Currently replaying A Link to the Past (1991). It's not even that old.

These.

Tetris, the original GameBoy cart.

Age of Empires 2

I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.

Every so often I'll have another run at the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure from 1984.

You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.

It is pitch black.

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Super Mario World every year or two. The soundtrack alone cheers me right up.

Would Tetris count if its always whatever new Tetris Ultimate Reloaded DX etc etc edition? I feel like it shouldn't but its basically the same game just polished up.

Playing regularly? Minecraft.

There are a few games I revisit as my kid grows up and gets to experience them for the first time, but Minecraft keeps coming back.

Super mario 64, the acrobatics is so fun

OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)

And there's a community of players who have modded the everloving fuck out of the game and the engine itself, one of these patch packs is OpenTTD JGR and we play it like it's a model railway simulator

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (1995)

Technically Team Fortress 2. Though not often.

I'm playing through Final Fantasy 2 right now but the pixel remaster version which came out in 2021 which is why I say technically.

Half life and Unreal Tournament

I play retro games I missed growing up so I’ll soon be starting final fantasy 6

Diablo 1 (it runs really well with the devilutionx engine reimplementation)

Probably half life 2

Deus Ex 1. Still holds up after all these years and there are plenty of mods to keep things interesting.

Darklands - a cRPG released in 1992 by Microprose. It's set in medieval Germany; you are a party of fledgling adventurers looking to build fame and money, and somehow you get pulled into a battle against the forces of the apocalypse. Instead of magic, you invoke saints and use alchemy to craft potions. I loved it when I was younger, and I still, somehow, enjoy it today.

If you hate the following things, then I highly recommend checking it out!

• great graphics
• good music and sound design
• easy to understand game mechanics
• stable, bug-free game play
• yourself

Super Mario bros 1 & 3. I still have them working on my old Wii, but I’ve been planning on a retro pi setup for ages.

My OG NES stopped working a decade ago.

DigDug on MAME

breakout. I think it's the oldest 'playable' game. It feel ahead of it's time for the late 70's

Warcraft 3 custom maps still drag me back sometimes.

On the regular I still fire up Zork 1-3, Ultima 4, StarTropics, OG Metroid, and Maniac Mansion.

River Raid, Atari game from early 80s. Play it on analogue pocket currently

Baldur's Gate.

osu!. Despite being made in 2007, it still holds up as a good rhythm game.

Sometimes I'll pop open Mega Man 1 when my blood pressure is too high to focus on anything. I plan to no-hit it one day (without major glitches)

Mario 3, though these days I get tired of it after a World or two and haven't completed it in a while.

Also Xenogears from the PS1 is still one of my favorite games and I replay it every few years.

Knights and merchants

Portal. It's older than you think, but still solid.

I still regularly play PS1 and SNES games. They're just better too me.

Anarchy Online (2001) is a game I play frequently.

Well, I don't segment my backlog for years, so I wouldn't know which is the oldest one, but the one I plan to play next is Fzero for the SNES which was released in 1991.

RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999) by Chris Sawyer. Best game ever.

Now there's a new rewrite by the open source community called OpenRCT2. Highly suggested.

Streets of Rage 1&2

Thief: Gold

The Dark Mod scratches that itch very well most of the time, but the OG had better story telling across multiple missions

I recently picked up Diablo 2 again, that and Doom which I play off and on. I really need to find a copy of Wolfenstein now that I'm thinking about old games.

Every so many years I fire up a King's Quest or Space Quest.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Doom II
Super Mario Bros.
Metal Slug

I play lots of games from my childhood. Even though it was before my time, Super Mario Bros on the NES is probably the oldest game I regularly go back to. But I love retro games, so I'll play even older games on occasion.

I dunno if it really counts, because these days I play Diablo 2 Resurrected instead of the real OG, but god I still love Diablo 2. I was playing a Druid Maul build a little bit just last weekend in anticipation of Path of Exile 2 adding animal transformations. It's just one of those classic Blizzard titles I go back to at least once every year, alongside Warcraft 3 and Starcraft. They're like the triumvirate of my childhood nostalgia.

Wish the company wasn't so awful.

Just booted back up chrono trigger