What are your favorite late 80's games?

[nutballchamp]

I not a big fan of the continue games but there were some pretty funny games in this era. My Favorite was Skull and Crossbones. I love that parrot! The graphics look like a video game from a Simpsons episode. Other Favorites:

Rolling Thunder
Strider
Gauntlet
Double Dragon

Brett

 

[osver]

A sampling of good late '80s games ('85 - '89):

Black Tiger ('87)
UN Squadron ('89)
Empire City: 1931 ('86)
A.P.B. ('87)
Hot Rod ('88)
Championship/Super Sprint ('86)
Time Soldiers ('87)
720°('86)

 

[Warlord]

My favorite late 80's games are Ajax and Pyros. Pyros was hard to me anyways. Even though you could continue I always died because you I could never get the timing just right and at the time never knew what was coming next. Of course now I can beat it with one quarter now but that is only because I had spent like five year of my alowance on it back in the day and can play the whole thing from memory. Ajax is a different story. You can memorize the patterns as war as where the planes come out ect but the shots they fire at you is somewhat random. Very hard game. Only beat it twice and have been playing it since 87. I could probably have bought a new pinball if I had the money I spent on those two games!

Also

Golden Axe
Altered Beast
TNMT
Final Fight

 

[RadArcade]

Hmm. Back in the day I really like NARC, Bionic Commando, Super Sprint, and Double Dragon. I still like Championship Sprint, but the others would bore me to death in home use.

 

[AtariShag]

Shinobi, Black Tiger and Magic Sword are fun ones that I enjoy. I need to find some more to play however...

 

[Mattroid]

Seems I had different taste as a kid than most. Either that, or the 'cades down here just had different stuff all over than other places. I played tons of games, but I can only really recall a few that I truely loved in the late 80's:

Bubble Bobble
Hard Drivin'
Ninja Gaiden
Super Contra

and of course...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tetris (actually, I hated Tetris as a kid)
Double Dragon

If I remember the others, I'll post 'em, but I haven't even thought of them in about that long...

 

[3xchaos]

A quick look at my collection reveals only a few late 80s game. Out of the few that I do own, I would have to pick Atari Toobin'. Of course it's much different when you own it and can easily finish the game. Overall it's still fun to play with 2-players as a team or head-to-head competitively. BTW, I'm still waiting for my free T-Shirt from Atari after spelling "T-O-O-B-I-N" in the game.

3xChaos
Michael

 

[WadeLanham]

I think 720, and Super Sprint are probably my favorite late 80's games.

Wade

 

[herbertsmart]

NARC for sure, Double Dragon, 720, Super Sprint, (Whatever that 3 screen Ninja game is), Escape from the Planet of Robot Monsters, Rolling Thunder, Cyberball 2072. Some of which are actually in my pittiful collection! Yeah!

 

[JASaxman]

That game would be Ninja Warriors. Very good game. My favorites would have to Double Dragon, Double Dragon II, POW, and Heavy Barrel.

 

[tbbk]

In that time period I played a ton of Golden Axe, Moonwalker, and Ironman Ivan Stewarts Super Off Road.

 

[RadArcade]

Oh yeah, Off Road was sweet.

 

[Mattroid]

hells yeah

 

[TexasHotshot]

Tetris
Double Dragon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Strider
some others but I'm drawing a blank.

 

[OregonPacman]

Tetris, Double Dragon, Heavy Barrel, Time Soldiers, Final Fight.

 

[Michael Varn]

I not a big fan of the continue games but there were some pretty funny games in this era. My Favorite was Skull and Crossbones. I love that parrot! The graphics look like a video game from a Simpsons episode. Other Favorites:

Rolling Thunder
Strider
Gauntlet
Double Dragon

Brett

I guess I can say on a related note, I played all of my favorites from the late 70's to early 80's throughout the entire decade of the 1980's while they were still in arcades, but for whatever reason I simply had no interest in any further evolution of video games.

As soon as I saw Dragonslayer in the arcades, I had no further interest in the new direction video games were going in.

I am certainly not what you would call a "gamer" today.

As a matter of fact, I was playing Atari's SpaceDule on my NDSXL just this morning.

This game is over 40 years old! LOL

Vector graphics never get old!

 

[Motoman202]

Bringing it back from the dead....

 

[XXI21]

U.S. Classic - Videogame by Seta

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[fatherpain]

• Tetris
• Tecmo Knight
• Golden Axe
• Afterburner Deluxe
• Arch Rivals
• R-Type 1&2
• Ghosts n Goblins
• Ghouls n Ghosts
• Strider

 

[RobertL]

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