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JayEchoRay ,
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Had to look it up to check its dates as a kid they only sold rip-off NES machines here, but the oldest game, i enjoyed playing, I found by date was Dig Dug, 2D game where you dig tunnels to get to all the enemirs and defeat them by what I can only describe as throwing a bicycle pump nozzle into their mouths and pumping it until the enemy pops like a balloon.

There is the usual like Super Mario Brothers, Contra and I recall playing something where I think Diddy Kong throws barrels and “mario” has to avoid it to save the tied up princess behind diddy can’t recall the name

There is also Bomberman, Lode Runner, Double Dragon( specifically 2), Arkanoid, Ice climber (co-op) and a game I really enjoyed called Operation Wolf

Oldest original game is most probably Pac Man, but prefered the “3D”-like one which allowed pac man to jump in the maze which is newer.

santo ,

I finished R-Type III (1993) and played a little bit of Castlevania 2 (1987)

pjwestin ,
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Either Outlaw or Superman or the Atari 2600. Both came out in 1978, but I’m not sure which was first.

jasoncg ,

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.

loie ,

Just finished playing through Zelda lttp on my miyoo mini+

Grangle1 ,

Of the games I can think of, probably Super Mario Land.

taiyang ,

This year? I’ve lost, best I’ve got was a very brief demo of my setup with an Apple II game (and I already forgot what it was, I was just showing of that I had every game from an Exodus set since they added Apple II). But I’m not gonna count it.

Actual play? I’m on a GameCube fix right now cause of achievements. Y’all are the real mvps in 2024.

ramblingsteve ,
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Robotron on mame and yar’s revenge on 2600.

Kelly ,

Digger © 1983 Windmill Software

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).

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”.

owenfromcanada ,
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Digger and Paratrooper were probably the first two games I ever played. Both still hold up.

Zachariah ,
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Oldest game I’ve this year: wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Warriorhttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/43e8e03e-f0f7-4486-b846-9cc15b01318b.gif
on Steam Deck

I’m a bit bummed the question wasn’t about the oldest game I’ve ever played (as I misread it at first), but that would be:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b1d95459-4e19-49b1-82d3-a02b3002c1c5.jpeg

AndrewZabar ,

I was just playing the original Zork on Frotz.
So I’m pretty sure I win :-)

ramblingsteve ,
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No computer should be without one! :D

ramble81 ,

I was playing Bubble Bobble on an NES emulator, so… 1988

Skua ,

Does a remake of the first Wipeout count? It was technically made very recently, as the source code was leaked in 2022 and a couple of projects re-built the game based on that, but the original came out in 1995

If that doesn't count then it's Battle Engine Aquila from 2003

58008 ,
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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.

friend_of_satan ,

I went through Gunsmoke on NES, from 1985.

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