So escapists, what is the oldest game you own a PHYSICAL copy of ?

[coldfrog]

Does Game & Watch count? If so, I've still got my dual screen Zelda (model ZL-65).

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Oh god, I have that one too! I actually just got a bit nostalgic so I popped up to the ole convenience store, managed to find some batteries (they are weird: the official battery type no longer exists, so I had to search through about a dozen new batteries to find the properly compatible one...) and went to town on some skeletons, pigmen (?) and a dragon, over and over (oh, yeah, sometimes a ghost too). It seems so... inferior, these days, but I still get a bit of nostalgia out of it.

For the record though, the oldest game I own is probably Space Invaders, which, according to Wikipedia, was released in 1980. It was actually my dads, but he gave it to me since I moved out, as it was taking up space in their house. It still works, but now that I have an HD TV, it's a tough sell for me to pull it out.

Not, mind you, because newer graphics are better, but on an HD TV, those older games (NES and others included) often look much poorer.

 

[FISHFINGERS]

Pong, on a Binatone Pong machine.

I've got some floppy disks and a couple of games on cassette tapes for a BBC model B lying around somewhere.

Now I feel Old.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Rollar Coaster Tycoon, way back in 1999. I still have it in my laptop's disc drive.

I also have Halo 1 Game of the Year Edition. That's not old as much as cool.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Eh, does Mario All Stars count? If not, probably TLoZ: ALttP, unless Super Mario World or Donkey Kong Country are older.

 

[infohippie]

I still have my old copy of Starflight for the Amiga, with manual, map, password wheel, everything! Even the box, because I liked the cover art. That was released in 1989.

 

[M4t3us]

Super Space Invaders for the Sega Master System (1991)... It's inside a frame on the wall behind the desk.

And... the 8 floppy disks on which Doom 2 came are still intact! (1994)

 

[D.W.M.A Swag Meister]

more than likely the copy of mario/duck hunt for nes

 

[Nuuu]

Donkey Kong Country for the Gameboy Color/ Pokemon Crystal for the Gameboy Color

I cant remember which came first. Donkey Kong got me stuck for about 7 years because of one level in the mines (with the treadmills). Also, somehow i got my Feraligator over lvl 100 before i even knew what cheats were... also it was the only pokemon i used in the game... i beat it using only one pokemon... (the others were just there to have 6 pokemon on me)

 

[utopaline]

Circus Atari from the 2600. still have the game, can't find the paddles to play it.


uto

 

[AlexKasper]

Probably Final Fantasy VII for the PS1, which I only got recently.

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

Any of a number of Atari games that're floating around in a storage container somewhere in my house; possibly a Commodore 64 game or two, even.

However, barring those, I DO know exactly where to find a bunch of my NES cartridges, still in their boxes with manuals. Mmmm.. nostalgia. And to my left, on the lowest level of my large dresser is a drawer devoted to SNES games, and to the right of that drawer is another drawer with all of my GB/GBA games.

I don't believe in "trading in" old games, nor do I ever sell them or give them away unless it was something I never played or didn't care for (such as old PC games which I can't even play anymore). However, I do still have a number of those old PC games floating around, as well. Did finally throw out all those old coloured floppies with gods-know-what on them. Not that I could even read or use them anymore, and it wasn't like they were actual game floppies, so yeah..

 

[gdog2406]

link to the past for SNES

 

[BangSmashBoom]

Worms world party on the PS1, thanks for reminding be I own it, I think I'll go play it now.

 

[Bealzibob]

Probably this glorious beast. It entertained me for at least a half dozen short 20 minute bursts when I was a kid.

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Though I have zelda links awakening and I had a turok one as well i think. I pretty much managed to follow the whole gameboy timeline starting with the brick all the way up to the DS (though I skipped the advance and went straight to SP).

 

[sextus the crazy]

Zelda II

 

[Vuljatar]

Primal Rage, 1994. Same disc in the same case that my dad bought a few weeks after we bought our first computer in jan/feb '95. AND NOT ONE SCRATCH ON IT!

 

[TheLiham]

The Secret of Monkey Island with all 22 floppy disks.

 

[Rodrigo Girao]

I have a '78 Pong clone, does it count? And I think I must still have some Atari 2600 or Odyssey2 game somewhere.

 

[crazyfoxdemon]

Table top Donkey Kong game... Found it in a garage sale years ago..