TGIF - PC games in the 1980s

If you were a kid growing up in the 1980s, you might have played some of these games on the PC. Computers were prohibitive expensive those days but I was able to play with an uncle’s Mac Plus and a friend’s Pre-Pentium DOS PC in those days.

Check out this video if this brings back any memories!

My personal favorites were:

  1. Loderunner - for all the puzzles

  2. Karateka - for the various fighting techniques before Street Fighter

  3. Airborne Ranger - for pretending to be a soldier playing FPS

  4. Operation Wolf - for piloting a helicopter gunship -enough said!

  5. Tetris - for love of polyominos

  6. Nuclear War - because we all want to be a tyrant (some day!) and blow something up

  7. Gunship - cos you can’t have too many helicopter gunships

So which were your favorites? We will discuss how some of these games help in educational and learning ways another time.