So escapists, what is the oldest game you own a PHYSICAL copy of ?
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I still own an original copy of Doom for the PC. Sadly, I no longer have any of my old console games as my parents gave them all away when I moved out and I never got a chance to grab them.
Thought I had;
Doom 1, Castle Wolfenstien Commander Keen etc on floppies
Red Baron [256 colour on floppies]
DOS 6 [on floppies, the rare 6.0 with Double Space]
But just checked, none of them contain any useable data after nearly 30 years.
The first computer program I wrote was recorded onto cassette tape, but they are long gone.
I do still have a RAM expander, a card that fits into a single RAM slot but has space for 4 RAM chips (ie turn 1 slot into 4).
It still has the 4 (at the time) MASSIVE 256Kb RAM chips in it!
Doom 1, Castle Wolfenstien Commander Keen etc on floppies
Red Baron [256 colour on floppies]
DOS 6 [on floppies, the rare 6.0 with Double Space]
But just checked, none of them contain any useable data after nearly 30 years.
The first computer program I wrote was recorded onto cassette tape, but they are long gone.
I do still have a RAM expander, a card that fits into a single RAM slot but has space for 4 RAM chips (ie turn 1 slot into 4).
It still has the 4 (at the time) MASSIVE 256Kb RAM chips in it!
Doom1 on disc, Wolfenstein 3D on disc, and spear of destiny on a floppy (only doom 1 runs on my PC now 
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)Doom1 on disc, Wolfenstein 3D on disc, and spear of destiny on a floppy (only doom 1 runs on my PC now )
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Until recently I had an Intellivision and some games in my parents garage. Now the oldest I have is Super Mario/Duck Hunt on the NES. At least I think it's the oldest. I have a few others, namely Blades of Steel, Tecmo Super Bowl, and Marble Madness.
The oldest game I personally own a copy of is probably TES: Arena. There may be a few that predate it, but probably not by much.
My folks still have many of their Commodore 64 and Apple II games, and chances are if I wanted I could probably still play them. I'm almost certain the Commodore 64 still works (as should the NES attached to it). I don't know if they also have working Apple IIs or any of their pre-286 IBM PCs.
My folks still have many of their Commodore 64 and Apple II games, and chances are if I wanted I could probably still play them. I'm almost certain the Commodore 64 still works (as should the NES attached to it). I don't know if they also have working Apple IIs or any of their pre-286 IBM PCs.
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone for PC or the massive collection of Humongous Entertainment point and click games I have. Pajama Sam was the shit back in the day.
I have a 2600 from my parents, and out of those games, I have no clue which one is the oldest.
I even own...THAT game for the 2600. You know, the travesty.
I even own...THAT game for the 2600. You know, the travesty.
I have these old marbles my grandpa gave me, played by generations of my family since the battles of the Civil War and.....
oh wait you meant video game.
Zelda OoT for N64. Any game I played before then was when I didn't know any better and let my mother sell my copies of Sonic 2 and Super Mario World, along with the systems required to play them.
oh wait you meant video game.
Zelda OoT for N64. Any game I played before then was when I didn't know any better and let my mother sell my copies of Sonic 2 and Super Mario World, along with the systems required to play them.
Our family got rid of our Atari 2600 about 5 years ago. I still have the floppy for Jill of the Jungle from 1992. And just did a wiki, it was made by a little company called Epic. Who now make the Gears of War franchise
