Asklemmy

Lord of the Rings Online (2008)

Made so many lasting friends over the years. Great community.

Online gaming wise Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004)

As for single player gaming, donkey Kong Land 1 for gameboy is the oldest game I’m actively playing. I have various NES launch games in my collection, those would be the oldest games in my collection that I have played.

Whenever I can find it- Centipede. Especially if it's in a cabinet with the trackball.

Otherwise I play Donkey Kong Country a fair amount. Or Super Mario World. SNES games are my jam

I'll still play a few of the SNES classics from my childhood sometimes. Super Mario world, Yoshis island, that kinda stuff.

Space Quest 3. Wonderful story, funny, good music, and it always gave me this wistful feeling for some reason.

Master of Magic.

Gorf, 2600

I still play doom, although I try a lot of newer wads. It's crazy that there's basically 30 years of free content people have been creating since it came out (even if most stuff much past 10 or 15 years old can feel kinda dated and not so interesting to play).

original snes super mario world is still a blast, tetris is another game that's still fun

Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2, Portal.

Pokemon Crystal

Occasionally I fire up Civilization. The first one. I've also enjoyed Imperialism 2. Star Wars Rebellion, X-com (the original). Jagged Alliance 2.

All of those are from the 90s.

Ive played through Kingdom Hearts every couple of years since it came out! I was in 1st or 2nd grade when it came out and it was one of the first "big" games I ever beat.

Does FreeDoom count? It's as close to the original as I can get anymore.

Finished Mother 1 from 1989 recently. It's surprisingly good aside from final mountain encounter rate.

I beat Zelda 2 and its stupid.

Edit: i misunderstood the question. Zelda 2 is the latest old game. I come back to one of the many older gauntlet games. The ps2 one i think especially.

Mirrors Edge

I will never let go of the original

Through the Ages, the app edition of the board game.

I play that at least twice on a long flight.

Oldest game I still play is probably Taipan.

I first played it on an Apple IIe, but now it is just a web browser thing I poke at once in a while. It is basically spreadsheets and bad luck. You trade, pirates wreck you, the math never quite works out, and you lose anyway. I think that is why I still like it. No graphics to hide behind.

After that, Seven Cities of Gold, usually on a C64 emulator. That one still holds up more than it has any right to. You sail off thinking you are doing something heroic and slowly realize you are kind of a problem. The exploration feels lonely. The map still feels bigger than it actually is.

But the oldest one I keep coming back to is Gorf on the VIC-20.

I owned the cartridge. Bought it not long after it came out. I paid for the VIC-20 by walking beans and putting up hay all summer for a farmer when I was eleven or twelve. Hot, dusty work. Long days. I remember counting the cash and realizing I could actually afford a computer.

Gorf was loud, ugly, and mean. The voice mocked you constantly. The joystick barely survived. I loved it anyway. Sitting on the floor, TV buzzing, thinking this was the future and I had somehow managed to buy a piece of it.

Also, side note. I am trying pretty hard to become a professional writer. I write essays and stories over at tover153.substack.com. If anything there hits a nerve, feel free to subscribe.

So yeah. Taipan, Seven Cities, Gorf. Not because they are good by modern standards, but because they still feel like something.