Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!
Tennis for Two (1958) on an online emulator
I actually played a wee bit of 1983’s Crystal Castles (Atari 2600 version) earlier this year when I was trying out emulators 🤣 I loved that game when I was a kid, I get a major nostalgia hit when I play it. I’m sure some of the other games I tested were older still, but that’s 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.
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!
This thread reminds me I need to get over to Funspot. They’ve 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 aren’t video games. Probably 300 vintage units, though. Haven’t made a pilgrimage this calendar year, though, so it doesn’t count.
I finished R-Type III (1993) and played a little bit of Castlevania 2 (1987)
Either Outlaw or Superman or the Atari 2600. Both came out in 1978, but I’m not sure which was first.
Digger © 1983 Windmill Software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(video_game)
This is the game from my family’s PC AT that I go back to regularly,. But for convenience I usually use the WinDig port:
Windig, the Windows 95 version of Digger Remastered (87K). This version is rather new. If you are having trouble with it, try the older version (95K).
https://www.digger.org/download.html
I just used web archive to check and it looks like the 87K version and its description as “rather new” 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 “pretty stable”.
Digger and Paratrooper were probably the first two games I ever played. Both still hold up.
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
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. I’ll be in the closet crying if anybody needs me.
I played Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity, 1995 last time i streamed to nobody
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
DMG Gameboy Kirby Dreamland. My youngest loves it and it’s REALLY hard to lose so he doesn’t need a ton of help.
I played through Wario Land on GB emulator earlier this year. Probably that.
Galaxy 5000 (1991). Not the oldest in this thread by far, but I’ve never heard anyone talk about it and it’s actually a really decent racing game for its time.
Microsoft Solitaire. ;)
