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The 10 most "80s" video games.
KenToad:
"That's how 80s games work -- if you're in the military, you fight the Soviets, and if you know a martial art, you fight a street gang. Unless you know karate AND work for the government, then you fight ninjas."
Classic. ;D
Cheers,
KenToad
NoOne=NBA=:
How can you have the 10 most "80s" games and not have Pacman, Donkey Kong, and Defender?
Tron and Star Wars are ineligible based on the "movie" clause.
JCL:
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on September 10, 2005, 11:59:50 am ---How can you have the 10 most "80s" games and not have Pacman, Donkey Kong, and Defender?
Tron and Star Wars are ineligible based on the "movie" clause.
--- End quote ---
Well, it isn't a list of videogames from the 80s, or even videogames that defined the 80s, it is a list of videogames that most reflect the 80s.
And this guy has Reagan/Russia/etc on the brain, so he pulls in games that reflect that.
It's a one-joke list repeated ten times, not a serious videogame list.
rdagger:
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on September 10, 2005, 11:59:50 am ---How can you have the 10 most "80s" games and not have Pacman, Donkey Kong, and Defender?
Tron and Star Wars are ineligible based on the "movie" clause.
--- End quote ---
Agree, most of the games on the list are very end of the 80's and none are before 85.
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on September 10, 2005, 11:59:50 am ---How can you have the 10 most "80s" games and not have Pacman, Donkey Kong, and Defender?
Tron and Star Wars are ineligible based on the "movie" clause.
--- End quote ---
Just compiling a list of the top 10 games of the 80's wouldn't be entertaining; all you would need to do is list the games along with their production numbers or revenue or whatever.
He made a list of games that reflected what was actually going on in real life in the 80's. The only place that a pizza with a missing slice was eating pellets and avoiding ghosts; or a plumber was avoiding barrels thrown by an ape and trying to rescue a girl was in the video games themselves. He strayed from his stated premise on a few of his choices but the article was still funny.
I think he should have included Missile Command myself, since that was the ultimate video game reflection of the 80's Cold War in my opinion.
I think Punch-Out was inspired by the Rocky movies which were some of the biggest movies going in the 80's; Rocky III in particular. Piston Hurricane is a dead ringer for Apollo Creed and Bald Bull has always reminded me of Clubber Lang (Mr. T) both in attitude and appearance. So, maybe that game could have made the list too.
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