I played hundreds of games as a kid in the mid to late 80s and onwards. These are some of the early ones I spent most time on and remember most fondly.

Commodore 64
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Bobble"]Bubble Bobble[/URL]
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_USA"]Agent USA[/URL]
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumshoe_(video_game)"]Gumshoe[/URL]

Amiga
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faery_Tale_Adventure"]The Fairy Tale Adventure[/URL]
[URL="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085260/Ports_of_Call_Classic/"]Ports of Call[/URL]
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K240"]K240[/URL]
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/A-18_Interceptor"]F/A-18 Interceptor[/URL] (One of the first flight simulators)

[QUOTE=ATH;572487]I played hundreds of games as a kid in the mid to late 80s and onwards. These are some of the early ones I spent most time on and remember most fondly.

Commodore 64
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Bobble"]Bubble Bobble[/URL]
[/QUOTE]

Bubble Bobble [STRIKE]was[/STRIKE] is so great!

I was more in on Grand Prix from Micropose or Indycar from Papyrus. Loved Flight Simulator but never had a capable computer to take advantage. Played majority of FPS like Doom, Heretic, wolfenstein, unreal, half-life, etc
Hated lemmings. Loved playing Golden Axe with sister. First time I bough a CD-ROM recorder I just saved all my floppy disk games onto CD’s.

[QUOTE=slandrum;572482]The most memorable name of a commercial game that I wrote was Communist Mutants from Space - early 80's Atari 2600 game on cassette tape that required our SuperCharger module.[/QUOTE]

Can you take any credit for [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)#:~:text=In%20published%20materials%20written%20more,Gaming%20Monthly's%20150th%20issue."]E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial[/URL]?

One of the instructors at the trade school where I went loved [I]Leisure Suit Larry[/I]. This was in the late 1980's. :smile:

[QUOTE=rogue;572509]Can you take any credit for [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)#:~:text=In%20published%20materials%20written%20more,Gaming%20Monthly's%20150th%20issue."]E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial[/URL]?[/QUOTE]

No - I cannot. None of the games I designed or worked on ever reached that level of fame/infamy.

[QUOTE=storm5510;572564]One of the instructors at the trade school where I went loved [I]Leisure Suit Larry[/I]. This was in the late 1980's. :smile:[/QUOTE]'Twas an okay game IMO.

But I remember one particular amusing moment with that game.

When the game was started the player had to "prove" they were 18+ years old. And it did that with a random selection of questions that supposedly only people 18+ would be able to answer. Anyhow, since the questions came from a limited pool it didn't take long for anyone sufficiently patient, and without any prior knowledge, to brute force all the answers. The game made it easier to do that because as soon as you answered one question wrong it immediately informed the player of the failure and quit. It would have been much harder if it asked all the questions first and then checked all the answers together with a single output of pass/fail. But I digress, it was just supposed to be for fun, and not meant as a robust age detection method.

To this day one of the questions stuck in my mind, because it was so quirky. I reproduce it here from memory, so it might not be perfectly accurate, but it should give the general gist. Multi-choice:

Q: I have hair ...
a1: ... on my chin
a2: ... under my arms
a3: ... on my chest
a4: ... lotsa places

DOTA with love)

[QUOTE=Prime95;43362]I enjoyed Maze Wars. Friends and I wasted many a night playing that game on Imlacs at NASA Ames Research Center. Of course, it was valuable QA for the network as no other program but as big a strain on the system.[/QUOTE]

Nice post. My question is: What other games were available for Imlacs?

Fired up Doom again the other day ...

There are times when I think I live on another planet... the only overlap from all games mentioned in this thread and the ones I've played in the 90s is Pacman, more precisely, the game was called "Pac Family 64" (you guess what PC that ran on;). Somehow I found out that when I pressed "Run/Stop" at a certain time when starting, the #lives would settle at 2 (instead of the 25 and counting down in the usual run) and I could play indefinitely. On two occasions I wanted to see how many levels there are, but every time I got bored after maybe two hours and 20 levels or so...
Never even heard about many of the games mentioned so far, which doesn't mean I didn't play a lot of games.

Anyway, my favorite C64 game would probably be "David's Midnight Magic", a variant of flipper. I kept a long-term list of my scores, because at one point in time I settled for the idea of reaching an average of 25,000 points per ball, a goal I had to struggle to keep up with, but eventually I managed to do so. My highest score, by the way, was 734,400 points, on Feb 13, 2003. I even have a VHS recording of the last minutes of that game.

My second most favorite, or, the most favorite by around 1995, was "Cheeky Twins". Some joysticks didn't survive that game. My brother once got through all 33 levels. I didn't get past level 24.

"Bouncy Cars" was very fun, the first time I played that one I barely passed level 1 because I couldn't stop laughing at the way the cars bounced :lol:
"Asteroids" also had about the same effect at the beginning. So these were my favorite at least for some time in the past.