80s Games List

The best video games and board games from the 1980s.

I've played all of the 80s games on this list.

My favorites would have to be Hangman, Pacman, Cintipede, Asteroids and Simon!

I would sit in the living room floor and play Simon, alone, for hours. There was something about trying to beat Simon at his own game.

My brother and I had an Atari system, yes I am old. We thought we were the bomb.

Pacman was my mom's favorite. Anything that involved blowing up things, was my brother's.

Ahh. The good old days.

• Hangman: One of the earliest word games. You had to guess the word one letter at a time before your stick man was hanged.
• Centipede: You were battling against a killer centipede. You had to destroy all its body parts before any of them destroyed you.
• Pacman: Who can forget that beautiful round yellow creature with one eye and and a triangular-shaped mouth?
• Missle Command: More shooting them before they shot you.
• Q-bert: 1982 archade game in which the animated Q-bert was the good guy.
• Frogger: Frogger was really fun. You had to safely get your frog across the road in traffic, across the river, etc.
• Space Invaders: I think this game started a little before the 80s but was still popular into the 80s. You were battling Space Aliens!
• Moon Patrol: You were a police officer, driving a moon buggy, on the moon's surface.


• Star Castle: You controlled the spaceship that was trying to destroy the enemies rotating cannon.
• Asteroids: Another space game. You had to destroy them before they hit. The astroids would progressively fall faster and more furious.
• Tetris: A puzzle video game where the blocks would fall and you had to move and rotate them so they would fall without spaces.
• Simon: Simon was round with big red, blue, green, and yellow squares. It was sort of an electronic game of memory. I loved it.