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Perhaps a more engaging question would be what's the earliest game you've 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.
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 couldn't quite do it. He was pretty much unkillable but I just wandered around until I wasn't playing anymore, so one some old hard drive somewhere I've got a powerful wizard stuck somewhere in the dungeons.
I played through Wario Land on GB emulator earlier this year. Probably that.
I got my childhood game, crysis 3 up and running with wine, so I've been plying that again. I can't belive it looks so good and runs so well compared to all the other "modern" games out there.
I played Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity, 1995 last time i streamed to nobody
This year? Probably whatever the oldest game in the Switch's NES library? I haven't 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 you'd see in games today. It has an xcom vibe where there's like an overworld map layer.
I think the oldest thing I've played is mostly just NES stuff. Some of those will have been ported arcade titles or whatever, otherwise it's plain ol' SMB1 (1985, I think). I still play SMB3 ('88) quite often.
I too love Super Monkey Ball 1
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
Played with various ROMs of popular late ‘70s and early ‘80s arcade games.
Moon Patrol on the Atari 2600 (Emulated on my Steam Deck). I'm not giving away my age by posting this at all...
Woah.
Moon patrol. I used to plug so many quarters into moon patrol.
Thanks for the nostalgia! :)
Marble Madness (1984)
Which platform? That's one of my all-time favorite games. Love the graphics, the music, the gameplay, the weirdness, the difficulty--it's the real deal and I'll always remember the first time i found one to play in an arcade at Hershey Park in the late 80's...
I can immediately hear the music in my head whenever someone mentions this game
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 I've been on a FF kick.
Yeah, I’d 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.
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 "retro game" store in the next town over. I nearly spit out my Crystal Pepsi at him.
Pong. Which is argueably the first ever video game. It's 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. It's essentially ping pong, but I guess the hardware couldn't handle the ping, only the pong.
Tennis for Two was a realtime tennis simulation a full 14 year earlier. Of course there wasn't really a video arcade industry to bring it into the mainstream in the late 1950"s.
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
There was a Star Wars text adventure game on the Apple II released in 1979 that I used to play. I've 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 hadn't bothered looking for an actual emulator for Applesoft Basic... Sure enough, they exist (jsbasic on github), so I now have that running on my server. Yay, good memories!
I went to Sakura Con this year and they had a Quick & Crash arcade cabinet from 1999.
It's not the oldest game I've played this year, but it was definitely the most interesting!
https://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
hm, throughout my life the ones that come to mind are:
- pitfall (82)
- number munchers (86)
- word munchers (85)
- oregon trail (85 version)
- a-maze-ing (81)
Don't know if it counts but, "Game of Life" (1970) on "The Powder Toy" (2008).
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.
It's not that this game is doing anything different in that regard, it's 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
Asteroids.
Played a few minutes of Altered Beast (1988) on an incredibly shitty Genesis emulator I f̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ rose from its grave in the closet last week.