It is a tie between Warcraft III and Front Mission IV. I keep a PS2 just for Front Mission IV.
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Currently replaying A Link to the Past (1991). It's not even that old.
Highly recommend checking out the Link to the Past Randomizer if you haven't. It shuffles all the chest contents while ensuring you can complete the game. It's different each time and even gives you a cheat sheet if you get stuck.
Thats only an 8 year old game man. I think they meant something old like SpaceWar!
I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.
I'm not alone!ย
Never ascended once. Somewhere in the late midgame the inventory juggling becomes just too complicated and it feels like the last few turns of Civilization 4.
Tried fiqhack but it flakes on me a lot, can't figure the reason, won't find assets et c. I do dynahack now but it changes too much for my taste, and it doesn't help the inventory problem when you have hundreds of items and try to make sense of it all.
And yet 30 years on something about it still tickles me pickle.
Every so often I'll have another run at the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure from 1984.
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.
It is pitch black.
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Super Mario World every year or two. The soundtrack alone cheers me right up.
Would Tetris count if its always whatever new Tetris Ultimate Reloaded DX etc etc edition? I feel like it shouldn't but its basically the same game just polished up.
Playing regularly? Minecraft.
There are a few games I revisit as my kid grows up and gets to experience them for the first time, but Minecraft keeps coming back.
OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)
And there's a community of players who have modded the everloving fuck out of the game and the engine itself, one of these patch packs is OpenTTD JGR and we play it like it's a model railway simulator
Technically Team Fortress 2. Though not often.
I'm playing through Final Fantasy 2 right now but the pixel remaster version which came out in 2021 which is why I say technically.
I started TF2 about a year or two back and still play because my son loves it. It's a fun game.
Diablo 1 (it runs really well with the devilutionx engine reimplementation)
I play retro games I missed growing up so Iโll soon be starting final fantasy 6
Probably half life 2
Darklands - a cRPG released in 1992 by Microprose. It's set in medieval Germany; you are a party of fledgling adventurers looking to build fame and money, and somehow you get pulled into a battle against the forces of the apocalypse. Instead of magic, you invoke saints and use alchemy to craft potions. I loved it when I was younger, and I still, somehow, enjoy it today.
If you hate the following things, then I highly recommend checking it out!
- great graphics
- good music and sound design
- easy to understand game mechanics
- stable, bug-free game play
- yourself
Deus Ex 1. Still holds up after all these years and there are plenty of mods to keep things interesting.
osu!. Despite being made in 2007, it still holds up as a good rhythm game.
Super Mario bros 1 & 3. I still have them working on my old Wii, but Iโve been planning on a retro pi setup for ages.
My OG NES stopped working a decade ago.
breakout. I think it's the oldest 'playable' game. It feel ahead of it's time for the late 70's
On the regular I still fire up Zork 1-3, Ultima 4, StarTropics, OG Metroid, and Maniac Mansion.
DigDug on MAME
Warcraft 3 custom maps still drag me back sometimes.
River Raid, Atari game from early 80s. Play it on analogue pocket currently
Baldur's Gate.
Sometimes I'll pop open Mega Man 1 when my blood pressure is too high to focus on anything. I plan to no-hit it one day (without major glitches)
Knights and merchants
Well, I don't segment my backlog for years, so I wouldn't know which is the oldest one, but the one I plan to play next is Fzero for the SNES which was released in 1991.
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Doom II
Super Mario Bros.
Metal Slug
I play lots of games from my childhood. Even though it was before my time, Super Mario Bros on the NES is probably the oldest game I regularly go back to. But I love retro games, so I'll play even older games on occasion.
Mario 3, though these days I get tired of it after a World or two and haven't completed it in a while.
Also Xenogears from the PS1 is still one of my favorite games and I replay it every few years.
Just booted back up chrono trigger
The Dark Mod scratches that itch very well most of the time, but the OG had better story telling across multiple missions
I recently picked up Diablo 2 again, that and Doom which I play off and on. I really need to find a copy of Wolfenstein now that I'm thinking about old games.
I dunno if it really counts, because these days I play Diablo 2 Resurrected instead of the real OG, but god I still love Diablo 2. I was playing a Druid Maul build a little bit just last weekend in anticipation of Path of Exile 2 adding animal transformations. It's just one of those classic Blizzard titles I go back to at least once every year, alongside Warcraft 3 and Starcraft. They're like the triumvirate of my childhood nostalgia.
Wish the company wasn't so awful.
I may or may not still have a pvpgn vm and a Windows xp vm with a lot of baal rush setups set to run.
I'll play D2 till I die.
