Hi I’m looking for different popular games before 1990 please post your 5 favourite games.

Here is mine:

Bubble bobble (1986)
Super Mario Bros. (1985)
Super Mario World (1990)
Giana Sisters
Impossible Mission (1984)

...Nobody answered yet, but my favorites are:

Riveraid (Atari 2600)
Spy vs Spy (Commodore 64)
Raid over Moscow (Commodore 64)
Exploding Fists (Commodore 64)
Yi Ar Kunfu...don't know how to spell it (Commodore 64)

ExciteBike
Super mario bros. 1
super mario bros. 3
Pinball
balloon fight

Thanks guys

eggTweedyegg: Pinball, what game of pinball I know quite a few...

"Kickstart" and "Wizard Of War" for the C64! They were played them to death. Also "Daley Thompsons Decathlon" (think that was the title). I'm still amazed that those c64 joysticks survived our gaming sessions.

it's called "pinball". It was one of the first NES games. In the same line of Golf, Tennis, Ice hockey, etc. These games were awesome and even funnier than some bad recent games

I don't tend to like the oldies that much, but I'll mention the Super Mario Bros games (especially 3) and Kirby's Adventure.

Mario 3!

Um... I vaguely remember this thing where u shoot ducks. And then there's a dog that comes outta the bushes. Duck hunt? It was on the first Nintendo too.

A few others... I honestly can't remember their names. There's this one where you're flying and you're armed with a long pointy thing and you try to burst your enemy's balloon with it.

Tennis for the NES.

Still one of the best party games ever. No idea why.

So simple, so addicting? Crazy

I played that Tennis game from NES too. Although if you have PS2 you should play Sega Sports Tennis. It's so addictive, plus you have the top seeds.

RC Pro Am
Legend of Zelda
SMB

I played Super Mario Bros. 2 & 3 before. Mostly NES games like Bomber Man, Battle City and Adventure Island. I played it when I was about 9 yrs. old with my cousins. and until now..

Games during or before 1990:

The Secret of Monkey Island.
Stunt Car Racer.
Rick Dangerous (though I much prefer the 1992 sequel Rick Dangerous 2).
Creatures. (there have been a few games by this name but I am referring to the one starring Clive Radcliffe as the hero who has to save various animals hidden about a landscape. At the end of the level, he enters a 'torture room' in which an animal is due to be mortally wounded in a fiendish, elaborate way, unless Clive can save him. It was a great game that spawned a sequel that purely had the torture rooms. It may sound in poor taste but it wasn't done that way. The game also featured probably the finest Commodore 64 graphics and music- I played it a few years ago and didn't feel like I was playing something that had drastically aged.)
The Dizzy games released after Treasure Island Dizzy.

In my opinion, there tended to be an even greater number of excellent games released after 1990 on the Amiga, particularly during 1991-1992, such as Lemmings, Cannon Fodder, Another World, Gods, Pinball Dreams and its sequels. It was really 1990-1995 that was a hey-day for 2D gaming. As the Megadrive and then the SNES were launched, the PC and Amiga continued to produce great platform and adventure games including Superfrog and Fire and ice.

Super Mario World was released in 1991 in the UK (1990 in Japan.)

Oh boy...here I go again mentioning these games.

Legacy of the Ancients (C64 - Electoric Arts 1987)
Elite (C64 - Firebird Software 1985)
Gauntlet (Coin Op - Atari 1985)
Speedball (Amiga - Bitmap Brothers 1988)
StuntCar Racer (Amiga - Microstyle 1988)

Super Mario World is AWESOME

sry its only 1 game lol but it is great

Punch OUT!
Ghost'n goblins
Ghouls'n ghost
Super mario 3 & world

Probably lemmings and captain planet for the amiga.

1. jet set willy (fav or most frustrating, can't decide (c64)
2. super pipeline II (c64)
3. lesiure suit larry (ibm)
4. kings quest (ibm)
5. galactic games II (c64) - for the eyeball space hockey

Oh! I love this thread! I'm a huge fan of this era of videogames, and I couldn't possibly narrow my list down any further. (In chronological order)

Hunt the Wumpus [1975? TI/99a Home Computer] (The first survival-horror! Haha)
Parsec [1982 TI/99a Home Computer]
Fathom [1983 TI/99a Home Computer]

Breakthru [1987 NES]
Wizards & Warriors [1987 NES]
1943 [1988 NES]
Blaster Master [1988 NES]
City Connection [1988 NES]
Lifeforce [1988 NES]
Defender of the Crown [1989 NES]
Shadowgate [1989 NES]

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And a couple that just barely missed the list, but are certainly worth mentioning (on the basis that they're AWESOME):

Final Fantasy [1990 NES]
Maniac Mansion [1990 NES]
M.U.L.E. [1990 NES]