# Older gamer, starting to hate old games **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-gamer-starting-to-hate-old-games/1025006 **Category:** The Game Room **Created:** [November 20, 2025, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-gamer-starting-to-hate-old-games/1025006 "2025-11-20T08:07:01Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 35
### Author: ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW) #### Post date: [November 28, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-gamer-starting-to-hate-old-games/1025006/35 "2025-11-28T04:56:29Z")
Since you mentioned The Bard’s Tale, here’s what I had to say about it [on the “Video Games You’ve Played Recently”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-games-youve-played-recently/968546/520) thread (see also 521, 524, and 525). In short, an extraordinarily satisfying trip! 😁 👍 I also hate a lot of old games I used to play a lot. Looking back on it it’s doubtful that I _ever_ actually liked most of them, but I was a kid in a 80’s Hawaii and it was either that or vandalize street signs. Even at the time, there were _so many_ goddam annoyances and cheap tricks and bum steers and outright swindles. I had _nicknames_ for them. Good Yuarki, it’s been four decades and I _still_ remember “End Catchoff” (something barely scratches the teensy little tip of your enormous ship/vehicle/vessel and you take the same damage if you took a missile squarely in the engine deck), “Miss By One” (you come up one quillionth of a whatever short and suffer the same result as if you’d taken a nap the whole time), and “Coincidency Mahhnn” (basically every “natural 1” story you’ve ever heard back to back). And that’s when the game wasn’t simply **freakishly difficult.** 😠 (Yeah, I went there, _because they always did._) Bottom line, I have the Internet, DVR, and a snazzy Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ (oh yeah, gotta remember to close out that thread sometime 🙂 ), and my tolerance of video game BS is at an end. At the same time, DOS emulators now allow save states, so I want games that take advantage of that. That’s necessarily going to limit my possible selection. Below The Root. Executive Suite. Trek Trivia. The aforementioned Bards Tale trilogy. Demon’s Forge. Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony (the only Origin game I ever completed). Maybe a Zork or two. Believe me, I tried getting into 4 x 4 Off Road Racing and The Ancient Art of War, but some games are just beyond help. (Everything I said about Sid Meier’s Pirates [in this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-about-horrible-video-games/845583) still holds) So, selective perception? Not that fun in the first place? You tell us. (If graphics are your main concern, I really think you’ll enjoy some of Steam’s selections.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-gamer-starting-to-hate-old-games/1025006)._