I noticed that pretty much all games I played in my life have been released after 1990. So now I’m asking those with earlier experience here:
Which games can you recommend from before that time?

But: they should still be fun in their own right and not just interesting to play in an historian sense of trying to understand how genres developed.

Games I played that are older than 1990:

  • Tetris (classic for a reason)
  • Pacman (interesting but simple)
  • Prince of Persia (was too young to understand how to correctly play this game, I should maybe try to play it again)
  • The Legend of Zelda (too old school and clunky for my liking)
  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I was gonna say Monkey Island but that’s actually 1990. SimyCity was 1989, I’m not sure if that’s worth playing these days compared to SimCity 2000 or something. Mario 2 (US) and 3 are probably still good.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 days ago

      The original Sim City is totally still worth playing. I think it relative simplicity compared to the later games is part of its charm (much like Civ 1).