It became the best-selling computer RPG of the '80s, selling 407,000 copies, and The Bard's Tale went on to spawn a trilogy.

Here it is, the very best games of the '80s. Remembered as a period of wild experimentation, what you'll find on this ranking is some of the best retro games of all-time. From the sheer ingenuity of ...

The Atari 2600 version of Donkey Kong isn't completely unplayable, although it's noticeably more limited and difficult to ...

Twenty years ago, the creators of some of the most beloved adventure games in history disappeared. Ken and Roberta Williams were a young married couple when they co-founded a little computer game ...

Video games are back bigger and more inventive after being nearly zapped from the market, popularity peaked in 1983 but this industry was bloated with hundreds of firms producing thousands of games.

Top: Don Gilman, a pioneer of early computer games, holds up an "antique" Radio Shack laptop used widely in the Õ80s. The piece belongs to "Computer Game Making in the '80s," an exhibit on display at ...