Ocarina of Time, not a very exciting answer maybe but that game took up a good portion of my childhood...
what's the title of the oldest game you have and still play?
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With friends over, when we feel competitive and just a bit too lazy to do anything else: Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai: Taisen Pazurudama (SNES/1994)... you just move the power switch on the SNES, roll out two pads and everyone can join, and even people who have little sympathy for videogames will be sucked in almost instantly with the candy coloured graphics, the mad soundscapes from Japan's last century and people going excited all around them. No discs, no gigawatt power consumption, just good clean fun for everyone.
Then there's great Amiga classics such as:
PROJECTYLE by Eldritch the Cat (Electronic Arts, 1990)
Speedball 2 (1990) - we missed this one on XBLA, so I have no clue as to whether it's any good on the 360. I'd love to be able to play Speedball 2 (or any of these old gems) without the cables or the ever-failing microswitches. Don't get me wrong - the feeling is great, but when things break, it's meanwhile become somewhat complicated to get replacement parts.
Wings of Fury (1990 Broderbund) Yeah, not the most politically correct title out there, but it's great fun after people learn how to get the plane up in the air instead of going straight for the water. It's a simple game, but it went very well during breaks of, say, Call of Duty: World at War
e-motion, vaxine, backlash - these are still amazing fun, but they really only shine on glossy 4:3 tube screens... on modern 16:9 displays, they positively look like crap and most of the effects are severely messed up and cannot be fixed, not even by turning off all the post-process trickery of modern equipment.
C=64:
Cauldron II (1986) - just bouncing around and dying is good fun!
Wizball (1987) - this game may not look like much, but colouring the world on a big screen and having the chip music blast over 7.1 is a very, very sweet experience
RanaRama (1987) - doesn't look like much, but is an addictive kafkaesque free re-interpretation of Gauntlet, where there's no barbarian, archer, mage or valkyrie, just a hopping frog. Hopping around is half the fun!
Paradroid (1985) - The game itself is insanely addictive, but what really blows today's brains is the incessant attack of strange frequencies. Therapeutical when played properly, infuriating and hopeless when played too aggressively.
All these games twenty years and older, and they are still great fun. Due to the technical infrastructure having changed quite a bit, they may look quite ugly at first, but some of this can be remedied, such as by turning down the sharpness or whatever digital trickery that really does more harm than good on old, low-resolution gaming... to get back such things as (virtual) scanlines, emulators would probably be needed, but I don't have any such rig set up... yet. It's sort of inevitable, it seems, especially after seeing how crap re-releases of classic games are handled most of the time (strange aspect ratios, eggheads, corrupted audio, speed issues, nonsensical, ugly background images or cropped 4:3 video content... etc. etc. etc...)
With friends over, when we feel competitive and just a bit too lazy to do anything else: Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai: Taisen Pazurudama (SNES/1994)... you just move the power switch on the SNES, roll out two pads and everyone can join, and even people who have little sympathy for videogames will be sucked in almost instantly with the candy coloured graphics, the mad soundscapes from Japan's last century and people going excited all around them. No discs, no gigawatt power consumption, just good clean fun for everyone.
Then there's great Amiga classics such as:
PROJECTYLE by Eldritch the Cat (Electronic Arts, 1990)
Speedball 2 (1990) - we missed this one on XBLA, so I have no clue as to whether it's any good on the 360. I'd love to be able to play Speedball 2 (or any of these old gems) without the cables or the ever-failing microswitches. Don't get me wrong - the feeling is great, but when things break, it's meanwhile become somewhat complicated to get replacement parts.
Wings of Fury (1990 Broderbund) Yeah, not the most politically correct title out there, but it's great fun after people learn how to get the plane up in the air instead of going straight for the water. It's a simple game, but it went very well during breaks of, say, Call of Duty: World at War
e-motion, vaxine, backlash - these are still amazing fun, but they really only shine on glossy 4:3 tube screens... on modern 16:9 displays, they positively look like crap and most of the effects are severely messed up and cannot be fixed, not even by turning off all the post-process trickery of modern equipment.
C=64:
Cauldron II (1986) - just bouncing around and dying is good fun!
Wizball (1987) - this game may not look like much, but colouring the world on a big screen and having the chip music blast over 7.1 is a very, very sweet experience
RanaRama (1987) - doesn't look like much, but is an addictive kafkaesque free re-interpretation of Gauntlet, where there's no barbarian, archer, mage or valkyrie, just a hopping frog. Hopping around is half the fun!
Paradroid (1985) - The game itself is insanely addictive, but what really blows today's brains is the incessant attack of strange frequencies. Therapeutical when played properly, infuriating and hopeless when played too aggressively.
All these games twenty years and older, and they are still great fun. Due to the technical infrastructure having changed quite a bit, they may look quite ugly at first, but some of this can be remedied, such as by turning down the sharpness or whatever digital trickery that really does more harm than good on old, low-resolution gaming... to get back such things as (virtual) scanlines, emulators would probably be needed, but I don't have any such rig set up... yet. It's sort of inevitable, it seems, especially after seeing how crap re-releases of classic games are handled most of the time (strange aspect ratios, eggheads, corrupted audio, speed issues, nonsensical, ugly background images or cropped 4:3 video content... etc. etc. etc...)
Super Mario World which hit the good ol' S N E of S in I believe 1991. Yes I am too lazy to check that. Still play the system and (most of) the games
Oldest game I still have the box for and play is probably X-Com UFO Defense (1994). I do play the steam version though just so I'm not fiddling around with DosBox.
Thanks to the wonders of GOG the oldest game I regularly play is probably Ultima 6 (1990) I still have my original manual, but I lost the box and the disks somewhere along the lines.
The oldest game I own but have not played in ages is my original Final Fantasy cart from (1987). I don't even really remember what it was that made me decide I simply had to have it but I do remember racing home at lunch hour in the 2nd and 3rd grade so I could play it for like 20 minutes before I had to head back to school. It doesn't even have its label anymore since it got caught in a basement flood in the mid 90's but the game itself still plays...
Thanks to the wonders of GOG the oldest game I regularly play is probably Ultima 6 (1990) I still have my original manual, but I lost the box and the disks somewhere along the lines.
The oldest game I own but have not played in ages is my original Final Fantasy cart from (1987). I don't even really remember what it was that made me decide I simply had to have it but I do remember racing home at lunch hour in the 2nd and 3rd grade so I could play it for like 20 minutes before I had to head back to school. It doesn't even have its label anymore since it got caught in a basement flood in the mid 90's but the game itself still plays...
Aye, I've replayed both of them repeatedly... last time with some after-market enhancements to bring them up to 1600x1200 or something along those lines. Funny how some memories stay with you seemingly forever, and other bits just get lost. Fact is, these games look really much better with an artificially raised resolution.
Plus, it's quite funny when you realize that that's actually Tony Shaloub/Monk talking to you right there.
Plus, it's quite funny when you realize that that's actually Tony Shaloub/Monk talking to you right there.
If I have to have the cartridge/disc for it to count then it'd be either Banjo-Kazooie or Donkey Kong 64. If it can be a download then that goes to Donkey Kong Country for the SNES cause I got that on the virtual console right when it hit the marketplace.
I suppose the oldest game I have is Beneath A Steel Sky, but that's a digital copy, not a physical one. I do however have a working copy of Vandal Hearts on the PS1.
It was 1991.randomguy425 said:
The oldest game that I have and still play is an ancient game called Go. It was developed long before chess.
The oldest video game that I still have and play on a semi-regular basis is Zork. I had to update to a digital copy because my Apple 2c disk demagnetized recently. I'm pretty much out of actual Apple 2c titles that still work. Right now all I have is G.I. Joe and Oregon Trail. I haven't tried them in a long time though, so they might not work.
Maybe Doom? I'd probably say C&C 1. 1995! Year I was born. Still play it for the nostalgia, but I've moved onto OpenRA. Look it up.
Well, I've been thinking about it, and I guess I'd have to say Dungeon Keeper, I FUCKING LOVE THAT GAME! I've only really HAD it for a couple years, but I played it all the time when I was younger.
Also, games on Sega Genesis, like Vectorman, or Sonic's games... or that awesome xmen game...
yeah, and I come back to them once every few months or so, not beating them or anything, just playing through and having fun, now I need to find that animaniacs game for genesis I had...
Also, games on Sega Genesis, like Vectorman, or Sonic's games... or that awesome xmen game...
yeah, and I come back to them once every few months or so, not beating them or anything, just playing through and having fun, now I need to find that animaniacs game for genesis I had...
I have no earthly clue. We play on the original N64. Speaking of which, I never understood the hatred of those controllers. Did people just not understand them?SirBryghtside said:
Totally agree. Found a brand new copy in a convenience store near my school, bought it for $5, never regretted it. Still play today.Rattler5150 said:
OT: Another old game I found cheap, Total Annihilation. Great RTS, especially with some mods. EPIC BATTLES. And a great soundtrack, too.
