Warcraft III

Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2, Portal.

I still whip out megaman X sometimes. My siblings and I play the original crash team racing every other Christmas too.

Commander Keen is my all time favorites.

Nethack maybe? It's been updated over the years, but it's still largely the game that released in '87.

I'm also playing Might and Magic 6 [98] right now, and remembering why I liked 7 so much more. Planning a playthrough of World of Xeen [93/94] soon too.

Are you suggesting that Skyrim is old? It's still getting updated, to my great annoyment.

World of Warcraft, but to be fair, it’s just about the only game I really play. I dabble in a few others on Steam, but I always end up back in wow.

I bought a Nintendo 3DS this year and I’ve been trying to play that more but my books are so distracting lol

Does FreeDoom count? It's as close to the original as I can get anymore.

Twisted Metal 2. I still play it on my PS4

Baldur's Gate.

I am realizing my life is not really marked by birthdays, anniversaries, promotions, or any of the normal milestone stuff people list. It is marked by video games.

Thanks for this thread, because it reminded me of one I cannot leave out.

There was a week I spent in a mental hospital with a major anxiety spiral. Pretty much everything felt unmanageable. The one thing I could handle was Pokémon FireRed on a Game Boy Advance.

That was it. That was my anchor.

It was actually written into my chart that I was allowed to plug my charger in at the nurses station while I slept so the GBA would be ready the next day. No arguments. No debates. Just accepted as necessary.

Not my oldest game, see my other replies for that, but it is probably the only one I have mentioned that might have saved my life.

In my possession is a c64 with an actual c64 monitor. Doing know if it even works. Needs a good home

Every now and then I get a bit nostalgic and put on Dragon Warrior or Sword of Vermillion. I have all the older consoles.

Not crazy old but I play Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon on N64 pretty regularly

Empires mod (free on Steam) reminds me of old Battlefield but you also have a comander for each team, so it has some base building aspects. Nice balance and no pay to win or comercial exploits.

Sadly the player count is low but every saturday and sunday servers fill upp.

I played Super double Dragon for SNES earlier. I also played super Mario Bros 2 for nes this week. Platform games are a great way to pass the time on the go when you have a phone and a Bluetooth controller.

Moon Patrol and Centipede hit the spot every now and then.

I don't play games much, but every decade or so, I get out Quake and play a while. Next time I get the urge, maybe I'll play the original Call of Duty or Medal of Honor.

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

EVE Online

I'm always down for a replay of Majora's Mask

I still regularly replay Kirby Super Star, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, and Super Mario Bros 3.

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

SMB, SMB3, Dr. Mario, The Guardian Legend

I kept going back to Arcanum

There was an unofficial patch that helped it continue to be playable. It just had a unique style and story that allowed you to interact and build your character around magic or technology.

Probably Halo reach or minecraft xbawks 360. Me and my brother are trying to get dad's xbawks original to work, but we need to find the power cord and GIGANTIC stack of games

The oldest games I've been playing probably has to be Banjo-Kazooie, Maximo, Crash Bandicoot, and Jak and Daxster. All amazing games!

Every once in awhile I find myself booting up Planetfall or Stationfall and trying to reason my through the esoteric lunacy of Infocom in its heyday.

Several. Tetris, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Mario Kart 64, Chrono Trigger, Starcraft. Those are the ones I can think of right now.

PMD Rescue Team

Finished Mother 1 from 1989 recently. It's surprisingly good aside from final mountain encounter rate.

Age of Empires 2

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.

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

I beat Zelda 2 and its stupid.

Edit: i misunderstood the question. Zelda 2 is the latest old game. I come back to one of the many older gauntlet games. The ps2 one i think especially.

Oldest game I still play is probably Taipan.

I first played it on an Apple IIe, but now it is just a web browser thing I poke at once in a while. It is basically spreadsheets and bad luck. You trade, pirates wreck you, the math never quite works out, and you lose anyway. I think that is why I still like it. No graphics to hide behind.

After that, Seven Cities of Gold, usually on a C64 emulator. That one still holds up more than it has any right to. You sail off thinking you are doing something heroic and slowly realize you are kind of a problem. The exploration feels lonely. The map still feels bigger than it actually is.

But the oldest one I keep coming back to is Gorf on the VIC-20.

I owned the cartridge. Bought it not long after it came out. I paid for the VIC-20 by walking beans and putting up hay all summer for a farmer when I was eleven or twelve. Hot, dusty work. Long days. I remember counting the cash and realizing I could actually afford a computer.

Gorf was loud, ugly, and mean. The voice mocked you constantly. The joystick barely survived. I loved it anyway. Sitting on the floor, TV buzzing, thinking this was the future and I had somehow managed to buy a piece of it.

Also, side note. I am trying pretty hard to become a professional writer. I write essays and stories over at tover153.substack.com. If anything there hits a nerve, feel free to subscribe.

So yeah. Taipan, Seven Cities, Gorf. Not because they are good by modern standards, but because they still feel like something.

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

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