On the regular I still fire up Zork 1-3, Ultima 4, StarTropics, OG Metroid, and Maniac Mansion.
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I replayed Vampire: The Masquerade β Bloodlines (2004) recently
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.
Warcraft 3 custom maps still drag me back sometimes.
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
Knights and merchants
Factorio 2016
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.
breakout. I think it's the oldest 'playable' game. It feel ahead of it's time for the late 70's
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Doom II
Super Mario Bros.
Metal Slug
Bejeweled 3 zen mode on my Xbox 360 till my Xbox one X
I still play a phone sudoku game from 2009. I would still play StarCraft and Warcraft 2 if I had hardware capable.
Wing Commander on the ol' Dosbox.
Just booted back up chrono trigger
I've been playing jet moto with my kid. Just like I did with my dad, back in 1996.
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.
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.
Age of Empires 2
Does DE count?
It's crazy that new expansions are still dropping, and the ranked community is thriving.
Isnβt that the wolololo game?
Technically No 1 is the Wololo game. Monks don't Wololo in part 2.
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.
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.
Super Mario World and Shadow of the Colossus are my timeless games! I will replay them every few years.
Super Mario World is peak Nintendo. I still come back to it on occasion just to remember what games were like when things didn't seem so corporate.
Robotron 2084 - there is a place by me that still has the arcade cabinet.
Awesome game. One of the first with synthesized speech!
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)
Streets of Rage 1&2
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.
> _
> penis_
Spy Hunter
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Worms Armageddon
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Garrys Mod. You'd actually be impressed how many people still play that game for it approaching its 20 year anniversary.
You can play Garrys Mod? I thought it was mostly just a sandbox for building things or making machinima videos. I have it but have opened it maybe twice...not much time for gaming these days and Black Mesa and Outer Wilds have been consuming all my stolen gaming time.
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.