Golden Age Classic Game Reviews

Champion Baseball

Champion Baseball: classicarcadegrafix

Made by Alpha Dneshi Co. in 1983 and published by Sega, Champion Baseball was considered an advanced baseball game for the time. Players can control batters and pitchers in a split screen game play, giving you the ability to supervise the action on the field. This title produced a sequel. In my opinion, this was a very fun game and I played several games. The basic gameplay makes it both difficult and addicting. The computer was smarter than me and seemed to be able to hit better than me as well. On a scale from 1-10, I would give this game a 7. I will add a .5 to this for having Texas as a team option. Total for Champion Baseball 7.5.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom:
Altered for Educational use

Made and produced by Atari in 1985. The game and title are named after the movie that came out in 1984. It was the first Atari game that had vocalized speech by using Harrison Ford clips from the movie. In this game you play as Indiana Jones and you accomplish tasks such as saving imprisoned children while fighting bad guys, snakes, and skeletons with his famous whip. This game was a lot of fun and difficult. What made it hard is that you cannot take out bad guys with the whip - they just fall and come back after you. My favorite part of the game was using the getaway mine cart to move levels. You even get to blow up enemies with gas cans. I give this game an 8 out of 10. I even racked up a high score and got #8 on the list.

Star Trek: Strategic Operations System

Star Trek: Systems Operations
System: The Strong

Made in 1982 and released by Sega in 1983. It has a two-screen system known as a vector game with a 2D display and a 3D display. The goal is to take down any ships with your ship by using phasers and using warp speed to navigate through space to dodge mines and dock at the star base. This game is my favorite of the 3 that I decided to review. It has smooth controls and you glide around the galaxy obliterating the enemy with ease. It starts off at an easy level and progressively gets more difficult at a good pace. I imagine this game would have been huge when it first hit the market. Especially with the captain’s seat system where you would fill like you are in the Starship Enterprise. This game gets a 9 out of 10.