I'm slowly creating a list of 80s retro stuff I want to revisit. This is for 1981.
Electronic Games Magazine: I remember reading EGM but not in the 80s. The only gaming mags I knew about then were Dragon Magazine, which was mainly about DnD, and The General, about war games. I would love to come across old issues of EGM to read. I just found Digital Press and their collection of EGMs you can read in PDF format, even print them. Very cool. I may try and print issue one to read. I'd rather try and recreate the viseral feel of reading a real magazine then reading on the web.
Fantasy (SNK): An action arcade game that uses a continue feature, maybe the first instance of that. It's on the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection.
Space Dungeon (Taito): An early twin-stick shooter, one of the first. It got an Atari 5200 port but is not on the Atari 50 collection unfortuneately. It is on the PSP game Taito Legends Power-UP which I still have.
Treasure Island (Data East): This arcade game has an isometric view and makes me think of it as an adventure version of Q*bert. It is not on the only Data East collection I know of for Wii, Data East Arcade Classics. I used to own it, but sold it. I'm kicking myself now for that. But Treasure Island is not there anyway. I'd need the TI-99 computer port or some sort of online emulation to play it now. I'll think about it.
Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Sir Tech): Oh, my favorite Apple II game, and I played it in the 80s (unlike the others above) around 1984 on the Apple IIc. I have the excellent NES port which I will bring out again. My meatspace friend will likely join me and play it too on his own machine. We'll think up of some competition for it perhaps. It's the best of the early wireframe dungeon crawl RPGs. Many subsequent games have been inspired by it. I'm thinking of new names for my characters already.
Axis & Allies board game: I was playing the Avalon Hill game Squad Leader and its expansions at the time. Axis & Allies is a simpler war game I've always wanted to try. There have been many versions of the game published and even a reprint of the original game. I've seen it in Barnes & Noble. So, I may get it and give it a spin.
That's 1981. My list grows. It's gonna be fun playing all this stuff starting next week.
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