{"id":1629,"date":"2021-05-27T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-80s-ranked\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:45:35","slug":"the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-80s-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-80s-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 greatest video games of the 80s \u2013 ranked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Button-bashing arcade sports vied with the thrill of urban planning, Pac-Man ate up everything, and Super Mario Bros smashed gaming into the mainstream<\/p>\n<p>The 1980s were crammed with wonderful adventure games \u2013 The Hobbit, King\u2019s Quest, Leather Goddesses of Phobos \u2013 but the first point-and-click title to be designed by comic genius Ron Gilbert using the SCUMM scripting language is the classic that busted out of the genre ghetto. Filled with great jokes and B-movie cliches, the game made brilliant use of its accessible and intuitive interface, as well as seamlessly integrating cutscenes and non-sequential puzzles. The start of a weird and special era.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/may\/27\/the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-80s-ranked\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0f0f3a4bbe25401bb558483ce387799b7b7b48f5\/0_281_4613_2767\/master\/4613.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ed522c42b97649230285dca05151ff3f\" title=\"The 15 greatest video games of the 80s \u2013 ranked!\" \/>Button-bashing arcade sports vied with the thrill of urban planning, Pac-Man ate up everything, and Super Mario Bros smashed gaming into the mainstream<br \/>\nThe 1980s were crammed with wonderful adventure games \u2013 The Hobbit, King\u2019s Quest, Leather Goddesses of Phobos \u2013 but the first point-and-click title to be designed by comic genius Ron Gilbert using the SCUMM scripting language is the classic that busted out of the genre ghetto. Filled with great jokes and B-movie cliches, the game made brilliant use of its accessible and intuitive interface, as well as seamlessly integrating cutscenes and non-sequential puzzles. The start of a weird and special era. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Button-bashing arcade sports vied with the thrill of urban planning, Pac-Man ate up everything, and Super Mario Bros smashed gaming into the mainstream The 1980s were crammed with wonderful adventure games \u2013 The Hobbit, King\u2019s Quest, Leather Goddesses of Phobos \u2013 but the first point-and-click title to be designed by comic genius Ron Gilbert using &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-80s-ranked\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 15 greatest video games of the 80s \u2013 ranked!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}