You are Standing in an Open Field West of a White House...

It takes a special person to instantly recognize the title Temple of Apshai and the brilliance which it represents. The same can be said of Skate or Die, Spy Hunter, Populous, Wolfenstein 3D and the myriad of other fantastic old-school games that populate UnSpun's Best Computer Games of All Time list.

If you're anything like me, you spent hours sitting there with Apshai and Zork and Adventure (where else could you kill a dragon with your bare hands?). If you're really like me, after playing the original Prince of Persia for the 8 millionth time, you opted to turn your monitor upside down after drinking the potion that flips the graphics upside down rather than drinking the right side-up potion (the strategy really didn't work as well as it ought to have, my brain recognized the monitor was upside and tried to compensate for it despite the fact that the image on the screen was right side-up).

Go ahead, take a gander, remember all the glory of those computer games past (and click here if the list doesn't appear below):

There it is, and what really amazes me about the list is not just that something like Apshai is there, but that a game as old as Apshai sits right next to far newer fare. The list actually really is looking at the best computer games ever. So, as you contemplate the incredible amount of fun that some of those games were, I'm going to see if I can't save Sandy Pantz and stop the Purple Meteor once and for all.

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