There are so many. Wing Commander, Elite, Archon, the Microprose flight simulators, Silent Service, three of the greatest baseball games ever (Earl Weaver, Hardball! and Tony Larussa Baseball; most of the original Sierra studio's games, plus the later Sierre Online sports games. Surely on technical merit alone, Strike…

Go color computer 16K! Remember how you could cheat by having your catcher in Color Baseball return the ball to the pitcher on foot, then throw the next pitch before he was back behind the plate and get a strike every time? That's in the days when you could actually hunt for bugs like easter eggs. The Color computers…

No rogue, No Ultima, no Karateka… I think whoever drew up this list of nominees was skewing pretty young.

Wow, lots of forgotten early classics that had huge influence. No Odyssey? No Earl Weaver Baseball? No F15 Strike Eagle or Pirates!?