# Favorite 80's Video Game **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 25, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-video-game/38330 "2000-10-25T23:18:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-video-game/38330/61 "2000-10-29T16:02:20Z")
I remember Elevator Action, but there was another way to get to the top of a building–climb up the outside. I’m talking, of course, about “Crazy Climber.” The best part was when you heard him say “ouch!” when being hit in the head by a flowerpot, or “oh no!” as he fell. You had two joysticks, and you had to climb up the side of a building as people opened and closed windows, birds dropped things on you, etc. Man, that was a fun one. ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-video-game/38330/62 "2000-10-30T00:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\*Satan wrote: > > > [@](#): > > > > Can there anything cooler than **Zork**? > > Since when does Zork qualify as a **video** game? \*\* If it is displayed via a video monitor or television set, it qualifies as a video game. Otherwise, it is a board game, or an outdoors game, or a card game, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-video-game/38330/63 "2000-10-30T01:03:42Z")
I can’t believe no one mentioned **Metroid**. Holy shit, that was the coolest game ever. I would play it and beat it, then play it all over again and again and again and again. Then my mom said “You’re too fat. I threw your Nintendo away. Go mow the lawn.” She was just fuckin’ with me, though. She just hid it and when she gave it back a week later, she said that I could only have it back if I promised to limit my playing time. I had decided to take up YAFL (pee-wee football) anyway, and a few months later the thing was gathering dust in my closet anyway. I was 10. Ahhh, memories. Metroid still kills people, though. I love that game. ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-video-game/38330/64 "2000-10-30T01:10:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lexicon \* > \*\*I can’t believe no one mentioned **Metroid**. Holy shit, that was the coolest game ever. I would play it and beat it, then play it all over again and again and again and again. > Then my mom said > > “You’re too fat. I threw your Nintendo away. Go mow the lawn.” > > She was just fuckin’ with me, though. She just hid it and when she gave it back a week later, she said that I could only have it back if I promised to limit my playing time. I had decided to take up YAFL (pee-wee football) anyway, and a few months later the thing was gathering dust in my closet anyway. I was 10. > > Ahhh, memories. Metroid still kills people, though. I love that game. \*\* Dude I LOVE LOVE LOVE Metroid II for Gameboy, that game was SO awesome…I beat it like 500 times and I still can’t get enough of it:) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-video-game/38330.md?page=3)