what are the 80est games?

[pragmatic insanester]

if you walked onto the gaming scene with no knowledge of system/game releases and could only associate games with the art/theme within them, which would you associate most with being from the 80s?

obvious example: vice city

[CartCollector]

Totally Rad. Dude, thats, like, the most 80s-est game out there.

[Flack]

720
Skate or Die
Tass Times in Tonetown
Max Headroom

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

There's a Max Headroom game? I'm assuming this is some C64 delight you're gonna show me at some point, right Flack?? :eek 2:



P.S. I love Max Headroom. :D

[TEXASGAMEPLAYER]

There's a Max Headroom game? TELL ME MORE PLEASE!!!

[Flack]

Sorry -- you guys know my roots.

http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=1620

[Ed Oscuro]

I think the original poster meant games that are in stores right now.

But heck, I saw a copy of CV Adventure at a store recently. Oddly, I feel that Castlevania III is an 80s game, but CV Adventure (which is pretty bad in many ways) doesn't really feel like one to me, dunno why (both came out in '89). Guess I just associate the GB with the 90s.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Atari 7800 Super Skateboardin, Like totally down with pink shoelaces and hot pink skateboards man, totally mondo dubular du'ude!

[Xexyz]

Rollergames for the NES by Ultra (you ain't foolin me Konami ASDF!!!) has quite an 80's vibe to it. And the most obvious thing is the roller skates. That was a big thing in the late 80's. Plus there weren't any hip and cool roller blades invented just yet.

[Ed Oscuro]

totally mondo dubular du'ude!
dubular?

[evildead2099]

NARC. The game is a virtual tribute to the rise of the new right and the moral majority.

[Wavelflack]

totally mondo dubular du'ude!
dubular?

Thats when you put spinners on your skateboard wheels.

[davidbrit2]

I find it very hard to believe that nobody has mentioned Journey.

[evildead2099]

I find it very hard to believe that nobody has mentioned Journey.

Good call.

What about that Atari 2600 game with the disembodied Mr. T head?

[jerkov]

Town & Country Surf Designs for the NES. That game screams '80s.

[Crush Crawfish]

The ninja turtle games, of course! well, the older ones at least. COWABUNGA! LOL

[Tron 2.0]

Paperboy
Starwars
Pac-man hey it had it's own theme song.
720
Tron
Missle Command given how there was a, cold war threat still at the time.

[boatofcar]

Without a doubt, Skate or Die. Everything that Rodney Recloose says in the skateshop is classic 8-)

[Milk]

Double Dragon: The character designs are gold.

Bad Dudes: Ronald Reagan has been kidnapped by ninjas? That's like the '80s in a nutshell.

Space Harrier: If video games were new wave videos...

[Nez]

Back to The Future

[robotriot]

Thundercats: Crappy conversion of TV series? Check. Chrome font? Check. Bodybuilder on the titlepic? Check. Yea, I'd say it's pretty 80s ^^

[KJN]

Frankie Goes To Hollywood (http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=971): Very unique game based on the group Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Who can forget the Reagan / Gorbachev spitting minigame?

Split Personalities (http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2426): Puzzle game where you try to reassemble pictures of Ronald Reagan, Margret Thatcher, Clive Sinclair, etc.

Seaside Special: Collect radioactive algae at the beach then use it to kill the politicians at 10 Downing Street.

[poloplayr]

I remember playing a great strategy/war game on my dear old Amiga called...something like Nuclear War...anyone remember this? You could pick any of the major political heads during the 80s and wage nuclear warfare. And it was great fun!!!

[robotriot]

Yes, Nuclear War it is ^^ http://hol.abime.net/998 I really should play it sometime :/

[poloplayr]

Thanks Robotriot! Haven't had that game in my mind for ages. Must try it ASAP. I remember it being so much fun.

[CartCollector]

What about that Atari 2600 game with the disembodied Mr. T head?
That's A-Team, (http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=860)which was never released. At game over, it even plays the A-Team theme song!

[IntvGene]

There's the Avoid the Noid game for the PC (although it's closer to the late 80's)

I'd put the Kool-Aid games (2600, INTV) in this category too.

The Cabbage Patch Kids and Smurf games also apply (CV).

Also, He-man: Masters of the Universe (INTV)

There must be tons more licensed games to add (Transformers, Thundercats, etc.)

[suppafly]

Super Mario Bros. 1
Skate or Die
Yars Revenge
Double dragon 1
Punch Out on Arcade

[Daria]

Either Labyrinth. Any game with a digitalized David Bowie just screams 80's.

Or even Micheal Jackson's Moon Walker.

[SlayerOfFurbies]

Any cover art from SMS games... Cananone say pro wrestling?

the box art for the first megaman screams 80's cheese


errr... i mean moon walker the game screams 80's

[evildead2099]

The ninja turtle games, of course! well, the older ones at least. COWABUNGA! LOL

Cow-a-boong-ga boong-ga, doode! 8-)

[KJN]

Well everybody knows that ninjas were popular in the 80ies so lets just combine them with some other popular things like a BMX (and maybe a skateboard as well), add it all together and we get:

http://62.168.142.47/~lemon/covers/full/bmx_ninja.jpg

BMX already taken? Oh well just use a scooter instead, I'm sure ninjas use those all the time:

http://62.168.142.47/~lemon/covers/full/ninja_scooter_simulator.jpg

[evildead2099]

Ninja Scooter Simulator?!? X_x LOL

[davidbrit2]

Ha ha. Somehow I just knew that had to be C64 software before I even saw the label. Man, there was some weird European stuff for that thing.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Two words for you:

Strawberry. Shortcake.

[NeoZeedeater]

http://www.c64gg.com/Images/A/Alf_intro0.gif

http://www.smstributes.co.uk/images/db/screenshot_alf_001.png

http://www.c64gg.com/Images/F/Fight-night-intro.gif

[Immutable]

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/M/mMs._Pac-Man_Galaga_-_Class_Of_1981.jpg

[KJN]

http://62.168.142.47/~lemon/covers/full/ghettoblaster.jpg
This game is also known as Street Beat.

For some 80es nostalgia here is a site about the rise and fall of the ghettoblaster / boombox (http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox).