These Were the Best Video Games of 1986

The year is 1986. Halley’s Comet swooped by for the first time since 1910. Chernobyl happened, setting the stage for all sorts of shows and movies, and probably some other stuff, too, but let’s not focus on that. Oprah Winfrey debuted her talk show. Crocodile Dundee taught us what was, and was not, a knife, and Tom Cruise made it cool to do a fly-by whether the pattern was full or not.

It was a busy year for the video game industry as well, so let’s look at the best gaming had to offer in 1986.