What is the oldest game you have ever played?

[DFish]

Since discussion here seems to concentrate on newer releases, I thought it would be interesting to find out some of the oldest games that people have played. I don't mean the first game that you played (although it could well be the same), but the game that was released longest ago.

For me, it would be "Jetpac" on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which Wikipedia tells me was released in 1983.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

I think anyone who's ever played Pong wins this one.

 

[xDarc]

Pocket pool. Timeless classic and very easy to win at.

Ok ok- I used to go up to Dawn Donuts and play their space invaders arcade machine. That's the best I've got.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I have played an emulated version of Spacewar which is from 1962.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!

It's better than you might think it is considering it's age.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

If we limit it to playng the original version, and not a remake, or re-release. Then probably one of my old C64 games, but I don't remember any of their names The first game, that I can remember the name of, that I played was probably Sonic.

 

[Fortok]

I've played remakes of pong other than that super Mario.

 

[Gigano]

I had a Commodore 64 at one point, and played a game called Cyclons apparently released in 1984. It was on a tape, took 3 mins to load up, the graphics consisted of green lines (UFO's, mountains), and you couldn't save - but it was fun. I also had "Twinky goes Hiking" (1986) and a few other games, also on tapes, but I can't remember their names.

 

[0p3rati0n]

The original CoD. That was like my very first real video game. I can't really say those point and click educational adventure games for school and childhood development count. *long shock wave down spine* Now very good memories :S

 

[HT_Black]

I played five-card stud on a full 52 once. I'm fairly certain that game is as old as dirt...

Wait, you mean video game?

I dunno, I was young and it was bland. Do the math.

 

[Woem]

Mine must be Pacman, released in 1980.

 

[teutonicman]

Doom is the oldest for me, the other oldest (from when I played it to when I was released) was FF7. I played it around May of '09.

 

[CanOfPop]

Half Life 1 is the earliest I can remember.

I'm sure I played some earlier games, but none come to mind.

 

[CHangedUsername]

On its legitimate system not emulated?

Probably Centipede for my Atari 5200.
Released in 1982.

 

[mmkorn22]

The oldest memorable game I've ever played was the very first Prince of Persia. I played it on my grandfather's old-as-dirt computer. I don't remember exactly when this was, but I used ms-dos to play it. Windows was unknown in my household at that particular point in time.

And since that game is still fun to me, I played it a few more times about a year ago.

And since I've just remembered how awesome it is I'm probably going to play it again this evening on dosbox.

 

[Terror_666]

We found this really old console up in the attic once which had like 3 games Pong, Tennis and Table tennis. My father had apparently got it more than ten years before I was born in 1984 it had two controller (if you can even call a box with a dial a controller) with which you moved the pong paddle up and down on the screen.

that is chronologically the oldest computer game I can remember ever playing.

 

[CHangedUsername]

We found this really old console up in the attic once which had like 3 games Pong, Tennis and Table tennis. My father had apparently got it more than ten years before I was born in 1984 it had two controller (if you can even call a box with a dial a controller) with which you moved the pong paddle up and down on the screen.

that is chronologically the oldest computer game I can remember ever playing.

Sounds like a 2600, correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[DFish]

On its legitimate system not emulated?

It's more interesting that way, I think. I mean, everyone has probably played an in-browser flash version of pong at some point, but has anyone played the 1972 Atari version? And yes, I know it's even older than that, but I think the very earliest variant ran on a good ol' mainframe, which seems unreasonable.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

I once played Pokemon Yellow and an arcade version of Soul Caliber 2; I'd have to say those are the two oldest games I've played.

 

[Beatrix]

The original Prince of Persia.