What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?

Dr_Box , 3 hours ago

Pong

AndrewZabar , 4 hours ago

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

ramblingsteve , 4 hours ago

No computer should be without one! :D

Durandal , 3 hours ago

I hear glowing reviews of frotz.

Durandal , 3 hours ago

Oldest game I’ve actually played this year would probably be a bit of Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar, 1985.

HEXN3T , 3 hours ago

It has to be Dragon Warrior.

mercano , 3 hours ago

This thread reminds me I need to get over to Funspot. They’ve got a great collection of classic arcade and pinball machines. Web site claimed 600 games, but some of that is newer stuff, or mechanical games like Skiball and Wack-a-mole, which aren’t video games. Probably 300 vintage units, though. Haven’t made a pilgrimage this calendar year, though, so it doesn’t count.

Kelly , 4 hours ago

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 , 4 hours ago

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

JayEchoRay , 4 hours ago

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 enemies 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.

Edit:

My bad, oldest game played in 2024, hmmm, Heroes of Might and Magic 1

santo , 4 hours ago

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

pjwestin , 4 hours ago

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

jasoncg , 4 hours ago

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 , 4 hours ago

Just finished playing through Zelda lttp on my miyoo mini+

Pechente , 6 hours ago

Recently got a cheap Gamecube and now I‘m playing through Windwaker and some Double Dash every now and then. It’s insane how good the games still look that support progressive mode through the digital port.

taiyang , 4 hours ago

I’m currently playing through WW and thought the same thing. I’m doing it emulated, though, which is neat cause I can do the weird GBA feature without wasting batteries. Why not have Tingle whereever you go?

Grangle1 , 4 hours ago

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

taiyang , 4 hours ago

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 , 4 hours ago

Robotron on mame and yar’s revenge on 2600.