What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?
from HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 2024 20:51
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from HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 2024 20:51
https://sh.itjust.works/post/23842400
Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!
threaded - newest
megaman 3 from 1990
I have Batocera on my Rapbperry Pi and I occasionally like to play some N64 games. So roughly late 1990s. I also tested the Apple 2 emulator and played either Apple Panic or Lode Runner, I can't remember. That'd be early 80s but I just did 2 or 3 levels.
N64 runs ok on pi? Since when? Which PI?
With my 3b some of the N64 games run, some don't. I just play the ones that do. There are options to change the emulation backend. Sometimes that helps. Sometimes after an update things change...
I stopped buying Raspberry Pis with th 3b. I'd recommend one of the $200-$250 MiniPCs from Amazon instead. Or an old laptop or computer.
I also have Batocera on an USB stick and run it on my laptop. That runs everything but has the downside of not being attached to my TV... So yeah. I wouldn't say it runs "ok". But I finished Super Mario 64 for the first time in my life on that RPI 3b. š
Is this similar to RetroPie and LaunchBox? Essentially an emulator front-end? Thatās the vibes Iām getting from a quick glance at your link
Yes. There are several projects: RetroPie, Lakka, Recalbox, Batocera. They're all some out of the box emulation solutions. emulator, frontend, controller configs, ... Sometimes you can install Kodi an also watch videos. Several of them use the exact same software. I tried them all in one evening a year ago and just stuck with the one that seemed to work best for me and didn't require a lot of additional configuration.
Nice, thanks for the clarification. Iāve done RetroPie before, and put Lakka on my Switch at one point. Iād like to get a couple more Pies to mess with eventually
Have a look at other options, too. There are other single board computers and mini PCs out there in all price and performance categories. Some better than the Raspi, depending on use-case.
For sure, thanks for the tip!
I know itās not the āofficialā game, but Iāve been playing some Ocarina of Time (1998) multi-world randomizers every now and then over the last couple years.
Would you elaborate on the multi-world part please? Is it additional modded areas or am I thinking too hard?
So it is a program running in the program from Archipelago that can connect multiple randomizers together. You can have a friend playing a different randomizer somewhere else and you can send them item for their game and vise versa. Or you can run an a-synch on your own by doing everything you can in one game, and then swapping to another.
They have a list of compatible randos on their website, and Iād be willing to answer any other questions you have
Holy shit. So, like, the Link to the Past+Super Metroid randomizer on crack?
Edit: thats the impression I am getting from the site. That is absolutely amazing
Yeah, pretty much lmao!
Edit: They show it off at the Game Done Quick charities every year or so. Here is one that is Ocarina of Time and Kingdom Hearts II
youtu.be/ptRrEt5XIbE?si=OlvB2Bpj6Rif9yWX
That doesnāt even make sense, and I donāt know how I feel about. I appreciate the link, hopefully I will get a chance to check it out. Internet is real spotty here
I guess the oldest would be Asteroids using emulation via MAME. If youāre talking about original hardware I would say Pitfall on the Atari 2600.
Fallout 1997
Recently got a cheap Gamecube and now Iām playing through Windwaker and some Double Dash every now and then. Itās insane how good the games still look that support progressive mode through the digital port.
Iām currently playing through WW and thought the same thing. Iām doing it emulated, though, which is neat cause I can do the weird GBA feature without wasting batteries. Why not have Tingle whereever you go?
That would be Ultima Online, released in 1997.
I can tolerate the graphics, but the controls are really something else. Played it for 3 hours and had the urge to play some more, but never did.
I played countless hours of Cave Noire this year. Itās a coffee break roguelite that released in 1991 on Gameboy.
I fuck around with old games a lot but there are not that many games I get really into these days. Cave Noire is similar to Desktop Dungeons where every attempt is a short puzzle so it fits pick up and play nature of Gameboy. Canāt recommend it enough if youāre into this kind of stuff.
Gonna download (my totally legal backup copy) now and check it out
Edit: is it accessible without knowing much Japanese?
It is, if you look a few things up, but thereās also a readily available translated ābackup copyā floating around.
Awesome, thanks for the tip!
Edit: the patch is still available on romhacking.net for the time being. I donāt know when the official shutdown for file hosting is
I am very much into this kind of stuff.
Paper Mario is a recent oneā¦probably something older but iāll just stick with that
I play NetHack regularly, but maybe that doesnāt count because itās under active development again so the most recent stable drop is from last year.
Now that is interesting. Iād say since itās the same game just updated it counts š¤·āāļø
Oldest I have played during this year? Or oldest I have played up until this year?
Oldest this year.
But maybe up until this year, or in the last 5 years would have been the more interesting question.
Has no one here played Super Mario Bros? 1985ā¦ or donkey Kong? 1981. Pac-Man? 1980. Space invaders? 1978. So many classics, all playable today with MAME or even still working systems or perfect emulation!
Iāve been messing with SMB 1, 3, and World hacks lately
Pssshhhh!!! Only because you have good taste!
I see you all over lol. If you like retro games and professional wrestling youāre ok in my book
Well if youāre ever in Cleveland, then we can have a beerā¦or 20.
If I ever visit my dad in Ohio I might have to track you down. Havenāt tasted alcohol in over 10 years (for good reason) but Iāll smoke out. I appreciate the sentiment regardless, and I enjoy seeing you and your stories all over the place
In 2024? No.
Iām moving house this week and unearthed my galaxy invader 1000 handheld. Had to play a couple rounds on the spot! Apparently from 1980.
I definitely played SMB this year. I may have played Pac-Man.
But I also played mancala which is 8,000 years old.
I still play Treasure of Tarmin (Intellivision, 1983) on my phone from time to time. I donāt think the core gameplay loop would be entirely out of place in a small roguelite game today.
You have my attention, now sell me on it!
Edit: I decided to give it a try. For anybody else interested, I believe the internet has archived it. It is listed under Mattel Intellivision, with the full title being D&D - Treasure of Tarmin
Edit: scratch that. I have exec.bin and grom.bin in my Retroarch system folder, and Iām just getting a green screen with occasional flicker, followed by Intellivision Halted.
Edit: bad ROM. What you want is Advanced D&D Treasure of Tarmin. I also grabbed the Mountain one to check out
The Cloudy Mountain one is more like classic Intellivision stuff. I think that one was well-received at the time, but I actually donāt often hear much chatter about Treasure of Tarmin. Tarmin being a first-person dungeon crawler gives it some legs since itās an inherently āclassicā style, although calling the graphics and controls dated would be a huge understatement.
Players are absolutely going to need the game manual, and even then some item use cases will have to be figured out.
Yeah, I made it down like one floor I think lol. It was definitely interesting, and Iām not opposed to going back in. Thank you for the manual, I was being a bit lazy
I think the other game I got was Cloudy Mountain. I have absolutely no idea how to play it, and I havenāt decided if I actually want to
Super Mario Bros. 3 from 1988 for the NES.
Was playing Rainbow Islands on the ST this week.
Trying to finish pokemon emerald on my game boy micro. I mostly play at family gatherings
Mine is kind of cheating. Iām playing the Pixel Remaster of Final Fantasy I currently. I only have my tablet on me at the moment so Iām also doing a lot of emulation. SNES, N64, and GBA are my sweet spots
Collassal Cave Adventure, 1976
Was going to post this as well. Just replayed it again, never gets old!
Same here
There is a threatening little dwarf in the room with you
Mother, NES, 1989
If you have played Earthbound, is Mother 1 still worth a play?
I have played earthbound many times before I played mother. If you are a huge fan of the series, yes itās worth playing. But itās not necessary, earthbound is almost more of an enhanced remake than a sequel. Sure, there are some differences, but nothing compared to mother 3.
Thatās how I always saw it. I have Mother 3 ready to go. I always have Mother 3 ready to go, yet I barely get anywhere in it. Maybe after I finish Final Fantasy.
I loved Earthbound, and grinded for at least the home run bat (I think that was Nessā best weapon). Mother 3 just either doesnāt hook me immediately, or maybe things always came up. Any spoiler free input on the situation is welcome
Actually happened to me too. Iām pretty far into the game but I made the mistake of trying to play 2 JRPGs back to back. The older I get, the less Iām able to grind that much. I have to switch up genres between my main gaming love of RPG to something else in between to not get burnt out.
Thatās actually what I am afraid of. Although, I donāt know if I unintentionally grind, or if Iām just the only person that never runs from a random encounter. Final Fantasy I has been a cake walk, Iāve pretty much always felt over leveled if anything
I tend to not go that far back usually, mostly hovering around the mid 90ās and 2000ās with my retrogaming, but does it count if Iāve played some rounds of NES Tetris?
Iām currently reading a fantasy book from 1984 if that doesnāt count.
Iāve played wolf 3d and doom 1 recently
I went through Gunsmoke on NES, from 1985.
I actually played a wee bit of 1983ās Crystal Castles (Atari 2600 version) earlier this year when I was trying out emulators š¤£ I loved that game when I was a kid, I get a major nostalgia hit when I play it. Iām sure some of the other games I tested were older still, but thatās the one I remember because I was born in that same year.
I remembered it being one of the first games I ever played. As I fumbled my way through those first few sessions, I could physically feel my neurons flowering and blooming and creaking to life like a bunch of microscopic mind-rhubarb. It was the beginning of a life-long love of gaming.
Does a remake of the first Wipeout count? It was technically made very recently, as the source code was leaked in 2022 and a couple of projects re-built the game based on that, but the original came out in 1995
If that doesn't count then it's Battle Engine Aquila from 2003
Aquilla is a really cool game. I think I came across it by chance on a warez site back in the day. I had never heard about it. Honestly, I think this is the first time since that Iāve seen any mention of it. Might have to dig up a copy. Thanks for reminding me!
I was honestly surprised by how well it held up. The battles still feel impressively huge. Have fun with it!
I was playing Bubble Bobble on an NES emulator, soā¦ 1988
I was just playing the original Zork on Frotz.
So Iām pretty sure I win :-)
No computer should be without one! :D
I hear glowing reviews of frotz.
Itās pretty good and afaik, free.
Unsure if just adding more helpful info, or missed the joke. ;)
I probably missed the joke. I was half asleep. Whatās the joke?
I feel you, āhalf asleepā is a far too common affliction I am well acquainted with heh.
āfrotzā is the name of the spell from the text adventure game āEnchanterā that makes things glow to light areas as you adventure, which is where the text adventure app gets itās name.
Ohhh I never knew that. I havenāt heard of Enchanter. Iāll have to check it out.
I also recommend āsuspendedā and āwishbringerā if youāre into text adventures.
Sweet, thanks! I will keep an eye out for them.
Oldest game Iāve this year: wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Warrior <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/43e8e03e-f0f7-4486-b846-9cc15b01318b.gif">
on Steam Deck
Iām a bit bummed the question wasnāt about the oldest game Iāve ever played (as I misread it at first), but that would be:
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Digger Ā© 1983 Windmill Software
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(video_game)
This is the game from my familyās PC AT that I go back to regularly,. But for convenience I usually use the WinDig port:
www.digger.org/download.html
I just used web archive to check and it looks like the 87K version and its description as ārather newā has been there for 21 years now. It was built to target Windows 95 and is still working on Windows 11 so at this point i would say its āpretty stableā.
Digger and Paratrooper were probably the first two games I ever played. Both still hold up.
Robotron on mame and yarās revenge on 2600.
This year? Iāve lost, best Iāve got was a very brief demo of my setup with an Apple II game (and I already forgot what it was, I was just showing of that I had every game from an Exodus set since they added Apple II). But Iām not gonna count it.
Actual play? Iām on a GameCube fix right now cause of achievements. Yāall are the real mvps in 2024.
Of the games I can think of, probably Super Mario Land.
Just finished playing through Zelda lttp on my miyoo mini+
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Golvellius on the Sega Master System.
Iāve owned it since the 80s but back then couldnāt get very far. The fact that it uses passcodes instead of saves didnāt help. Last month I played with a mod which adds save support, on the MiSTer FPGA (which I have installed in a C64 shell), on a nice ~10inch OLED.
I got all the way to the final boss butā¦ still havenāt beat it.
Either Outlaw or Superman or the Atari 2600. Both came out in 1978, but Iām not sure which was first.
I finished R-Type III (1993) and played a little bit of Castlevania 2 (1987)
Had to look it up to check its dates as a kid they only sold rip-off NES machines here, but the oldest game, i enjoyed playing, I found by date was Dig Dug, 2D game where you dig tunnels to get to all the enemies and defeat them by what I can only describe as throwing a bicycle pump nozzle into their mouths and pumping it until the enemy pops like a balloon.
There is the usual like Super Mario Brothers, Contra and I recall playing something where I think Diddy Kong throws barrels and āmarioā has to avoid it to save the tied up princess behind diddy canāt recall the name
There is also Bomberman, Lode Runner, Double Dragon( specifically 2), Arkanoid, Ice climber (co-op) and a game I really enjoyed called Operation Wolf
Oldest original game is most probably Pac Man, but prefered the ā3Dā-like one which allowed pac man to jump in the maze which is newer.
Edit:
My bad, oldest game played in 2024, hmmm, Heroes of Might and Magic 1
This thread reminds me I need to get over to Funspot. Theyāve got a great collection of classic arcade and pinball machines. Web site claimed 600 games, but some of that is newer stuff, or mechanical games like Skiball and Wack-a-mole, which arenāt video games. Probably 300 vintage units, though. Havenāt made a pilgrimage this calendar year, though, so it doesnāt count.
It has to be Dragon Warrior.
Oldest game Iāve actually played this year would probably be a bit of Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar, 1985.
I found that game borderline impossible. Tried my little ass off but could only get one rune or whatever it was. If you got poisoned without being able to deal with it you were done
Yeah it absolutely does not hold your hand at all. It really helps to have the supplemental stuff that originally came with it like the big cloth map. Theyāre included digitally with things like gog but not everyone knows that. It definitely doesnāt have some of the quality of life weāve gotten used to in the years since release. It was also intentionally unique in how it was presenting the story in that just killing things that attack you isnāt always the right answer in combat.
I can totally see how a lot of people would bounce off of it. I am sure some of it for me is nostalgia, though if you get into it thereās a lot there.
If the story of it interests you and you just wanna watch a retrospective about it thereās a great series majuular is doing on youtube. youtu.be/hkfBiIyJd7E
Please donāt misunderstand- I still have the magic book that came with it (I lost the Kyle the Younger book), and when my mom passed away a few years ago and I had to clean out her house, I sold the cloth map on ebay (I got like 60ā¬ I think). I was annoyed I couldnāt find that little ankh that came w/ the gameā¦
I used to read the magic spells book over and over. I was probably 9 or 10. Y(up) and Z(down) ā¦ god those dungeons were tricky. I was always scared to drink from fountains (blech, poisoned?) Its been a while.
So I know all about it, the mantrasā¦ those portals w/ the phases of the moonā¦ anyway, I was young. I think I got one of the virtues, but I felt like to get the Valor one you had to kill like 20 guards and it was never gonna happen. I did show every friend who came over the tarot card scene at the beginning to choose your character class, though.
I tried to see if I could finally make it about 5 years ago and downloaded some kinda emulator, but I think I had trouble āchanging discsā and lost progress and gave up.
What emulator are you using? i played it on Apple IIc, and Iād want to use that same exact everything if I was to give it a go.
Oh I didnāt mean it to sound derogatory. I played it back on commodore64 back when it first came out in that same age rangeā¦ so yeah I get itā¦ itās obtuse game for sure. Great if you get into it, tons of content, but definitely a lot.
Last time I tried it was on the pc version, which is free fwiw. www.gog.com/en/game/ultima_4
Iāve never tried it on apple II so I couldnāt really say for emulation on that one.
Side note, if you want to play something that was heavily inspired by the classic Ultima games check out Moonring. It was made by one of the original devs of Fable and he outright says Ultima inspired it and the game wears that lineage on itās sleeve. Itās got a lot of nice modern QoL and it was released for free and is still in active development. Itās just a passion project for him.
store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/
thanks for the shout, Iāll look into that
Iāll look at that version of ultima IV, for me, its kind of unfinished businessā¦ gotta get on that druid shit
Pong
Chess. Itās over 1500 years old!
Played some Go today.
Eh, I prefer Mancala then any off your new fangled āboardā games
I believe it but is there evidence for this? I know there were reports of chess games on the middle ages, but earlier than that? Chess with modern rules I mean.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command
On the actual arcade machine as well, with the huge ball āmouseā.
Felt challenging, but also how it would be kinda trivial with a mouse and keyboard.
I just played Mancala the other day which may be up to 8,000 years old.
My daughter and I played with a ball today. It looks like Mancala might be old as balls!?
I donāt know manā¦my balls are pretty old.
ā¦did I misread the situation?
Probably one of the machines at a nearby arcade. Pin-bot is mid-80s and I play that one a lot. Thereās a couple from closer to the 50s as well.
Hmmā¦ in my case the oldest game Iāve been playing recently is a fan translation of āMetal Max Returnsā a 1995 SNES remake of a 1991 Famicom game.
Just went to a videogame museum, they had the original Asteroids on the Atari 2600, from 1980. My favourite though was the Star Wars Racer arcade machine, it was even paired up with another one for multiplayer!
I have an MSX from 1984 permanently setup on my desk. I use it regularly to play some old games. So about 1983-1984 games are the oldest I play often.
Night Stalker (Intellivision)
Microsoft Solitaire. ;)
Oldest game Iāve played this year is Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) Ps2 emulated on my phone and played with ds5 via bluetooth
PS2 is your OLDEST played game??? Oh god. Oh, I think I should just invest in a walker before prices go upā¦
As I said:
Iāve played all through Atari, nes, SNES, etc. I just interpreted OPs question as āwhatās the oldest game Iāve played in 2024?ā
We took a couple of family trips to a Barcade this year during the all-ages hours. I definitely played Dig Dug and Ms. Pacman and Defender (Defender is annoying, BTW), and I probably snuck a round of Space Invaders and Asteroids in there somewhere.
Probably the ancient pong machine my grandfather had.
Double Dragon II: The Revenge or Super Dodge Ball, both 1988.
I still play Super Mario 64 if various rom hacks count.
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looks at my grey hair
Yes. Yes you certainly do exist grey hair. Iāll be in the closet crying if anybody needs me.
frogger (1981) arcade machine at the local barcade, i think. sadly the place went out of business a little while back.
Burger Time 1982
It was one of my first video games, we had it for the Atari 2600, and I have it on a RetroPi emulator. You are a chef and the stages are platforms with ladders between them similar to Donkey Kong. The platforms have hamburgers ingredients on them and you have to avoid the enemies and run over the ingredients to make them fall to the bottom. You have to build all of the burgers to win the stage.
Ah yeah that was a cool game! I played a version of it on Intellivision in the late 90s.
This week itās been Megaman II (1988).
I feel like games before that era had a lot of coin-op focus. Not much content, but hard enough that youāll be pouring more credits into the machine. That said, Iāve been itching to play Alley Cat (1983), but I donāt have a good setup for MS-DOS games at the moment. Iāll have to see if my Miyoo mini is up for the task.
DOOM, 1993. Finally went through and beat it. Also recently sat down and learned how to edit wads as well as picking up ACS for advanced map scripting. Still a great game.
Same, but it was because Steam updated it with new graphics modes and I wanted to replay it. Doing Doom 2 now.
Played a few minutes of Altered Beast (1988) on an incredibly shitty Genesis emulator I fĢ¶oĢ¶uĢ¶nĢ¶dĢ¶ rose from its grave in the closet last week.
Asteroids.
Day of the Tentacle (1993). Admittedly, it was the remastered version from 2016 which has more modern controls, but the game is exactly the same as the old one.
It was fascinating to look at it again with more mature eyes: besides the fact that it feels a bit dated as a whole, it was funny to me to notice how much humanity loves time travel stories.
Itās not that this game is doing anything different in that regard, itās just that I thought about how much media exists on the subject (and has been very successful).
Anyhow, although dated, the game is brilliant and wholesome and made me wonder which are the best (and recent) graphic adventure games
Donāt know if it counts but, āGame of Lifeā (1970) on āThe Powder Toyā (2008).
hm, throughout my life the ones that come to mind are:
I went to Sakura Con this year and they had a Quick & Crash arcade cabinet from 1999.
Itās not the oldest game Iāve played this year, but it was definitely the most interesting!
www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/quick-crash
Level 4 has a mug you shoot that appears to really explode
The effect is incredibly convincing!
Tap for spoiler
The secret is the real mug is pulled down very fast and real chunks of mug are shot up simultaneously
There was a Star Wars text adventure game on the Apple II released in 1979 that I used to play. Iāve been searching for the code from that game for a long time I finally found it again just this month. Part way through my efforts to convert it to javascript I realized I hadnāt bothered looking for an actual emulator for Applesoft Basicā¦ Sure enough, they exist (jsbasic on github), so I now have that running on my server. Yay, good memories!
I was playing Falcon 3 on DOS. 1991
Besides that I played some Bosconian from the arcade, 1981 and 1943: Battle for Midway on the arcade, 1987
Pong. Which is argueably the first ever video game. Itās a square, which represents a ball, because circles were too advanced for that time period, and its bounding between two rectantgles which defend the ball from getting past them. Itās essentially ping pong, but I guess the hardware couldnāt handle the ping, only the pong.
Tennis for Two was a realtime tennis simulation a full 14 year earlier. Of course there wasnāt really a video arcade industry to bring it into the mainstream in the late 1950"s.
I went to a gamestop a few months ago to see if they had any games for my Gameboy Advance. The dude at the register said I might have better luck at the āretro gameā store in the next town over. I nearly spit out my Crystal Pepsi at him.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs from 1993 on real arcade machine.
For 2024: 1994 with Final Fantasy 3(6j) back in Feb.
Currently 1997 with Final Fantasy Tactics since I heard the remaster rumor.
Seems like Iāve been on a FF kick.
Yeah, Iād actually only ever played VII and VIII before recently.
Now I seem to be going backwards through the series. Played VII, VI, and now V, where I currently find myself doing some rather boring endgame grinding to try to defeat the final boss battle.
The job system is one of the series strong points overall but it does end up requiring a lot more grinding than otherwise. Multiple kinds of leveling can be like that.
FF2 NES is the true grindfest though. Everything requires grinding in that, even hp.
Marble Madness (1984)
I can immediately hear the music in my head whenever someone mentions this game
Which platform? Thatās one of my all-time favorite games. Love the graphics, the music, the gameplay, the weirdness, the difficultyāitās the real deal and Iāll always remember the first time i found one to play in an arcade at Hershey Park in the late 80āsā¦
Arcade
Nice!!! Thatās one of a handful of arcade video games Iād like to own someday.
Played with various ROMs of popular late ā70s and early ā80s arcade games.
Moon Patrol on the Atari 2600 (Emulated on my Steam Deck). Iām not giving away my age by posting this at allā¦
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Tennis for Two (1958) on an online emulator
Commander Keen (1990) on Steam
Warms my heart to know that game has been brought along into the future, that was such an awesome game for my brother and i to discover as kids
I remember as a kid that the main thing I liked about the game was that there was a pogo stick in it. Me and my brothers played it a lot. It was only in the last years I learned that it was also a technical masterpiece.
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Played a game of ākick the canā with my kids and a few of their friends this a couple of weekends ago. Itās a really nice variation on tag because you can play it with kids too young to count, or kids that count slow.
I think the oldest thing Iāve played is mostly just NES stuff. Some of those will have been ported arcade titles or whatever, otherwise itās plain olā SMB1 (1985, I think). I still play SMB3 ('88) quite often.
I too love Super Monkey Ball 1
This year? Probably whatever the oldest game in the Switchās NES library? I havenāt played much this year. Of note is Star Fox. I specifically played the first one. Star Fox 2 is interesting. It never got released but is on the Switch NES player. It has some rogue like features youād see in games today. It has an xcom vibe where thereās like an overworld map layer.
I played Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity, 1995 last time i streamed to nobody
I got my childhood game, crysis 3 up and running with wine, so Iāve been plying that again. I canāt belive it looks so good and runs so well compared to all the other āmodernā games out there.
I played through Wario Land on GB emulator earlier this year. Probably that.
Perhaps a more engaging question would be whatās the earliest game youāve played that still holds up today, to which I would answer Nethack from 1987. I guess you could say Rogue, but it was a bit too limited. Nethack still gets updates and I still go through periods where I spend a few days playing it.
www.nethack.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack
I came to say Nethack. DYWYPI?
Haha yeah YASD.
Closest I ever came to winning was a wizard that I got powered up and I was wandering around trying to find a few things I needed for the ascension kit but couldnāt quite do it. He was pretty much unkillable but I just wandered around until I wasnāt playing anymore, so one some old hard drive somewhere Iāve got a powerful wizard stuck somewhere in the dungeons.
My answer to both would be Doom (1993).
For sure. Iāve recently been delving more deeply into the modding scene and thereās just a cornucopia of fun stuff people have made over the years.
In some ways Doom is the greatest game ever made.
The scene is truly eternal. Iāve dipped in and out of it myself over the decades. Itās so incredibly rich.
If you havenāt tried it Iād recommend checking out Doom Builder 2 and seeing how you like running around a room you just made. Itās addictive in a Minecraft-esque sort of way.
I havenāt made a new map in years and I was just scratching out a level idea in a notebook just this Friday. I guess it never leaves you
Tetris-BSD
itās my go-to for long meetings
I just picked up āThe Sumerian Gameā on Steam. What a great storyā¦
www.pcgamesn.com/ā¦/steam-strategy-game
Iāve got a working Intellivision which was originally released in 1979. Mine was fresh off the factory floor in 84, I think that was the last year it was made.
I start a playthrough of the Quest for Glory series at least once a year - always with the ill-fated goal of playing through the entire series in order with one character. This is because you can actually save your character and import it into the next game and the correct way to play a paladin requires playing the first two games just right. Iāve never played the final game because it came out much later than the first fourā¦
Someday!
Iāve been dipping my toe into the mating game with minimal success. They really havenāt done much to improve it since I last played.
The London Game, from 1972.
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I played the similar game Stunt Driver on PC a lot growing up. Had a tweaked copy where all the stats were turned way up on one car. Good choice to play as an old game
R-Type, first release 1987
Galaxy 5000 (1991). Not the oldest in this thread by far, but Iāve never heard anyone talk about it and itās actually a really decent racing game for its time.
I havenāt exactly been keeping track but off the top of my head the oldest game Iāve probably played this year is A Link to the Past (SNES, 1991).
Probably up next on my retro gaming to-do list!
Definitely some earlier Sega titles. Teddy Boy, My Hero, Wonderboy. Easy to grab at to entertain my toddler for half an hour so they get switched on fairly regularly.
DMG Gameboy Kirby Dreamland. My youngest loves it and itās REALLY hard to lose so he doesnāt need a ton of help.
super smash bros melee (2001) but only bc the online they added in 2020 is so fucking good
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Iām interested too
Iāve got Pong on my phone and one of my kids loves it.
I think streetfighter 2 But also just started a play through of Serious Sam TFE
Just installed an Atari2600 emulator
I have the set of Infocom text adventure games. I think the earliest ones came out in about 1981 or 82. I still fire one up now and then for a nostalgia hit. I bought a few when they came out, but couldnāt afford more.
You can play some of them online, in your browser. Of course there are thousands of text adventure games (a.k.a. interactive fiction) available for free. Definitely worth checking out! And look at Inform, a language and IDE for creating these games by using more or less standard English.
To protect against piracy, most of these games required physical objects that were included in the game box. They are known as feelies. There are plenty of places on the web where you can find all the feelings you need.
Nethack (1987)
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Amiga Stunt Car Racer remains the best racing game of all time for me. It even had linkup multiplayer (I thinkā¦)
Probably the 2600, since I bought it recently and built a decent collection complete with joysticks, paddles, and a Video Touch Pad for Star Raiders.
Playing 2600 on original hardware is pretty awesome.
Agreed.