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Great games you would recommend from before 1990? (feddit.org)
submitted 4 months ago by Wrufieotnak@feddit.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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I noticed that pretty much all games I played in my life have been released after 1990. So now I'm asking those with earlier experience here:
Which games can you recommend from before that time?

But: they should still be fun in their own right and not just interesting to play in an historian sense of trying to understand how genres developed.

Games I played that are older than 1990:

  • Tetris (classic for a reason)
  • Pacman (interesting but simple)
  • Prince of Persia (was too young to understand how to correctly play this game, I should maybe try to play it again)
  • The Legend of Zelda (too old school and clunky for my liking)
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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

They already said that Legend of Zelda was "too old-school and clunky" for them, so it's a good bet they'll hate these, too.

[-] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

What do they expect? Pong is fairly smooth lmfao.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago

I guess one person's "clunky" is another person's "crisp". You want precise, pixel-perfect controls for games that hard.

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