/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8074341]

What is the oldest game that you have played and thoroughly enjoyed?

[Anonymous No.8074348]

>>8074341
star trek 1971
pong

[Anonymous No.8074368]

Space Invaders

[Anonymous No.8074406]

>>8074341

Idk probably pinball. If it has to be a video game maybe DOOM or something. I'm not going to lie and say that by the time I got my hands on an Atari Collection I was just blowing loads left and right over pitfall because I so thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.8074413]

Pong

[Anonymous No.8074420]

tempest

[Anonymous No.8074426]

>>8074341
kings quest 1

[Anonymous No.8074445]

>>8074341
bunch of nes/segagenesis/snes games

strange how theyre still good to play

[Anonymous No.8074450]

>>8074445
>strange how theyre still good to play
No it isn't

[Anonymous No.8074457]

Impossible Mission
came on a C64 plug&play I got 10 or so yrs ago. think its from '84

[Anonymous No.8074459]

Halo 2, what a game.

[Anonymous No.8074462]

>>8074450
Fuck far off please, preferable into the working end of a wood chipper

[Anonymous No.8074472]

>>8074462
he's just saying they're classics bro, it's /vr/, nothing about this hobby is strange to us

[Anonymous No.8074475]

>>8074462
I'm sorry that you can't wrap your head around the idea that something from 20 or even 30 years ago can still be fun while posting on a board specifically designated for such games. Maybe you'll figure it out by the time you turn 18.

[Anonymous No.8074476]

>>8074462
he is saying its not surprising anon, not that they arent fun

[Anonymous No.8074502]

>>8074341
DQ 1

[Anonymous No.8074514]

>>8074341
Arse droids

[Anonymous No.8074525]

Outrun is the oldest game that I have an absolute blast playing. Earlier 80s arcades are no more than a few minute time waster to me. Not bad, but I wouldn't go out of my way to play them.

[Anonymous No.8074528]

Ultima 1, its like a glimpse into an alternate timeline of RPG game design

[Anonymous No.8074532]

>>8074528
An infinitely worse one, sure.

[Anonymous No.8074545]

Pong machine clone that my dad had.

[Anonymous No.8074547]

>>8074462
That’s some shitty reading comprehension, anon. Apologize.

[Anonymous No.8074563]

That one billiards themed pinball table from the 70s, or maybe that one baseball penny arcade game.
You didn't say it had to be a VIDEO game

[Anonymous No.8074565]

galaxian from 1979 i have the cocktail table

[Anonymous No.8074569]

>>8074445
lol shut up, zoomer.

[Anonymous No.8074571]

>>8074341
Bosconian

[Anonymous No.8074585]

>>8074547
youre making everyone uncomfortable with that gay shit. stop it

[Anonymous No.8074587]

>>8074585
Embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.8074598]

>>8074587
Also, no. >>8074462 deserves to be called out and humiliated for his misunderstanding.

[Anonymous No.8074676]

>>8074472
>>8074475
>>8074476
>>8074547
>>8074598
Eat shit, chud. I'm trans by the way.

[Anonymous No.8074695]

>>8074341
Russian Roulette, done with a stick and jumping off a cliff

[Anonymous No.8074706]

>>8074676
Being trans is no excuse for not being able to understand a simple reply, dum-dum.

[Anonymous No.8074732]

>>8074341
I really liked playing pit fall on the atari flashback 2 my dad got me when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.8074740]

Tank Pong, 1977

[Anonymous No.8074765]

>>8074341
Konami's Super Cobra, excellent SHMUP that was way ahead of its time for 1981.

[Anonymous No.8074774]

>>8074341
I wrote a version of Hunt the Wumpus in school, and then fucked around with that for a while. It's fun. You can make the topology of the map more complicated and it changes how you play.

[Anonymous No.8074812]

>>8074341
Pong probably

[Anonymous No.8074819]

Probably Lunar Lander.
I played it through Atari Vault collection on Steam and loved it. Almost every game from that pack is great, actually.
The entire Atari era is like a vast unexplored planet to me.

[Anonymous No.8074868]

>>8074695
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.8074938]

>>8074341
1980

[Pr?nc?ss Sevenleaf No.8074951]

>>8074676
No you aren't. I know every trans person in the world.

[Anonymous No.8074996]

asteroids (1979) or zork (1979/1980) probably

[Anonymous No.8075007]

>>8074765
>Scramble comes out in January 1981
>its sequel Super Cobra comes out in March 1981
damn they turned em around quick back in the day, huh

[Anonymous No.8075021]

>>8074996
i forgot about pinball. these are in the san francisco coin op museum, from 1969 and 1967. i don't like them as much as the more modern 80s style tables but i enjoy them still. i love the bell sounds in particular, they really match the physical feeling of a pinball machine a lot better than digital sounds from a speaker

[Anonymous No.8075023]

Prince of Persia

It was actually the first game I ever played
No manuals, no tutorials, no playthroughs, only my sheer will

[Anonymous No.8075035]

I don't know. Asteroids? Early arcade games are pretty timeless. You should probably specify home releases if you want to really push people.

[Anonymous No.8075038]

>>8074951
I also have access to online obituaries.

[Anonymous No.8075039]

>>8074341
Breakout

[Anonymous No.8075064]

hmm.. perhaps Barnstorming. despite being stupidly simple, i loved the sounds and always played it at my friend's house so i remember it fondly.

[Anonymous No.8075369]

>>8074341
Some NES game, either Castlevania, Super Mario Bros, Ninja Gaiden or something, too lazy to check which one is ackyually the oldest.

[Anonymous No.8075379]

Fun fact. Just read about this a couple days ago.

Apparently, Spacewar! is one of the oldest video games ever made. It was developed in 1962 for the giant super computers of its day.

And guess what? It's actually available on Steam, for free! Valve is using as a testing tool for Steam's SDK, so it's already added to everyone's accounts.

Just copy & paste this into your browser's address bar to install it:
steam://install/480

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
https://steamdb.info/app/480/

[Anonymous No.8075380]

I can have a good time with various late 70s and early 80s arcade games, this and Dig Dug probably being my favorites.

[Anonymous No.8075381]

Either tag or a footrace.

[Anonymous No.8075383]

>>8075369
Well anon, Super Mario Bros. was a fucking pack-in launch title for the NES. I think you can use some simple deductive reasoning here.

[Anonymous No.8075385]

>>8074598
Based anon.

[Anonymous No.8075387]

Galaga (1981)
I've beaten all the levels

[Anonymous No.8075396]

>>8075381
Reddit tier reply.

[Anonymous No.8075397]

>>8075383
Famicom came out in 1983 though, and SMB is a 1985 title. E.g. games like Duck Hunt and Nuts & Milk are older.

[Anonymous No.8075402]

>>8075397
Yes, hence why I said NES which is what you played it on, not the Famicom.

[Anonymous No.8075408]

Blaster
Master
Blaster
Master
Blaster
Master
Blaster
Master

[Anonymous No.8075419]

Berzerk (1980) i guess

[Anonymous No.8075428]

That game with the lines and the white that goes "MEEP MYORP BAGGA BAGGA."

[Anonymous No.8075450]

>>8075379
neat

[Anonymous No.8075461]

>>8075419
https://youtu.be/ymHzJTOErEM

[Anonymous No.8075996]

>>8074532
>>8074528
Explain.

[Anonymous No.8076073]

>>8074341
Barring what's already been posted, I had a ton of fun playing Centipede on an original arcade cabinet.

[Anonymous No.8076123]

Taipan! for the Apple II

[Anonymous No.8076275]

>>8074341
Tetris

[Anonymous No.8076313]

>>8074341
Thorougly enjoyed? Bushido (1983).
It was kinda in the context of having played Double Dragon in the arcades in 87/88 and wanted to play something similar on my dads PC and this was kinda the closest.
Ran way too fast too, but the whole aethetics of ninja and japanese martial arts kept me coming back.

https://youtu.be/AgvYHO4EiS4

[Anonymous No.8076518]

Snake

[Anonymous No.8076564]

>>8074341
Golvellius (SMS).

[Anonymous No.8076792]

>>8074348
>pong
yeah this

[Anonymous No.8076801]

Super Mario Bros 1

[Anonymous No.8076839]

>>8076313
>ninja violently bursts and makes children's programming intro noises
that's pretty hardcore, anon

[Anonymous No.8077093]

>>8074532
A world where Ultima 1 style dungeon crawlers took over Japan Instead of Wizardry style ones would have been dope. It managed to fix random encounters and level scaling before Jarpigs even existed. The only real problems were HP gains being essentially a hack and dungeons not having any reason to explore outside of killing monsters

[Anonymous No.8077321]

>>8074740
This looks vaguley familiar, what system was this on?

[Anonymous No.8077526]

I'm not even a bong.
also asteroids.

[Anonymous No.8077849]

>>8074341

[Anonymous No.8077973]

>>8077849
>>8077526
Is this sum euro posting?

[Anonymous No.8077976]

>>8074341
Castlevania 3. I beat it every weekend just because I love it that much.

[Anonymous No.8078000]

>>8077976
That's a good game though DESUWA, I don't blame you for doing it. Did you ever do some speeruns or longplay or something and upload for minor coins.

[Anonymous No.8078051]

>>8074341
Pong via 2004 Atari Plug-and-play Paddles.

[Anonymous No.8078112]

>>8077973
>Wizardry
>euro

[Anonymous No.8078174]

>>8077973
Leaf, actually. I played Jetpac through DK64 as most civilized people did.

[Anonymous No.8078187]

>>8078112
Wizardry was originally a western series

[Anonymous No.8078225]

>>8078000
I don't like to stroke my ego, feels awkward sharing clips or even playing games infront of others, especially since I play them purely out of my love for the hobby. Though, I've always wanted to make guides to vidyas that are straight to the point, minute long videos using simple English that someone starting a game can understand, making them able to complete that game with that small info they never knew. That and even talking about obscure video games and their hidden mechanics that I've never seen anyone discuss before.

[Anonymous No.8078253]

>>8077321

[Anonymous No.8078358]

>>8078225
well you could make some money on youtube is all I'm saying. $15 is $15. Just get some music like the sonic r guy does and start talking with clips, it seems to entertain many folks.

[Anonymous No.8078364]

>>8074341

[Anonymous No.8078390]

Kid chameleon, it took 2 tries though because the first time i tried playing it it was on the awful mini genesis

After i was able to play it on a real genesis it was a lot more fun than i expected

[Anonymous No.8078401]

I GUESS I liked Donkey Kong. But did I _thoroughly_ enjoy it?

[Anonymous No.8078707]

>>8074341
Civilization (1991).

[Anonymous No.8078904]

Atari Combat

[Anonymous No.8078918]

>>8074341
King's Quest 2. The first one has always felt archaic to me but 2 came out when I was getting into playing games and I really liked it. I don't know if I could stomach it today but it is the oldest one I've had a good with.

[Anonymous No.8079075]

>>8078401
The second stage is kind of weak.

[Anonymous No.8079078]

>>8079075
Which one? 50m or 75m?

[Anonymous No.8079081]

>>8078904
That game is based.

[Anonymous No.8079083]

>>8078174
Jet Pac is great. Good taste.
>t. burger

[Anonymous No.8079084]

>>8079078
50m. 75m is the one I like the most.

[Anonymous No.8079642]

>>8074341
Atari 2600 Enduro 1983

Easily the first true GOOD racing game for home console and won sports game of the year in 1983

Not to mention it had quite a following back then. You could send in your race time (score) for a Enduro Roadbuster patch and they had large contests to win real sports cars

[Anonymous No.8079875]

>>8079081
Based on what?

[Anonymous No.8079953]

>>8074341
Tetris

[Anonymous No.8080360]

>>8079875
based on my dick in your mom

[Anonymous No.8081571]

>>8074341
Adventure. Definitely the one 2600 game I still come back to all the time. Nobody seems to agree when it was released, I've seen dozens of sources say either 1978,1979, or 1980.

[Anonymous No.8081647]

Colossal Cave Adventure. I tried Zork 1 but got filtered trying to draw a map

[Anonymous No.8081950]

>>8074341
berzerk (1980)

[Anonymous No.8081956]

90% of people are probably gonna say asteroids or pong or something, so i'm just gonna chime in to say i really like 3D monster maze

[Anonymous No.8081992]

it's really good

[Anonymous No.8082025]

>>8081956
Never heard of this, the concept sounds cool as fuck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Monster_Maze
Zoomers are probably have some shitty creepypasta based on this game. Or could have one if they knew about it.

[Anonymous No.8082038]

>>8081950
This.
Loved the shit out of the Atari version as a little kid and the arcade has some awesome voice synthesis.

[Anonymous No.8082169]

>>8082025
Bring up "zoomers" everywhere doesn't make you sound any older, tryhard.

[Anonymous No.8082192]

>>8082169
But it can make me sound younger. That apparently works in your case. Being 30 years old sucks.

[Anonymous No.8082221]

>>8082192
>30 years old and still uses zoomer lingo perpetuated by teenagers on 4channel
Embarassing.

[Anonymous No.8082338]

>>8074341
Other than Pac-Man (1980) I think Yar's Revenge ('82) is the oldest one that I actually got wrapped up in and played for an extended amount of time.

[Anonymous No.8082451]

>>8082221
>>30 years old and still uses zoomer lingo perpetuated by teenagers on 4channel
>Embarassing.

[Anonymous No.8083496]

>>8082221
>30 years old and still uses 4channel
Embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.8083503]

>>8083496
millennial website

[Anonymous No.8083621]

>>8083496
The last thing this board needs are more clueless 25 year olds that weren’t even alive when a lot of the hardware discussed on this board was current. The 35+ year olds here are the only ones keeping this /vr/ on track.

[Anonymous No.8083734]

>>8074341
Oldest gave i've ever actually enjoyed and sat down beating was Darkwing Duck on NES, which is surprising as i generally don't like gen3 shit.

[Anonymous No.8083824]

I really don't get how you couldn't enjoy a lot of those basic games from before the home console eras. Sure there are plenty with odd physics but so many of them just work in a proto-lizard brain way that appeals to your basic sense of satisfaction. Like tic-tac-toe, paper football, or catch, they just feel inherently engaging and fun.

If you told me you liked Pong but disliked any given NES RPG, I'd get it, but if you told me vice versa I wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.8084048]

>>8074341
Atari 2600 games in general.

[Anonymous No.8085232]

>>8074341

[Anonymous No.8086719]

>>8083824
>If you told me you liked Pong but disliked any given NES RPG, I'd get it, but if you told me vice versa I wouldn't.
Why not?

[Anonymous No.8086745]

>>8083824
>If you told me you liked Pong but disliked any given NES RPG, I'd get it, but if you told me vice versa I wouldn't.
That's retarded. I can spend two weeks immersed in an RPG but I can only spend 2 minutes playing pong at most. Pong for me is just a game I played on my GBA on car rides and it would get boring quick. I would rather play a full blown tennis game than pong.

It's historically interesting, but to say that it's odd to prefer real video games yeah I said it over pong is insane.

[Anonymous No.8086783]

>>8074951
Name 500,000.

[Anonymous No.8089037]

>>8074341
Monaco GP probably, 1979

[Anonymous No.8089116]

>>8074341

[Anonymous No.8089161]

Played some Vectrex games and arcade games that were older and mildly enjoyable, but I don't think anything earlier than 1985 that was THOROUGHLY enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.8089170]

Oldest computer game is probably Star Raiders (1979) for Atari 800 XL. Arcade would probably be Space Invaders or something similar.

Never really enjoyed Pong, even as a kid in the early 80s.

[Anonymous No.8089529]

>>8086719
Mainly because there are so many QoL updates for NES RPGs on later consoles like the SNES (or their own sequels on NES) that would make you feel like the NES version is a slog. Item management and game speed, for example. With early video games like Pong or Space invaders all that its trying to be is at its base game. Its mechanically more similar to stuff like Skee-ball or Whack-a-mole , basic games that are enjoyable on a simple level without you needing more frills

>>8086745
Its really meant to be played with someone else. Ever play air hockey? Same principal.

[Anonymous No.8089649]

I like air sea battle on 2600 from 1977 but probably wouldn't play for more than 5 minutes. Pacman (1980) I can play for half an hour at least and have great fun. Only 10 years from pacman to mario world, pretty shocking. By the time you get to 1983 there are tons of good games at home and arcade.

[Anonymous No.8089658]

>>8074348
>1971
Surely a trek game wasn't made the same year as computer space, nobody even knew games existed yet.

As for me, probably asteroids. I've played older games, but not necessarily liked them as much.

I've played pinball, but I don't know that I've ever been a huge fan of 70s tables which are older than asteroids. I did get a real kick out of playing a 60s electromechanical pitch'n'bat at a museum once however. I think that shit is fascinating.

[Anonymous No.8089662]

>>8074475
Fun fact: 4chan is a retro game

>>8074819
Golden age definitely doesn't get enough love anymore. Too many people won't touch anything from before NES.

[Anonymous No.8089667]

>>8075450
Online play

Ohbaby

[Anonymous No.8089670]

>>8078187
Made by Americans and much more popular in the burger country.

[Anonymous No.8089672]

>>8081571
Here I thought it was '77. Robinett is still with us, surely he has answered that. Alternatively you could just ask atariage

[Anonymous No.8089903]

>>8074341

Bobby is Going Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKm3JIv0iQ8

[Anonymous No.8089956]

>>8089670
all non-jap games are considered "eurojank" now, especially computer games.

time to find another community to discuss retro gaming in

[Anonymous No.8089962]

>>8089956
>time to find another community to discuss retro gaming in
Does such a place exist?

[Anonymous No.8089978]

Love Cosmic Ark (1982) my favorite 2600 game.

[Anonymous No.8089985]

>>8089978
Forgot to add pic. Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=99&v=cUT_3xPz3Eo&feature=emb_title

[Anonymous No.8090217]

>>8089658
>>1971
>Surely a trek game wasn't made the same year as computer space, nobody even knew games existed yet.

Its a text based game

[Anonymous No.8090315]

>>8089962
Well, there's atariage.

[Anonymous No.8090476]

>>8082451
won't if i kill myself before then 8^)