Try to mix in as many systems as possible:

Here are my choices, with systems:

1: Bards Tale 1 on C64

2: Donkey Kong on the Colecovision

3: Pirates for the C64, Apple, and Amiga

4: B-52 bomber on the Intellivision

5: M.U.L.E. on various systems......awesome game.

In no particular order

M.U.L.E (1983) - Agreed. The daddy of all strategy games. Respect it

Bard's Tale (1985)

Legend of Zelda (1986)

Sid Meier's Pirates (1987 I think)

Tetris (1986) - The best game ever.

I could have chosen about 30 others though.

The origional Railroad Tycoon was an awesome game, epecially on my old mac Plus, But I don't remember if it fits the pre-1988 requirement, maybe someone couold help me on that. Operation:Desert Storm by bungie (makers of halo) was also a really good old mac game, But I can't remember if it was pre-1988 either.

for some really good old mac games(abandonware) check here at the macintosh garden

hmm...

1. Pacman all tha way!
2. Bubble Bobble
3. Galaga
4. Tetris
5. Donkey Kong

I'm pretty sure the PC version is pre-1988...

1. Railraod Tycoon (1 is MUCH better then 2, IMO)

2. Civilization ( The first was the best, onyl got worse with age)

3. Tetris

4. Zelda

5. Pacman (Ah, the years of my life i have lost/am losing..)

Ports of Call
Mission Impossible
Bubble Bobble (brilliant game)
Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
Farey Tale Adventure




(Although I'm tempted to through in TV Sports Basketball, a very under rated game, and The Three Stooges (Cinemaware / Mindscape) was also under rated )

Oh yeah the Bards Tale was boring even compared to Ports of Call.

Pirates!

Ghostbusters

Last Ninja

California Games

AirBorne Ranger

nuff said!

Defnately Pirates! was my favorite computer game back then. Most of the others I played were text based Zork type games. Oh and Oregon Trail!

Non PC games, I would say Pitfall, Galaga, Mega Man, Dragon Warrior, and... Lode Runner

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