Currently replaying A Link to the Past (1991). It's not even that old.

Tetris, the original GameBoy cart.

These.

I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.

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.

> _

Age of Empires 2

Playing regularly? Minecraft.

There are a few games I revisit as my kid grows up and gets to experience them for the first time, but Minecraft keeps coming back.

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.

Technically Team Fortress 2. Though not often.

I'm playing through Final Fantasy 2 right now but the pixel remaster version which came out in 2021 which is why I say technically.

Super mario 64, the acrobatics is so fun

MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (1995)

I play retro games I missed growing up so I’ll soon be starting final fantasy 6

Probably half life 2

osu!. Despite being made in 2007, it still holds up as a good rhythm game.

DigDug on MAME

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

Diablo 1 (it runs really well with the devilutionx engine reimplementation)

Deus Ex 1. Still holds up after all these years and there are plenty of mods to keep things interesting.

River Raid, Atari game from early 80s. Play it on analogue pocket currently

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Doom II
Super Mario Bros.
Metal Slug

breakout. I think it's the oldest 'playable' game. It feel ahead of it's time for the late 70's

I recently picked up Diablo 2 again, that and Doom which I play off and on. I really need to find a copy of Wolfenstein now that I'm thinking about old games.

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)

I play lots of games from my childhood. Even though it was before my time, Super Mario Bros on the NES is probably the oldest game I regularly go back to. But I love retro games, so I'll play even older games on occasion.

Half life and Unreal Tournament

On a regular basis, probably classic DooM / DooM 2.

Portal. It's older than you think, but still solid.

Just booted back up chrono trigger

Mario 3, though these days I get tired of it after a World or two and haven't completed it in a while.

Also Xenogears from the PS1 is still one of my favorite games and I replay it every few years.

Thief: Gold

The Dark Mod scratches that itch very well most of the time, but the OG had better story telling across multiple missions

Jak X.

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.

Knights and merchants

Every so many years I fire up a King's Quest or Space Quest.

Warcraft 3 custom maps still drag me back sometimes.

Anarchy Online (2001) is a game I play frequently.

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

Well, I don't segment my backlog for years, so I wouldn't know which is the oldest one, but the one I plan to play next is Fzero for the SNES which was released in 1991.

The barcade near me has a Sinistar (1982) cabinet and I play it every time I go. I’m not even that good at it, but I love it so much.

Also I love those Lucasarts point and click adventure games. Grew up playing Monkey Island and play it again every once in a while.

I had to check my library to make sure which one is the oldest, but it's fallout 1 :3

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.

Gothic

I generally play at least one of the Ultima games every year, mostly the late 80s and early 90s ones.

Streets of Rage 1&2

For a time it was Solitaire, but these days it's 2048.

Joust.

Crash Bandicoot 2

Does OpenTTD count?

Every few years I replay both Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age.

I regularly play Might and Magic 4 and 5: World of Xeen. It's from 1992.

OpenTTD

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.

Freeciv

About once a year or so I go replay Morrowind, the chaddest of the Elder Scrolls series.

This past year I replayed Morrowind with Tamriel Rebuilt tacked onto it, which has been extremely cool and fresh. TR really feels like official content a lot of the time, it's quite good and the love that's been put into it is very apparent.

Regularly Cube2:Sauerbraten, initially from 2004.

Occasionally, Dragster on Atari,1980. Some of the best reaction gameplay available, from the golden years.

Solitaire and Minesweeper. Literally the best games for when I just want to play something that doesn't require a lot of attention (no story lines, long load times, or remembering what I was doing the last time I played). Just enough to focus my attention while waiting around, but able to close out when whatever I was waiting on is ready. Just really calming for the most part.

I regularly go back to Warcraft 3 in between playing newer games if somethung piques my interest or gets a cool update.

Spent so much time playing both campaign and custom games over the years since release, and finally got into melee/1v1 about a year+ ago

The fact that the game actually gets support with balance changes and updates again has been lots if fun

I still play NES games often. These were the games of my childhood. Balloon Fight and the original arcade Mario Bros. are always fun for shorter sessions. And I still enjoy playing through Super Mario Bros. on occasion. I very rarely have ventured into games older than the NES.

I'm on a retro game kick lately. I am currently playing Pokemon Leaf Green and Chrono Trigger (for a fiesta event) and will likely move on to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night afterward.

OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)

And there's a community of players who have modded the everloving fuck out of the game and the engine itself, one of these patch packs is OpenTTD JGR and we play it like it's a model railway simulator

Wing Commander on the ol' Dosbox.

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Worms Armageddon

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

I may or may not still have a pvpgn vm and a Windows xp vm with a lot of baal rush setups set to run.

I'll play D2 till I die.

Last three were Star Ocean (the first one), Radiata Stories, and Skies of Arcadia.

Currently playing Alundra because a friend grew up with it and wanted me to play it. Honestly it's not great but RetroAchevements made the bosses extraordinarily painful to master, which is uh ... fun. Yes. Fun, let's go with that.

Oh and ps these commenters all have fantastic tastes.

Currently playing Hot Wheels TURBO Racing (1999) on the N64 (Analogue 3d). It's a good little arcade racer and has been fun to hop back into it.

final fantasy 11

Fnv

On the regular I still fire up Zork 1-3, Ultima 4, StarTropics, OG Metroid, and Maniac Mansion.

I play dungeon keeper a bit. It was released in I think 1994 or 1995

Edit: I also play insaniquarium sometimes too. That shit was from the 2000s I believe

Factorio 2016

I have a SNES/NES combo. Playing through super Mario world and marble madness. Its been fun.

I still play a phone sudoku game from 2009. I would still play StarCraft and Warcraft 2 if I had hardware capable.

@TheReanuKeeves Doom

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

MoO2 periodically for building ships and controlling the whole fleet. Stellaris is fine but so many systems are a chore in that game and at the same time paper thin in depth. Older games had tactics and strategy.

Tetris DX, either on original hardware or my Analogue Pocket

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

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

I have NEVER uninstalled "Deus Ex."

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

Mario 64 on original hardware. Never did finish it as a kid so no time better than the present

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.

Super Smash Bros Melee (2001)

Portal (2007)

Red Dead Redemption (2010)

Portal 2 (2011)

Journey (2012)

Tomodachi Life (2013)

Started playing Spelunky HD again the other day, the sequel is better but the original is still fun to revisit.

Morrowind and Fallout: New Vegas sometimes. I've tried playing the original two Fallout games but I keep bouncing off the first hour or two.

Some Guilty Gear XX AC+R with a friend -- we would love to play some old Tekken games too but we're both on PC so Tekken 7 is the oldest available.

Every once in a while I'll play some Sacrifice, such an amazing game that's dying for a remaster.

The original Bard's Tale trilogy. I just finished I a few months ago and have been working away on the Destiny Knight.

It's so cool to be able to port your party over from the prior games and keep building!

Before I got a Switch, my last Nintendo Console was a Super Nintendo and missed out on Wii/Gamecube/WiiU, family was a Playstation family lol, so now Im going back and playing all the Zelda's!

Arcanum from Troika and Fallout 1&2 for me

Unreal World. Released in 1992. Though I didn't first play until 2010ish when I moved to linux.

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

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

(The housing is so much fun!!)

I've been playing jet moto with my kid. Just like I did with my dad, back in 1996.

Bejeweled 3 zen mode on my Xbox 360 till my Xbox one X

I have an N64 and a Sony PVM, so I play a lot of games on that. But there’s two I play much more regularly than all the others: Mario Golf and Mario Tennis. They both hold up incredibly well.

Gorf, 2600

I've been replaying Tenkaichi 2 lately

Carmaggedon(1997), via a reverse engineered dethrace

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

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).

Blaster Master. One day I will complete it.

I assume we are talking original release and not a remake? These are the games I never stopped jumping in and out of.

• Fez (X360 2012)
• Rock Band/Guitar Hero (Multi-System)
• Skyrim (Multi-System 2011)
• FTL (PC 2012)
• Civilization V (PC 2010)
• Stardew Valley (Multi-System 2016)

Recently, I’ve been playing Top Gear (SNES 1992).

For many of these, I’m not playing on the original system. I’m playing a port. Fez wasn’t ported to modern consoles, but I play on my phone.

Hell, I played Skyrim on an Amazon Echo. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

gorilla.bas

1994's virtua-cop

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

Black & White

H.A.V.O.C.

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.

Mirrors Edge

I will never let go of the original

On and off back theme hospital or it’s new instance two point hospital

Haven't done it, but i always wanted to put all the GTAs into one world, along with modded areas, and have it all connected.

Mega Man

Battle for Atlantis

Nethack.

I replayed Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines (2004) recently

Spy Hunter

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

Peggle. As a grown ass person I still play it at least once every couple of weeks. Stupid fun when you don't want to pay too much attention.

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.

Legend of Zelda ALttP, then SSBM or SotN.

Just played the NES Contra yesterday for the first time in probably over a decade. Still can beat it first try although I did have to use a couple of continuous on stage 4. I'm so used to not dying that I forgot where to find the good weapons. But for stages 5-8 I still had all the muscle memory of where to shoot and when that I developed as a kid.

I built my own PC, a tower with a 16 core 32 thread cpu, 128 gb of ram, 16 gb of vram and i make sure to keep it cold enough to handle playing minesweeper on expert.

i'm kidding, i quit gaming in 2020 as a new years resolution.

Master of Magic.

Lord of the Rings Online (2008)

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

Master of Orion (1993)

The first Sonic the Hedgehog for the Mega Drive. I play all 3 (4?) of the original Sonic games, but that's the oldest though.

I play through my Mega Drive games occasionally. Alex Kidd is probably older... Wonder Boy is great, too!

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

Super Mario bros 1 & 3. I still have them working on my old Wii, but I’ve been planning on a retro pi setup for ages.

My OG NES stopped working a decade ago.

The oldest I can go reliably is the late 80’s and early 90’s.

DuckTales NES, Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis, Puzzle Bobble.

Once we start getting into the mid 90*s games start to get good.

Chrono Trigger, Doom, Rayman, DK Country

Don't really want to check release dates. I still play some things from c64, and Amiga... That's probably the oldest games I play. Like Bubble Bobble, IK, Giana Sisters. EoTB and so forth...

Earthbound