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 played wolf 2d and doom 1 recently
What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?
Submitted 3 months ago by HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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arefx@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Super Mario Bros. 3 from 1988 for the NES.
gramie@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
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.
pseudo@jlai.lu 3 months ago
[deleted]Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Played a game of “kick the can” with my kids and a few of their friends this a couple of weekends ago. It’s a really nice variation on tag because you can play it with kids too young to count, or kids that count slow.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Kelly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 months ago
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!
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I went to Sakura Con this year and they had a Quick & Crash arcade cabinet from 1999.
I don’t know if it’s the oldest game I’ve played this year, but it was definitely the most interesting!
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
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
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)
LouNeko@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Don’t know if it counts but, “Game of Life” (1970) on “The Powder Toy” (2008).
Jordan117@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Played a few minutes of Altered Beast (1988) on an incredibly shitty Genesis emulator I ~
found~ rose from its grave in the closet last week.juliebean@lemm.ee 3 months ago
frogger (1981) arcade machine at the local barcade, i think. sadly the place went out of business a little while back.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Double Dragon II: The Revenge or Super Dodge Ball, both 1988.
xXSirDanglesXx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oldest game I’ve played this year is Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) Ps2 emulated on my phone and played with ds5 via bluetooth
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
PS2 is your OLDEST played game??? Oh god. Oh, I think I should just invest in a walker before prices go up…
xXSirDanglesXx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As I said:
oldest played game this year
I’ve played all through Atari, nes, SNES, etc. I just interpreted OPs question as “what’s the oldest game I’ve played in 2024?”
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Microsoft Solitaire. ;)
mercano@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
JayEchoRay@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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 enemirs 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.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Either Outlaw or Superman or the Atari 2600. Both came out in 1978, but I’m not sure which was first.
loie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just finished playing through Zelda lttp on my miyoo mini+
Kelly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Digger © 1983 Windmill Software
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).
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”.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Digger and Paratrooper were probably the first two games I ever played. Both still hold up.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Warrior Image
I’m a bit bummed the question wasn’t about the oldest game I’ve ever played (as I misread it at first), but hush would be:
Ashtear@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I still play Treasure of Tarmin (Intellivision, 1983) on my phone from time to time. I don’t think the core gameplay loop would be entirely out of place in a small roguelite game today.
Cadeillac@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You have my attention, now sell me on it!
VanHalbgott@lemmus.org 2 months ago
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.
HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Playing 2600 on original hardware is pretty awesome.
VanHalbgott@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Agreed.
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Nethack 1987
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’ve got Pong on my phone and one of my kids loves it.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Played with various ROMs of popular late ‘70s and early ‘80s arcade games.
Spider89@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Marble Madness (1984)
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 months ago
I can immediately hear the music in my head whenever someone mentions this game
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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.
sag@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs from 1993 on real arcade machine.
58008@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.