What's the oldest video game you still find yourself playing?

EVE Online

Commander Keen is my all time favorites.

Does FreeDoom count? It's as close to the original as I can get anymore.

Empires mod (free on Steam) reminds me of old Battlefield but you also have a comander for each team, so it has some base building aspects. Nice balance and no pay to win or comercial exploits.

Sadly the player count is low but every saturday and sunday servers fill upp.

I am realizing my life is not really marked by birthdays, anniversaries, promotions, or any of the normal milestone stuff people list. It is marked by video games.

Thanks for this thread, because it reminded me of one I cannot leave out.

There was a week I spent in a mental hospital with a major anxiety spiral. Pretty much everything felt unmanageable. The one thing I could handle was Pokémon FireRed on a Game Boy Advance.

That was it. That was my anchor.

It was actually written into my chart that I was allowed to plug my charger in at the nurses station while I slept so the GBA would be ready the next day. No arguments. No debates. Just accepted as necessary.

Not my oldest game, see my other replies for that, but it is probably the only one I have mentioned that might have saved my life.

Nethack maybe? It's been updated over the years, but it's still largely the game that released in '87.

I'm also playing Might and Magic 6 [98] right now, and remembering why I liked 7 so much more. Planning a playthrough of World of Xeen [93/94] soon too.

Moon Patrol and Centipede hit the spot every now and then.

Finished Mother 1 from 1989 recently. It's surprisingly good aside from final mountain encounter rate.

I kept going back to Arcanum

There was an unofficial patch that helped it continue to be playable. It just had a unique style and story that allowed you to interact and build your character around magic or technology.

I played Super double Dragon for SNES earlier. I also played super Mario Bros 2 for nes this week. Platform games are a great way to pass the time on the go when you have a phone and a Bluetooth controller.

Twisted Metal 2. I still play it on my PS4

Are you suggesting that Skyrim is old? It's still getting updated, to my great annoyment.

The wild thing is that, at the time, the abandonware DOS games I was playing in the late 90s were more recent than Skyrim is right now.
It's the oldest that I still regularly play. I do play some snes games on emulator occasionally.

Every now and then I get a bit nostalgic and put on Dragon Warrior or Sword of Vermillion. I have all the older consoles.

I beat Zelda 2 and its stupid.

Edit: i misunderstood the question. Zelda 2 is the latest old game. I come back to one of the many older gauntlet games. The ps2 one i think especially.

Oldest game I still play is probably Taipan.

I first played it on an Apple IIe, but now it is just a web browser thing I poke at once in a while. It is basically spreadsheets and bad luck. You trade, pirates wreck you, the math never quite works out, and you lose anyway. I think that is why I still like it. No graphics to hide behind.

After that, Seven Cities of Gold, usually on a C64 emulator. That one still holds up more than it has any right to. You sail off thinking you are doing something heroic and slowly realize you are kind of a problem. The exploration feels lonely. The map still feels bigger than it actually is.

But the oldest one I keep coming back to is Gorf on the VIC-20.

I owned the cartridge. Bought it not long after it came out. I paid for the VIC-20 by walking beans and putting up hay all summer for a farmer when I was eleven or twelve. Hot, dusty work. Long days. I remember counting the cash and realizing I could actually afford a computer.

Gorf was loud, ugly, and mean. The voice mocked you constantly. The joystick barely survived. I loved it anyway. Sitting on the floor, TV buzzing, thinking this was the future and I had somehow managed to buy a piece of it.

Also, side note. I am trying pretty hard to become a professional writer. I write essays and stories over at tover153.substack.com. If anything there hits a nerve, feel free to subscribe.

So yeah. Taipan, Seven Cities, Gorf. Not because they are good by modern standards, but because they still feel like something.

Not crazy old but I play Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon on N64 pretty regularly

In my possession is a c64 with an actual c64 monitor. Doing know if it even works. Needs a good home

I'll smash it for you if you'd like.
I'm not cleaning it up once it's smashed but I'll smash it.

I don't play games much, but every decade or so, I get out Quake and play a while. Next time I get the urge, maybe I'll play the original Call of Duty or Medal of Honor.

The oldest games I've been playing probably has to be Banjo-Kazooie, Maximo, Crash Bandicoot, and Jak and Daxster. All amazing games!

Maximo
Fuuuuck, I haven't thought about Maximo in years. That, Dark Cloud, and MediEvil are probably highest on my "It's been 20 years, where the hell is my third game?" list.

World of Warcraft, but to be fair, it’s just about the only game I really play. I dabble in a few others on Steam, but I always end up back in wow.

I bought a Nintendo 3DS this year and I’ve been trying to play that more but my books are so distracting lol

Baldur's Gate.

I'm always down for a replay of Majora's Mask

Is it better then oncerina of time? Im struggling to keep playing.
- I've always enjoyed it more that Ocarina of Time but I get that Ocarina is more of the classic Zelda experience. There's a quirkiness to Majora's Mask that I really like and I know the game really well at this point so it's always a blast to play through.
  The recompiled Majora's ran perfectly on my PC but I'm still struggling to find the right settings and texture pack for Ocarina to get it to run as crisp on my PC.
  Majora's Mask would be a lot less fun to play without two somewhat hidden Ocarina songs, the Inverted Song of Time and the Song of Double Time, otherwise it can get frustrating having to reset the cycle too often. Typically what you're supposed to do is reach some milestone (like obtaining a mask or learning a song) and then reset the cycle so that you can start the dungeon on a fresh cycle.
  I do want to get Ocarina going and play through that though, I figured I'd wait for it to be available in the same N64 recompile setup that Majora's runs in to see if it runs better than SoH.

Every once in awhile I find myself booting up Planetfall or Stationfall and trying to reason my through the esoteric lunacy of Infocom in its heyday.

I still regularly replay Kirby Super Star, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, and Super Mario Bros 3.

Probably Halo reach or minecraft xbawks 360. Me and my brother are trying to get dad's xbawks original to work, but we need to find the power cord and GIGANTIC stack of games

PMD Rescue Team

SMB, SMB3, Dr. Mario, The Guardian Legend

Several. Tetris, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Mario Kart 64, Chrono Trigger, Starcraft. Those are the ones I can think of right now.

I played through Phantasy Star one more time not that long ago. It came out (in English) in 1988.

I still regularly play PS1 and SNES games. They're just better too me.

The oldest game I've played in the past year is the original Toejam & Earl for Genesis, the gameplay and soundtrack still hold up surprisingly well

Occasionally I fire up Civilization. The first one. I've also enjoyed Imperialism 2. Star Wars Rebellion, X-com (the original). Jagged Alliance 2.

All of those are from the 90s.

Pokemon Crystal

OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)

And there's a community of players who have modded the everloving fuck out of the game and the engine itself, one of these patch packs is OpenTTD JGR and we play it like it's a model railway simulator

Escape Velocity

Super Mario bros 1 & 3. I still have them working on my old Wii, but I’ve been planning on a retro pi setup for ages.

My OG NES stopped working a decade ago.

www.kingdomofloathing.com

Metal Gear (Solid) series, Legacy of Kain series.

Also Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, and Sacred (1&2).

I revisit all these on a rotating basis from time to time.

Arx Fatalis has such an unmatched atmosphere and vibe i just love walking around hearing the woosh of the wind through the caves.

Civ V

Another World, my fav!! 🥰🥰🥰 the friendship, the bond... plus imma physicist 🤭🤭🤭

RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999) by Chris Sawyer. Best game ever.

Now there's a new rewrite by the open source community called OpenRCT2. Highly suggested.

I believe the Pac Man cartridge for my NES is probably the oldest video game I still pick up regularly.

Sid Meier's Colonization. It seems every few years I always go back to it.

Also, honorable mention for Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Both from 1994. Yeah, I'm old.

Rise of Nations: Gold Edition (2003).

The controls are ancient, but the gameplay and music still holds up.

Through the Ages, the app edition of the board game.

I play that at least twice on a long flight.

On the regular I still fire up Zork 1-3, Ultima 4, StarTropics, OG Metroid, and Maniac Mansion.

Shadow President (1993)

Don't really want to check release dates. I still play some things from c64, and Amiga... That's probably the oldest games I play. Like Bubble Bobble, IK, Giana Sisters. EoTB and so forth...

Ive played through Kingdom Hearts every couple of years since it came out! I was in 1st or 2nd grade when it came out and it was one of the first "big" games I ever beat.

Sonic 1 for the Sega Genesis.

Last time I played it, about ten years ago, I just ripped through it like it was nothing. I was about 30 then, so it's not that impressive.
But I remember playing for the first time and throughout my entire childhood when you include the sequels. It was such a fun game. The Christmas we got it, my uncle got to Springyard zone on the first try (me and my brother could barely make it past Green Hill) and I remember being so excited to get as far as he did and then even farther.
Edit: Oh yeah, I think Star Light zone has the best music ever.

Doom. Gothic.

And Warsim is not old but it could very well be. And it's great.

Which is older, Tetris, or Chess? /s

tEcHnIcAlLy the first commercially available chess video game was released in 1977 according to google
- Microchess was first commercially available in 1976, but chess software was being published long before that.
  See also: https://www.chessprogramming.org/History#Famous_Historic_Computers_and_Programs

Earthbound

100% this. Runs great on my Ryzen 5950x with 6900xt. Also, it's a great game to play with my kids to teach them how to use a controller, how to navigate using a map, and it's a great game to use while teaching them to read. I'll sit with them and narrate the text in the game and after a while they pick it up and are able to read the text themselves.

Warcraft 3 custom maps still drag me back sometimes.

Master of Orion (1993)

Age of Empires 2

Does DE count?
It's crazy that new expansions are still dropping, and the ranked community is thriving.
- I think it does. It's pretty much the same game (including the engine) with just a new coat of paint on top.
Isn’t that the wolololo game?
Aye! Wololo
- Technically No 1 is the Wololo game. Monks don't Wololo in part 2.

The first Sonic the Hedgehog for the Mega Drive. I play all 3 (4?) of the original Sonic games, but that's the oldest though.

I play through my Mega Drive games occasionally. Alex Kidd is probably older... Wonder Boy is great, too!

Never finished Wonder Boy III, gonna have to revisit that!

Well, I don't segment my backlog for years, so I wouldn't know which is the oldest one, but the one I plan to play next is Fzero for the SNES which was released in 1991.

Knights and merchants

Factorio 2016

I play dungeon keeper a bit. It was released in I think 1994 or 1995

Edit: I also play insaniquarium sometimes too. That shit was from the 2000s I believe

I freaking loved dungeon keeper
Oh man, I used to be addicted to insaniquarium in the early 2000s
- haha yeah, it's pretty cool.

Super Mario World every year or two. The soundtrack alone cheers me right up.

Would Tetris count if its always whatever new Tetris Ultimate Reloaded DX etc etc edition? I feel like it shouldn't but its basically the same game just polished up.

Super Mario World is peak Nintendo. I still come back to it on occasion just to remember what games were like when things didn't seem so corporate.
Super Mario World and Shadow of the Colossus are my timeless games! I will replay them every few years.

The oldest I can go reliably is the late 80’s and early 90’s.

DuckTales NES, Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis, Puzzle Bobble.

Once we start getting into the mid 90*s games start to get good.

Chrono Trigger, Doom, Rayman, DK Country

If I had a nickel for every time I started chrono trigger with the intent to finish it, I would have a bunch of nickels. I think the farthest I've ever gotten was the future apocalypse era. Love the music in the game.
- ... But the new game+ is the best part. You should get a save state that lets you play new game+ just so that you can finish a playthrough
- That’s not even past the prologue

Carmaggedon(1997), via a reverse engineered dethrace

My god, and I've fighting dosbox since forever and dread starting the game because of it. How good does this work?
- It very good, more stable then original, sometimes the audio puts up a fight, but the last checkout I got worked great. I've pointed it at my steam copy and it even plays the music!

breakout. I think it's the oldest 'playable' game. It feel ahead of it's time for the late 70's

Every so often I'll have another run at the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure from 1984.

You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.

It is pitch black.

_

I slapped myself, and died.
Most satisfying death in a video game I can remember
turn on the light
get out of bed
open the curtain
As you part your curtains, you see that is a bright morning, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the meadows are blooming, and a large yellow bulldozer is advancing towards your home.
Must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of those.
penis_
Adams also wrote the game ‘Bureaucracy’, similarly rather difficult. And later ‘Starship Titanic’, which is a 3d adventure with textual conversations.
- Heard of ST, but not Bureaucracy, will need to check that out, thanks! 👍

Currently replaying A Link to the Past (1991). It's not even that old.

1991 was only like 20 years ago. Right?
- 1991 was 34 years ago according to my birth certificate, so no :(
- You are correct
Highly recommend checking out the Link to the Past Randomizer if you haven't. It shuffles all the chest contents while ensuring you can complete the game. It's different each time and even gives you a cheat sheet if you get stuck.
Check it out here
- Thank you for the recommendation. This is great. Here's what I got on a quick first try lol
Thats only an 8 year old game man. I think they meant something old like SpaceWar!
This was mine, my most replayed game of all time.

These.

This looks so much like my collection! Very cool
Dang, how do you keep all those gameboy carts from toppling over every time you launch your controller at your TV?
Edit to finish my thought after accidentally sending prematurely.
- 3D printed cart holder I got from Etsy. Pretty nifty and very stable. Unfortunately the spacing is such that you can only read the GBA labels stacked. The GB/GBC carts obscure the one behind. The rumble carts hang nicely on top though!
  I also do not throw geriatric technology. Would sooner rip my own arm off...
Nice tape collection
- Thank you! I've fallen in love with physical media again... Fuck Netflix

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Doom II
Super Mario Bros.
Metal Slug

Just booted back up chrono trigger

Solitaire and Minesweeper. Literally the best games for when I just want to play something that doesn't require a lot of attention (no story lines, long load times, or remembering what I was doing the last time I played). Just enough to focus my attention while waiting around, but able to close out when whatever I was waiting on is ready. Just really calming for the most part.

No freecell?
- I have only really started getting into Freecell, but I do play it in the "Solitaire" app. Found that having Mullvad ad-blocking DNS or a VPN with similar actually causes the ads between games not load.

Tetris, the original GameBoy cart.

Yesssssss; still one of the best implementations of Tetris ever, imo.

Wing Commander on the ol' Dosbox.

Super mario 64, the acrobatics is so fun

I've been following the sm64-psx project.
Yesterday I even got the game to compile, AND show the SM64 splash screen on real PS1 hardware
The natively compiled version?
There's videos from Kaze Emanuar which are quite interesting about it:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvSqzfO_LV_QzHdmEj84SQ

I replayed Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines (2004) recently

Damn was that really 2004?! Thought it was older in my head

I may or may not still have a pvpgn vm and a Windows xp vm with a lot of baal rush setups set to run.

I'll play D2 till I die.

Half life and Unreal Tournament

Unreal Tournament is so good. I wish it had more assault maps out of the box.
- I know! I had so much fun playing that game!!! Headshot! Unstoppable!
GoldSRC HL? Love those gibs.

Chess. It's hundreds of years old ey haha

Streets of Rage 1&2

Who do you pick?
- typically Max, sometimes Skate. in french there's an auditory hallucination that makes his special attack sound funny
  you ?

I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.

Angband for me, high five my fellow older roguelike enjoyer
I'm not alone!
Never ascended once. Somewhere in the late midgame the inventory juggling becomes just too complicated and it feels like the last few turns of Civilization 4.
Tried fiqhack but it flakes on me a lot, can't figure the reason, won't find assets et c. I do dynahack now but it changes too much for my taste, and it doesn't help the inventory problem when you have hundreds of items and try to make sense of it all.
And yet 30 years on something about it still tickles me pickle.
I sometimes play "Beneath Apple Manor" (1978) and similar-era games via Apple emulator. Believe it or not, it's a "roguelike" that actually predated Epyx' Rogue (1980) and NetHack (1987).
But I'm also thankful that Epyx' Rogue happened to become used for the overall genre name. "BeneathAppleManorLike" is just too much of a mouthful!
- Oh my god that game art! <3 <3 <3
  I don't know what it was about Apple II games, they just had an other-worldly quality to them.
Hell yes!! And you can play it on the nethack site through terminal. So awesome. And watch others play it too
Is it worth getting into it now? Without rose tinted glasses I mean. Or are there better alternatives? (Shattered Pixel Dungeon for example). I have tried Shattered Pixel but found it too nonsensical, having to learn tons of mechanics that don't seem to make sense other than trial and error and huge RNG (which I am not a fan of).
- Yes. Its still awesome. And I never got to play it in the heyday.
  Its just an engaging game for me.
  Nethack.org

I've been playing jet moto with my kid. Just like I did with my dad, back in 1996.

I still play a phone sudoku game from 2009. I would still play StarCraft and Warcraft 2 if I had hardware capable.

Sometimes I'll pop open Mega Man 1 when my blood pressure is too high to focus on anything. I plan to no-hit it one day (without major glitches)

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Worms Armageddon

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

Robotron 2084 - there is a place by me that still has the arcade cabinet.

Awesome game. One of the first with synthesized speech!

I dunno if it really counts, because these days I play Diablo 2 Resurrected instead of the real OG, but god I still love Diablo 2. I was playing a Druid Maul build a little bit just last weekend in anticipation of Path of Exile 2 adding animal transformations. It's just one of those classic Blizzard titles I go back to at least once every year, alongside Warcraft 3 and Starcraft. They're like the triumvirate of my childhood nostalgia.

Wish the company wasn't so awful.

i'm playing the remake now though. you can even toggle between old and new graphics, but i think they did an amazing job with the update.
Loved D2. Came back to it after decades of being away. Got really confused by things like runes and the reclassifcation of cast rate for items as a percentage. I missed snickering every time I'd encounter an item with "fastest cast rate"
https://www.median-xl.com/

Playing regularly? Minecraft.

There are a few games I revisit as my kid grows up and gets to experience them for the first time, but Minecraft keeps coming back.

That one hits close.
I started Minecraft because my kid talked me into it. I bought him the last Alpha version, then bought myself the first Beta so I could play with him. At the time it just felt like blocks and wandering around, but it stuck.
Now I play with my grandsons.
Last weekend was my oldest grandson’s eleventh birthday. Along with a Steam gift card and probably some Robux, all he really wanted was to spend the day playing Minecraft with his grandpa. So that is what we did.
Not my oldest game, but definitely the one I play most consistently. At least once a week.

Bejeweled 3 zen mode on my Xbox 360 till my Xbox one X

Darklands - a cRPG released in 1992 by Microprose. It's set in medieval Germany; you are a party of fledgling adventurers looking to build fame and money, and somehow you get pulled into a battle against the forces of the apocalypse. Instead of magic, you invoke saints and use alchemy to craft potions. I loved it when I was younger, and I still, somehow, enjoy it today.

If you hate the following things, then I highly recommend checking it out!

great graphics
good music and sound design
easy to understand game mechanics
stable, bug-free game play
yourself

I was skimming your comment then i was intrigued with the great graphics, bug free… i was like, what is this amazing game? Maybe i should try. Then i read it again!

Technically Team Fortress 2. Though not often.

I'm playing through Final Fantasy 2 right now but the pixel remaster version which came out in 2021 which is why I say technically.

I started TF2 about a year or two back and still play because my son loves it. It's a fun game.
- It's a great game to just hang out and have fun. I play it once or twice a year with college buddies across the country. Fire it up, start a server, get drunk, pyro everything

Garrys Mod. You'd actually be impressed how many people still play that game for it approaching its 20 year anniversary.

You can play Garrys Mod? I thought it was mostly just a sandbox for building things or making machinima videos. I have it but have opened it maybe twice...not much time for gaming these days and Black Mesa and Outer Wilds have been consuming all my stolen gaming time.
- Theres still a hell of a lot of RP servers up, darkRP and otherwise. Still prophunt, TTT, zombie survival, all the classics with some new niche gamemodes added in. Its had a solid like 17-18,000 concurrent players on steam even just this month I believe.

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (1995)

I had a sony viao pc (200mhz) that came with mech warrior 2 on cd r.o.m.
played the shit out of that
- Such a good soundtrack on the CD
With a sidewinder joystick?
That thing is made for torso-twist in MW2.
- Yeeeess!! I was trying to remember the name of that! Thank you!
- Loved that joystick, especially with A-10 Cuba!
“We are clan Wolf…”
- "It's got a lock on me! It's got a lock on m-" BOOM

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

There is a bar with a N64 setup near me, every time we go I have to lap my wife a few times just to show her I still got it.
But then she beeats my ass raw at Marvel v Capcom. 😂

1991's arcade hit and genre creating game, Street Fighter 2

Diablo 1 (it runs really well with the devilutionx engine reimplementation)

I remember being scared of the music in diablo 2 as a kid
I've been looking for a download of Diablo 1. I must have put thousands of hours in as a kid. Where'd you find yours?
- https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/
  Web version!
- It's on GOG.
- I actually own it on cd. I just had to boot up an old laptop that has my only cd drive.
  But I just checked, you can find it on archive.org.

I play retro games I missed growing up so I’ll soon be starting final fantasy 6

Best old school one. You're in for a treat
- ...old school. mf'er I still play III (us version 3)
Currently playing FFVI myself. It's a treat.
Bit easier than other Final Fantasy games, I'm finding... at least in the early game, Edgar and Sabin are ass-blasting everything in the game with very little resistance, those boys probably don't even need the rest of the Returners squad. I know that will probably change later but the duo are definitely the MVPs of act 1.
I'm also of mixed opinion about the ability to teach every party remember every spell in the game. It's obviously not the best idea, that I can't stop myself from doing. Does Edgar or Gau need to know how to cast Bio or Slow or Rasp? No, not at all, and they're probably better served leveling up with magicite that gives them useful stats. Will they learn those spells? You betcha.
- I’ll be playing this version, no idea how it will compare to the original
  https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1386/

Freeciv

I'll only stop playing OSRS if they shut the servers down.

When they do you can still play 2009scape! Has up to 5x XP modes in case you want a less grindy experience, a single player mode and a brilliant community
Worth noting that OSRS is really just a fork of RuneScape from around the mid RS2 days, (if I remember correctly it's based on a full backup someone found of their codebase, so it started as "hey look we found this old version of the game in a box in one of our offices, wanna play?") and now it contains more new content than original content. Heck way back in the day the idea of a sailing skill was always a silly joke that nobody took seriously, and I'm talking back when Hunter and slayer were being added. Yet here we are.

Portal. It's older than you think, but still solid.

A couple of years ago I got my wife to finally play Portal and Portal 2 for the first time. Its been long enough she was entirely unaware of any of the memes about the game so she immediately fell in love with the companion cube and cried when she realized she had no choice but to incinerate it, even going so far as trying to find a bug to exploit to bring it with her

Deus Ex 1. Still holds up after all these years and there are plenty of mods to keep things interesting.

Probably half life 2

Spy Hunter

Been playing flatout ultimate carnage, made me want to try older racing games since I barely played any post ps2 growing up (my older cousin had one and some racing games like podracing, idr the rest) I just hated that you couldn't exit the car, for some reason it's just way more immersive to me, so I avoided any game with vehicles where you couldn't exit them. Eventually got in to flight sims which made me wanna try driving games again, since you can't exit the plane and it's still fun. Tho I do wish they added that too.

Dloading many ps2 games and some nfs games, legion go s handheld has me playing more games than I have in ages. I always feel bad playing controller based games on my pc for whatever reason compared to my ps5 even tho it runs better. This has me trying more stuff since it isnt taking over my pc's resources and screen.

I still play WoW. That's a 21 year old game.

(The housing is so much fun!!)

It is, but it's a little weird when compared to the post because it's still getting updates.
That's why I play World of Warcraft Classic, which is actually the game from 20 years ago (technically 18 since I'll be playing Burning Crusade Classic soon.)
- I play on turtle wow. It’s based on woltk, but they have their own content as well that they’ve made. It’s free :)

I recently picked up Diablo 2 again, that and Doom which I play off and on. I really need to find a copy of Wolfenstein now that I'm thinking about old games.

The barcade near me has a Sinistar (1982) cabinet and I play it every time I go. I’m not even that good at it, but I love it so much.

Also I love those Lucasarts point and click adventure games. Grew up playing Monkey Island and play it again every once in a while.

How appropriate. You fight like a cow
- I had my cat laminated 🤺
Same. Also broken sword.

Mario 64 on original hardware. Never did finish it as a kid so no time better than the present

River Raid, Atari game from early 80s. Play it on analogue pocket currently

This was my favorite on commodore 64

DigDug on MAME

@TheReanuKeeves Doom

Thief: Gold

The Dark Mod scratches that itch very well most of the time, but the OG had better story telling across multiple missions

Thief VR just came out. I havn't played it yet but I havn't been so excited about a new game in years.
Just started playing this again for the first time in years. Trying out the texture upgrades from tfix, and they seem pretty good. Still feels very retro!
- yeah, I remember the first time I played The Dark Mod and thought: Holy shit, they really nailed the fidelity of the original! Then I was finally able to get Thief: Gold running and realized that TDM actually looks leagues better than the original lol

I'm on a retro game kick lately. I am currently playing Pokemon Leaf Green and Chrono Trigger (for a fiesta event) and will likely move on to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night afterward.

Contra still holds up very well, really fun to play with a friend.

I still play NES games often. These were the games of my childhood. Balloon Fight and the original arcade Mario Bros. are always fun for shorter sessions. And I still enjoy playing through Super Mario Bros. on occasion. I very rarely have ventured into games older than the NES.

osu!. Despite being made in 2007, it still holds up as a good rhythm game.

Last three were Star Ocean (the first one), Radiata Stories, and Skies of Arcadia.

Currently playing Alundra because a friend grew up with it and wanted me to play it. Honestly it's not great but RetroAchevements made the bosses extraordinarily painful to master, which is uh ... fun. Yes. Fun, let's go with that.

Oh and ps these commenters all have fantastic tastes.

Every so many years I fire up a King's Quest or Space Quest.

A fellow space janitor approves.
- Don't take any wooden buckazoids!

Mario 3, though these days I get tired of it after a World or two and haven't completed it in a while.

Also Xenogears from the PS1 is still one of my favorite games and I replay it every few years.

Joust.

Joust brings back a very specific memory for me.
I was in early high school and happened to live in the town in Iowa that called itself the Video Game Capital of the World. There are enough documentaries out there that it is not exactly a secret. When I joined the Army at eighteen my nickname was Radar, which probably gives it away anyway.
I had a good friend from junior high computer club. He had a TRS-80 Color Computer. I was a Commodore guy. By high school we had mostly drifted apart. Then one day he called me up, yes phones did exist, and told me he was going to set a world record on Joust and asked if I wanted to come help support him.
Somehow I got permission from my parents. I spent the entire weekend at the arcade with him, mostly watching, bringing food, keeping track of things, and just being there. He set the record. I do not know how long it stood, but I know I was there when his name went up on the big board Monday morning.
I got an unexcused absence from school for it.
Still worth it.
I loved Joust, back in the arcade days.
- Joust on my 7800 is soooo fun

ShadowMan from 1999. That's one of the (if not the) first narrative action adventure games I ever played and a big part of my childhood. The mixture of blood, gore, creepy music and enemies and great setpieces (you play as the walker between the worlds of the dead and the living and can switch between them) fascinates me to this day. When I was a child, it gave me quite a few nightmares, but I still finished it. It's an absolute masterpiece.

NightDive recently remastered it and it's even better now.

I assume we are talking original release and not a remake? These are the games I never stopped jumping in and out of.

Fez (X360 2012)
Rock Band/Guitar Hero (Multi-System)
Skyrim (Multi-System 2011)
FTL (PC 2012)
Civilization V (PC 2010)
Stardew Valley (Multi-System 2016)

Recently, I’ve been playing Top Gear (SNES 1992).

For many of these, I’m not playing on the original system. I’m playing a port. Fez wasn’t ported to modern consoles, but I play on my phone.

Hell, I played Skyrim on an Amazon Echo. ¯(ツ)/¯

Arcanum from Troika and Fallout 1&2 for me

Arcanum is good shit. I played that so many times when it came out.
straight damage dealing mage
beat with an ugly stick orc fighter
gun jerk
charismatic elf girl who got everyone else to fight for her, talked the final boss down.
I think maxing out time magic and backstab might have been the wackiest. Got like 90 action points and everyone else got 4. Stab stab stab stab.

About once a year or so I go replay Morrowind, the chaddest of the Elder Scrolls series.

This past year I replayed Morrowind with Tamriel Rebuilt tacked onto it, which has been extremely cool and fresh. TR really feels like official content a lot of the time, it's quite good and the love that's been put into it is very apparent.

ARSENAL Extended Power. An old strategy game from the early 2000s. Still fire it up once a year to mess around.

I have NEVER uninstalled "Deus Ex."

The original Bard's Tale trilogy. I just finished I a few months ago and have been working away on the Destiny Knight.

It's so cool to be able to port your party over from the prior games and keep building!

I play lots of games from my childhood. Even though it was before my time, Super Mario Bros on the NES is probably the oldest game I regularly go back to. But I love retro games, so I'll play even older games on occasion.

Me too. I would say Pac-Man or Galaga, but Super Mario Bros. 1 is the oldest one where I'll sit down and dig into it for a while. 40 years later, the character's weight and momentum make it feel better than plenty of modern games.
- Oh, Galaga is another good one!

Regularly Cube2:Sauerbraten, initially from 2004.

Occasionally, Dragster on Atari,1980. Some of the best reaction gameplay available, from the golden years.

Before I got a Switch, my last Nintendo Console was a Super Nintendo and missed out on Wii/Gamecube/WiiU, family was a Playstation family lol, so now Im going back and playing all the Zelda's!

Anarchy Online (2001) is a game I play frequently.

I was one of the original beta testers! Never actually played it very extensively though since I was really into Asheron's Call at the time.
Man I tried to get into it but it would barely install and was so buggy I never could play it.
I reall wanna.
- You may have been using the new/beta engine. This engine is known to crash frequently. I use the old engine and never have any problems.

Super Smash Bros Melee (2001)

Portal (2007)

Red Dead Redemption (2010)

Portal 2 (2011)

Journey (2012)

Tomodachi Life (2013)

I've been replaying Tenkaichi 2 lately

Mirrors Edge

I will never let go of the original

I'm so torn up by the sequel. It was pretty mid overall, but the final bossfight was so incredibly infuriating that it ruined my overall impression of the game, so much so that I'd rather the sequel never existed at all.

Does OpenTTD count?

On a regular basis, probably classic DooM / DooM 2.

Battle for Atlantis

I had to check my library to make sure which one is the oldest, but it's fallout 1 :3

Still a great game, especially with mods.
The atmosphere is absolutely unique and haunting...
- Any mods you enjoy/recommend for it? :3 I haven't done too much modding tbh

Gothic

Zeig mir deine Ware!
- Es wird nicht so heiß gegessen, wie es gekocht wird.
- Steck die scheiß Waffe weg!

I regularly go back to Warcraft 3 in between playing newer games if somethung piques my interest or gets a cool update.

Spent so much time playing both campaign and custom games over the years since release, and finally got into melee/1v1 about a year+ ago

The fact that the game actually gets support with balance changes and updates again has been lots if fun

This thread is turning into a memory dump for me, so here is another one.
I go back farther than Warcraft 3. I still fire up Warcraft 2 on DOSBox now and then, usually when I have had a bit too much to drink and want something familiar.
When Warcraft 2 was new, I was a junior computer programmer for a very large corporation, top 25 in the world. I set up a LAN at home using token ring, which tells you roughly how old this story is.
My wife is not really a gamer, although after thirty seven years of marriage and putting up with this stuff, maybe she qualifies anyway. We would sit at our desks, hold our daughters on our laps, and battle each other in Warcraft 2.
The machines were 80286 boxes I built myself from parts. Thanks, CDW back when it still meant Computer Discount Warehouse.
So yeah, I guess I have been around for most of this history. Some people remember patches and balance updates. I remember toddlers, token ring, and orcs on beige hardware.

Every few years I replay both Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age.

MoO2 periodically for building ships and controlling the whole fleet. Stellaris is fine but so many systems are a chore in that game and at the same time paper thin in depth. Older games had tactics and strategy.

Love me some MoO2!

OpenTTD

I regularly play Might and Magic 4 and 5: World of Xeen. It's from 1992.

Crash Bandicoot 2

Haven't done it, but i always wanted to put all the GTAs into one world, along with modded areas, and have it all connected.

For a time it was Solitaire, but these days it's 2048.

If you haven't played Threes!, do yourself a favor and try it. 2048 is a soulless clone.

I generally play at least one of the Ultima games every year, mostly the late 80s and early 90s ones.

Currently playing Hot Wheels TURBO Racing (1999) on the N64 (Analogue 3d). It's a good little arcade racer and has been fun to hop back into it.

Peggle. As a grown ass person I still play it at least once every couple of weeks. Stupid fun when you don't want to pay too much attention.

I love peggle!

original snes super mario world is still a blast, tetris is another game that's still fun

I have a SNES/NES combo. Playing through super Mario world and marble madness. Its been fun.

Legend of Zelda ALttP, then SSBM or SotN.

Just played the NES Contra yesterday for the first time in probably over a decade. Still can beat it first try although I did have to use a couple of continuous on stage 4. I'm so used to not dying that I forgot where to find the good weapons. But for stages 5-8 I still had all the muscle memory of where to shoot and when that I developed as a kid.

I built my own PC, a tower with a 16 core 32 thread cpu, 128 gb of ram, 16 gb of vram and i make sure to keep it cold enough to handle playing minesweeper on expert.

i'm kidding, i quit gaming in 2020 as a new years resolution.

I have somewhat quit gaming as well. The problem is that I always feel like I am missing out. It taught me so much, surely there are still titles that would blow my mind, make me question reality or introduce me to deep philosophical questions. The truth is that mostly I feel like games are a waste of time. I have never come full closure on it. It seems weird not using the medium since it exercises the brain way more than other mindless activities.
- The fear of missing out is something that used to worry me. Having been an avid proponant of the good videogames can do and having spent obscene amounts of time on them and basing almost my entire social life around them, it was not easy for me to quit.
  So I didn't technically quit exactly. My full new year's resolution was to "quit watching tv and movies, and quit playing videogames, until improving my life considerably." It's easier to say it the way I did in my previous comment.
  This way, it's not so much that I actually quit for all time, it's that I've stopped temporarily to focus on learning and self improvement, hoping I will be able to change my circumstances for the better and live a more stable life before going back to gaming as a sort of reward.

1994's virtua-cop

Black & White H.A.V.O.C.

Gorf, 2600

Close, but mine was Gorf on the VIC-20, not the 2600. See my other reply for the longer story.

Master of Magic.

Space Quest 3. Wonderful story, funny, good music, and it always gave me this wistful feeling for some reason.

Excellent choice, always loved the 3rd one. They're all fantastic in their own way though. I grew up with these games and they left such an impact that I usually have this username, with slight variances of course.

I still play doom, although I try a lot of newer wads. It's crazy that there's basically 30 years of free content people have been creating since it came out (even if most stuff much past 10 or 15 years old can feel kinda dated and not so interesting to play).

Fnv

I'll still play a few of the SNES classics from my childhood sometimes. Super Mario world, Yoshis island, that kinda stuff.

Tetris DX, either on original hardware or my Analogue Pocket

final fantasy 11

Whenever I can find it- Centipede. Especially if it's in a cabinet with the trackball.

Otherwise I play Donkey Kong Country a fair amount. Or Super Mario World. SNES games are my jam

Online gaming wise Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004)

As for single player gaming, donkey Kong Land 1 for gameboy is the oldest game I’m actively playing. I have various NES launch games in my collection, those would be the oldest games in my collection that I have played.

Lord of the Rings Online (2008)

Made so many lasting friends over the years. Great community.

Unreal World. Released in 1992. Though I didn't first play until 2010ish when I moved to linux.

gorilla.bas

Blaster Master. One day I will complete it.

I settled for completing the Remake on Switch because you can save and not have to start over and beat it in one sitting.

On and off back theme hospital or it’s new instance two point hospital

I have an N64 and a Sony PVM, so I play a lot of games on that. But there’s two I play much more regularly than all the others: Mario Golf and Mario Tennis. They both hold up incredibly well.

Nethack.

Mega Man