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1. This space-themed multi-directional shooter game was a big hit in the video arcades (as "Asteroids"), and I got to the capture the fun at home, too, with this clone that had me blasting through natural satellites.
2. This interactive text-adventure game kept me occupied for hours looking for treasure.
3. Watch out, Ben-Hur! This two-dimensional racing game was exciting and dangerous.
4. This possibly bootlegged game was remarkably like a certain popular arcade game featuring a large gorilla.
5. Look out! Robots have run BERZERK in this game played in a top-down perspective, and you have to avoid both then and the walls.
6. In this deceptively simple game, you control a spaceship with two buttons and try not to crash-land it, but with actually better graphics than the arcade version on which it is based.
7. Why use pencil and paper for this children's word game when you could play it on your TV set through your Commodore VIC-20?
8. Oh, this game of dodging trucks and hopping over logs was a great relief from the shooter games, although it did give you the most ways to die!
9. My neighbors had "Space Invaders" on their Atari video consoles, but I had this knock-off on my VIC-20!
10. My absolute favorite game was this fixed-shooter game that was really four games in one.
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