Beth Skwarecki

Amazingly, I remember playing almost all of these Top 10 most influential video games from the 1980s.

Jezebel writes, "The graphics might not have been great, but the educational value was priceless. SimCity taught us all how taxes go to pay for new roads, Carmen Sandiego took us on whirlwind trips around the globe, and the Oregon Trail made us all aware of the importance of axels and the dangers of amoebic dysentery."

So true. My young mind was also impressed by Mavis Beacon, and one that didn't make the list, that game where you play a fish.