1984, Game of the Year

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SvennoJ said:

Oof that's a hard choice between King's Quest, making the point and click adventure popular, and Elite which is still going today and popularized seamless open world gameplay.

1942 was tons of fun, I played River raid more though (also 1984)


Elite had me totally addicted to space exploration, both in University playing Elite Frontier Encounters after classes in the computer room, coming back to uni in the evening to play together with friends, and again in 2015 when Elite Dangerous came out.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/exploration-quest-for-the-loneliest-planet.132053/

But I'll vote King's quest as that led to Myst which became one of the first games that became main stream. Point and click adventures are still everywhere today on everything.

I have yet to play any version of Elite, which is a mistake on my part.  It looks like the type of game I'd really like.  I also periodically try to go back and play a few high profile games like this that I missed when they were new.

Kyuu said:

Yie Ar Kung Fu!

Or Circus Charlie.

Edit: Sasa was cool too. Plenty of decent/good games released in 1984 it seems.

I had fond memories of playing Circus Charlie in the arcade.  It wasn't a cabinet that a lot of people in the arcade were crowding around though.

Several big "Karate" games got released this year: Bruce Lee, Kung Fu, and Karateka.

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