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Great games you would recommend from before 1990? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Wrufieotnak@feddit.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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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)

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Dragon Quest 3 (and the two previous games) are great on NES. DQ2 is one of the hardest RPGs, though, as the developers admitted they never play tested the final dungeon. First turn AOE insta deaths, mini bosses that respawn, etc. there's a reason they're remaking them, though.

Those were inspired by Ultima and Wizardry, though, if you want even older RPGs. Actually, most SSI AD&D games were fantastic, too, and you can access them legally via steam now if you don't want to futz with DOS, although my favorite Eye of the Beholder games are slightly newer at 1991.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Those were under 1st edition Advanced D&D rulesets as I recall. If you started playing after 1990 you are in for a bunch of surprises.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I vaguely remember elf and dwarf were, uh, classes in some games. But the AD&D one I remember had them as races, but you had interesting classes like.. Magic-User. I vaguely remember having 8 hp on one? Oof.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Yes early AD&D was a lot less forgiving in some ways.