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Re: Most popular video game the year you were born.
10/31/16 02:52 AM
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> > I don't think there was a most popular game during the video game crash of 1983. I > couldn't even think of taking on the golden age of video games. > > > What are we meaning by popular anyways? In '83 was when I started playing vids very > much, and when I encountered my favorite games: Xevious, Gyruss, and Star Wars. '83 > was a fucking great year in that regard. Dragon's Lair for honorable mention, because > I thought it was way cool, but I sucked at it. In fact, most of the great games of > '82 I encountered in '83. > > '71, who fucking knows. My earliest memories of vids are of the neighbor kid's 2600, > probably in '77.
It still would have been hard to top the likes of Pac-Man, Space Invaders (including Galaxian/Galaga, and Xevious as you mentioned, moving away from the space theme), Donkey Kong, Dig Dug/Mr. Do and the other golden age era games.
That said, one of my all-time top Atari 2600 games was Battlezone, released in none other than 1983 - how they managed to program a 3D third-person shooter on the 2600 is a miracle in itself!
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