It's everyone's favorite decade for video games, the 1970s
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There are a billion bad versions of Lunar Lander. I think I literally made one IRL in a high school game design class. But that first one? Fuuuuck yeah
The most iconic educational video game in American history, The Oregon Trail is weird, accidentally hilarious, and iconic. Can you reduce its legacy down to the fact that it taught entire generations of Americans that contracting dysentery was a punchline? Maybe. But it's a fascinating, forward-looking management sim, too - it preempts games like State of Decay, Wasteland and This War of Mine, featuring survival and management mechanics that wouldn't become industry standard features for decades.
I don't want to, you know, get like TOO real on here, but I remember playing a straight up busted version of Breakout on my parents' flip phones as a kid. I would beg them, "please, I need more of the Breakout" and they would tell me "NO, no more breakout while we're at this Pizza Hut." I'm an adult now, and I can play Breakout whenever I want, even if I'm at a Pizza Hut
Why do you think the asteroid person was out there in deep space? Is Asteroids, like, the deep space warcraft equivalent of joyriding?
If Sheriff would have been present for literally any climactic scene in any Red Dead game, things would have turned out MUCH differently for our favorite cowboy heroes
Do the space invaders move faster because they are determined or because they are afraid to die?
Gotta give big ups to Adventure. You gotta because of The Bird. The Bird will find you, and The Bird will eat you, and The Bird will fly you away if you do not give the big ups to it
I guess Night Driver is like, SUPER dark, I mean, it's a game where, with NO context at all, you turn off your headlights late at night and drive as fast as you can into oncoming traffic. But also..........NIGHT DRIVER
What possibly could have motivated these MANIACS not to include Ping in their Ping Pong game??????? Ping is the best part
In Outlaw, a cactus can stop a bullet, and it can do so forever