Kirby's Dream Land 2 is the oldest one I remember at the moment. From 1995. I was four years old.
What is the oldest game in your collection?
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Game Boy: Tetris. What else?
PSone: Crash Bandicoot Warped. Still better platform game than several out there today.
PS2: Soul Reaver 2. Top notch storytelling in a gothic setting. Where's the next one, Eidos?
Game Boy Color: Super Mario Bros Deluxe. A complete package which even features the lost levels (a ***** to beat but I did it)
PSone: Crash Bandicoot Warped. Still better platform game than several out there today.
PS2: Soul Reaver 2. Top notch storytelling in a gothic setting. Where's the next one, Eidos?
Game Boy Color: Super Mario Bros Deluxe. A complete package which even features the lost levels (a ***** to beat but I did it)
Warcraft II. I was two when it came out. Still runs on Vista, amazingly. Sadly, it's not nearly as amazing as I thought it was when I was ten.
The disc went missing for about five years, too--when I was eleven or so, I hid it from my mother to prevent her from using it as a bargaining chip to get me to do my chores. I tucked in between the pages of a book, then promptly forgot about it. It remained there throughout my early teens, until I found it again two years ago.
That and Age of Empires II were the first games I ever owned.
The disc went missing for about five years, too--when I was eleven or so, I hid it from my mother to prevent her from using it as a bargaining chip to get me to do my chores. I tucked in between the pages of a book, then promptly forgot about it. It remained there throughout my early teens, until I found it again two years ago.
That and Age of Empires II were the first games I ever owned.
Oldest games on CD's I have are Planescape: Torment on the PC and Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation. If you count non-physical digital distribution games that I purchased to replace old CD's, then it's probably a tie between Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and Myst since both came out in '93.
Super Mario Bros for the NES. Fully boxed and working. Cracked it out the other day for a mass gaming session. Still as beautiful as ever!
Thing is, it came out 5 years before I was born!
Thing is, it came out 5 years before I was born!
Silent Hill for the original playstation. The second oldest would be Parasite Eve for the playstation, then Parasite Eve II, than System Shock II.
Well since like everything i own is a hand me down the oldest game in my (or better my brothers) collection is sonic for the genesis (which i still love playing)
1) Props for Crash Bandicoot: Still a fantastic game, along with Spyrokatsabas said:
2) Did you miss Legacy of Kain: Defiance?
As for my oldest game...well, this isn't THAT old, but I have Earthworm Jim from 1995, still on disc.
The oldest game STILL in my collection (as in not throw away/given away/sold) is X-com UFO Defense.
Best game ever, also an excellent example of how graphics don't matter, because the game is timeless. All of the subsequent releases have had graphical improvements, which have only caused the game to suffer for it.
Best game ever, also an excellent example of how graphics don't matter, because the game is timeless. All of the subsequent releases have had graphical improvements, which have only caused the game to suffer for it.
Ok, so I just read through the first page of this thread and now I feel really old. Is this how it happens Escapist? I lose interest in the forums for a while and suddenly I'm old? I'm not even old ffs, this is a wind up.
But people posting Xbox and PS2 games... remember when the Xbox first came out? The PS2 has already been out for a while and already killed off the Dreamcast with a shovel and Microsoft decided they'd step up to the plate. I seem to remember noone I knew bother to buy one, they were more expensive and obviously untested. Noone really gave a crap about any of the release titles until my friend told me about this game called Halo and a whole new breed of fanboy was born.
But I digress, I still have a bunch of old DOS games sitting around somewhere. Some that even refused to work on Windows 95 unless you restarted in MS-DOS or whatever. Such classics as "The Need for Speed", Championship Manager and umm... some archaic sports games. My mother didn't buy my violent video games obviously. The first one I got was the first Tomb Raider. I remember when my friend got hold of GTA. We felt so hardcore, we stayed up late playing it. We never really had any goal with that game, just tried to make awesome police chases and stuff. Ahh, memories.
But people posting Xbox and PS2 games... remember when the Xbox first came out? The PS2 has already been out for a while and already killed off the Dreamcast with a shovel and Microsoft decided they'd step up to the plate. I seem to remember noone I knew bother to buy one, they were more expensive and obviously untested. Noone really gave a crap about any of the release titles until my friend told me about this game called Halo and a whole new breed of fanboy was born.
But I digress, I still have a bunch of old DOS games sitting around somewhere. Some that even refused to work on Windows 95 unless you restarted in MS-DOS or whatever. Such classics as "The Need for Speed", Championship Manager and umm... some archaic sports games. My mother didn't buy my violent video games obviously. The first one I got was the first Tomb Raider. I remember when my friend got hold of GTA. We felt so hardcore, we stayed up late playing it. We never really had any goal with that game, just tried to make awesome police chases and stuff. Ahh, memories.