Oldest Game you still play

[Prophaniti]

Just wanted to know what the oldest games you other playgrounders are still playing.
You can list any pc or console game, or arcade game if you still go play it regularly.
I don't mean games you wasted two years of your life on but seldom touch now, I mean the oldest game you played yesterday or this morning, and plan on playing again tonight.

For me, its probably (and I'm not sure on this, if it is actually the oldest)
Might and Magic VI- love the gameplay and non-linear world. I was very, very disappointed in Ubisoft when they took over this franchise, they did a great job with Heroes, but missed everything fun and cool about the main Might and Magic series.

I would have said X-Com: UFO Defense, but my copy doesnt work anymore...:smallfrown:

I also still play Diablo (I and II) a lot, espesially when my one-month-old daughter wont settle down unless she's being held, because I can play them one-handed.

[Gungnir]

I fire up Nethack every once in a while.

[Yuki Akuma]

Minesweeper.

[Saithis Bladewing]

Heroes of Might & Magic II, I think. For computer games anyway.

I still fire up a nice game of Tetris NES now and then though.

[NEO|Phyte]

I've been known to fire up things like DOOM now and again, sometimes a bit of Epic Pinball, Commander Keen, Prince of Persia. Currently, the only game I'm playing with any sort of consistency is X-Com, UFO Defense. Thats liable to continue for a while, until I get bored of it and move on to something new to waste my time on.

[Ezlo]

The original Sonic the Hedgehog, not as old as some of the games, but hey, it's been more than a decade.

[Inyssius Tor]

I fire up Nethack every once in a while.

Playing it right now, in fact.

[Dragor]

Gah, I dunno- the only old game I really play on a regular basis is F-Zero X. While it's not as old as other games, its the only one I play consistently.

PS: I have been playing games since the NES, sue me.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Well, I've been playing the remake of FFIV (probably doesn't count) and playing through Super Mario 64 again.

I picked up Sonic the Hedgehog (and 2, this was a friend's compilation disk thing) the other week, but didn't finish it.

[Mc. Lovin']

I've started playing half life 1, which I beleive is quite old

[Mr.Moron]

The only game I'm playing with any regularity at all, new or old is Starcraft. It's old enough to qualify at this point, I think.

I've been known to go back and play the early Megaman games (1-4) at least once a year. Crystalis and Final Fantasy 1 also get played every couple of years.

I've been having the urge to go through Lufia II one more time, but I'm not sure. I don't want to ruin the nostalgia or anything.

[Alex Kidd]

Still got my NES set up, and occaiionally still fire up Super Mario Bros, duck hunt, Ninja Gaiden(the original, makes the new ones look like childsplay) and Gradius.

[Gungnir]

Ninja Gaiden(the original, makes the new ones look like childsplay)

There's only one new one, and 3 expansion packs.

[Zakama]

Super Mario Bros. on the Wii virtual console. That game never, never, ever dies.

[Blayze]

Castle of the Winds (Both parts).

[Cristo Meyers]

I would have said X-Com: UFO Defense, but my copy doesnt work anymore...:smallfrown:


Ahem: here (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/38/UFO+-+Enemy+Unknown.html).

X-Com would have to be mine as well, though it's been awhile...damn Star Wars: Best of PC...

[onasuma]

Scarab from 1997. Found and old copy, spent 25 minuets trying to get it to work, (after it fully installed in 15 seconds flat), and boom. over 100 levels of gameplay. Kept me going whilst hl has been gone.

[RandomLogic]

Probably Duckhunt.

And thats because we've made it a drinking game!

[Winterwind]

Castle of the Winds (Both parts).Ooooh, this one is great.

As for me... hmmm, the oldest game on my disk would be Space Invaders, and I believe it is the original from '78 (at least, the place where I downloaded it said so). If it's not, that place would go to Beast, which is from '84 (just one year younger than me), and I can testify this, because it's been handed down from computer to computer in my family until it arrived here. Both do still work (thanks to DosBox), but I play them only now and then. I have some even older games for the MAME arcade emulator (the oldest ones from '76 and '77, respectively), but I can't say that I ever played them to any significant degree.

The oldest game I play more or less regularly? Hmmm... Tetris on my NES emulator, probably.

The oldest game I play more or less often? Probably Civilisation 2, Diablo 1 or Master of Orion 2.

[Tekraen]

Alternate Reality: The City. I've also played a few NES classics off and on recently, SNES classics, X-Com:UFO Defense and Terror From The Deep, Diablo 1, original Command & Conquer and Red Alert, and both Fallouts.

[The Orange Zergling]

Starcraft, but I haven't touched it in a couple weeks.

Oh, Lemmings if we still had a computer that ran a floppy disk. That game was so awesome in every way, shape, and form. :smallfrown:

[Morty]

Oh, Lemmings if we still had a computer that ran a floppy disk. That game was so awesome in every way, shape, and form. :smallfrown:

Ah, Lemmings... Lemmings 2: The Tribes was the first computer game I've ever played on Amiga computer *sniff*. And apart from sentiment, those games are really great. I managed to run it on emulator of DoS, but now I deleted it... damn me.

[Winterwind]

Orange Zergling, M0rt, you might want to take a look onto this site here (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/37/Lemmings.html). :smallwink:

If it doesn't work, get DosBox. It's a gift from heaven anyway.

[Morty]

Orange Zergling, M0rt, you might want to take a look onto this site here (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/37/Lemmings.html). :smallwink:

If it doesn't work, get DosBox. It's a gift from heaven anyway.

Well, I used nothing else than DosBox. But I deleted Dos Navigator, so Lemmings don't work anymore. Stupid me...
But I used it to run Lemmings 2 anyway, as I have version of Lemmings I that works on Windows.

[Winterwind]

Well, I used nothing else than DosBox. But I deleted Dos Navigator, so Lemmings don't work anymore. Stupid me...
But I used it to run Lemmings 2 anyway, as I have version of Lemmings I that works on Windows.Dos Navigator? :smallconfused:
DosBox (which is available at www.sourceforge.net) should run Lemmings (which, if you have deleted that, is available at the site I previously linked to) all on its own just fine, usually?

[Closet_Skeleton]

I still play Doom 2 on occaison and I have Aliens vs Predator on a shortcut key so I can load it whenever I get bored.

[Dhavaer]

Either Worms 2, Diable 1 or Civilization 2.

[Soups]

It depends where I am at.

School(home): War craft 2 or 3. Sometimes Soldat.
Grandparents: Mario Kart or SSB
My One friends: Super Mario 3(must beat level 9)
P.O.N.G.: CS:Source

[Morty]

Dos Navigator? :smallconfused:
DosBox (which is available at www.sourceforge.net) should run Lemmings (which, if you have deleted that, is available at the site I previously linked to) all on its own just fine, usually?

DosBox can run Lemmings 2 on its own, but Dos Navigator makes it a lot easier. Basically, if you use DosBox to open Dos Navigator you can comfortably run any Dos programs you have, because it emulates Dos interface. It's kind of hard to explain now that I haven't used it for a while, and I did it by following the instructions from gaming magazine.

[Innis Cabal]

centipede.....and galaga

[LordVader]

Starcraft, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Freespace II, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. SMAC in particular got drowned out in the massive juggernaught that is Sid Meier's Civilization series. A shame, because it is a great game.:smallfrown:

[Winterwind]

DosBox can run Lemmings 2 on its own, but Dos Navigator makes it a lot easier. Basically, if you use DosBox to open Dos Navigator you can comfortably run any Dos programs you have, because it emulates Dos interface. It's kind of hard to explain now that I haven't used it for a while, and I did it by following the instructions from gaming magazine.Huh? Sorry, I still don't get it - emulating a Dos interface is what DosBox does already.
I believe I know what a navigator program in Dos would look like (something like the Norton Commander of yore, I suppose - hah, those were good times :smallbiggrin: ), but it's not exactly mandatory to get anything running in DosBox in no time.


Starcraft, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Freespace II, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. SMAC in particular got drowned out in the massive juggernaught that is Sid Meier's Civilization series. A shame, because it is a great game.:smallfrown:Indeed, couldn't agree more.

Missed this one before:

I would have said X-Com: UFO Defense, but my copy doesnt work anymore...:smallfrown: Get either DosBox (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/) to get your copy to work again, or download a Windows-compatible version of X-Com (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/38/UFO+-+Enemy+Unknown.html) from Abandonia, if you want to amend this unfortunate state. :smallwink:

[Morty]

Huh? Sorry, I still don't get it - emulating a Dos interface is what DosBox does already.
I believe I know what a navigator program in Dos would look like (something like the Norton Commander of yore, I suppose - hah, those were good times :smallbiggrin: ), but it's not exactly mandatory to get anything running in DosBox in no time.


Not mandatory, but it makes everything a lot easier, especially for someone as technologically impaired as me. And yes, it is something similiar to Norton Commander for Dos.

[Ranis]

The Curse of Monkey Island, baby.

[Green Bean]

Not counting stuff like Solitaire or Minesweeper, I'd have to say The Incredible Machine. I haven't finished it, but every few weekends, I'll fire it up to try to advance a bit, before giving up.

[banjo1985]

Dragon Crystal on the Game Gear for me...yes, I have one that still works!

[Winterwind]

Not counting stuff like Solitaire or Minesweeper, I'd have to say The Incredible Machine. I haven't finished it, but every few weekends, I'll fire it up to try to advance a bit, before giving up.Ooooh, that was an incredible game. I remember getting through I have no idea how many levels, until I got completely stuck on one. Oh, this was so much fun... :smallsmile:

...hmmm... given that I never delete games, shouldn't I have it somewhere here? :smallconfused: *goes searching*

EDIT: Yes! Yes, I do! Thank you, h_v! :smallsmile:

[Castaras]

Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Loads of fun...

Although technically, I play the Openttd version of it...which is still being worked on...<.< >.>

[Prophaniti]

Thanks Winterwind, I'd forgotten about Abandonia! Off I go! Maybe Dosbox will let me play Ultima Underworld again, too...

[Mr. Mud]

One small, yet powerful, word:

PONG

[Vaynor]

I play chess quite frequently.

But, video game wise, I have pong on my calculator and play it a lot.

[Ethdred]

I play chess quite frequently.

But, video game wise, I have pong on my calculator and play it a lot.

Can't claim the pong thing, but over the weekend I found an emulator for some games off my 48k ZX Spectrum. And you know what - they're still good! Gameplay is the only thing that matters, graphics can kiss my butt.

Does anyone know if the R T Smith of Specturm wargame fame is the same R T Smith who gets credits on the Total War series? Or is not allowed for one person to be involved in that many awesome games?

[ForzaFiori]

Starcraft, SMAC, Civ. 2, the original sonic, i have a NES simulator with like 80 games somewhere that i used to play alot...i lost my warcraft 2 CD (which is a terrible, terrible thing), i have a few sega genesis and super Nintendo games around that i play occasionally. oh, and at school, when i get terribly bored, my calculator has duckhunt AND pong.

EDIT: its scary to realize, but most of those games are as old or older than i am...
...
...
...wow.

[evisiron]

How old is Vampire: The Masquerade...?

[Halna LeGavilk]

Eh.... Probably Exile: BoE. No, Exile III: Ruined World.

[Superglucose]

Starcraft. Actually not...

Mario Bros. 3

[Crispy Dave]

welll 4 days ago my friends pizza place closed down and they gave me thier old fationed pong table

thats right i OWN my own pong table!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smallbiggrin:

[MCerberus]

I still occasionally play Red Alert 2... but not much. I have the habit of going to the used game places to be ripped off by trading in so I don't really have many old games left.

[Miklus]

I played Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri quite recently. I like the sci-fi theme and above all the "original seven". So much fun with politics...:smallbiggrin:

But once in a while I get this strange urge to play ...<dramatic pause>... Colonization. Yes, godawful graphics, but a superb strategy game. Briliant in its simplicity. Simply brilliant.

[Daze]

How old is Vampire: The Masquerade...?

Not sure.. 8, 9 years maybe?
Too bad it wont run on XP, I wanted to replay that too :smallmad:

I play an old EGA version of Risk (the boardgame) every once in awhile.. whoop on the computer, they're so dumb... America Sweep works every time.

[Trazoi]

There's no one computer game I play frequently, but there's a bunch of old games I have on rotation that I get into roughly once ever year or two:

The Quest for Glory series (1 to 4)
The Monkey Island series, or just the Lucasfilm/arts adventure games in general
Zeliard, a platformer/adventure game from 1987.
Master of Orion 1 (also 2, but that's a bit more modern)
X-COM: UFO Enemy Unknown

If you count games around the era of Baldur's Gate to be "old" then the list gets a lot longer. :smallbiggrin:

[Reinboom]

Really old that I still play:
Nightstalker (Intellivision)
Space Invaders (I have an original version compiled in 1979)

Old:
<insert list of NES games here>
Nethack

Sort of Old:
Eye of the Beholder series (Which, I'm currently running through again.... and again...)
<insert list of SNES games here>
Castle of the Winds
Settlers 2 (Gold)
One Must Fall 2097

Some people consider old:
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol
Civilization 2 (MPG)
<insert list of Nintendo 64 and Playstation games here>

(I have difficulty saying things that are only 10-12 years of age "old")

[Endeavourl]

Warcraft II, Starcraft, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Nethack

[Baboon Army]

Age of Empires II FTW!!

Can't believe it wasn't mentioned yet:smalleek:

[Reinboom]

I'm rather confused.
I wouldn't consider StarCraft or Age of Empires II old.

[The Orange Zergling]

I'm rather confused.
I wouldn't consider StarCraft old.

It's coming up on 10 years.

[Tengu]

I'm rather confused.
I wouldn't consider StarCraft or Age of Empires II old.

Same here. If it was released in 1996 (the year I got my first computer) or later, it's not old.

As for the question... hmm, I repeat most FF games once in a year or so, the oldest one of them being V.

[Telok]

Well I've got XCom and Wasteland running currently. Hmm, I can go with Space Hulk and Ragnarok on DosBox.

Ah, better... I have my old Apple ][e clone (Franklin Ace 2000) in the basement. The joystick still works too. So I can still run some nice old stuff like Frogger, Choplifter, and Zork.

Hrmm, I think I still have a copy of Logo somewhere. That's old.

[Supagoof]

Cards. :smalltongue:

I was playing poker before them new fangled electronic tv gaming things came out, and I still play it now, even with the refound hype that makes everyone think they are an expert.

What? Oh, the oldest Video Game I still play. Okay - gotta be Ms. Pack Man cause it's on my phone - though a close second is the old Arcade version of Superman (Yep, have the standup arcade machine for that one.)

[Archonic Energy]

Probably Duckhunt.

And thats because we've made it a drinking game!

How?

this could be intresting to learn

[Charity]

Reminds me of playing drink drive roadrash on the megadrive wooo.
I played dungeon seige the other day, and until recently we played micromachines V3 pretty regularly... note to self, get Ikkie to play V3, it is the best party race game ever!

[Mr. Mud]

welll 4 days ago my friends pizza place closed down and they gave me thier old fationed pong table

thats right i OWN my own pong table!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smallbiggrin:

Your my idol... :smalleek: :smallbiggrin:

[Cristo Meyers]

How?

this could be intresting to learn

It's fun right up until someone starts cursing loudly and tries to pick a fight with that dog.

Of course, that can happen even when you're not completely tossed.

[Crispy Dave]

Your my idol... :smalleek: :smallbiggrin:

i know i know

[The Linker]

Oldest game? Super Smash Bros. Melee. It's not that old (2001) but the fact that I still play it regularily ever since the Christmas of that year scares me. :smalleek:

[sapphail]

Sonic the Hedgehog and Castlevania: Bloodlines on the old Mega Drive :smallbiggrin: And Symphony of the Night on PS1.

[UncleWolf]

Castlevania Symphony of the night when ever I can find a copy. (I wore my old one out:smallbiggrin: )

and Alpha Centari

[Telok]

Ok, rules for the duck hunt drinking game.

1) Every time you shoot a duck, take a drink.
2) Every time you win a level, take a drink.
3) Every time you lose a level, take two drinks and pass the gun to the next guy.
4) Every time you start laughing uncontrollably, take a drink even if it's not your turn with the gun.
5) Every time you start shooting at the dog, take a drink.

I think that sounds good enough.

[Cristo Meyers]

Ok, rules for the duck hunt drinking game.

1) Every time you shoot a duck, take a drink.
2) Every time you win a level, take a drink.
3) Every time you lose a level, take two drinks and pass the gun to the next guy.
4) Every time you start laughing uncontrollably, take a drink even if it's not your turn with the gun.
5) Every time you start shooting at the dog, take a drink.

I think that sounds good enough.

When you actually hit the dog, stop drinking, you've now officially exited realityland.

[Galdred]

The oldes I play from time to time is Speedball 2 with friends. Otherwise, for solo play, it would be Master of Magic and Master of Orion I. Steve Barcia really was a genius. Too bad he was not as good when it came to runing a company :(

[MrEdwardNigma]

Hmmm, I play JazzJackRabbit, which is a really oldschool platformer, and I also play Another World, which is also a platformer, but a very original one.

[Ethdred]

Oh my ever loving lord!


Will you people PLEASE stop naming as your oldest game ever stuff that wasn't even born when I stopped getting games. Please??????

[[Insert Neat Username Here]]

I'm currently replaying Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber. I just dug it out again the other day, and it's still as good as I remember.

[Assasinater]

ADOM, Master of Magic, maybe Heroes 3 and Ultima Online, as they're somewhat old too.

[Ashtar]

Does someone remember Syndicate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_%28computer_game%29) and Syndicate Wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_Wars)?

From time to time I bring out the real old ones, Zork (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork), Digger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_%28computer_game%29).

I would love to get a running version of the original Crystal Quest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Quest)...

And then there's Master of Orion 2, Worms and Xcom... Which I keep on my laptop for gaming when I'm in the army.

[Thormag]

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

It was my favourite game in my old Windows 3.11, and I found an old copy of the game in one of my floppy disks. :smallbiggrin:

[MrEdwardNigma]

Oh my ever loving lord!


Will you people PLEASE stop naming as your oldest game ever stuff that wasn't even born when I stopped getting games. Please??????

Well, we can't really help it if it's really the oldest game we play, can we?

Oh, and I've also played most of the old Lucasarts adventure games (Full Throttle, Maniac Mansion, etc...), the second Discworld game and all of the Simon the Sorcerer games.

[Skjaldbakka]

My favorite computer game is still classic Diablo. Recently got ahold of the Hellfire expansion, and am looking forward to playing it, once I get a new computer.

Can't really play games on the computer at work.

[Lord Shplane]

A lot of different SNES platformers. I rarely play any of my other SNES games, but I'll plug in a platformer every couple of days and play it.

[Grey, Darling]

Lords of Midnight, try to beat that!

[salman]

Red Hat is one of the old game which I like most..and like to play it is an old game but full of thrill and exitment like new games.....this game is multy player environment and perfrct animation containing.............

[Doglord]

LoZ: links awakening on my GBC.

[Perducci]

Oregon Trail. I fire up an ancient PC to play that and JetFighter about once a year.

Master of Magic was such an amazing game. I remember getting really pissed when my copy got lost. I haven't played that in years, and the last download I tried wouldn't work.

I play my NES games like once a month or more depending on my mood. FF1, Mario1-3, Zelda, Ninja Gaiden, River City Ransom(can lead to hours of PvP fighting), Silent Service, and California Games...just to name a few. I spend a lot of time playing these with my little brother.

I still play Half-life a decent bit.

Gazillionaire. 'nuff said.

[Studoku]

I played Settelers II a few weeks ago. It's still a pretty good game.

[Wraith]

Lords of Midnight, try to beat that!

Almost managed it - I occasionally kick out 'Chaos' when I meet up with a certain friend of mine :smallsmile:

Apart from that, there's Dungeon Keeper, Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Syndicate, StarFox... pretty much anything I owned between 1990 to about 1997, I still have and go back to occasionally.

Having said that, I still have a hard time believing that 'Tales of Phantasia', Secret of Mana and Crono Trigger are less than 15 years old. I play them all the time, and they're a lot more fun that quite a few modern games I have!

[Fin]

The oldest games i still play are probably Diablo II or Morrowind (which isnt particularly old but it does have a sequel) both of which i will play for a long time to come. :smalltongue:

[Wooter]

I still regualerly play Doom. Sometimes I'll play the Commander Keen games, but not as often.

I will never get tired of Doom

[Assasinater]

Master of Magic was such an amazing game. I remember getting really pissed when my copy got lost. I haven't played that in years, and the last download I tried wouldn't work.

Download it from this site (http://www.the-underdogs.info/), and open it via Dosbox (google it). This method is usable with almost every old game that you can find, as some already know.