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)
Zork (1980), and Nethack (1987) are fun adventures.
Any Infocom game, for that matter. Zork II and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy were fun, too.
I’d also suggest the granddaddy of interactive fiction games: Adventure / Advent / Colossal Cave. I actually still have the map I made around here somewhere.
That brings memories. I also had fun with old school muds
ive been playing a port of the original rogue (which nethack is based on) and its pretty fun too