The Greatest Games (1985)

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.

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