The Greatest Games: The 93 Best Computer Games of All Time – A Compute! Book by Dan Gutman and Shay Addams
Publication Region: North America
Published: January 1985
Cut-Off: December 31, 1984
The Greatest Games: The 93 Best Computer Games of All Time is an unranked list by Dan Gutman and Shay Addams from 1985. The list is separated by genre, which is recreated below.
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All-Text Adventure Games
- Cutthroats
- Earthly Delights
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Planetfall
- Zork
Classic Arcade Games
- Centipede
- Donkey Kong
- Missile Command
- Pac-Man
- Space Invaders
Cute Games
- Drol
- Frogger
- Pogo Joe
- Preppie
- Qbert
Driving Games
- Pitstop
- Pole Position
- Rally Speedway
- Turbo
Educational Games
- Agent USA
- MasterType
- The Seven Cities of Gold
- Snooper Troops: Case #1 – The Granite Point Ghost / Snooper Troops: Case #2 – The Case of the Disappearing Dolphin
Games That Let You Create Your Own Games
- Adventure Construction Set
- The Arcade Machine
- Lode Runner
- Night Mission Pinball
- Pinball Construction Set
Graphic Adventures
- Dragonworld
- Fahrenheit 451
- Lucifer’s Realm
- The Mask of the Sun
- Mindshadow
Ladder Games
- Hard Hat Mack
- Jumpman / Jumpman Junior
- Miner 2049er
- Popeye
- Spy’s Demise
Maze Games
- Boulder Dash
- Juice
- Kid Grid
- Ms. Pac-Man
- Oil’s Well
- Space Taxi
Mind Games
- Fax
- Intellectual Decathlon
- Sargon III
Murder Games
- Deadline
- Murder by the Dozen
- Murder on the Zinderneuf
- Suspect
- The Witness (1983)
Off-the-Wall Games
- Archon: The Light and the Dark
- Aztec
- Castle Wolfenstein / Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
- FS1 Flight Simulator / Microsoft Flight Simulator (AKA Flight Simulator II)
- Spare Change
- Zombies (AKA Realm of Impossibility)
Rescue Games
- Choplifter
- Defender
- Fort Apocalypse
- Rescue on Fractalus
- Rescue Squad
- Robotron: 2084
Role-Playing Games
- SunDog: Frozen Legacy
- Timeship: Murder at the End of Time
- Ultima III: Exodus
- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
- Xyphus
Shoot-Em-Ups
- Astro Chase
- Beach-Head
- Blue Max
- Crossfire
- Demon Attack
- Dimension X
- Minit Man
- Repton
- Shamus: Case II
- Turmoil
- Zaxxon
Sports Games
- Ballblazer
- International Soccer
- One-On-One
- Star League Baseball
- Summer Games
Strike It Rich Games
- Ken Uston’s Professional Blackjack
- Millionaire: The Stock Market Simulation
- MULE
- Oil Barons
- Run for the Money
War Games
- Combat Leader
- Knights of the Desert
- Operation Whirlwind