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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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[โ€“] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Something dragon! Red dragon?

I totally remember those lol thanks for the throwback memory!

Yes I cannot remember all the specifics either, but there was finite resources, and you could only accomplish so much per day and it gave you incentive to keep coming back

Found it! Legend of the Red dragon

[โ€“] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Legend of Red Dragon aka LORD