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Nothing was more fun as a 6 year old kid than kicking the bear in the bum and falling all the way down the mountain in Alpiner. Getting farted on by the skunk was also a joy!

Microsurgeon was unbelievable! Especially the TI port. One of the best looking games you could play at home back in the day. That’s the game I showed to friends to show just how capable the system was. Nothing ever surpassed it. The multiple screens and the zoom in screen plus speech made it the juggernaut of TI games.

My single biggest regret was not having Popeye. I didn’t know it had a port until years later and a really good one.

Love it. I remember most of these. It's mind blowing that some of these are around half a century old now.

Including games that were made by Namco & Taito? This looks like a lazy list.

4-Player Bowling Alley seems to have set the standard for trackball video bowling games over the years.

Let me guess, someone at Midway was a big baseball fan?

Bosconian still holds up. Love that game.

Is there anyway to post a list of release dates in the same order as the video? This would be useful for the pre 1980 titles and more obscure pre Merger titles. For example: the two western Shooters: Tombstone and (???) ( which clearly inspired the Atari VCS Outlaw).. which one came first? Tombstone with the analog overlay graphic. Looks to be a bit later. The glut of very similar baseball titles: japanese licenses? Man... That TV Basketball game is wretchid looking!!! Are the "TV" titles the oldest? This is the reason i would like to see the dates as part of the format ( chronologocal order maybe too).... Having grwon up in Chicagoland (Midway's home) a lot of these games are vaguely familiar. But being that didnt reach the height needed (our basic autonomy needed to be let loose in a restaurant game room) to play them until around 1981.... Some of these oldest versions were already relics by that time, having been moved aside (or re-cabinete?) for the newer more profitable ones. I am also curious in a few of them that you show the dual analog and digital game displays ( maybe sea wolf or another had red analog loading displays that actually were part of the game?).. Some of the sprites of the late 1970's titles are really great... They are coming into their own. A few of the games... Like "Shuffleboard" made me think " who needs video shuffleboard?" ( Real shuffleboard played at my grandparent's retirement complex was really a great game)... But then... As a tech demo, the physics of Shuffleboard.. actally look impressive. Great video overall. Thanks

Everything Sega is said to have failed for is exactly what current gen consoles are praised for doing: huge clone game libraries i.e backwards compatibility, multiple skus of the same console with differing specs and swappable add-on hardware, VR headsets, and ever increasing graphics. Sega was right. The competition at ms and sony knew it. They worked together to run Sega out of the business to make greater room for themselves.

You do realize that everything you showed is essentially games. This is probably why this system bit the dust so early and killed commodore. They failed to take computing seriously and were wayyyy ahead of the curve for gaming systems. It ended up becoming an overblown console system.

I figured Tunnels of Doom would finish near the top!

No Star Trek, Burgertime or Jungle Hunt 😢

Would love to see a compilation of all the different games that just missed the top 20 etc basically all the honorable mentions

My dad was a cheapskate so he was all over the TI when it was severely marked down, so that was my childhood computer instead of something more popular.

Fathom and Star Trek should have made the list too

Maaaaannnnnnnn you are dragging out memories from the tape drive in my mind with this one. Crazy stuff

Why Bill why????

Oh, they did put Star Raiders II. It was called Solaris for the 2600. And now, there's a big DLC coming up.

Didn’t realize the TI-99/4A had such colorful and pretty good graphics.

Wow...one system I never got to play back in the day. From the footage, I can see I would have loved it more than Coleco or Intellivision.

Great memories! The 4A was my first computer and I'm glad to see Tunnels of Doom and Parsec top the list. Despite its shortcomings, some of the arcade ports from Parker Bros and Atarisoft were among the best versions and I'd put e.g. Popeye up against any other home computer of the day!

In the US it seems all of my friends had a TI-994a at home. I got mine as a hand me down in 1984. The games were still impressive then.

Those coin op mods were pretty epic! They deserve top 20. I got to play Only #1 and #2 and maybe TI Invaders (meh). That self mapping on Tunnels of Doom was another epic point i forgot about! I suspect the reason this computer system got so many voters/ so much love. Is that everyone that actually got to play some of these top 20 games are still fans of gaming or retro gaming today. Some systems/platforms.. The first gen fans are all gone.

I'm surprised Star Trek isn't in the top 20.

4:47 Lord British?

Oh damn! Those commercials didn't age did they?

I never realized they were actually 20 great ones for the ti-99

10:20 Such an unenthusiastic "Help!" 😝

Munchman and that maze game with the cat and mouse were the only 2 I ever played for this console. Id like one again. learned about some games in this video that. awesome

Tunnels of Doom wasn't number one, so this list is flawed. Yes, that was sarcasm.. ToD just hits my nostalgia button more.. Parsec and Munchman after that.

Full Top 50 List: 50 - Defender 49 - Dig Dug 48 - Rolling Thunder 47 - Bomb Jack 46 - Gyruss 45 - Pac-Land 44 - Asteroids 43 - Paperboy 42 - Space Invaders 41 - Operation Wolf 40 - Daytona USA 39 - RoadBlasters 38 - Final Fight 37 - Alien Vs. Predator 36 - Galaxian 35 - BurgerTime 34 - Spy Hunter 33 - Phoenix 32 - Centipede 31 - Ghouls 'n' Ghosts 30 - Marvel Vs. Capcom 29 - Wonder Boy 28 - Joust 27 - Mr. Do! 26 - Time Crisis 25 - Pole Position 24 - WWF WrestleFest 23 - Gauntlet 22 - Dragon's Lair 21 - Mortal Kombat 20 - Frogger 19 - House of the Dead 18 - Shinobi 17 - Bubble Bobble 16 - Mortal Kombat 2 15 - Robotron 2084 14 - X-Men 13 - Golden Axe 12 - Donkey Kong 11 - The Simpsons 10 - Tempest 9 - Galaga 8 - Tron 7 - Ms. Pac-Man 6 - Street Fighter II 5 - Out Run 4 - Star Wars 3 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - Pac-Man 1 - Double Dragon

Your top 20 greatest video game list of all time is absolutely awful. I really mean that. I started playing games back in 1976/77 and I can safely say that you don't understand the concept of what makes a good game. The Simpsons and TMNT - WTF??? Dragon's Lair not making the list along with a host of other Laser Disc games? No Black Tiger or Ghosts & Goblins? You didn't put Wrestlemania or The Main Event anywhere within, along with Gauntlet? And no Defender or Crystal Castles? No Mr Do either? No Nemesis/Vulcan Venture or Darius? And yet you put in Double Dragon which is essentially a rip off of Golden Axe? There's no Final Fight either for crying out loud. No Xevious, Pleiades or Phoenix. No Paper Boy, Moon Patrol or Moon Cresta? No Space Harrier, Virtua Fighter, Crazy Taxi and NOT ONE TEKKEN??? The games about were off the top of my head, in the couple of minutes it took to write this. You really need to brush up on what makes a good arcade game as you list is utter whack.

No Star Trek!? Not "Excellent maneuvering captain!" Just kidding great list! The TI994A is such a great machine! Taught me a lot as a kid!

The TI99/4A was the first computer I had. Got it in 83 at Sears. I never was able to get any of the expansion items back then because they were exorbitantly expensive. So many great titles for this system. I have put endless hours into Tunnels of Doom, alone.

Joe Ridifer of Game Sack and Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains in the same commercial, who knew?

A Game Boy clone with every submission to every Friendly Jam would be an amazing product and a perfect gaming entry point for young girls but very enjoyable for any gamer who can appreciate cozy games that put a smile on your face. Friendly Jam games would mean that any issues with the beyond cheap hardware inputs would be resolved as the games aren't generally fast action games. These systems could easily stand out by doing this kind of thing and give you a reason to buy that particular one, even making it a viable product to be sold here rather than ones like the video subject that are just a standard cheapo China model slapped with a few licensed games. (Its worth getting the roms from Friendly Jam as they are great fun. I enjoyed nearly all and some are truly excellent.)

Its crazy that they use a million variations of the worst games ever made when there is tonnes of freeware homebrew they could fill these with online. Having 300 random homebrews would be much better than 5 variations of 40 truly dire games. Eg for a Speccy system, you dont NEED the ones that require licenses, as homebrew is better than 99% of released games and there are enough games that wont cost anything to use from back in the day. But somehow losing access to terrible classics causes projects to collapse, despite free homebrew being tonnes better, not being from a time before game design language was established

Can these things be jailbroken and filled with roms? Would be a nice GB/C & GG handheld? Lack of select button would be an issue though. Requirement of a monstrous amount of batteries would mean its not worth it, even if possible though.

I think I used one, but never played any games. I used a lot of computers in the 80s but never owned them or played the games.

In the video Laird often says the videos he mentions are in the description - but they never are????

Wow. All they needed to do was clone Galaxy II and add the extra lanes. Its sad it looks less fun than the game that kicked off LCD systems in the 70s!! Galaxy II had three different rounds and a proper bonus stage. Its amazing they managed to make an LCD of the game that the best LCD was based on and ignored the true classic LCD. Galaxy II with more lanes would have made this a must buy! Everyone who has RA, grab the LCD core and you can download Galaxy II from within RA (get content) and see how much fun it is. Despite having only 3 lanes as it was the 70s and the very start of LCD, i go back to it for a round every few months at least. And i am too old to have played it as a kid too!

Whats wrong with the colour? Its all WAYYYY too bright and washed out 😨 Edit: guessing its to show the screen of the LCD up. Great video. Please review Galaxy II!! Edit2: you may remember it as Astro Wars

Isnt there a Megaduck version of this? Or that other system lol. These hurt my brain so much. Should be a comparitative review of each

The videos with no commentary like this and especially four play are boring 😢 four play could be great with a comparitative review of each. Thats what i thought it was going to be. Its just painful to the ears with 4 intro screens playing and pretty pointless too. Hopefully in future they can be more substantial and interesting

I've got all of these and I know lists are subjective but I can't believe that Blasto got in there ahead of the Parker Brothers version of Q*Bert. Still good to see a bit of TI stuff though. This may be slightly controversial for the purists but I'd also put the Homebrew 'TI Scramble' ahead of Parsec.

The TI99/4A was ahead of it's time, I ended up with one instead of the Spectrum 16K due to months of delays after ordering one, it was a much more impressive computer with a proper keyboard, sound chip, hardware sprites Etc. and I later got a C64 too. The TI99/4A "speech synthesizer" was very impressive, in extended basic you could break words in the vocabulary down to a string of parts, I spent hours cutting up tiny parts of words from the almost 400 word vocabulary to put them together to make new ones, but it was really just digitized sound, not a synthesizer. Some games were able to increase the built in vocabulary for custom digitized speech like the male and female speech in Alpiner for instance.

Just had to say that you're very brave by courting controversy by including a clip with Bill Cosby at the beginning of your video.

Im shocked Death Tank Zwei isnt on here. Best theme song and the best 7 player action on any system. We used to gather for a night of 7 player DT every friday night at my friends. It was absolutely incredible. The weapon purchasing to build power, that could be overcome by everyone else ganging up on them. What a great game.

I didn't know Munchman before seeing this video - it gives strong Pepper II vibes.