Oldest game?

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:18 pm

Specificaly:

"What is the oldest computer game you have (as in instaled) and STILL PLAY?"

There are plenty here who still play morrowind, myself included, but is that the best you can do?

My oldest game? TIE FIGHTER (the extended version with the extra tours of duty), from... when was it... '95?
It still occupies a small corner of my hard drive, right next to the mission editor i got for it.

PS: I LOVE the Tie Interceptor, best playable ship in the game if u ask me.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:23 pm

Pre '95. I still play the old DooM (Its older than I am xD) games and the games based on that. Theres other I occasionally play as well, but those are on other computers so I can't really think of them right now.

Thrignar Fraxix · Post by **Thrignar Fraxix** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:05 pm

Colonization bitches!

(google it)

Andres Indoril · Post by **Andres Indoril** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:29 pm

Colonization is a pure pile of awesome. It does not count.

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:48 pm

yay starcraft

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:35 pm

Arena

Aeven · Post by **Aeven** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:26 pm

Some weird educational Magic School Bus game.... don't look at me like that! Those games rocked for little kids.

Or some weird dungeon game where somehow spikes erupted from the ground without any warning, and you died. But that wasn't mine.

MMMowSkwoz · Post by **MMMowSkwoz** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:39 pm

Warcraft 2, I'd guess. Wonderful game.

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:51 am

Your yet to list anything that i havnt played at some point (i happen to have the CIV4 version of colonization now - not as good as the origional if u ask me).

Its just that TIE is the oldest game i actually have installed and still play.

If i was going for the oldest game i'd ever played full stop, then we would be talking late '80s golf games on a monocrome monitor (keep in mind i was only born in '84 - gamer from the age of 3 or 4!).

Yeti · Post by **Yeti** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:53 am

My oldest computer game is from 2002...

Faalen · Post by **Faalen** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:22 am

Commander Keen ftw. It was the breakout game for ID Software, which is obviously doing very well for itself nowadays. It's one of my all-time favorite platformers, and it still holds interest and challenge despite being utterly ancient.

(For the record, five of the six canonical Keen games are available through Steam, but I've been playing them since I was in kindergarten on a 1986 Packard Bell "microcomputer". My dad had to trick it into thinking it was the eighties so it wouldn't crash on Y2K. I love old stuff.)

michaleson · Post by **michaleson** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:54 am

I have a cuboard filled ps1 games. Havent played any in years though.

Myzel · Post by **Myzel** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:42 am

Yes, why only count pc games? I still play on my old SNES sometimes. That's all pre '95. Oldest game I still play on the pc would be Warcraft 2.

RelinQ · Post by **RelinQ** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:32 am

Haplo wrote:yay starcraft

Hellz Yeah!
Im still wondering if Starcraft 2 will ever come out.

Lady Nerevar wrote:Arena

*rolls eyes*, Show off

daedren · Post by **daedren** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:23 pm

Doom II...! I love that game and still play it hehe

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:34 pm

daedren wrote:Doom II...! I love that game and still play it hehe

The first Doom had better maps, especially episodes 1 and 4.

Arthmodeus · Post by **Arthmodeus** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:55 pm

Clouds/Darkside of Xeen from '93 and the rest of the Might and Magic series.

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:34 pm

Ok, so it has been ampely proven that my attempt to look cool has failed miserably... sigh...

All these all nighter for nothing! I'm writing this at 2:34am my time!

Guess i should be glad im pretty much nocturnal anyway

daedren · Post by **daedren** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:25 pm

Gez wrote:
daedren wrote:Doom II...! I love that game and still play it hehe
The first Doom had better maps, especially episodes 1 and 4.

I don't know, never tried. Perhaps I'll give it a shot... that is, if i can find it...

King Toxin · Post by **King Toxin** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:01 pm

Hm, currently I'm not playing old games. However, I think I still have C&C: RA2 installed on my other PC. That's from... 2000, I think?

Oh! I recently installed Arena via DOSbox, but it played very, very laggy. I only played it for a couple of minutes. I'm not sure what the problem was, though, so that doesn't really count.

Ooh, ooh. I also played the first C&C a couple of years back on a PC that might as well have come from the same year.

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:46 pm

RA2 was deffinitely post '01 (it was tiberiaum sun that came out when your thinking X-mas '99 at the exact same time as AoE2 and Homeworld).

Ahhh DOSbox, i know it well, its how i play TIE fighter.

The Origional C&C was late '95 or '96, it was 'compatible' with win95 (as compatable as anything can be with a microsoft product

).

RelinQ · Post by **RelinQ** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:31 pm

Im not sure what my oldest game is...

Transport Tycoon Deluxe ( still play this)
Liero
Sim Earth
Sim Ant
Sim Tower

OOh no, this game is my oldest

Vinyl the Godess from Mars
[url]http://www.mobygames.com/game/vinyl-goddess-from-mars[/url]

JoshthePirate · Post by **JoshthePirate** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:28 pm

The original C&C was '95. I have it. I play it. I love it.

I think that's as far back as I go, PC-wise. I still play Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, and Mario Kart 64, though. I don't know how old they are.

Post by **Anonytroll** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:26 pm

Yum, Nordlandtriologie.
(German computer games still existed back then)

Beave · Post by **Beave** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:51 am

Arena, at least before I got 64-Bit Vista. Now I can't play it.

Oomega13 · Post by **Oomega13** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:49 am

Arena

Aiwyn the Breton · Post by **Aiwyn the Breton** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:58 am

Golden Axe

Katze · Post by **Katze** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:23 pm

Hmm, the oldest PC game I still own is Total Annihilation, and it's still brilliant for LAN gaming

The oldest game I own on any platform is Sonic 1 on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis. IMO Sonic 2 was a superior game though.

SpartanPride · Post by **SpartanPride** » Tue May 12, 2009 10:34 pm

Cathartis wrote:Hmm, the oldest PC game I still own is Total Annihilation, and it's still brilliant for LAN gaming

The oldest game I own on any platform is Sonic 1 on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis. IMO Sonic 2 was a superior game though.

Sonic... those were the days, man. I don't exactly know which is my oldest because I can't remember getting them, but one of my games on my Sega Genesis

cire992 · Post by **cire992** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:34 pm

All the old King's Quest games, Jazz Jackrabbit, Hocus Pocus, Doom, Dune...
*Starts up DOSbox.

kolya99 · Post by **kolya99** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:30 pm

to hell with sonic. what about Mario? okay wasnt really a computer game but still. older than me by about 10 years lol

Tyrion · Post by **Tyrion** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:52 am

Oldest game I have for PC, Starcraft and Diablo II. Oldest overall, hmmm... I have Ocarina of Time on my laptop, but my laptop died.

NexUmMonastica · Post by **NexUmMonastica** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:34 am

1993 Encarta Encyclopedia Castle Adventure.

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ok no more win...

Stryker wrote:Pre '95. I still play the old DooM (Its older than I am xD)

I remember when doom came out

now I feel old

Tiffany · Post by **Tiffany** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:08 pm

Installed on my other PC I have Dungeon Keeper (97) C&C (95).

At the moment I'm going back into old PSX games, such as Destruction Derby (95) Rival Schools (98).

Then we can go farther back to the original Sonic games on the Mega Drive/Genesis, along with Streets of Rage, Mortal Kombat, and suchlike.

RelinQ · Post by **RelinQ** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:18 pm

NexUmMonastica wrote:1993 Encarta Encyclopedia Castle Adventure.

OMG! I remember that, That was awesome fun!... god, I feel freaking old now...

gro-Dhal · Post by **gro-Dhal** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:32 pm

I recently downloaded the Xargon series for DOSbox. That was from 1993, and I had it back then too. Other than that I still play XCOM (1993) and Planescape: Torment (1999) every so often. Been thinking about reacquiring the Commander Keen series (1990+) too. Hard to believe how kickass the first of those games was when I was five years old.

Thrig: Colonization was awesome. 8 bit folk music for the win.

Aeven: that spike thing reminds me of the original Prince of Persia. Punishing game, that. Never made it past level 2 (I was only a little kid at the time mind).

kolya99 · Post by **kolya99** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:49 pm

Holy Hell. X-Com was by far the best strategy shooter game of the ninetys before Fallout cameout. My guess is that the Halo series is based off of that game.

NexUmMonastica · Post by **NexUmMonastica** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:30 pm

I think we can all agree that the teenagers rolling D&D when it first came out made the best fucking video games between '93 and '99.

jonarus_drakus · Post by **jonarus_drakus** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:11 pm

True dat...

Wow... Spamming in my own thread... I've hit a new low...

bamman62 · Post by **bamman62** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:22 am

I've played some old games, Serious Sam, Wolvenstein, the first Tribes game.

That was at this computer technician's house though (Who happened to be a server moderator and had a typing speed of like 120 WPM).

That was back in 2000-01 though.

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