Oldest game you still regularly play?

[Julie_Pilgrim]

I've replayed Super Metroid so many times that it's become permanently ingrained into my subconscious.

oh, you're a super metriod fan? name every pixel

 

[hippy dave]

oh, you're a super metriod fan? name every pixel

Terry is my favourite pixel.

 

[InsaneNutter]

Pokemon - I always seem to be using the past games all the way back to Gen 1 for something. I've used most of past games to help complete my living Pokedex.

 

[mrgone]

tetris on the gb, always in arms reach
every few years i play aliens|tc: a doom 1 mod, which basically makes it into the second alien-movie
and i still have unreal, unreal tournament, quake3 and voyger-eliteforce ready for some quick deathmatch bot fun

 

[chocoboss]

A little of gameplay :

 

[PSXCraver]

1. SNES - Blackthorn
I don't play it every single day. But once a while, I just go back to beat the game over again.

2. PSX - Suikoden 1 and 2
These two are my few all-time favourites to play. I just absolutely love the whole idea and design it has. And, I enjoy playing it.

In truth, there is definitely more. But I will not invest all my evening just to flood the post up badly, LOL

 

[Alexander1970]

Kaboom,Keystone Kapers,River Raid and Star Raiders on me Atari 800 XL.💖😊

 

[KimKong]

I play a ton old old 8bit games..
Sooo many it's hard to remember what actually is the oldest..
But some honorable mentions are:

Tetris
Pac Man
Gauntlet
Battletoads
River City Rampage

 

[djnate27]

Kaboom,Keystone Kapers,River Raid and Star Raiders on me Atari 800 XL.💖😊

Keystone Kapers is among my all-time favorites. Love the 'rush' you get from chasing down criminals. Though, I never understood something. If that theft had the supernatural ability to know exactly where I was at all times when he clearly couldn't physical see me...why did he waste his talents robbing department stores?

 

[appleburger]

Atic Atac for the ZX Spectrum

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This game is so fun! I never played it until Rare Replay on the Xbone, and I couldn't stop, which I really didn't expect with a ZX spectrum game that I never grew up playing.

 

[draftguy]

C64:
Law of the West

H.E.R.O.

 

[SaulFabre]

Arcade - between Pac-Man and Space Invaders
NES - between Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 1
SNES - Super Mario World, F-Zero
N64 - Mario Kart 64

(Part 1/5)

 

[draftguy]

Amiga:
It came from the desert (2)
Moonstone
Turrican 1-3

 

[Jayro]

I still play Jet Pac on a daily basis

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The only way I can play this game conveniently is on my N64 from DK64. All the emulators I try just hang at the "loading" screen forever.

 

[Jayro]

Megaball (Amiga 2600)
Deluxe Galaga (Amiga 2600)
Zany Golf (Amiga 2600)
Team Fortress 2 (PC)
Minecraft (PC/Java)
Link's Awakening DX (Gameboy Color) <-- I've never stopped playing this one since it came out.

 

[AmandaRose]

The only way I can play this game conveniently is on my N64 from DK64. All the emulators I try just hang at the "loading" screen forever.

The problem is most emulators are default set to emulate the ZX Spectrum 128k. Jetpac doesn't work on the Spectrum 128k even on 48k mode that you can select on the 128k. This was due to a hardware bug with the 128k model that wasn't on the 48k model of the spectrum. The bug for some reason only affected about 5 ZX 48k games from booting on the 128k Model.

Pretty much every emu has an option to select which model of spectrum is emulated. Just select the 48k model and the game will boot.

I pretty much play Jet Pac on my 3ds every day using the ZXDS emu but sometimes get my ZX Spectrum 48k outta the cupboard to play it that way.

Model select screen in ZXDS and below pic is game running.

 

[Jayro]

The problem is most emulators are default set to emulate the ZX Spectrum 128k. Jetpac doesn't work on the Spectrum 128k even on 48k mode that you can select on the 128k. This was due to a hardware bug with the 128k model that wasn't on the 48k model of the spectrum. The bug for some reason only affected about 5 ZX 48k games from booting on the 128k Model.

Pretty much every emu has an option to select which model of spectrum is emulated. Just select the 48k model and the game will boot.

I pretty much play Jet Pac on my 3ds every day using the ZXDS emu but sometimes get my ZX Spectrum 48k outta the cupboard to play it that way.

Model select screen in ZXDS and below pic is game running.
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This makes me wanna aet my 3DS charged up, updated, and install that emu.

Another issue I have is which ROM format to use. I see games come in several different extensions. Is any single type preferred for Jetpack?

 

[ChiefReginod]

Oldest that I play more than a handful of times a year:

Fatal Labyrinth (Sega Genesis, 1991) - The first console roguelike. I remember being really disappointed when I bought it back in the day, but it grew on me over the years and is now one of my all-time favorites.

Oldest that I play through once every couple of years:

Super Mario Bros. (NES, 1985) - I did all of the retroachievements on hardcore mode last year. I probably won't be touching it again for a while now. It's a pretty brutal set.

 

[ertaboy356b]

Megaman or specifically, Rockman, the japanese version because I like the start screen.

 

[Jacobh]

If by regularly you mean at least a few times a year, then probably MegaMan 2, RBI Baseball (original NES), and Mike Tyson's Punch out. I think they are all from around 1987, but I don't remember which is oldest. I do play older games than that from time to time, but not regularly.