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Shdwdrgn ,

There was a Star Wars text adventure game on the Apple II released in 1979 that I used to play. I’ve been searching for the code from that game for a long time I finally found it again just this month. Part way through my efforts to convert it to javascript I realized I hadn’t bothered looking for an actual emulator for Applesoft Basic… Sure enough, they exist (jsbasic on github), so I now have that running on my server. Yay, good memories!

Jessica ,

I went to Sakura Con this year and they had a Quick & Crash arcade cabinet from 1999.

I don’t know if it’s the oldest game I’ve played this year, but it was definitely the most interesting!

www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/quick-crash

Level 4 has a mug you shoot that appears to really explode

The effect is incredibly convincing!

Tap for spoilerThe secret is the real mug is pulled down very fast and real chunks of mug are shot up simultaneously

cupcakezealot ,
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hm, throughout my life the ones that come to mind are:

  • pitfall (82)
  • number munchers (86)
  • word munchers (85)
  • oregon trail (85 version)
  • a-maze-ing (81)
LouNeko ,

Don’t know if it counts but, “Game of Life” (1970) on “The Powder Toy” (2008).

ConstipatedWatson ,

Day of the Tentacle (1993). Admittedly, it was the remastered version from 2016 which has more modern controls, but the game is exactly the same as the old one.

It was fascinating to look at it again with more mature eyes: besides the fact that it feels a bit dated as a whole, it was funny to me to notice how much humanity loves time travel stories.

It’s not that this game is doing anything different in that regard, it’s just that I thought about how much media exists on the subject (and has been very successful).

Anyhow, although dated, the game is brilliant and wholesome and made me wonder which are the best (and recent) graphic adventure games

Jordan117 ,

Played a few minutes of Altered Beast (1988) on an incredibly shitty Genesis emulator I f̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ rose from its grave in the closet last week.

maxenmajs ,
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I still play Super Mario 64 if various rom hacks count.

tacosanonymous ,

Double Dragon II: The Revenge or Super Dodge Ball, both 1988.

wjrii ,

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.

jordanlund ,
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Microsoft Solitaire. ;)

slaveOne ,

Night Stalker (Intellivision)

HK65 ,

Just went to a videogame museum, they had the original Asteroids on the Atari 2600, from 1980. My favourite though was the Star Wars Racer arcade machine, it was even paired up with another one for multiplayer!

callouscomic ,

Probably one of the machines at a nearby arcade. Pin-bot is mid-80s and I play that one a lot. There’s a couple from closer to the 50s as well.

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 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 ,

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

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