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

submitted 5 months 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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[–] trashboat@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Intellivision: Minotaur - Treasure of Tarmin in 1982

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Star Flight. Really a must-play, and get the run speed down low so you have some suffering on the long trips. Then you get really excited to find a wormhole.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Atari Real Sports Tennis, no lie it’s great

[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

Not everyone's thing, but there are pre-90s shmups that are ok...

Here are some games I've played

Scramble
Xevious
Stinger
Liquid Kids (excellent)
NewZealand Story (excellent)
Rastan
Omega Fighter
Growl
Darius I / II
Gradius
X-Multiply
Contra
TwinBee

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Metal Gear (1987)

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

First thought was shadowrun on the genesis but the internet says that is 1994 which is really giving me a mandella effect as I really feel it was before that but I mean the genesis came out in 89 and im sure I did not get it till it had a price reduction. So we are talking original master system and nintendo and what limited stuff was on pc including commodores. Maybe wolfenstein and man there was a game based on an manga or anime that was pretty advanced for the time and another were I just remember uncle smoke. gah. reading through I second castelvania. I think shinobi and double dragon (sorta have to play two player to get the full effect)

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Pasted thread into my list of gaming suggestion requests from other communities over at !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip, trying to be the Fediverse version of r/gamingsuggestions. Great question!

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