The Best 1980s Games

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Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration (2022)

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87

Review score

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Playstation 5

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration takes players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games via interviews with designers, developers and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents, high-res original artwork, and a curated list of more than 90 playable games.

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• arcade
• classic
• retro
• 1980s
• historical
• interactive
• software
• compilation
• vector
• voxel
• pinball
• shoot-em-up
• platform
• education
• pvp

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Good match + 7 Bad match - 5

2

Mega Serval (2022)

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100

Review score

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PC Windows

Serval's friends are in danger and it's up to her to save the day! Progress through 12 action-packed platforming stages in this "Kemono Friends Project" derivative work!

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• 1980s
• dystopian
• nature
• post-apocalyptic
• 2d
• platform
• single-player
• third-person
• pixel
• cartoony
• colourful

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3

Shatter Remastered Deluxe (2022)

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71

Review score

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Mac OS Linux Xbox One Xbox Series X

Relive the award-winning classic that redefined the brick-breaking genre. Shatter returns in stunning 4K resolution running at 120fps, with a modernised UI, and multiple visual improvements. Re-experience the highly acclaimed original soundtrack, remixed and remastered in 5.1 surround sound.

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• destruction
• cooperative
• 1980s
• cyberpunk
• arcade
• abstract
• attack
• score
• local
• physics
• linear
• colourful
• futuristic
• space
• pvp

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Good match + 1 Bad match - 2

4

Donut Dodo (2022)

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89

Review score

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

If a long lost arcade game from 1983 resurfaced today, it would be Donut Dodo - a classic 2D platformer from the golden era, tough as nails and challenging for the whole family! Ready to top the high score table?

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• arcade
• attack
• score
• 2d
• 1980s
• platform
• chiptune
• linear
• funny
• retro
• cartoony
• old-school
• pixel
• action
• sprite-work

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Good match + 1 Bad match - 2

5

The friends of Ringo Ishikawa (2018)

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100

Review score

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Xbox One Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa is a unique and inscrutable narrative-brawler that explores the lives of high school seniors contemplating their future after graduation. You play as Ringo and take part in 2D brawler-style combat, buy food and books to replenish your health and stamina, attend classes, study, work part-time jobs and train at the gym.

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Pros:

• Unique experience full of freedom
• Cool pixelated graphical style
• Atmospheric soundtrack
• Discover routines in the town
• Follow them and learn different actions you can take

Cons:

• No tutorials or hints provided
• No world map or quest markers given
• Combat could feel more responsive

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• beat-em-up
• brawler
• 1980s
• martial
• arts
• rpg
• open-world
• pixel
• scroller
• atmospheric
• drama
• sandbox
• anime
• brawler-type
• 2d

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Good match + 1 Bad match

6

Cannibal Abduction (2023)

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97

Review score

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

The family is hungry and he must provide, VHS slasher survival horror.

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• 1980s
• survival-horror
• horror
• gore
• retro
• mystery
• violent
• single-player

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Good match + 1 Bad match

7

Bloodwash (2021)

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90

Review score

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A serial killer is terrorizing the city, and Sara's deadbeat boyfriend hasn't done the laundry. Can Sara survive a late-night trip to the laundromat, or will the Womb Ripper perform an early delivery?

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• horror
• gore
• 1980s
• survival-horror
• walking-simulator
• first-person
• fiction
• dark
• run-down
• interactive
• old-school
• atmospheric
• action-adventure
• crime
• 3d

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Good match + 2 Bad match - 5

8

Retrowave (2020)

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94

Review score

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Xbox One Android PC Windows

Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!

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• 1980s
• racing
• retro
• music
• 1990s
• simulation
• casual
• cyberpunk
• relaxing
• psychedelic
• addictive

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Good match + 1 Bad match - 13

9

The Kids We Were (2020)

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82

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IOS iPhone Android Nintendo Switch PC Windows

A cinematic adventure game with a heavy focus on narrative.

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• voxel
• 1980s
• adventure
• narrative
• emotional
• retro
• drama
• story

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Good match + 2 Bad match - 9

10

Breakout: Recharged (2022)

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64

Review score

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux Xbox One Xbox Series X

The original brick breaker returns with its toughest challenge yet. Survive as long as you can in arcade or take on one of 50 challenges picking up game-changing power-ups along the way.

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• arcade
• psychedelic
• modern
• 1980s
• cooperative
• retro
• multi-ball
• family-friendly
• colourful
• linear
• attack
• score
• rail
• local
• 2d

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