Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!
I’ve 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.
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I play NetHack regularly, but maybe that doesn’t count because it’s under active development again so the most recent stable drop is from last year.
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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.
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!
Microsoft Solitaire. ;)
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 “mario” has to avoid it to save the tied up princess behind diddy can’t 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 “3D”-like one which allowed pac man to jump in the maze which is newer.
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My bad, oldest game played in 2024, hmmm, Heroes of Might and Magic 1
This year? I’ve lost, best I’ve 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 I’m not gonna count it.
Actual play? I’m on a GameCube fix right now cause of achievements. Y’all are the real mvps in 2024.
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)
Double Dragon II: The Revenge or Super Dodge Ball, both 1988.
I went through Gunsmoke on NES, from 1985.
Mine is kind of cheating. I’m playing the Pixel Remaster of Final Fantasy I currently. I only have my tablet on me at the moment so I’m also doing a lot of emulation. SNES, N64, and GBA are my sweet spots
Golvellius on the Sega Master System.
I’ve owned it since the 80s but back then couldn’t get very far. The fact that it uses passcodes instead of saves didn’t 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 but… still haven’t beat it.
Moon Patrol on the Atari 2600 (Emulated on my Steam Deck). I’m not giving away my age by posting this at all…
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…
Arcade
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.
