Oldest I have played during this year? Or oldest I have played up until this year?
Oldest this year.
But maybe up until this year, or in the last 5 years would have been the more interesting question.
For 2024: 1994 with Final Fantasy 3(6j) back in Feb.
Currently 1997 with Final Fantasy Tactics since I heard the remaster rumor.
Seems like I've been on a FF kick.
Yeah, I’d actually only ever played VII and VIII before recently.
Now I seem to be going backwards through the series. Played VII, VI, and now V, where I currently find myself doing some rather boring endgame grinding to try to defeat the final boss battle.
The job system is one of the series strong points overall but it does end up requiring a lot more grinding than otherwise. Multiple kinds of leveling can be like that.
FF2 NES is the true grindfest though. Everything requires grinding in that, even hp.
Trying to finish pokemon emerald on my game boy micro. I mostly play at family gatherings
Mine is kind of cheating. I'm playing the Pixel Remaster of Final Fantasy I currently. I only have my tablet on me at the moment so I'm also doing a lot of emulation. SNES, N64, and GBA are my sweet spots
I finished R-Type III (1993) and played a little bit of Castlevania 2 (1987)
Digger © 1983 Windmill Software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_%28video_game%29
This is the game from my family's PC AT that I go back to regularly,. But for convenience I usually use the WinDig port:
Windig, the Windows 95 version of Digger Remastered (87K). This version is rather new. If you are having trouble with it, try the older version (95K).
https://www.digger.org/download.html
I just used web archive to check and it looks like the 87K version and its description as "rather new" has been there for 21 years now. It was built to target Windows 95 and is still working on Windows 11 so at this point i would say its "pretty stable".
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.
I played through Wario Land on GB emulator earlier this year. Probably that.
The London Game, from 1972.
I played the similar game Stunt Driver on PC a lot growing up. Had a tweaked copy where all the stats were turned way up on one car. Good choice to play as an old game
Galaxy 5000 (1991). Not the oldest in this thread by far, but I've never heard anyone talk about it and it's actually a really decent racing game for its time.
I've got Pong on my phone and one of my kids loves it.
Amiga Stunt Car Racer remains the best racing game of all time for me. It even had linkup multiplayer (I think..)
I think the oldest thing I've played is mostly just NES stuff. Some of those will have been ported arcade titles or whatever, otherwise it's plain ol' SMB1 (1985, I think). I still play SMB3 ('88) quite often.
I too love Super Monkey Ball 1
Robotron on mame and yar's revenge on 2600.
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