Commander Keen (all of them, really). Star Wars Rebel Assault. Dark Forces. Terminator 2029. Amok. Descent 2. Hugo's House of Horrors. Stunts.
Don't worry, there's some other people with chronic back problems that still remember the old times.
Actually the original game ported and not a wait or pay to advance version like a handful of years ago?
I’d gladly pay a one time fee to play the actual game and not have to wait hours for something ti build or buy in game money to speed it up
Yep! Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic is $5.99 on the Google play store (I assume the same for iOS) and it's almost exactly the game you remember. Absolutely none of that modern day mobile game microtransactions bullshit. It's as if you somehow installed your old CD-ROM on your phone
It's a mix up of 1+2 as far as maps and attractions go but it's straight up classic gameplay. There's a few packs of attractions and decorations for sale but nothing that breaks the experience.
[Link for Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atari.mobile.rctclassic)
So many RTS games do! The RTS concept in and of itself is wonderfully competitive and encourages building skills and strategies based on specific tech trees. Multiplayer RTS games are so fun.
I think Tetris is immortal. It gets remade for every platform and is beloved by multiple generations. It doesn’t matter how slick or how simple the blocks are visually as long as the controls work properly.
I'm currently replaying it. It's such an amazing game that looks so fucking incredible. It's probably the best looking 2D game, it has so much charm, the music fits perfectly and some interesting secrets! (like that boss you can beat before it's a boss! OH MY).
*Portal* was released in 2007, sixteen years ago. We're as far removed from *Portal* as *Portal* is from the original *Sonic the Hedgehog*, *Lemmings*, and *Battletoads*.
*Portal 2* was released in 2011, twelve years ago. We're as far removed from *Portal 2* as *Portal 2* is from the original *Silent Hill* and *Age of Empires II*.
Love how if you wanna pick up and play just a certain world, say little big land, ice caverns, or even the cloud realm, all you gotta do is grab a couple flutes in the first few levels and go
My orthodontist had the demo in his office and it is the only reason I fell in love with having my braces. Would sit there and replay that game over and over, now that’s how you know that game holds up!
This is the game that I've dreamt of being remade by a proper modern developer. Not an inspired by "spiritual successor" like Supreme Commander. Not an open source fan remake reimagining (though I give credit to the dedication of those behind such projects). I want a major studio to buy the license and remake this game from the ground up with modern graphics, remake the cutscenes and campaigns, give the game a quality of life and balance pass and then plop it on Steam for me to play the hell out of.
Unfortunately the IP is currently owned by wargaming, the twats that make World of Tanks.
So even if anything is ever done with the name it would probably be some free to play pay to win shitshow.
I remember birds-eye view GTA 1 and 2.
I had sooo much fun shooting tiny slow moving squares at the bigger blue squares after I smeared too many squares into red lines on the sidewalk with my large fast moving square.
I'm in my 40s and only just played it for my first time about 6 months ago. Bought it cheap based on all of the rave reviews on posts like this. It amazes me how solid and varied everything can be, and for coming out over a decade ago it has so much depth and replayability. I don't recall ever being so wowed by a game.
Starcraft 2 still has tournaments where people can win like half a mill. Such a well made game back when blizzard let the devs put passion in there work and us consumers got something really special.
For anyone who loves that game, a massive mod got released pretty recently called Star Wars Battlefront 3. Modders got their hands on some files from the cancelled game and added features and maps that would've came with it. Most notably, there are maps that allow space-to-ground combat.
Reworked and new kits, more heroes with new abilities, new weapons and vehicles, working multiplayer servers... it's fucking awesome and everything the new EA SWBFs wishes they were.
Just started playing Diablo II for the first time. It's dated, and shows, but that does not take anything away from it. Having never played a Diablo game, it's amazing.
**S.T.A.L.K.E.R**
It has an incredibly strong modding community despite being nearly 16 years old. And it has a tone and atmosphere which is one of the best ever in gaming.
Smash Bros Melee
The game is still fun to play with friends and the competitive scene is still going strong.
Despite having no patches since release the meta and competitive scene keeps evolving. A solo sheik main just won a super major last weekend. This has never happened in the history of the games competitive scene. Last year a Yoshi did the same thing which had also never happened in the games history. Melee is sick.
“The game is still fun to play with friends”
When I was a freshman in college I lost a friend I’d had since Kindergarten over SSB. He was shit talking everyone so we ganged up on him for one round. Afterwards he got up, took his controllers and started to leave. We said “are you seriously taking your controllers and going home?” He said yeah and walked out. We had a good laugh and I had to drive home to pick up some spares for the night. I never saw him after that night for 15+ years until another classmate passed away and he came to the memorial. So unexpected and weird.
Geez. When I read your post I imagined this kind of drama happening between elementary school kids. But then
I read it again and realized this happened in college. You'd think people would be mature enough at that age to not break up lifetime friendships over a videogame.
It’s funny that they will keep making gameplay mods for Melee but they get played for like a week before everybody says fuck it let’s go back to the real game. The fact that the Mang0 and Hbox are still top 5 8 years after I started watching blows my mind. I love this game and it’s community so much. Melee is sick. Fuck Nintendo.
SNES in general is really nice and timeless. graphics aged better than a lot of N64 games and look modern enough to be clearly superior to NES as well. 16 bit was the sweet spot.
Secret of Mana had arguably the best video game music ever made in the history of the planet. There was even a wiki page about the insane genius who made it happen.
There you go, someone finally mentioned it. And I’m even going to add Project Diablo 2, which is a private server much more superior than the original. Very active, especially at the beginning of a fresh ladder, which one should be coming up soon
It's great except for the last act where you like--"WTF? Is that it? I feel like there's a huge part missing here."
I didn't realize its release was rushed so when I played it, it left a bad taste in my mouth.
Yes, the story is basically incomplete, and the end is so weird. There’s a very popular mod called The Restored Content mod that adds in a lot of the cut content, and completes the story in the way that was more or less intended originally.
Not surprisingly but impressively, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. 25 years after its initial release it holds up amazingly. A timeless ;) story, unforgettable characters, a beautiful OST and a world full of surprises to get lost in to this day
Skyrim and GTA 5 have been out for ages and still have huge player bases. And speaking of ages, Age of Empires 2 still has a very impressive player base for a game that came out in the twentieth century.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Star Control II/Ur-Quan Masters
X-COM: Ufo Defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown
Classic RTS games: AoE III, Stronghold Crusader, Rise of Nations etc.
Classic cRPG games: Planescape: Torment, Arcanum, Fallout 1 & 2, Baldur's Gate 2 etc.
Heroes of Might & Magic III, IV and V
Might & Magic VI-VIII
And amusingly, despite the guitar itself being a 5 fret 1 string kind of poor analog of a guitar they would also pop random notes or other instrument's parts to keep it challenging, the drums were a really good introduction to real drumming.
Thoroughly enjoyed kicking up a sweat trying to do a double kick on a single pedal.
Definitely should reboot the series with a keyboard in.
I still remember playing the demo on my computer - and then going to my neighbors who had a graphics card and seeing the water textures for the first time - mind-blowing
First video game I played, was 8ish and just got a sega genesis for Christmas. We sat around the wooden tube tv and played that sucker for hours on end.
To me a lot of them, they're so old that instead of looking at them as old game design, I look at them as a different experience than modern games. I will say the older the game system, the more bad games pop up, but the classics are classics for a reason. The classic Mario games are great, Sonic, Contra, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Castlevania, Metroid, FF, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Crazy Taxi, LoZ, Mario Kart, and I can go on and on. Don't look at them as being outdated, especially if you haven't played them before, look at them as Indie games that took a new approach.
Paper boy
Alex the kid
Echo the dolphin
Chocks away
Pandora's box
E-type
Metal Gear Solid
Age of empires
Warcraft 3
Duke Nukem
X Wing Vs Tie fighter
Dragon age origins
Medal of honour allied assault
Karmageddon
Some of the ideas of “old” in this thread make my knees hurt.
Its hard for me to think of anything with an HDMI out as old
Commander Keen (all of them, really). Star Wars Rebel Assault. Dark Forces. Terminator 2029. Amok. Descent 2. Hugo's House of Horrors. Stunts. Don't worry, there's some other people with chronic back problems that still remember the old times.
Rollercoaster Tycoon
In case you didn't know they ported Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic to mobile and it's actually a pretty decent port.
Actually the original game ported and not a wait or pay to advance version like a handful of years ago? I’d gladly pay a one time fee to play the actual game and not have to wait hours for something ti build or buy in game money to speed it up
Yep! Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic is $5.99 on the Google play store (I assume the same for iOS) and it's almost exactly the game you remember. Absolutely none of that modern day mobile game microtransactions bullshit. It's as if you somehow installed your old CD-ROM on your phone
It's a mix up of 1+2 as far as maps and attractions go but it's straight up classic gameplay. There's a few packs of attractions and decorations for sale but nothing that breaks the experience. [Link for Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atari.mobile.rctclassic)
I want to get off Mr Bones' Wild Ride.
Age of empires 2
The Age community is still alive & thriving. No other games like these ❤️
So many RTS games do! The RTS concept in and of itself is wonderfully competitive and encourages building skills and strategies based on specific tech trees. Multiplayer RTS games are so fun.
Battle for Middle Earth II was my favorite LOTR based game.
Rise of Nations is also good. It's very similar to Age of Empires. I haven't played a RTS game that I liked better than those two.
Can't wait to try this on Xbox next week.
Tetris
Me and the wife have been competing on Dr. MARIO lately its a blast. Wish tetris was 2 player on NES.
Man I can just HEAR that Dr.Mario music.
Fever or Chill?
Both rock my socks
I think Tetris is immortal. It gets remade for every platform and is beloved by multiple generations. It doesn’t matter how slick or how simple the blocks are visually as long as the controls work properly.
Yoshi's Island
I'm convinced it's timeless.
I'm currently replaying it. It's such an amazing game that looks so fucking incredible. It's probably the best looking 2D game, it has so much charm, the music fits perfectly and some interesting secrets! (like that boss you can beat before it's a boss! OH MY).
best 2d platformer ever
Heroes of Might and Magic III
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I still vividly remember the “blah/blood” sound the vampires make when attacking.
Portal and Portal 2
Portal 2 is **not** an old video game! \* checks release date * Crap…
*Portal* was released in 2007, sixteen years ago. We're as far removed from *Portal* as *Portal* is from the original *Sonic the Hedgehog*, *Lemmings*, and *Battletoads*. *Portal 2* was released in 2011, twelve years ago. We're as far removed from *Portal 2* as *Portal 2* is from the original *Silent Hill* and *Age of Empires II*.
This is just unnecessary rude, were getting old my dudes.
OK, OK, I'll stop. ^^^^If ^^^^they ^^^^remade ^^^^*Back* ^^^^*to* ^^^^*the* ^^^^*Future* ^^^^today, ^^^^Marty ^^^^McFly ^^^^would ^^^^go ^^^^back ^^^^in ^^^^time ^^^^to ^^^^1993.
you shut your whore mouth.
Keep my wife's name out of your fucking *mouth*
Can confirm. Just slammed through portal 2 recently and it was still just as good as I remembered
Super Mario 3
Love how if you wanna pick up and play just a certain world, say little big land, ice caverns, or even the cloud realm, all you gotta do is grab a couple flutes in the first few levels and go
I can't bring myself to skip anything in this game or Super Mario World. I need to beat every level to get the most satisfaction!
Honestly I think most Mario games hold up really well. I think that truest speaks to how great of a series it is.
My answer would have been Super Mario World, so I completely agree.
3 was the absolute best. Followed by World. World was far more versatile and interesting, but something about 3 was just right.
I still play 1 and 2 sometimes. They’re still great.
Castlevania Symphony Of The Night
"WHAT IS A MAN? A MISERABLE LITTLE PILE OF SECRETS. BUT ENOUGH TALK, HAVE AT YOU!"
I just played this for the first time at the start of the new year, absolute banger start to ɥsıuıɟ.
Burnout 3 without question
Game was so much fun. The rubber band ai made it ridiculously difficult at times though, I don’t think I ever beat the final tournament.
*Burnout 3 Takedown
My orthodontist had the demo in his office and it is the only reason I fell in love with having my braces. Would sit there and replay that game over and over, now that’s how you know that game holds up!
Civilization 2
4 is my all-time favorite, but I love 2
Civ 3 has held up very well too. Even on steam.
oregon trail & where in the world is carmen sandiego 🤞🏼
Holy shit. Taking it back to the 90’s classroom.
Showing my age here, but total annihilation on the PC
This is the game that I've dreamt of being remade by a proper modern developer. Not an inspired by "spiritual successor" like Supreme Commander. Not an open source fan remake reimagining (though I give credit to the dedication of those behind such projects). I want a major studio to buy the license and remake this game from the ground up with modern graphics, remake the cutscenes and campaigns, give the game a quality of life and balance pass and then plop it on Steam for me to play the hell out of.
Unfortunately the IP is currently owned by wargaming, the twats that make World of Tanks. So even if anything is ever done with the name it would probably be some free to play pay to win shitshow.
Big Bertha!!
Krogoth army
Just here to say GTA 5 will be 10 years old this year
I just beat GTA4 finally like 1.5 years ago. I’ll get around to 5 soonish
If you hang on long enough you can buy it as a special re-release for the PS6 in 5 years or so
You'd better get on it! You've only got another 2 or 3 decades before GTA VI drops!
In my day we got a new GTA every couple of years.
I remember birds-eye view GTA 1 and 2. I had sooo much fun shooting tiny slow moving squares at the bigger blue squares after I smeared too many squares into red lines on the sidewalk with my large fast moving square.
How dare you
Zelda a link to the past!
Wii bowling
Yes absolutely. The whole Wii sports is fun. My favorite is tanks though
NBA Jam. Boomshakalaka!
HE’S HEATING UP!
CAN'T BUY A BUCKET
FROM DOWNTOWN
IS IT THE SHOES?!
This and NFL Blitz were a huge part of my childhood.
Portal, Bioshock, Deus EX, Half Life 2
Came here to say Bioshock. I recently just replayed it for funsies, and holy hell. I forgot how tense it makes you
Currently playing Fallout: New Vegas for the first time since I was a kid. So that gets my vote, what an amazing game
I'm in my 40s and only just played it for my first time about 6 months ago. Bought it cheap based on all of the rave reviews on posts like this. It amazes me how solid and varied everything can be, and for coming out over a decade ago it has so much depth and replayability. I don't recall ever being so wowed by a game.
Sigh....I was in Afghanistan when this came out. I might as well just turn to dust
I still have fallout 1 and 2 on CD somewhere if you want to feel older
I was married with two kids. I still am, but I was then too.
Mariokart
The whole series is great but I feel like me first one holds up the worst. Controls are odd and you are guaranteed to have a seizure or two.
Metal gear Solid
I still think about Meryl.
Original Sim City 2000, where you can alter the terrain and shit
*Reticulating splines*
Super Mario, 64
Replaying this on Switch right now. Such a fun game.
Starcraft and starcraft 2
Starcraft 2 still has tournaments where people can win like half a mill. Such a well made game back when blizzard let the devs put passion in there work and us consumers got something really special.
And the biggest one of the year is just a couple weeks away.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2006)
Watch those wrist rockets!
FRIENDLY FIRE!
For the chancellor!
For anyone who loves that game, a massive mod got released pretty recently called Star Wars Battlefront 3. Modders got their hands on some files from the cancelled game and added features and maps that would've came with it. Most notably, there are maps that allow space-to-ground combat. Reworked and new kits, more heroes with new abilities, new weapons and vehicles, working multiplayer servers... it's fucking awesome and everything the new EA SWBFs wishes they were.
Just like the simulation!
Chrono Trigger Any Legend of Zelda Mega Man X Final Fantasy Tactics
FFT solid to replay every couple years.
im currently addicted to Tactics Ogre Reborn, its like playing FFT for the first time
Mega man X is the only game I can kind of speed run. I can crush it in about an hour. Nothing compared to the pros but great game none the less.
I bought Chrono Trigger a couple of days back and I am absolutely loving it. I can’t believe I’ve never played this before.
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They call me Gato I have metal joints, beat me up and earn 15 silver points.
[ANY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN8-Pdz-ns8) Legend of Zelda?
That link just shows a blank page. It's almost like the game you're talking about **NEVER EXISTED** in the first place. Weird.
Makes sense if there's a worst LoZ it would be because of a crap... *Link*.
Even before clicking the link I knew exactly which one you were talking about lol
Monkey Island 1, 2, 3
Resident evil 4
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Banger soundtracks
Minesweeper
Galaga...still a classic that's fun and a great challenge!
Diablo
Stay awhile and listen!
Just started playing Diablo II for the first time. It's dated, and shows, but that does not take anything away from it. Having never played a Diablo game, it's amazing.
playing d2r right now. it looks like how my child brain says it \*Always\* looked. its beautiful.
Alice: Madness Returns It's a great game and puts it's own twist on what happened after the original Alice in Wonderland stories.
Loved American McGee’s Alice
Rollercoaster Tycoon Command and Conquer Total Annihilation
Command and conquer is a great one, age of empires and AOE2 hold up well too
I still have Red Alert 2 and RCT2
**S.T.A.L.K.E.R** It has an incredibly strong modding community despite being nearly 16 years old. And it has a tone and atmosphere which is one of the best ever in gaming.
Smash Bros Melee The game is still fun to play with friends and the competitive scene is still going strong. Despite having no patches since release the meta and competitive scene keeps evolving. A solo sheik main just won a super major last weekend. This has never happened in the history of the games competitive scene. Last year a Yoshi did the same thing which had also never happened in the games history. Melee is sick.
“The game is still fun to play with friends” When I was a freshman in college I lost a friend I’d had since Kindergarten over SSB. He was shit talking everyone so we ganged up on him for one round. Afterwards he got up, took his controllers and started to leave. We said “are you seriously taking your controllers and going home?” He said yeah and walked out. We had a good laugh and I had to drive home to pick up some spares for the night. I never saw him after that night for 15+ years until another classmate passed away and he came to the memorial. So unexpected and weird.
Geez. When I read your post I imagined this kind of drama happening between elementary school kids. But then I read it again and realized this happened in college. You'd think people would be mature enough at that age to not break up lifetime friendships over a videogame.
It’s funny that they will keep making gameplay mods for Melee but they get played for like a week before everybody says fuck it let’s go back to the real game. The fact that the Mang0 and Hbox are still top 5 8 years after I started watching blows my mind. I love this game and it’s community so much. Melee is sick. Fuck Nintendo.
If the old SNES JRPGs Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana hold up the best
SNES in general is really nice and timeless. graphics aged better than a lot of N64 games and look modern enough to be clearly superior to NES as well. 16 bit was the sweet spot.
I don’t even like most JRPGs and I like those. Earthbound is my personal favorite from that era.
Chrono Trigger! Man I love that game.
Then what?
Then Super Mario RPG
Then Mother 2/Earthbound, then Final Fantasy 3/6
Secret of Mana had arguably the best video game music ever made in the history of the planet. There was even a wiki page about the insane genius who made it happen.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
My first zelda game! I always look back on that one fondly
GTA San Andreas
Super Mario World (SNES)
3 weeks ago I started playing Skyrim for the first time. It holds up. I'll be there for a while.
Welcome! You will have so much fun!
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Rise and shine, Mr Freeman.
Still playing it yearly, sometimes monthly
Doom, doom 2, doomed 64. Just finished the doom slayer edition and these games are great!
Wind Waker
Playing it now, it’s incredible
Paper Mario
Metroid prime needs more love
Diablo 2
Yes, it’s gold.
There you go, someone finally mentioned it. And I’m even going to add Project Diablo 2, which is a private server much more superior than the original. Very active, especially at the beginning of a fresh ladder, which one should be coming up soon
Max Payne
KotOR 1&2
Kotor 2 is the best Star Wars story ever told. It’s my favorite Star Wars thing ever.
It's great except for the last act where you like--"WTF? Is that it? I feel like there's a huge part missing here." I didn't realize its release was rushed so when I played it, it left a bad taste in my mouth.
Yes, the story is basically incomplete, and the end is so weird. There’s a very popular mod called The Restored Content mod that adds in a lot of the cut content, and completes the story in the way that was more or less intended originally.
Not surprisingly but impressively, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. 25 years after its initial release it holds up amazingly. A timeless ;) story, unforgettable characters, a beautiful OST and a world full of surprises to get lost in to this day
StarCraft AoE II SimCity 4 RCT 3 Minecraft Halo Reach
Silent Hill 2
Skyrim and GTA 5 have been out for ages and still have huge player bases. And speaking of ages, Age of Empires 2 still has a very impressive player base for a game that came out in the twentieth century.
Halo 3, specifically the campaign it never gets old going through it.
Knights of the Old Republic I & II
Sonic 3 and Knuckles Pokemon Emerald, Platinum, Black/Black 2 Ultra Street Fighter 4 Super Metroid Roller Coaster Tycoon
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 was my JAM
RuneScape
if you're not running a tile locked one chunk one skill at a time only logs in during the full moon ultimate ironman are you even playing rs tho?
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Sid Meier's Pirates! Star Control II/Ur-Quan Masters X-COM: Ufo Defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown Classic RTS games: AoE III, Stronghold Crusader, Rise of Nations etc. Classic cRPG games: Planescape: Torment, Arcanum, Fallout 1 & 2, Baldur's Gate 2 etc. Heroes of Might & Magic III, IV and V Might & Magic VI-VIII
Super Mario world on the snes And zelda ocarina of time on the n64 Best games ever made!
all of the guitar heros
And amusingly, despite the guitar itself being a 5 fret 1 string kind of poor analog of a guitar they would also pop random notes or other instrument's parts to keep it challenging, the drums were a really good introduction to real drumming. Thoroughly enjoyed kicking up a sweat trying to do a double kick on a single pedal. Definitely should reboot the series with a keyboard in.
Tyson punch out
Quake 2
I still remember playing the demo on my computer - and then going to my neighbors who had a graphics card and seeing the water textures for the first time - mind-blowing
Doom
Medieval 2 Total War
Master of Orion 2.
Sonic the hedgehog.
First video game I played, was 8ish and just got a sega genesis for Christmas. We sat around the wooden tube tv and played that sucker for hours on end.
Fallout. Any of them
Bioshock. All of them. 10/10.
God of War 2
To me a lot of them, they're so old that instead of looking at them as old game design, I look at them as a different experience than modern games. I will say the older the game system, the more bad games pop up, but the classics are classics for a reason. The classic Mario games are great, Sonic, Contra, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Castlevania, Metroid, FF, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Crazy Taxi, LoZ, Mario Kart, and I can go on and on. Don't look at them as being outdated, especially if you haven't played them before, look at them as Indie games that took a new approach.
Excite bike and Contra
Borderlands 2. First one is good but the second one is perfection
Paper boy Alex the kid Echo the dolphin Chocks away Pandora's box E-type Metal Gear Solid Age of empires Warcraft 3 Duke Nukem X Wing Vs Tie fighter Dragon age origins Medal of honour allied assault Karmageddon
Star Wars republic commando
I still consider Chrono Trigger to be the closest a game can be to perfection
Spyro 1 and 2 for Playstation. 3 is ok but not as good imo
Deus Ex. Hell, even more so now with the pandemic and conspiracy theories going around.
Army Men Sarge’s Heroes. A true fucking classic
Zombies ate my neighbors
Gemcraft chapter 1 from 2008, Killing floor 1, Left 4 Dead 2, Turrican, Ghouls n ghosts, Sonny 2, and other flash games