I've played some fairly older games like the OG Donkey Kong (1981) and Tetris (late 80s), but Space Invaders might be the earliest I've played. Granted, this was the SNES re-release from '94 but from what I remember, it's basically the same old school arcade game from 1978. As far as older titles or older systems, I've never played anything before that. I'm sure Pong is probably downloadable, but haven't tried it yet. I suppose truly 'old' games are just not my thing, but most games starting from late 80s to early 90s is when it gets kino.
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I played Pong /thread
Had an Odyssey 2 when I was a kid, the system came out in 1978, but I was 5 or 6 when I played it, which was 1984 or 85. I don't remember Speedway or Spin-Out, but I loved Crypto-Logic. Mom or Dad would put in a word, the game would scramble the letters, and I would use the keyboard to type in the unscrambled word. I played it so much that I started just blindly mashing random letters, scramble that, and then try to figure out what the solution was. I also had Pick-Axe Pete, for the same system, which I only somewhat remember, but I know I played the hell out of it as well.
ody has some fun titles
check out UFO
more fun with 2P but even alone its a good time waster
Galaxian on a famiclone.
I played a PC port (possibly it was a hack, since it let me select levels I completed?) of Pitfall for the SNES. But this SNES game has a bonus minigame that lets you play the one for atari.
played the og computer space at funspot
It's more fun if you don't count emulation and judge ports and remakes by their release year.
For me it's SMB for NES.
Hard to say. When I was extremely young, we had some games on a classroom computer. It was black and white, and you had to use command line to get there. It might have been an old Apple, but I don't know. I would guess the games could have been from the 1970s, but I have no way of knowing. Other than that, I've played multiple versions of Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, and plenty of other normal older arcade games. And have played a bunch of Atari 2600. So, at minimum games from the 1970s.
Idk, one of those table top arcade games i guess. Otherwise i think 2600 is the oldest stuff im familiar with.
Original Pong arcade
I've got an Odyssey 300 from '76
Probably Super Mario Bros.
I playes Space Invaders too but it was the PC Engine version with the cool remake stuff
Frick Pong
I've played a recreation of Spacewar! and now you can too. "Original 1962 game code running on a PDP-1 emulator in JavaScript"
https://spacewar.oversigma.com/
This one is neat too
https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/
1962 btw
Pretty sure this is the oldest game for entertainment anyone could have played, regardless of age.
I can't say for sure I've played anything on original hardware older than the GB. I'm pretty sure I still have the Star Trek 25th Anniversary GB game somewhere and that's still only '91, I can remember older teens still with the NES plugged into their TVs in the early 90s but not anything specific I ever played. Even as a kid I can remember pong and pacman boring me fricking senseless and my dad would already have been in his 30s by the time the first-gen consoles came out so he didn't give a shit. I did show him Pokemon once but he wasn't interested, I think he did like BF2 a decade later though... mind you he claims complete ignorance of "annie-may" yet consistently seems to know what hentai is so I'm pretty sure he's yanking my chain tbh
>I'm sure Pong is probably downloadable
it has been emulated for decades
>Pretty sure this is the oldest game for entertainment anyone could have played,
very few people ever played back then as it ran only on enormous and expensive computers using vector displays
Tony Hawk isn't the oldest game I've played but it's probably the oldest I mostly enjoyed. This is basically the corpus of retro games before then:
>weebshit platformers
>overanimated western platformers that are clunky
>point and clicks
>JRPGs that are just text
>cryptic maze levels that frick with you
>arcade games that suck your quarters
>LJN crap
Tony Hawk is just an honest game. You go into the level and have fun. It's programmed well too
>open admission of normie status
Oldest I have played has to be an original Atari Pong arcade cabinet from the mid 1970s, the gameplay is fantastic, far more engaging than many newer games with better graphics!
>I'm sure Pong is probably downloadable, but haven't tried it yet. I suppose truly 'old' games are just not my thing
Pong Arcade doesn't have a rom because it doesn't have a CPU+ROM setup. The machine is actually just a bunch of transistors chained together. But "Pong [TTL]" (transistor-to-transistor logic) does exist, so get that.
First gen (magnavox odyssey) and second gen (Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Intellivision, ColecoVision) games are definitely not for everyone. You need the help of nostalgia to actually enjoy them because of their lack of complexity.
They are however good for game programming exercises.
That's the only good reason I can think of, on why you would actually play them.
I'm going to be slightly different, and admit that I haven't played Pong before.
The oldest game I've played is Hunt the Wumpus. I've also played Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Centipede, Missile Command, and some others around that same generation. I just never had an interest in playing Pong, although I'd probably give it a try if I was bored and it was available.
Tennis for Two
probably games from Atari Anthology. Also Pac-Man and Pong ports
magnavox odyssey, all retail carts sans expansion
i got a CiB unit in working condition pre-covidbubble prices
you dont have to believe me but ralph B was a genius & the system is great
assuming you can find another earth human who will feign interest long enough to play with you
Ms PacMan at the arcades at early - mid '80s
OP's Mom
I haven't gone back and played anything older than myself but there isn't that much to reach back to, really. The oldest games I played in my youth were stuff like Dogfight for the apple IIe and some game I can't remember the name of that had an increasingly narrow road the longer you raced and you just had to keep moving left and right and stay within the track. They were really, really simplistic games. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the Atari is the first game I ever played.
I played Bally astrocade but only on main I didn't buy anything you know.
But I owned Mario Brothers for Atari 2600.
I think it said 1982 or 84.
Put Bally astrocate on mame was a trip.
Played Odyssey was just kind of like a bally astrocade.
Good stuff.
Spacewar clone like the other anon said. Colossal Cave / Adventure is quite old too and i played plenty of that.
This thread is kinda suprising frankly
Grandma had an Atari 2600 in her basement in Topeka KS we would play as young kids when visiting cross country in the early 90s. A decent handful of games, but Combat and Circus with the paddle controller got most of the playtime.
Must be Super Mario 64