What are your favorite really old games?

[Karoshi]

Might and Magic: VII

It was a RPG where you could recruit a frigging dragon to join your party. And when that happens, you can fly anywhere. The story blew my mind at that time (even though it was pretty average) and I loved the hell out of it.

Also, the snake temple/labyrinth at the very start of the game. One of the creepiest and best places I have ever visited in a game.

 

[LittleBlondeGoth]

Oh, there's so many.

Speedball II was brilliant ("Ice cream!") as were most of the Bitmaps' games. Loved Cadaver as well. XCom was awesome, Cannon Fodder and Ultima V. And I shouldn't forget Zool or Rainbow Islands. Or Gods. All of these are on my beloved Amiga.

I also adore Wild Arms on the PS1.

 

[Dr.Panties]

Last Ninja 1 and 2 on the C64.

Paradroid (C64), and then Paradroid 90 for the Amiga.

Also on the Amiga, the Cannonfodder games were really cool, and still hold up rather well. I saw Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight mentioned upthread- that was some fun stuff, too.

EDIT: Tenchu: Stealth Assassins on the PS1

 

[purplecactus]

The oldest games I own are the original Doom games, and I love them to bits. I recall this one game that I played on a dinosaur of a Gameboy, but the only thing I remember besides really enjoying it is that there were platforms... Doesn't really narrow it down.

 

[kyogen]

Myst (1993)--a group of friends and I took turns with the mouse and keyboard to solve the game's puzzles, still the best local co-op experience I've ever had

 

[Tallim]

Last Ninja 1 and 2 on the C64.

Paradroid (C64), and then Paradroid 90 for the Amiga.

Also on the Amiga, the Cannonfodder games were really cool, and still hold up rather well. I saw Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight mentioned upthread- that was some fun stuff, too.

EDIT: Tenchu: Stealth Assassins on the PS1

Hehe yeah Paradroid. There is a fantastic retro remake of it I've been playing recently.

For me Forbidden Forest, although a lot of people don't like it.

 

[Weaver]

Raptor: Call of the Shadows was, IMO, the best shmup of the DOS era. It's STILL fun to this day.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I can't play my earlier games like Gilligan's Gold

Spoiler: WARNING! Ultra high spec screenshot included. The graphics displayed within may cripple even top-end rigs!

any more due to not having my old ZX Spectrum, but I still play my old PC games like Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Keen and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure - and yes, that game is as awesome as it sounds.

 

[Lunatic High]

I asked him to show me, and the oldest game he had was Halo 3. I didn't want to piss on his parade, but man did I feel old.

Lol I know right, same thing happend to me with Luigi's mansion as well as the Resident Evil 1 remake for gamecube

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I really enjoyed Pac-Man when I was little because it was a game that everyone could play and it is the only game that my mother actually approved of me playing.

 

[xplosive59]

Not the oldest but I love Mega Man 1,2 3 and X which all came out before I was born.

 

[Vankraken]

What games did you play as a child and when you were older tried desperately to find a way to play them again?

What is this "tried desperately" you speak of? (meme time) One does not simply stop playing good games.

Seriously X-Com, MOO2, Startopia, Sacrifice, Colonization, Frontier Elite 2, and Theme Hospital are all games that I regularly come back to play but its never a huge issue to get them to play again. Then again learning to use dos box has helped a lot in being able to keep playing the older dos games.

 

[octafish]

When I was a child? None. When I was in High School? Elite, Sid Meier's Pirates! and Pool of Radiance all on the C64. I did play games on a Spectrum but these are the first games I remember being really good.

I still have them all and I still have my trusty old c64, although the floppy drive sounds like it is on its last legs.

 

[Janus Vesta]

Ghouls and Ghosts and Ghosts and Goblins were amazing and balls hard.

The many faces of Street Fighter 2.

Mortal Kombat 1.

Abe's Oddysee was my favourite though, a stealthy, puzzly side scroller with humorous characters, amazing design and not always fair difficulty. What's not to love?

 

[DeimosMasque]

Let's see:

X-Com UFO Defense - game I'd stay up all night playing and even made me jump of fright a few times during night missions.

Star Control 2 - Best space exploration RPG/Tactical game I've ever played... to this day

Gabriel Knight 1 and 3 - Never cared much for the second one as it was from FMV Hell

King's Quest 6 - First CDROM game I ever played

Space Quest 1-6 - My favorite comedy adventure games

Ultima 3 - First played it on the NES then later on computer. Still prefer the NES one a bit more.

 

[Luca72]

This game was my Alpha. The one that started everything

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/The_Oregon_Trail_cover.jpg

For the uninformed, this is what the game was about:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/02/09/oregontrail.jpg

 

[saintdane05]

Sonic Adventure is considered "Really Old", right? If not, its Super Mario World.