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scofthe7seas:

I'm sure this has been done before, but what do you all think are the best classic games ever? (pre 90s)
What is your opinion on the general consensus of what people think are the best?
And what is your personal list of bests?
Being a teen in the 90s, I never got a solid chance at classic games (save for nes ports)
I'm starting to really enjoy some of them (except for Donkey Kong Jr. You might as well just throw your damned money away.)

Try to limit them to 10 and under (Xiaou, I'm looking at you.)

My top 5 would be:
1: Robotron 2084
2: Berserk
3: Burger Time
4: Missile Command
5: Donkey Kong


yotsuya:

I'll list the top 5 I used to play as a kid in the 80s.

1. Rush N' Attack
2. Star Wars
3. Burger Time
4. Empire City
5. Ikari Warriors

Rando:

Not my top 5 to play, but ones I spent the most money on and therefore remember the best, in no particular order:

- Spy Hunter
- Gauntlet
- Elevator Action
- Pac Man
- Shinobi

Cynicaster:

Like the OP, I wasn't old enough to frequent arcades until after the original classics had been largely rotated out in favor of the Double Dragons, Golden Axes, and TMNT's. 

These days, I enjoy the original classics more than anything else. It's tough to choose just 5, but when I think "classic arcade", I think of:

Pac-Man (duh)
Space Invaders
Centipede
Frogger
Defender

Honorable mentions:

Missile Command
Q*Bert
Asteroids

Frogger is the only one of the above games that I remember playing on real cabinets BITD; the rest I learned to love exclusively via Atari 2600.


Donkey_Kong:

Golden Age  80-83  (I was born in '75 and frequented a local arcade at the ripe ages of 7-9)
~Donkey Kong
~Super Pacman

A few years later at our pizza place it was...

~Tetris
~720
~Mario Bros

These are my top 5 from the day. Very limited small town arcade game selections. I still feel privileged to have had the opportunity to play them as it is probably some of the better memories of my childhood.

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