Galaxians - does anybody know where I can get this game btw?

You need to get the MAME emulator and find the rom :thumbsup

http://www.mame.net/

M.U.L.E.

Damn, no Quake fans here?

pacman was pretty popular

Atari Missle Command rocked early '80s

for a more newer one

commander keen

Quake isn't old school unless you're 16 :)

3D defender - ZX81

Does anyone remember Rescue Raiders, SunDog, or Karateka???

Rescue Raiders (I think was the title) was set in world war 2 and you had to launch tanks, gunners, engineers, and medical trucks to break through the German lines. It was set-up like a Choplifter without saving people.

SunDog - they really need to do a remake. That was a great space game. RPG in a sense, but no stats to build.

Karateka was simply a great storyline and action game. To me it was better than Prince of Persia because it was almost pure fighting without the annoying obstacles.

there were some great games in the 80s

almost anything that has RPG in it... bards tale, SSI dungeon and dragons inspired RPGs etc..

also some business manager games...

on the amiga i played a game where you sat in a spacestation and the countries of world would bring their problems to you and you would rule on them like a UN kind of thing... but cant remember what that was called..

Damn straight, I played that game a few days ago my new PC. Word of advise, the fucker will be speedier than hell now :( Goes to show back then how well programmers took into consideration optimization with processing power and such. Still a kick ass game! :)

hah...cool

One of the cool things about Commander Keen (I bought them all and still have the disks) is that in the final episode, theres some text that describes how ID was going to be coming out with a "new" game called Quake and they describe what it'll be like.
And that was years and years before even wolfenstein came out.. nice vision and drive they had!
I think one of the first "ID" games was Kingdom of Kroz. It was sort of an RPG, but since programming for graphics chips was new ground, they used text mode for the "characters" by redefining the letters of the alphabet and using the high ascii characters and crap like that.

Whats really sick when you think about it is how the Apollo missions L.E.M. computer only had about 4k (if that even) and yet was able to calculate so well the landing and firing the attitude jets and all that shit. God damn amazing!

Games rule!

I?d have to say Maniac Mansion, Zack McKracken, or the Indian Jones games.

Harrier Attack on the 48k