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The best video games of all time.

According to the editors of Analog, circa 1984. Lee H. Pappas: Star Raiders Commander Level: Star Commander Class I, no shields used the entire game, 54 Zylons destroyed. April 20th, 1984. That’s it, that’s all. Twenty years from now, will people be laughing about Mobile just as much as we are laugh
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cover of Analog #20, 1984

According to the editors of Analog, circa 1984.

Lee H. Pappas: Star Raiders Commander Level: Star Commander Class I, no shields used the entire game, 54 Zylons destroyed. April 20th, 1984. That’s it, that’s all.

Twenty years from now, will people be laughing about Mobile just as much as we are laughing at Analog? God, I hope not. But I suspect they might be.

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