Games that have aged incredibly well.

[Shilkanni]

Tetris (1984)
Super Mario Bros (1985)
Wasteland (1988)
Super Bomber Man (1993)
Wario's Woods (1994)
Metal Warriors (1995)
Master of Orion II (1996)
Total Annihilation (1997)
Quake 3 (1999)
Rise of Nations (2003)
Ground Control 2 (2004)

I feel like a lot of these games had slick controls or a good interface and it makes them a joy to play, I have played them all in the last couple years and found them to be great fun.

 

[m@]

*looks at avatar*

Total Annihilation! the first real 3D RTS still looks and plays amazingly well (much better than Starcraft 1 imo) and its a lot better than Supreme commander as well xD lol

apart from that

ThemePark Hospital
Warhammer's Dark Omen
Pokemon
Zelda(s)
Mario(s)
Final Fantasy VIII

 

[rcubed]

To this day I can spend hours playing Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie.

Also the Ratchet and Clank series, something about the humor in that game just never gets old.

Oh and all 3 versions of Super Smash Bros are still amazing.

 

[Yellowbeard]

Unreal (1)

Warcraft II (still more fun than III)

Freespace 2 (already been said)

Oh, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary

 

[pejhmon]

Unreal Tournament I'd say is just as fun if not more fun than most shooters today. Hearing "ULTRA KILL MONSTER KILL GODLIKE UNSTOPPABLE" etc, is awesome.

Or you just start playing a game of CS:S, all the servers have those sounds added in

OT: Backgammon, as in on the board itself. That's hundreds of years old and still fun ...

 

[Vrach]

And I have a feeling KotOR would still be fun to play nowadays. But I can't do it again now I know the spoiler.

Can't agree on that, inability to look up/down and the absolutely awful combat/inventory/skills system aged it pretty badly. Tried playing through it again recently but found myself unable to. Granted, a part of that is still remembering the story somewhat, but still, the gameplay itself is pretty bad by today's standards.

Old Splinter Cell games have aged pretty well, Chaos Theory in particular. I played through it last year, prefer it to Conviction 100 times over. C&C Generals/Zero Hour is still fun to hit up with some mates. Worms: Armageddon I would say is the absolute king of games that aged well (and totally owns Worms: Reloaded crap). GTA Vice City/San Andreas are also still fantastic after all these years.

Probably more, but those are just off the top of my head.

 

[thecoreyhlltt]

the original triliogy from the Jak & Daxter series is still super playable. also Fight Night Rounds 2-3.
oh! Wild 9 is good still, and Bloodrayne, and good lord... there are so many "oldies but goodies".
i can think of at least 5 for each console pre-dating the 360

 

[Someone Depressing]

Tetris. Pac-Man. Sonic 2. Super Mario Bros.
Stuff like that.

 

[Adam28]

Pretty much every classic big hit e.g. Super Mario Bros, Pac-Man, Tetris etc.

As for myself;

- Dungeon Keeper (Graphics haven't aged very well but it is still great fun)
- Abe's Odyssey (Great 2D gameplay and the opening cutscene never gets old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_R6hzBxzAs)
- KOTOR (Graphics are still nice and it doesn't matter how many times I play through it, it is still enjoyable)

 

[Chibz]

I'd say any game from the 8-bit or 16-bit eras that is genuinely competently made.

 

[Danpascooch]

I noticed the newest "Games that have aged poorly" thread and decided to make a counter thread. What is a game that has aged astoundingly well?

Paper Mario and the thousand year door, it's about 7 years old now, and there isn't a single thing I would change even with all of the new technology available.

 

[zhoominator]

As a guy who loves adventure games I'd say most of the good 90's adventure games still hold up pretty well (if you can bloody well play them...).

Never seems much love for those games on here, I don't understand why. Shooty games get very boring for me very fast. That isn't to say I hate them, I just can't play them as much as other people. I certainly wouldn't be arsed online with these things.

Edit: I forgot to mention Zelda: Link to the Past and Wind Waker. The latter as far as I'm concerned is still a beautiful looking game and both play very well.

 

[BeeRye]

People might disagree but I'm going to say Total Annihilation. It's a game that I still have to have install immediately any time I get a new PC. Even Supcom failed to live up to that game, no RTS has ever come close to sucking me in the way that game did. Just listening the epic soundtrack while your gunships tear into enemy Pewees or the way your Big Berthas rumble and shake the screen fills me with glee. It obviously doesn't look great - the top-down camera saves the visual aspect of the game somewhat as there are no clunky 3d models flying around - but the gameplay is still as refreshing to me today as it was then.

 

[oberkid4]

half life i just played that game a last week and it was amazing and i didn't mind that the graphics where awful.

 

[mizutanitony]

I still play all my old SNES RPGS...YOU SPOONY BARD!

 

[Mister Benoit]

Shadow of the Colossus

Meh, that game was too ahead of its time. Everything feels sluggish, camera is awful and the framerate drops way down when the game gets busy.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island still looks fantastic on my large tele.

 

[Woodsey]

Visually, I think Mafia has aged pretty well, and the gameplay's pretty timeless.

 

[TheFPSisDead]

Diablo II, ftw

 

[Count Igor]

Minesweeper!
Totally.
It's aged great!

 

[Scarim Coral]

Does KOTOR count? I only saying that since my bro (who is graphic over gameplay) got put off for its graphic.

Also avoiding what others had said already I would say Golden Sun 1 & 2, Advance Wars, R-Type and Metroid Prime.