RetroGaming

Chess. It's over 1500 years old!

Has no one here played Super Mario Bros? 1985… 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!

Nethack (1987)

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 couldn't 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.

Amiga Stunt Car Racer remains the best racing game of all time for me. It even had linkup multiplayer (I think..)

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.

I've got Pong on my phone and one of my kids loves it.

I've been dipping my toe into the mating game with minimal success. They really haven't done much to improve it since I last played.

I think streetfighter 2 But also just started a play through of Serious Sam TFE

Just installed an Atari2600 emulator

Fallout 1997

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.

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. I've never played the final game because it came out much later than the first four...

Someday!

DMG Gameboy Kirby Dreamland. My youngest loves it and it's REALLY hard to lose so he doesn't need a ton of help.

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.

Collassal Cave Adventure, 1976

super smash bros melee (2001) but only bc the online they added in 2020 is so fucking good

Oldest game I've actually played this year would probably be a bit of Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar, 1985.

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.

Probably one of the machines at a nearby arcade. Pin-bot is mid-80s and I play that one a lot. There's a couple from closer to the 50s as well.

Hmm... in my case the oldest game I've been playing recently is a fan translation of "Metal Max Returns" a 1995 SNES remake of a 1991 Famicom game.

Oldest I have played during this year? Or oldest I have played up until this year?

Just finished playing through Zelda lttp on my miyoo mini+

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.