Game of the decade: The 1980s

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For me it's Super Mario Bros 3. The sheer scope, variety, and polish outclassed many games of the following generation much less its own. As Rol says, 8-bit graphics aside it really did feel like an SNES game come early. In my opinion, it remains one of the finest 2D platformers ever made even more than three decades later.

Honourable mentions go to Mario Bros 1 & 2, (US/Doki Doki panic version) Galaga, Tetris, and Dig Dug.