Bromptonboy's Favorite Games of 1988...

[Bromptonboy]

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)

[Jobydrone]

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!)

[billybob476]

Totally loved all the Space Quest games! That was back in the day when two guys could make a PC game all by themselves.

[davekill]

Favorite 80's Arcade game: Battlezone by Atari

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Wow, I have played.....none of those x_x...

King

[Bromptonboy]

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.  :)

[turtlesrock]

gotta agree, pong is just plain addictive.

[Roddenberry]

Dizzy
Pole Position
ATV
Tracksuit Manager
Rock Star Ate My Hamster
Footballer Of The Year


All for the Sinclair Spectrum 128k, if memory serves.

[Dangelus]

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! :)

[billybob476]

Time to go and edit my autoexec.bat and config.sys :)

DOS=HIGH,UMB