/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10145918]

What's the oldest game you consider enjoyable by modern standards? What's the oldest game you can honestly enjoy for longer than an hour in 2023?

[Anonymous No.10145921]

>>10145918
Pong

[Anonymous No.10145926]

We done?

[Anonymous No.10145936]

DQ1, probably. that, or early NES SHMUPs like Gradius and such. whichever came out first.
Castlevania 1 is decent, but I don't think I'm going to beat it again.

[Anonymous No.10145940]

Tertis

[Anonymous No.10145948]

>>10145921
This, Pong is based. My first console was one of the Pong-only ones. I don't have it anymore but I still play Pong on other things.

[Anonymous No.10145953]

>>10145918
>What's the oldest game you can honestly enjoy for longer than an hour in 2023?
Older games tend to be shorter, so this is hard for me. Some of my favorite games can be cleared in half an hour, meaning I would have to play them twice, or in the case of old arcade games, they just keep looping.

>>10145926
I've never played one of these but this has me curious

[Anonymous No.10145957]

>>10145918
> by modern standards
This phrase unironically means nothing and I wish people would stop using it altogether, especially on this board. There are some games from the 80s that are still among the best. Okay even if you think that gaming peaked during gen 6 it's still hardly 'modern'

[Anonymous No.10145975]

>>10145918
Classic arcade games like Pong, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Galaga, etc. are still fun.

[Anonymous No.10145989]

What are "modern standards"?
The oldest game I find some enjoyment from is Mario Bros. The oldest game I love is 1943.

[Anonymous No.10145996]

I still play old arcade games like Space Invaders, Asteroids, Galaga, Milipede, and Pac Man. I love games that you can't actually "beat," you just survive as long as can and try to get the highest score.

[Anonymous No.10145998]

>>10145936
Dragon Quest is kind of amazing, but there are many parts that are barely enjoyable - guess the same could be said for many newer JRPGs too though. I just beat the DS version

>>10145940
Tetris is tough to beat. Crazy how popular it is, in its original form, even today. Platformers and RPGs have evolved a ton, and the best Tetris game is still just Tetris.

>>10145989
I don't fucking know. Something you could give to a 7-year-old and they'd be able to focus on it for a while without opening Youtube to watch a Minecraft video? Maybe something you could play through without having to point out some parts that have, almost objectively, aged like shit (e.g. notorious amounts of backtracking, slow as shit animations slowing down the gameplay)?

[Anonymous No.10146001]

>>10145918
>Modern standards

so you're asking for the shittiest possible game we can think of?

I don't get it, maybe you want a "story" oriented "experience" that abides to the current politically correct trends popular on twitter, while at the same time just copy pasting what was cool in popular movies and TV series 2 years ago, with "gameplay" which is at the same time made for extremely low attention span and which requires the minimum amount of investment humanly possible?

I can't say I think of any.

[Anonymous No.10146010]

>>10145957
>>10145989
"Modern standards" literally means brain-addled ADHD zoomers who can't figure out how to breathe if a tiktok on their smartphone isn't giving them instructions. It means games suitable for people who can't stop rocking back and forth and need constant overwhelming amounts of visual stimuli and instant skinnerbox feedback within a carefully constrained environment that provides no risk or, even worse, the terrifying ability to deviate from a set linear course towards the next stated objective. It means games that offer no ambiguity or room to explore or requirement to strategize whatsoever, because that opens one up to the intolerable possibility of not doing the "right" thing at any given point in time and the unsolvable confusion of getting back on track and "not having any fun". "Modern standards" means games reduced to the bare minimum of "press button when prompted (dont worry we'll wait, you can try again immediately if you press the wrong button)" with the ultimate goal being that 15-second rush of dopamine when you finally see "100% CLEAR" and then checking off the box for that title and forgetting it exists to move on to the next on your "real gamer list".

[Anonymous No.10146013]

>>10146001
Yes. I was looking for the earliest politically correct and absurdly woke game with as much LBGTQX+= romances as possible.

[Anonymous No.10146023]

>>10145998
>aged like shit (e.g. notorious amounts of backtracking
As opposed to exciting games like God of War 2018. Yeah the bar is real high right now, not a lot of games have stood the test of time if we compare them to modern landmarks like Fortnite

[Anonymous No.10146032]

>>10145998
>Something you could give to a 7-year-old
I wouldn't give video games, Youtube, or minecraft to a 7-year old. That's precisely how you end up with brain-addled zoomer syndrome.

[Anonymous No.10146038]

>>10145998
>objectively, aged like shit (e.g. notorious amounts of backtracking, slow as shit animations slowing down the gameplay)?

Are you physically incapable of realizing you're basically describing your own mental illness? The problem lies with you, not with retro games.
>OH MY GOD I NEED CONSTANT STIMULATION!! ARGH I HAVE TO WAIT FOR 500 MILLISECONDS FOR THE NEXT FLASHING COLOR? RRRRARRAAAGGHH1! *throws controller and cracks screen*

[Anonymous No.10146039]

>>10145926
I don't know what "we done" is
>much like point and click adventure games they're still being made

[Anonymous No.10146056]

>>10145989
>>10146001
>>10146010
>>10146023
>>10146023
How about YOUR modern standards. Your personal tastes evolve, and there are games that you may have been able to enjoy back in the day, but can't enjoy anymore because the formula has been improved and the issues you didn't notice back in the day have become blatant.

>>10146038
Oh no, my mental illness doesn't allow me to enjoy blatantly bad games that have, almost objectively, been done better later on! Just because I didn't notice the mistakes before being pointed out by a superior game doesn't mean they weren't there. A shitty fucking example, but while I enjoyed Dragon Warrior back in the day, it took only the third entry to notice what a piece of shit the first one was in comparison.

[Anonymous No.10146078]

>>10145996
I agree with this, though I'm still struggling with OP's second question. I'm not sure if I would play them for over an hour straight unless I was multitasking like I usually do when I whip out my brick game

[Anonymous No.10146090]

>>10146023
>As opposed to exciting games like God of War 2018
What do you mean? That scene where Kratos was carrying the big log while I pushed the left stick forward had me in tears.
>>10146056
They're not objectively bad games, though, your ADD addled brain can't even put into words why you think they're bad games. Slow animations, backtracking? It's like the other anon said, they're roadblocks to your dopamine hit, you're even getting mad talking about them. Seriously consider not playing games and disconnecting from the internet for a month

[Anonymous No.10146106]

>>10146056
>anymore because the formula has been improved
What I'm trying to tell you is that 'the formula' had only kept improving during the /vr/ era so MODERN standards sounds wrong. To answer your question it's probably GnG and SMB1, both from 1985. As pointed out by other anons, games like Pac-Man and Tetris are still addictive but I couldn't play them for longer than an hour even back in the days

[Anonymous No.10146114]

>>10146056
I have much more patience and appreciation for old games now than I did in 2004 when I was fully on the hype train for NEW THING.

[Anonymous No.10146273]

>>10146010
>"Modern standards" literally means brain-addled ADHD zoomers
If anything many modern games are slow, bloated and full off unnecessary filler. Your hypothetical ADHD zoomie should enjoy more something like r-type, contra or other arcade games that demand constant input.

[Anonymous No.10146275]

>>10146090
Maybe not objectively bad, but they've been done so much better that I find little reason to play them over their counterparts. Whether they're "roadblocks to my dopamine hits" or simply boring and/or dated sections, there's no reason to keep repeating them when there are more enjoyable alternatives available. Like all media, I consume games to feel feelings during my time of leisure, and whatever the medium (be it books, music or games), if the main feeling is boredom, there's little reason to continue with that piece.

I suppose you're correct for saying that I'm "not able to put into words why they're bad", because bad's probably the wrong word - they're just not as good as newer games. Going back to the JRPG example, the genre evolved so fast in terms of depth, interactivity and decision-making that the earliest entries feel extremely bland in comparison to entries made a few years later... but that's going off-topic. As others have pointed out, other genres and games didn't go through such evolution, and are still perfectly enjoyable in their original form. Although, judging by the replies, dopamine-inducing games like Tetris and arcade games have aged the best...

[Anonymous No.10147291]

>>10146114
>t.

[Anonymous No.10147313]

>>10145918
1985 and after for me. Pre 1985 vs. 1985 on is like night and day.

[Anonymous No.10147330]

oldest is 3rd gen. can't stand 2nd gen or earlier

[Anonymous No.10147332]

>>10145918
I want to say Mega Man 2 was the first truly incredible video game. It just dunks on lesser games to this day.

[Anonymous No.10147384]

>>10145921
>Pong
This or Colossal Cave/Zork although this looks great fun I have never played it (spacewar) its running on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWQYAfuMYw

It was written in 1962
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!

[Anonymous No.10147605]

>>10146273
No, no, NO, lol. Those games have a challenge. That's unacceptable. Plus you have to LEARN where the enemies are positioned! Are you fucking kidding me? Having to REPLAY segments because you died? That's absolutely intolerable to zoomzooms. That's not only wasted time, that's deletion of their precious completion %.

Yes, zoomie games have filler, they can have sidequests and collectathons, but it's all streamlined to be as simple and thoughtless as possible. You MUST be told which way to go and which button to press for the next bingbingwahoo. Anything else is a terrifying nightmare of "WHAT DO I DO? BAD GAME"

Seriously, lurk on this board for a couple weeks. Watch the catalog. See the kind of absolute skull-exploding seething threads the zoomers spam here constantly because they can't get into retro games. You'll quickly learn the psychology of these stunted mongrels.

[Anonymous No.10147608]

Still play Ms Pacman on MAME every few weeks, always aahave a blast playing for 2 3 hours straight. perfect Arcade game

[Anonymous No.10147609]

>>10146056
>How about YOUR modern standards. Your personal tastes evolve, and there are games that you may have been able to enjoy back in the day, but can't enjoy anymore because the formula has been improved and the issues you didn't notice back in the day have become blatant.
No such thing, retard. I still enjoy the games I enjoyed back in "the day". I didn't suddenly develop ADHD and start screaming in rage and punching my mother because of "slow animation times".

>blatantly bad games that have, almost objectively
See, there's that mental illness of yours again, your desperate need to insist that a GAME is bad, that it's not your petty childish inability to maintain your attention on anything. And now you're just getting pissy and resentful.

Get help. Talk to someone. Let them know you have a problem. /vr/ isn't your therapy board.

[Anonymous No.10147698]

>>10145918
The only stuff I really can't go back to is stuff like nuts'n milk. I can pass a couple of levels but its just boring.

Apart from that I have no limit, I could even play pong and have fun, never played an hour, maybe with another person for a bit but the ball only bounces a limited number of directions so it gets boring.
I could play yars revenge and other atari games as well as pacman arcade for an hour. I don't usually because I can so easy just select another game.
The other day I was playing lunar lander arcade for about an hour, was using the vcs controller with the twist handle. I think thats 1979.

>>10147313
85 to 86 is like nes style to super scalers. Still tempest was cool

>>10145996
I just think of beating them when you beat 2 levels after the game gets to the max difficulty or the colour cycle loops to the start or if you can get to the max difficulty pretty easily.

[Anonymous No.10147916]

>>10146010
you're so boring

[Anonymous No.10148069]

>>10146090
>>10147609
How many times are you going to reply to the same comment? Anyways, you’ll have to be special kind of retard to not acknowledge that tastes evolve with games; Galaxian was decent back in the day, but majority of people wouldn’t return to it after playing Galaga. Did everyone develop ADHD when they saw what Galaga had to offer and realized how Galaxian pales in comparison?

[Anonymous No.10148107]

>>10145918
>What's the oldest game you can honestly enjoy for longer than an hour in 2023?
Maybe Punch-Out? I tried it for the first time a couple years ago when checking out some NES games and it was so appealing that I felt compelled to play all the way through. The only other NES games that I've tried and was interested enough in to beat are SMB3, Zelda 1, Contra, and Mother.

[Anonymous No.10148110]

Ultima 1 is surprisingly easy to get into.

[Anonymous No.10148115]

I think this is quite an artistic image but I've never actually played Maze War. This image looks like it belongs in an art gallery, could probsbly contemplate it for more than an hour.

[Anonymous No.10148121]

stop replying to obvious bait

[Anonymous No.10148132]

Atari is my hard cutoff point, I've never played an atari game that could keep my interest for 30 minutes, let alone an hour. They are just SO old, SO ugly, and SO primitive. What I'll type next will be heresy on this board, especially considering the american bias on here, but I feel kind of the same regarding the NES. The vast majority of NES-games look like complete ass and are atari-levels of primitive, and it's the few standouts that are remembered and talked about ad nauseum . My cutoff for where games just are too primitive to be reliably enjoyed in general seems to lie somewhere in the late 80's, with specific stand-out titles that came out earlier that I can still enjoy.

[Anonymous No.10148176]

>>10148132
I agree I don't care for NES games except for the classics Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Shatterhand, Batman Castlevania. Journey To Silius is pretty good I too suppose and Gimmick looks good.

[Anonymous No.10148181]

>>10148176
fyi I don't count arcade ports like Bubble Bobble as "NES games" because they aren't they are arcade games.

[Anonymous No.10148240]

>>10145918
i think the oldest *video* game i've played is Computer Space. Vector games are more appealing than most later bitmap games.

i've also enjoyed some electromechanicals older than that

[Anonymous No.10148692]

>>10145918
You kinda goofed up by using "modern standards" as it means nothing and baits absolute shitposts. "that (you) can still enjoy" is better and will prevent kneejerks.

These days I also enjoy games as historical curiosities, so basically anything for me, though I imagine that doesn't really count as "enjoy" in the way you mean it.

[Anonymous No.10148718]

>>10148069
I guess I found that "special kind of retard" you were talking about, because those comments belong to two different people
>>10146275
Then say that next time. If you don't resort to stupid meme buzzwords like "aged" or "dated" people here won't get on your case over it. If you want an example where the older version was better look at something like Crash Bandicoot and its remake. Even the visuals are better despite the remake having the advantage of higher resolutions and high definition textures

[Anonymous No.10148730]

>>10148132
I prefer the 2600 to the NES the 2600 was innovative in its start with things like the display implementation whereas the NES was a consumer ghetto that delayed popular computing in the USA and Japan just for a scum company tied to organised crime with dodgy lawyers and copyright obsession.

[Anonymous No.10148785]

>>10148730
Do you miss wood grain on consoles? Some people consider it tacky, but it's like my one borderline hipster guilty pleasure

[Anonymous No.10148823]

>>10147291
WHERE YOU AT DAWG

[Anonymous No.10148860]

>>10148692
>"that (you) can still enjoy" is better and will prevent kneejerks

That is just as bad and denoates that you're a /v/ tourist who thinks old games are bad

[Anonymous No.10148882]

i dont play new games at all desu, so i guess all of em?
the good ones at least

[Anonymous No.10148893]

>>10145918
Castlevania was definitely an easy one for me to stick with. Super generous with the continues, nice variety of weapons to use and the rigid movement is very rewarding to get the hang of. Any other 8 bit platformers like that?

[Anonymous No.10148916]

>>10148860
Only if they are brainrotted like you are and look for the absolute worst in every post, because I don't see how you'd get that out of it.

[Anonymous No.10148926]

>>10147698
>The only stuff I really can't go back to is stuff like nuts'n milk
That is sad. It's one of my favorite games, I even learn romhacking and disassembly using that game.

[Anonymous No.10149063]

>>10148718
>look at something like Crash Bandicoot and its remake
Agree with this. Hell, I can’t think of many remakes I prefer over originals, but I don’t really give a fuck what a game looks like so as long as the gameplay remains the same they’re fine in my books.

Crash Bandicoot contains a perfect example for what I personally would use meme buzzwords like ”aged” and ”dated” for though – there was a time when I would have considered third the strongest entry, but nowadays it’s my least favorite (strictly speaking about the first three entries), because the gimmick-y levels with driving, flying and whatever else are extremely shallow and interrupt the platforming I’m playing the game for. Sure, they’ve always been shallow but apparently my taste was shit or my brain less ADD-ridden back then since I actually remember liking them – it wasn’t until I played other games with gameplay similar to those gimmicks that I realized how bad they were in CB3. So… the game obviously didn’t change with time, but it appeals less to my current tastes.

As far as older entries being more enjoyable by modern ones – I think most long-running series and genres peaked decades ago and still continue regressing. When I said some games ”have been done so much better that I find little reason to play them over their counterparts”, I mostly meant the very early entries in genres that took their time to mold the formula – Galaxian to Galaga, DQ1 to DQ3, TLoZ to LA etc.

[Anonymous No.10149085]

>>10149063
>Hell, I can’t think of many remakes I prefer over originals
ive been digging the unity sourceport of daggerfall lately
tho admittedly less because of it being unity, and more because its allowed for a shitton of new mods
it being a unity project actually makes it run like complete fucking ass, even without any of the dumbass hi-res texture packs or new lighting fx
i give it a pass tho since it was basically one dude doing it mostly by himself over the course of like 10yrs

im struggling to think of any official re-release tho
i guess the chrono trigger DS port was nice

[Anonymous No.10149092]

>>10146010
>>10147605
This and based

[Anonymous No.10149095]

>>10149085
>i guess the chrono trigger DS port was nice
im sure anon will stop in and remind me why im a retarded faggot for thinking that tho

[Anonymous No.10149104]

>>10148860
>/v/ tourist who thinks old games are bad
The older the better or what? While I prefer old games, there absolutely is a point in time before which there's very little to enjoy. If I had to lock a year from which to play games for the next year, I'd pick 1985 over 202X, but no fucking way I'd pick 1978 over 202X.

[Anonymous No.10149114]

>>10149085
>i guess the chrono trigger DS port was nice
Never got to play it. It comes with one extra ending, no? Something that connects with CC. I really liked the SNES version and hated the PS1 because of those loading.

[Anonymous No.10149115]

NES era is the one with reliable enjoyable games for me, but oldest I've enjoyed was this

not counting arcade

[Anonymous No.10149124]

>>10149104
when did yars come out?
thatd be my cutoff
that game is awesome

[Anonymous No.10149163]

Robotron or millipede I guess. Pulled out my ps1 Activision disc so I plan on spending time with 2600 games

[Anonymous No.10149184]

>>10149163
>Robotron
oh fuck
how did eugene jarvis do it?
every game he made was a hit
defender is my personal fav. i was lucky enough to have the 5200 port as a hand-me-down more like put-back-together given the 5200 from my dad as a kid ,which was a damn good port. never did git gud, but damn if it wasnt always fun

[Anonymous No.10149839]

I'd say Joust (1981) is still enjoyable, but I never play it for more than an hour
after that, Yoshi's Island (95)

[Anonymous No.10149848]

>>10149839
Quite a leap between the two. What’s stopping you from enjoying the first SMW?

[Anonymous No.10149854]

>>10149848
it's just that I barely enjoy any video games. I found SMW to feel very slippery, like Mario is on ice. I prefer my platformers to feel more weighty and reliable
the way he controls in DK 94 feels better to me

https://www.backloggd.com/u/LavaLamb/list/favorite-games/release/grid/

[Anonymous No.10149865]

A lot of Atari 2600 stuff is honestly too boring for me now.

Maybe arcade Galaxian?

[Anonymous No.10149873]

>>10149854
Play the two first DKCs too since you enjoyed the newest one and dislike Mario’s slippery feel.

[Anonymous No.10149891]

>>10149854
Now I'm curious as to why someone who barely enjoys video games is even posting on this board

[Anonymous No.10149896]

>>10149854
play the NES ninja gaiden trilogy then
theyre the tightest, least slippery platformers ever made

[Anonymous No.10149951]

>>10145918
>honestly enjoy for longer than an hour in 2023
Plenty of games on the C64 and NES. I will say for Atari the 2600 is too archaic for me, but the 8-bit computer / 5200 games feel really good.
For the single oldest game that could captivate me for more than an hour that Answer would Have to be 1981's Ultima for the Apple II.

[Anonymous No.10149987]

>>10145918
Space invaders and pac man can get 10 minutes out of me but I do find most games pre gen 3 are not worth the time

[Anonymous No.10150021]

>>10149891
it's considerably better than /v/

[Anonymous No.10150106]

>>10150021
No it's not. I don't recall seeing people spazzing out on people for collecting plastic. You still get console war BS on both boards. I don't see people on /v/ calling certain open projects outright scams. If anything /vr/ is objectively worse than /v/.

[Anonymous No.10150145]

>>10150106
well I'd rather not have to look at 20 Baldur's Gate 3 threads even after I set filters up

[Anonymous No.10150163]

>>10150145
That's fair.

[Anonymous No.10150236]

>>10145918
>by modern standards
Your feels are nothing but your feels. Get a grip kid.

[Anonymous No.10150243]

>>10145921
>He doesn't SpaceWar!
Sad.

[Anonymous No.10150306]

>>10147313
>No good games before 1985
Battlezone?
Asteroids?
TETRIS!!??!

[Anonymous No.10150316]

>>10148132
The really classic Atari arcade games have aged much, much better than anything on the NES.

I didn't grow up with either, and when I first encountered them in my teens I was surprised how much I liked the classic arcade games, and how boring and shitty everything on the NES was.
(The SNES was pretty cool, though)

[Anonymous No.10150348]

Zork I (1980 Infocom version) is the oldest game I have put serious time into and enjoyed. I've never played Colossal Cave further than a few rooms.

[Anonymous No.10150518]

>>10150348
What did you emulate it on? How did the rest of your throuple feel about you spending so much time on an old game instead of eating ass?

[Anonymous No.10150531]

>>10150106
/vr used to be a pretty chill board consisting of a lot of 4chan oldfags and people who grew up playing old games. Now it feels like half the board is just angry, posturing zoomers.

[Anonymous No.10150537]

>>10145918
Berzerk from 1980.

I like Space Invaders from 1978 well enough, but I get tired of it pretty quickly.

[Anonymous No.10150542]

>>10147332
Based

[Anonymous No.10150548]

>>10145918
Pac-Man

[Anonymous No.10150552]

>>10145989
>Mario Bros

[Radiochan !!8R5IcuH3PgQ No.10150560]

>>10145918
Colecovision games for home console
Commodore PET/Apple II for computers

[Anonymous No.10150585]

>>10145918
adventure

[Anonymous No.10150587]

>>10146001
Oh no, someone triggered the incel princess.

[Anonymous No.10150590]

>>10149063
>Agree with this. Hell, I can’t think of many remakes I prefer over originals, but I don’t really give a fuck what a game looks like so as long as the gameplay remains the same
I used the Crash remake because it illustrates exactly what went wrong in development. They added things simply because they could, regardless if they complimented the gameplay or not. A lot of the levels require near perfect timing to make jumps, avoid traps, etc, so all the visual enhancements they added become a detriment. More foreground items, the bump maps on certain textures, they all look pretty, but you end up losing track of Crash in all that noise. Which is the last thing you need when there's a big fuck off boulder barreling towards him.
>I realized how bad they were in CB3. So… the game obviously didn’t change with time, but it appeals less to my current tastes
We likely both played Crash 3 when we were kids, so stuff like the racing levels, the wumpa launcher, and the new powerups were new shiny toys to play with. Now that we're older those things don't impress and all we're left with are a bunch of shitty on rails levels that are somehow less fun than Hog Wild.
>When I said some games ”have been done so much better that I find little reason to play them over their counterparts”, I mostly meant the very early entries in genres that took their time to mold the formula – Galaxian to Galaga, DQ1 to DQ3, TLoZ to LA etc.
That's my bad, then, I assumed that you meant that modern AAA games were better than AAA fourth and fifth gen games. I will die on the "Street Fighter IV and onward suck" hill

[Anonymous No.10150602]

>>10150531
U don't visit this board a huge amount, however i remember when it was initiated. Always had a lot of unnecessary anger

[Anonymous No.10150668]

>>10145918
I can't enjoy any console or the vast majority of games before 1985
>Atari 2600 (don't like 7800 either)
>ColecoVision
>Fairchild
>Intellivision
>Magnavox
>SG-1000
amazing how much of a step up in quality the NES is compared to these

[Anonymous No.10150745]

>>10145926
nah, ADVENT wasn't all that good. It's like Akalabeth or maybe Ultima IV, we remember it for being first in the genre or a revolution in the genre, but much much better came out later.
Interactive-Fiction gets good with the professionally-published Zork 1. Gets great with Hitchhiker's Guide, Enchanter, Planetfall.

[Anonymous No.10150763]

>>10150537
yeah berzerk still holds up, nonironically. i'll still enjoy playing it if i see the machine in some bar.

[Anonymous No.10150854]

>>10150243
Never played spacewar, but knock off space war games like omega race and asteroids are fun. So I would presume space war is fun too.

[Anonymous No.10150925]

>>10150668
You should have seen to iphone4

[Anonymous No.10150953]

>>10145918
Rogue.

[Anonymous No.10151134]

>>10150306
The very first version of Tetris only existed on the Electronika 60 in 1984. The first commercial release was for PC in 1986 I think, then Tetris for the NES and GameBoy didn't come out until 1989.

[Anonymous No.10151150]

>>10147916
Wow, what a great post from the retarded zoomer who wants to judge games by "modern standards". Did I hurt your feelings by objectively laying out the truth for you?

[Anonymous No.10151156]

>>10150745
I don't understand your post. OP asked "what's the oldest game you still enjoy playing". You're trying to tell me I don't enjoy playing that? That's your comment? Do you think you're a fucking mindreader? Do you think I give a shit that HHGTTG is more "involved"? Oh boy can't wait to solve that babel fish puzzle. Fuck off, retard.

Also, I am literally playing Ultima IV right now and it is one thousand english units times better than 99% of the trash RPGs that came after it. Don't even whine at me like a little bitch that people "only like" U4 because "muh first in the genre". Dipshit fucking "mindreader".

[Anonymous No.10151286]

Barcades may be cringe but they allowed me to finally enjoy atari games. I never understood pacman until i hit a proper joystick. Throw on some earbuds and if you cant get hooked trying to break the top 10 then you dont even enjoy games. The challenge at the arcade is the dirty kind that immediately has you giving it your all. Was a 64/gbc kid

[Anonymous No.10151401]

>>10148181
I think you should leave room for 'arcade port' as they are almost all cut down versions, sometimes with notable differences. It's rare but devs do sometimes get creative with them too.

[Anonymous No.10151403]

>>10151156
>playing Ultima IV
Sorry, you lost all credibility there. Literally the origin of wokeness in gaming. You should exodus this board and never come back.

[Anonymous No.10151423]

>>10148132
I kinda get that. I started with c64, Tandy (oof) and 2600 systems and moved to nes at some point can't go back to most of them. Still can find a game or two I could easily spend an hour or more on those systems but nothing like gen 3+

[Anonymous No.10151430]

>>10148785
Same level as wood grain on the sides of a family wagon. But maybe you like that too (not judging)

[Anonymous No.10151519]

>>10151430
nta but I love wood grain on cars. Also on TVs.

[Anonymous No.10152103]

>>10145918
the one you posted

[Anonymous No.10152127]

>>10148893
Getsu Fuuma Den is similiar but it's more of a prototype Simon's Quest though.

[Anonymous No.10152149]

>>10151519
Never seen them on cars, but I'd kill for a CRT monitor that looked like that

[Anonymous No.10152153]

>>10145918
this game sucks balls, holy shit. Simone can't control his jump, lmao

[Anonymous No.10152162]

castlevania is shit. the Jumping is SHIT. the flea-men/bird scene is SHIT. Dracula with a hobbled jump is SHIT. This game was not a breakout in any of the first series, purely derivative SHIT

[Anonymous No.10152182]

>>10145918 Phantasy Star

[Anonymous No.10152251]

>>10145921
FPBP.

Kill all millennials.

[Anonymous No.10152451]

>>10145918
Tetris and Super Mario Bros were both finished in the same year, but Tetris took a couple years to actually be published so my answer is Super Mario Bros. It's the first single-player console game that still holds up, at least for an hour. SMB1 and Ghosts n Goblins (arcade) basically defined single-player games as we know them today. GnG even had unique boss battles, and it would be my answer if it weren't retardedly difficult.

[Anonymous No.10152452]

>>10146001
>>10146010
we get it bro, you're old so you're smart

[Anonymous No.10152465]

>>10148730
>that delayed popular computing in the USA and Japan
Lol
>>10150667

[Anonymous No.10152470]

>>10148730
>that delayed popular computing in the USA and Japan
Lol this guy is dedicated
>>10150656

[Anonymous No.10153169]

>>10152162
>the flea men/bird scene is SHIT
Which one? As much as I love the game, I fuckin hate the flea men (although I always called them ki-) oops.

[Anonymous No.10153195]

>>10152162
>the flea-men/bird scene is SHIT
Stage 11? That part is easy. You just stand still and wait for the fleabois to land in front of your whip, and you can walk right on past the dragon without touching it. They are a lot tougher when they show up in the clock tower though.

[Anonymous No.10153207]

>>10153195
>stand still
You walk right and smash ’em the moment they’re dropped. Stage 17 is full of them too, but that time the surface isn’t flat.

[Anonymous No.10153208]

>>10153207
Fuck me that’s the clock tower you mentioned. I’ll just to to bed now. Anyways, I alwyas rushed through the clock tower ignoring my hp since Dracula has a checkpoint.

[Anonymous No.10153596]

No game is enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.10153650]

>>10153596
Based

[Anonymous No.10153659]

>>10152470
>He thinks everyone expressing this common and obvious view is the same person

[Anonymous No.10154028]

>>10153596
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.10154578]

>>10153659
Is this common or obvious?
Sounds more like edgy and very hard to prove. Don't let me get in your way though.

[Anonymous No.10154589]

>>10151403
>Sorry, you lost all credibility there.
Imagine thinking some zoomie with two mommies is even capable of shitposting one of his betters. Keep crying, eunuch.

[Anonymous No.10154593]

>>10152452
No, I am older than you AND smarter than you. The two aren't necessarily related, but I did spend a good portion of my youth developing skills, talents, and intelligence, and most importantly, the ability to think critically about things and notice what's going on in the world around me. So perhaps they're not so unrelated after all.

I highly recommend thinking critically, by the way. It's much, much better than being a kneejerk NPC controlled entirely by your ego and forced to make disgruntled responses to every single thing you dislike even though you're unable to articulate an actual response as to why. Seriously, life is much better when you give up the whole "argh, this made me mad, I've GOT to reply!" thing. Think, observe, analyze, consider. Have self esteem. It's worth it.

[Anonymous No.10154620]

>>10146001
Shittiest game you can tolerate.
>>10146010
Sweeping generalisations yet I still feel dirty after reading this diatribe.
>>10152452
Not saying the poster(s) arent, but don't confuse verbosity and arrogance with intelligence or wisdom.
>>10154593
> me > u
> have self esteem bro
Otherwise great advice, but in this thread... Pearls to swine.

[Anonymous No.10154646]

>>10154593
>being a kneejerk NPC controlled entirely by your ego and forced to make disgruntled responses to every single thing you dislike
He says after joining a thread out of sheer dislike of the topic while constantly replying to everyone who’s (You)ing him to defend his fragile ego.

[Anonymous No.10154739]

>>10154646
Ah yes, shitposting on a chatboard may just be the oldest computer game that can entertain some anons here for over an hour at a time.

Careful who that's applied to in your heads ppl

[Anonymous No.10156497]

>>10145918
Rogue (1980)

[Anonymous No.10156516]

>>10154589
Projecting pretty hard there kiddo

[Anonymous No.10156524]

Nethack.

[Anonymous No.10156534]

>>10145918
for longer than an hour? Something in golden age arcades, so probably about 45 years. I could test further with spacewar, but never seen a working machine or been able to play with someone before.

[Anonymous No.10156558]

>>10145918
Fun as hell. Screenshots don't do it justice at all.

[Anonymous No.10156748]

>>10145926
Can I still contact Don@su-ai?

[Anonymous No.10157138]

>>10145918
Your mom