Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!
I went to a gamestop a few months ago to see if they had any games for my Gameboy Advance. The dude at the register said I might have better luck at the “retro game” store in the next town over. I nearly spit out my Crystal Pepsi at him.
DOOM, 1993. Finally went through and beat it. Also recently sat down and learned how to edit wads as well as picking up ACS for advanced map scripting. Still a great game.
Same, but it was because Steam updated it with new graphics modes and I wanted to replay it. Doing Doom 2 now.
DMG Gameboy Kirby Dreamland. My youngest loves it and it’s REALLY hard to lose so he doesn’t need a ton of help.
This week it’s been Megaman II (1988).
I feel like games before that era had a lot of coin-op focus. Not much content, but hard enough that you’ll be pouring more credits into the machine. That said, I’ve been itching to play Alley Cat (1983), but I don’t have a good setup for MS-DOS games at the moment. I’ll have to see if my Miyoo mini is up for the task.
Golvellius on the Sega Master System.
I’ve owned it since the 80s but back then couldn’t get very far. The fact that it uses passcodes instead of saves didn’t help. Last month I played with a mod which adds save support, on the MiSTer FPGA (which I have installed in a C64 shell), on a nice ~10inch OLED.
I got all the way to the final boss but… still haven’t beat it.
I actually played a wee bit of 1983’s Crystal Castles (Atari 2600 version) earlier this year when I was trying out emulators 🤣 I loved that game when I was a kid, I get a major nostalgia hit when I play it. I’m sure some of the other games I tested were older still, but that’s the one I remember because I was born in that same year.
I remembered it being one of the first games I ever played. As I fumbled my way through those first few sessions, I could physically feel my neurons flowering and blooming and creaking to life like a bunch of microscopic mind-rhubarb. It was the beginning of a life-long love of gaming.
Asteroids.
Digger © 1983 Windmill Software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(video_game)
This is the game from my family’s PC AT that I go back to regularly,. But for convenience I usually use the WinDig port:
Windig, the Windows 95 version of Digger Remastered (87K). This version is rather new. If you are having trouble with it, try the older version (95K).
https://www.digger.org/download.html
I just used web archive to check and it looks like the 87K version and its description as “rather new” has been there for 21 years now. It was built to target Windows 95 and is still working on Windows 11 so at this point i would say its “pretty stable”.
Digger and Paratrooper were probably the first two games I ever played. Both still hold up.
I think the oldest thing I’ve played is mostly just NES stuff. Some of those will have been ported arcade titles or whatever, otherwise it’s plain ol’ SMB1 (1985, I think). I still play SMB3 ('88) quite often.
I too love Super Monkey Ball 1
Was playing Rainbow Islands on the ST this week.
I still play Super Mario 64 if various rom hacks count.
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looks at my grey hair
Yes. Yes you certainly do exist grey hair. I’ll be in the closet crying if anybody needs me.
We took a couple of family trips to a Barcade this year during the all-ages hours. I definitely played Dig Dug and Ms. Pacman and Defender (Defender is annoying, BTW), and I probably snuck a round of Space Invaders and Asteroids in there somewhere.
I’ve been dipping my toe into the mating game with minimal success. They really haven’t done much to improve it since I last played.
Tennis for Two (1958) on an online emulator
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