Asklemmy

The oldest single player game I keep going back to is Super Mario World on the SNES, Copyright 1990.

I will occasionally play games older than that, but the SNES is where my actual nostalgia begins.

I found an abandonware do of Risk 2 from 2000. Run great and is just as much fun as when I was a kid. A friend and I are going to try the network interface to play against each other.

Robotron 2084 - there is a place by me that still has the arcade cabinet.

Age of Empires 2

Spy Hunter

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.

Streets of Rage 1&2

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Worms Armageddon

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

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)

Garrys Mod. You'd actually be impressed how many people still play that game for it approaching its 20 year anniversary.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

I'll only stop playing OSRS if they shut the servers down.

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.

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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ShadowMan from 1999. That's one of the (if not the) first narrative action adventure games I ever played and a big part of my childhood. The mixture of blood, gore, creepy music and enemies and great setpieces (you play as the walker between the worlds of the dead and the living and can switch between them) fascinates me to this day. When I was a child, it gave me quite a few nightmares, but I still finished it. It's an absolute masterpiece.

NightDive recently remastered it and it's even better now.

ARSENAL Extended Power. An old strategy game from the early 2000s. Still fire it up once a year to mess around.

Been playing flatout ultimate carnage, made me want to try older racing games since I barely played any post ps2 growing up (my older cousin had one and some racing games like podracing, idr the rest) I just hated that you couldn't exit the car, for some reason it's just way more immersive to me, so I avoided any game with vehicles where you couldn't exit them. Eventually got in to flight sims which made me wanna try driving games again, since you can't exit the plane and it's still fun. Tho I do wish they added that too.

I have NEVER uninstalled "Deus Ex."

Half life and Unreal Tournament

Super mario 64, the acrobatics is so fun

1991's arcade hit and genre creating game, Street Fighter 2

I still play WoW. That's a 21 year old game.

(The housing is so much fun!!)

Freeciv

I've been replaying Tenkaichi 2 lately

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

Gothic 1 and 2 (from 2001 and 2002 respectively) are still some of the best games I ever played. There is also a very active modding community, and some mods are even much better than the original game.