vintage' games)
Not necessarily '88, but here's a list of my favorite classic arcade and home games...
Arcade Games:
Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr.
Dragon's Lair/Dragon's Lair 2/Space Ace
Eagle
Lunar Landing
Star Castle
Star Wars (vector graphics cockpit mode...still the best trench run ever)
Phoenix
Rastan
Discs of Tron
Classic Home Consoles:
Atari 2600
Pitfall
Boxing
Skiing
Adventure
Haunted House
Asteroids
Defender
Laser Blast
Stampede
Colecovision
Smurfs Adventure
Donkey Kong
Zaxxon
Wargames (endlessly replayable fun!)
Totally loved all the Space Quest games! That was back in the day when two guys could make a PC game all by themselves.
Favorite 80's Arcade game: Battlezone by Atari
Wow, I have played.....none of those x_x...
King
Quote from: KingIsaacLinksr on January 05, 2012, 01:26:11 PM
Wow, I have played.....none of those x_x...
King
Break out your MS-DOS 3.x disk or higher, make sure you have at least 512K of conventional RAM free, and try them out. :)
gotta agree, pong is just plain addictive.
Dizzy
Pole Position
ATV
Tracksuit Manager
Rock Star Ate My Hamster
Footballer Of The Year
All for the Sinclair Spectrum 128k, if memory serves.
Back in the day I really loved playing text adventures. There were a couple of great Marvel comics ones, Spiderman and a Hulk one. Played these on my trusty Commodore 16! :)
Time to go and edit my autoexec.bat and config.sys :)
DOS=HIGH,UMB