The oldest game you have?
The oldest game you have?
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F93

Original Poster:

575 posts

212 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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What's the oldest computer game you have, and can still play on a computer?

(Sorry if its a repost)

Mine is London Racer from 1999, very primitive graphics, physics thought up from nowhere, and funnily enough, its Dutch.

Still playable though, although I can't finish the story as it can't 'colormap' a car, which is a shame. frown


TimmyWimmyWoo

4,363 posts

210 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Probably Reach for the Skies or B17 Flying Fortress on the PC, circa 1992, 93. I was a pretty geeky 6 year old.

Steve Evil

10,820 posts

258 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Still got my master system and games for that, quick google suggests that Secret Command on that was made in 1986, so that's only 4 years younger than me.

MikeCR

581 posts

254 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Freddie Hardest or transport tycoon - classic!

tim2100

6,288 posts

286 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Transport Tycoon also or Warzone 2100

Dave^

7,893 posts

282 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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SportsCar GT and Grandprix Legends for the PC..... think they were about at the same time (ish)

Oh, and the first Colin McRae Rally.....

GPL works on XP, not sure about the other two....

S3_Graham

12,835 posts

228 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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C&C red alert original. 1995 smile

MikeCR

581 posts

254 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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S3_Graham said:
C&C red alert original. 1995 smile
Can go one better.... C&C original not red alert! old skool

JagLover

46,747 posts

264 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Civilisation 2 smile

(i've been playing it recently)

dwilkie

2,222 posts

215 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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The original XCom from 1993, I was playing it yesterday infact!

Current favourite old game though has to be Crusader: No Remorse (1995)

8Ace

2,836 posts

227 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Zelda, link to the past on SNES emulator. Absolutely epic game.

The_Jackal

4,854 posts

226 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Not the oldest but I stil have the original Flashpoint series of games, which still hold their own even in todays standards

plasticpig

12,932 posts

254 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Not cheating the original Civilization. Cheating slightly because I need to use a emulator this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0FsOxtIwRc which is 1981. I do still have the original disc!

onlynik

4,185 posts

222 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Laser squad on a Comodore Emulator.

Awesome turn based strategy game.

TheLemming

4,319 posts

294 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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Time to google dates...

I submit the original "Crescent Hawk's Inception". Unplayable as the disc drives for the big floppies dont exist (even if the discs were still fine).

Original gameboy Tetris? Got a couple of copies (and a pair of original Gameboys) biggrin

Edited to add, 1988 for the Crescent Hawks and 1989 for Tetris according to Wikipedia

Edited by TheLemming on Wednesday 14th October 17:15

WildCards

4,061 posts

246 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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I've only got old games on the PC, I got fed up years ago with having to upgrade all the time to keep with the current stuff and bought a console.

Anyway, on my shelf I have...

Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Deus Ex
Star Wars Supremacy
Half Life
Carmageddon
Carmageddon 2
Carmageddon TDR 2000
Dune 2000
Motorcross Madness
and a raft of football manager games

Jinx

12,019 posts

289 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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onlynik said:
Laser squad on a Comodore Emulator.

Awesome turn based strategy game.
Better on the Amstrad Emulator - especially the added missions....
(is it overkill to use a 2.33 Ghz Quad Core 4 Gig ram computer to run a game then ran on a 4 mhz Z80 64K one? )

R34

13,986 posts

223 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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JagLover said:
Civilisation 2 smile

(i've been playing it recently)
That is a truly fantastic game - have also been playing it a bit recently.

Johnnytheboy

24,499 posts

215 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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I still play some real antiques, e.g Alpha Centauri, Settlers 2, X-Com Apocalypse regularly, but my oldest is almost certainly the first Doom (albeit a Win95 version).

rsv gone!

11,288 posts

270 months

Wednesday 14th October 2009
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I still have a BBC micro in my parents loft so have Elite and so on