The best games of all time... from 1980

Stuart Sumner
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The games industry was just beginning at the dawn of the '80s, with home computing era still a couple of years off, it was the coin-op titles which kicked things off at the start of the decade. But which games were at the top of the pile?

The 1980s were when video games broke out of the fairground, rammed down front doors and invaded homes everywhere. But at the start of the decade home computers were still rare, so it was in the co...

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