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)
  • missingno@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    I’ll be that guy. I do think the Tetris: The Grand Master series built on it in really good ways (shame this style was then discarded in favor of Guideline, but that’s a rant for another day), but classic Tetris kind of just falls apart as soon as you start to get good at it.

    It’s a product of its time, but I honestly feel there’s an entire genre worth of better puzzle games that came after it, and I have a small chip on my shoulder at the fact that Tetris is the only one that gets any recognition while every other IP lies dead and buried.