Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!
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.
Same, but it was because Steam updated it with new graphics modes and I wanted to replay it. Doing Doom 2 now.
Of the games I can think of, probably Super Mario Land.
Missile Command is a 1980 shoot 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and later licensed to Sega for Japanese and European releases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command
On the actual arcade machine as well, with the huge ball “mouse”.
Felt challenging, but also how it would be kinda trivial with a mouse and keyboard.
I tend to not go that far back usually, mostly hovering around the mid 90’s and 2000’s with my retrogaming, but does it count if I’ve played some rounds of NES Tetris?
I’m currently reading a fantasy book from 1984 if that doesn’t count.
Commander Keen (1990) on Steam
Warms my heart to know that game has been brought along into the future, that was such an awesome game for my brother and i to discover as kids
I remember as a kid that the main thing I liked about the game was that there was a pogo stick in it. Me and my brothers played it a lot. It was only in the last years I learned that it was also a technical masterpiece.
This week it’s been Megaman II (1988).
I feel like games before that era had a lot of coin-op focus. Not much content, but hard enough that you’ll be pouring more credits into the machine. That said, I’ve been itching to play Alley Cat (1983), but I don’t have a good setup for MS-DOS games at the moment. I’ll have to see if my Miyoo mini is up for the task.
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.
Was playing Rainbow Islands on the ST this week.
Pong
Probably the ancient pong machine my grandfather had.
Don’t know if it counts but, “Game of Life” (1970) on “The Powder Toy” (2008).
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
PS2 is your OLDEST played game??? Oh god. Oh, I think I should just invest in a walker before prices go up…
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?”
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
Nice!!! That’s one of a handful of arcade video games I’d like to own someday.
I just played Mancala the other day which may be up to 8,000 years old.
My daughter and I played with a ball today. It looks like Mancala might be old as balls!?
I don’t know man…my balls are pretty old.
…did I misread the situation?
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.
