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What's the oldest game you've actually completed? How does it hold up today?

>> No.7372941

>>7372906
Something on NES most likely. Most games held up fine. Yet the mentality of arcade quarter snatching was still a thing in most NES games. SNES games are where developers finally found the perfect balance between maintaining difficulty yet having a good balance of QOL features.

>> No.7372969

>>7372906
>ally cat
>completed

>> No.7373186
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>>7372906
Beneath Apple Manor
A roguelike that predates Rogue, and which is much more beatable.
The game is from 1978, but I played the 1983 DOS remake.

>> No.7373214

>>7372906
Zork, last year.
Aged perfectly well.

>> No.7373220

>>7372906
>Alleycat
There's no endgame in this IBM game. You're just trying to get a hiscore for laffs n brags.

>Oldest
I guess Budokan: The Martial Spirit. Or Hugo 3, the jungle one. Not sure which is older.
Budokan is still a great game. Hugo series of adventure games have always been shit, but it's a quirky indie I guess?

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>>7372906
I prefer these colors

>> No.7373582

Outrun for msdos.

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Fantastic game

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>>7372906
Possibly Space Harrier, it is still the best game ever

>> No.7373789

>>7373186
Nice. Guess that makes Rogue a BAM-like.

>>7372906
Oldest games I've completed are Adventure (1979) and Superman (1979).
Adventure holds up despite its admittedly terrible graphics. Remember to play Game 2 after Game 1 (tutorial).
Superman has a really bizarre overworld layout that takes some getting used to. Nevertheless, it's a fairly ambitious game - with the first scripted sequence (blowing up the bridge), and "X-Ray vision" (looking at the screens to your left/right/up/down). It's technically the first action-adventure game released.

I've beaten one round of Breakout (1976), but you have to beat it twice in a row to complete it.

>> No.7373801

Ultima 1
The space segment was fucking weird and kind of annoying to play but otherwise it was fine for what it was

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>1974

>> No.7375693

I love Alley Cat and I've even played it on a real IBM XT but yeah it just loops continuously and has no "end."

>> No.7376421

>>7373630
for what ever reason, I can't into this game.

>> No.7376439

Ultima 1. Holds up surprisingly well actually. Didn't like 2 though.

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>mario 1
>1985
Very well. Not something I'm likely to play again though.
>links awakening
>1993
This is the oldest game that I play reguarly.

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Super Mario Bros 2 on my dad's old NES.

>> No.7376787

>>7372906
Probably Adventure for the 2600, that's the oldest one I can remember beating, most other games I play from that far back don't actually have an end.

>> No.7376798

>>7373220
>>7372969
Isnt there a screen where you get to the other cat and make hearts?

>> No.7376808

>>7373186
Looking through release years I think Rogue is the oldest game I've actually beat, though I didn't do so until many many years later. Played shit tons of Asteroids but never beat it, not even sure if it has an ending. I still haven't played Beneath Apple Manor, but really should.

>>7373220
I'm always so happy to hear others mention Budokan. It's clunky but I love that game.

>> No.7377410

>>7376798
yeah
https://youtu.be/SrOg569DWNc