Old Video Games You Still Play on a Regular Basis

By "old", I mean at least 4 years old. There are just some classics that will NEVER die. My personal guilty pleasures, which I still happily play after a long, hard day at work, are:

1) Age of Empires
2) Age of Kings
3) Homeworld
4) Civilization II (Yes, I said II!)
5) Deus Ex
6) Tomb Raider III

If I were stranded on a deserted island, I would want a Pentium III and these games, and I would be happy until I were old, leathery, and white-bearded.

with nary a video game. No desert island. P-III. :D

and get after them, man!! :)

and Age of Empires sometimes.

the Zelda games. Ocarina of Time's my favorite.

My personal favorite. :)

:)

where beasts look like # and treasures are $

There were versions of this made for "online" play, which meant as a game you could play on a BBS. It took different forms eventually. I can't remember all the names of the games, but I think at one time, I had every one I could find. (I ran a BBS during one of my former lives.)

Mario Brothers is just a perfectly designed video game and all those memories of elementary school come flooding back. You only had 3 men and no saved games, I still can beat it just about every time. I kind of feel sorry for kids these days because they will never truly "get" the greatness that was NES

I got a tabletop arcade game for the GF last Christmas. Left the quarter thingy on, we used the money last month to go to the water park!! :bounce:

b/t

My mother says she still has the old Pong machine she got me for Christmas about a billion years ago. I need to find it, I think, but I'm not sure I can hook it up to a television any longer. Suck won't connect to a cable ready TV. :-)

Age of Empires
Homeworld (and HW: Cataclysm)
Diablo II
Escape Velocity Nova
Spaceward Ho

Some of them in Japanese.
In ROM form.
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Give me my geek hat now.

this is between my SO and I because we hand the controller back and forth all the time..

All Zelda's NES, SNES, Gameboy, N64
All Mario's NES, SNES, Gameboy, N64
Most Kirby's from the same systems
Most Bomberman's
Metroid
Super Metroid
Tetris
NES/SNES Final Fantasy's
Chrono Trigger
Star Ocean
Doom
Populous 2
Mario Paint
Star Fox N64

Among others. But these are the major ones. :hi:

Emulators are the shit.

First and foremost, any of the older Legend of Zelda games. That includes:
The Legend of Zelda (NES) {July 1987}
The Legend of Zelda: Adventure of Link (NES){December 1988}
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES){April 1992}
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64){November 1998}
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64){October 2000}

I will play these games until I die. They'll have to pry the controller from my cold, arthrosed hands.

Side note: it should be no surprise that I'm at this very moment wearing a t-shirt that says "Nintendo Rehabilitation Clinic: The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Problem."

And a related question: is anyone as excited as I am about Nintendo's next console being completely backwards compatible? Being able to download classic Nintendo games all the way back to the NES is going to ROCK!

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I've played I & II all the way through, including all the "extra" levels.

On the third, I've got all the way to the final battle, but I just can't beat that spider guy. :mad:

Currently, I'm playing "Last Revelation" (IV), and I'm about 1/2 way through.

I have V & VI, but I have yet to play them. :blush:

The origial note II.

Had to install a DOS emulation application on my computer to keep playing. ;)

Still have my original install disks. It's the only reason I have a floppy drive in my system.

It's the only game I have for it.

It was a text game written in fortran 77, from the 70's, and it was a
little "Command Interpreter" that too commands like "S"/"South" or
"N"/"North"... It seems its been lost with FORTRAN...sad.. kinda a
museum relic of early gaming... if i had it, i'd still play it. :-)

All arcade versions via the MAME emulator.

Hey, you said "old".

Solitaire, Canasta, Bridge for the computer.
(The solitaire would have to be one of those with about 100 different kinds)
MahJong

Civ 2, Civ 3, Age of Kings, Crimson Skies, Risk (not Risk 2, Risk--the one with the North America only and Europe only maps.)

And, worst of all, Freecell.

I started playing Load Runner on an Apple IIe, found a port of it to an x86 processor type, and still load up this game and play it. I put a copy of it on a CD a while back, it's one of the games I load into a system whenever I build a new one or reinstall Windoze. Takes up almost no memory and is incredibly fun. And I do still play it regularly. I'm thinking it was published about 1984.

Four years ain't old. :-) I got old, for ya.

I still have all my original discs for these as well, and I play them semi-regularly, as regularly as I play any game anyway.

Baldur's Gate I & II. HUGE fan.

About 2 dozen Infocomm games, text adventures where you actually have to type in commands using words. Bureacracy, Zork, and Lurking Horror are my favorites. I will play them occasionally.

I still play the original Might and Magic in all its 4 color glory when I get a notion.

And I have a series of Civil War games from the late 90's, each individual game based on a certain battlefield or campaign, that I do play when I get a free weekend and feel like it. Good strategy game.

I could go on, but I'll leave it there.