Oldest game you've actually enjoyed.

Phantasy Star

i love to play 40 year old video games to smooth my brain out. my favorites are the ACTUAL boomer shooters like xevious, tempest, river raid and centipede. i get brief yet immense enjoyment from many atari video computer system bangers like space war, yar's revenge, cosmic ark, enduro, dolphin and fast food. wizardry kicks ass too if you have patience, persistence, graph paper, a pencil and eraser. oldest game i still play regularly is zanac on the NES.

The Oregon Trail. It's always good fun every once in a while.

The Og Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros... I could probably think of something older, but idk.

Playing tag.

Hide and seek.

Ms. Pac-Man on an original arcade cabinet from the early 1980's/late 1970's.

The oldest game I like to play would be Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.

Still 90's but it barely predates DooM.

Kidou senshi gundam wing endless battel Snes fighting game 

Kinda good fighting game in super famicom run actually smooth

I played a lot of NES games on Nestopia. The oldest game I enjoyed the most was Shufflepuck Café on the Macintosh, and of course it was also emulated!

I kinda liked Castle Wolfenstein (1981), the 2D one, but I didn't enjoy it as much. Strangely enough, I played this on a Windows XP virtual machine filled with viruses with DOSBox.

If we're talking about games I actually have in my house....

Sega Genesis games---

Golden Axe 1-3

Streets of Rage

Sonic 1&2 

PC Games---

Star Wars: Dark Forces

If we can include games that I've played at an arcade, then Pac-Man of course, and Invaders, and Qbert, and an array of different fighting games like Capcom vs. SnK (I think I ended up buying that for PS1 though), one of the Street Fighter games, etc. any I may not remember but I had fun with them.

Out of all this, I have the fondest memories playing Golden Axe (1-2, could not play 3 until I got it on a PS2 collection) since those are the first video games I ever played, and I still love them today. My brother and I must not have matured, because when we play together we STILL fight over those mounts! And for Streets of Rage, I played that a lot with my dad until my thumbs hurt lol. Good times.

The original Breakout (1976) for sure, I love the simplicity and charm of it. I've never played the arcade machine, unfortunately, only on Atari compilations and stuff. I'm still pissed they didn't include it in the Atari Vault and only put Super Breakout there.

Space Invaders, the Arcade version (1978). It's still pretty fun today and looks really good with the cardboard overlays (which can be emulated via MAME).

I also love the Atari 2600 but I'm not the biggest fan of the earliest titles. The old ones for me are Boxing and Adventure, from 1980.
 

Tabletop: Chess.

Playground/Schoolyard: Tag.

PC: King's Quest IV the Perils of Rosella (1987).

Console: Arkanoid: Doh It Again, SNES (1997).

Tetris.

Tetris 99 revitalized my love for the game when it was released. I was between jobs when it came out, and I got genuinely addicted for a while. I saw tetris blocks whenever I closed my eyes.

Pyramid of Doom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Doom), an old Scott Adams Adventure game from 1979. Never did figure out how to beat it.

Defender

Archon: The Light and the Dark on Atari 800, though I prefer the NES remake.

I actually don't know.  There are a lot of NES and SMS games I still easily enjoy.  

But, try this one on for size: River City Ransom.  Absolutely transcended brawlers, and it's over 30 years old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_City_Ransom

There are similarly important games on the NES that are even older, like Rygar and Faxanadu, that are also still pretty damned good.

Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny. Something magical about that mission pack with the green guards that scream "Au, das tut weh!" when you kill 'em.

The first game that I ever played was Sonic The Hedgehog from back in the day on the good old Sega Genesis. Love it then, still love it now!

Ultima 1 has a good rhythm once you start buying what it's selling. Gameplay wise I prefer the Wizardry series, but Ultima as a whole reached the point of Literature, which is pretty rare for games.

i can't remember my first game ever, i think it was Need for speed porsche unleashed or that one hitman demo (or full game) that was so hard i couldn't get past the first level, i'm actually replaying NFS PU, it aged well, its so good and has an evolution mode where you go through all the cars from the early era of porsches all the way up to 2000, I recommend you play it.

On 6/13/2022 at 3:28 PM, Arrowhead said:

I'm a diehard Atari 2600 fan, so probably the oldest would be from 1977. :)

 

Combat is a masterpiece, and perhaps the earliest precursor of a 'deathmatch' game out there.

 

Edit: My 2600 collection. :)

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Probably, Robotron:2084.  I was once talking to a cousin about how great the first Half Life is, he had not heard about it and told me that the game came out on the year he was born. He tried to play through it, but did not like it and thought it was all nostalgia from my end.

I started messing around with with MAME to test some games from before i had been born to see if i could get into games older than I. I got really addicted to Robotron and during my first years living on my own had a computer setup in the living room that would boot directly into it.

I was born during the late 80s, and my first console was a NES. I think that era really redefined gaming. Many tropes from indie games or for retro inspired stuff appears to be based on that period, rarely a game is released that makes homage to the early 80s or older. 

On 6/15/2022 at 5:55 AM, Martin Howe said:

Chess, for obvious reasons; if we're limiting it to video games, then Rogue on Ultrix (DEC customised Unix for VAX minicomputers), which I discovered at uni in 1987. Rogue is a text mode only game; the AI is kinda like the Doom engine games but much more primitive; tunnels are represented by # symbols and you and the monsters by other text characters. The monster roster is somewhat like Heretic and HeXen. There's no reason one couldn't implement Doom in the same way, with much reduced AI, or even keeping the AI but presenting it the way Rogue does; some people have created games based on Doom that work like that.

 

Of course, having played a 3D maze game on 8 bit Z80 processors in the early 1980s and wished you could fight actual enemies or something, for me Doom was just that: a 3D maze game with enemies. I was never really interested in video games until Doom came along (I didn't discover Wolf3D until after buying Doom).

 

Honourable mention to Phoenix arcade game (they had one at tech college, which in England comes between high school and uni) because it was an imaginative take on Space Invaders :)

Rogue is amazing.  I used to play a lot of Brogue, a remake of sorts that puts very big emphasis on the items and the environment stuff.

Have you played Doom the Rogue Like? It feels surprisingly similar to the real time game

probably would say...spacewar? Like the atari game. i remember having a lot of fun with it!

On 6/18/2022 at 2:54 AM, heliumlamb said:

i love to play 40 year old video games to smooth my brain out.

Ah i think i know what you mean.

When my Brain was overused and bending brutally to do double and tripple Things at Work, i need something to streamline and smooth out my Thinking that is jumping around from Topic to Topic.

I would say my current go tos are Doom, Turtles in Time and Simcity 2000.

19 hours ago, Garlichead said:

Probably, Robotron:2084.  I was once talking to a cousin about how great the first Half Life is, he had not heard about it and told me that the game came out on the year he was born. He tried to play through it, but did not like it and thought it was all nostalgia from my end.

 

I started messing around with with MAME to test some games from before i had been born to see if i could get into games older than I. I got really addicted to Robotron and during my first years living on my own had a computer setup in the living room that would boot directly into it.

 

I was born during the late 80s, and my first console was a NES. I think that era really redefined gaming. Many tropes from indie games or for retro inspired stuff appears to be based on that period, rarely a game is released that makes homage to the early 80s or older. 

I just took a look at Robotron 2084; I can't remember playing it, but I'm certain I have it on my Midway Arcade Treasures disc (OG XBox).  So, I may have played it and forgot.  Anyway, if you haven't played Xeno Crisis (it's very recent), I highly recommend it.  

To get away from comparing older games to newer ones (I think Xeno Crisis was actually released in 2018, and you can get it on a homebrew Genesis cart), I've tried getting into video games made prior to when I was born, I find that I can't because I don't have anything to string me along, just a game that gets harder and harder until I die, without any logical end.  I don't find that I can enjoy that. 

Granted, when I was born, Pac Man had been around long enough to be ported to home PC's.
 

1 minute ago, pilottobombadier said:

I just took a look at Robotron 2084; I can't remember playing it, but I'm certain I have it on my Midway Arcade Treasures disc (OG XBox).  So, I may have played it and forgot.  Anyway, if you haven't played Xeno Crisis (it's very recent), I highly recommend it.  

To get away from comparing older games to newer ones (I think Xeno Crisis was actually released in 2018, and you can get it on a homebrew Genesis cart), I've tried getting into video games made prior to when I was born, I find that I can't because I don't have anything to string me along, just a game that gets harder and harder until I die, without any logical end.  I don't find that I can enjoy that. 

  

Granted, when I was born, Pac Man had been around long enough to be ported to home PC's.
 

Thanks for the recommendation, will make sure to take a look. 

I love a lot of ColecoVision games. Anything older than that feels just a little too primitive.

Golden Axe I-II

Shining Force II

Streets Of Rage 2*

*The amount of hours I have put to this game are so many...that even I don't know how many times I have played this game.