Pre-1985 recommendations?

[Jay]

As my retro consoles have been somewhat overshadowed by next-gen goodies of late, a friend and I have decided to dedicate a week to retro games. More specifically, it's going to be 1984 week. No MAME, no other emulators, only games released in or before 1984 (my jammy mate gets to play his tabletop DOnkey Kong though). This means plenty of C64, Spectrum , Colecovision, Atari 2600, XE and so on. So, what should I be playing? Any recommendations?

Jay

[Mayhem]

Anything early by Ultimate for Speccy
Impossible Mission (C64)
Choplifter (C64)
Beach Head (C64)
Encounter (C64)
Boulderdash (C64)
Adventure (2600)
Combat (2600)
Pitfall (2600)
Star Raiders (2600)

[MIK]

ZX81 - 3D Monster Maze
Speccy - Ant Attack


Get going

[quirky]

Elite should keep you busy. 1984 it was released on the BBC.

[Madbury]

ZX81 - 3D Monster Maze
Speccy - Ant Attack


Get going

I Second 3D Monster Maze what a fantastic little game. It took me about an hour to work out what was going on. Initial reaction "What are all these blocks, this is rubbish". 1 hour later "Oh I can see it now it's in 3D awesome".

[chocklo]

Loads of 2 player games available on the 2600

Air-sea battle
Combat
Basketball
Space Invaders

Can't remember whether these were pre or post 1984 but you could probably kill a day doing some Epyx classics on the C64

Summer Games
Summer Games2
Winter Games
Pitstop2

[Afterbirth]

Revs - BBC 'B'
Starion (a bit like elite) - C64/Speccy
Snoopy and the red Baron - 2600
Smurfs - Colecovision
Frogger - Colecovision
International Soccer - C64 (cart only i think)
Blagger - C64 (may be post 84).
Firetrack - BBC ' B' (first home computer REAL hardcore shooter ?)


Night Hunter or SNAFU - Aquarius (oh you ain't got one?
well you ain't that hardcore!).