Warcraft III
I still whip out megaman X sometimes. My siblings and I play the original crash team racing every other Christmas too.
Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2, Portal.
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.
It's the oldest that I still regularly play. I do play some snes games on emulator occasionally.
The wild thing is that, at the time, the abandonware DOS games I was playing in the late 90s were more recent than Skyrim is right now.
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
Twisted Metal 2. I still play it on my PS4
Baldur's Gate.
In my possession is a c64 with an actual c64 monitor. Doing know if it even works. Needs a good home
I'll smash it for you if you'd like.
I'm not cleaning it up once it's smashed but I'll smash it.
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.
It's funny what a few dots on a screen, some words, and lo fi music can do for a person. I think sometimes we live in such a messed up world that we need something simple to anchor us.
Keep swimming man
Does FreeDoom count? It's as close to the original as I can get anymore.
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
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
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.
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 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.
I still regularly play PS1 and SNES games. They're just better too me.
I still regularly replay Kirby Super Star, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, and Super Mario Bros 3.
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!
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.
EVE Online
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.
Currently replaying A Link to the Past (1991). It's not even that old.
PMD Rescue Team
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.
RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999) by Chris Sawyer. Best game ever.
Now there's a new rewrite by the open source community called OpenRCT2. Highly suggested.
Finished Mother 1 from 1989 recently. It's surprisingly good aside from final mountain encounter rate.
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.
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