Regularly or frequently? Every so often (probably about once a year, on average, but it varies) I fire up *Terror From the Deep *and see if I can manage to beat the record of Victor Sokolov, who survived an entire TFTD campaign- a feat I have yet to match. Inevitably, however, all of my initial recruits get killed, and I abandon that playthrough.
On the other hand, every other December 3rd (the anniversary of the first time), I fire up my creaky old Atari 5200 and play a round of Star Raiders, the first video game I ever played. Since 2011, I’ve afterward fired up the new Incinerator Studios version, played for an hour or two, and cried about how far we’ve regressed.
Have you tried playing the remake, the Ur-Quan Masters?
Anyway, I’m not sure I have a good answer. It would be different if my old desktop was still working. Possibly Master of Orion II as that gets booted up a few times every year.
Computer games, I still break out Doom every once in a while. Video games in general, Î still play Joust and Asteroids. I’d love to find an old Windows game callled Winroids, which had a clip of Bill Paxton’s “Gameover, man!” Play when you lost.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which I think is 1988. I’ll play it in spasms, until my hand gets tired of the intensive number padding. (Carpal tunnel, here I come!)
I’m SOOOOOO jealous, I absolutely love that game. I wish I had a working 5200 as I still have the cartridge around. I used to play through the game with no shields and blowing up my bases. I know who’s house I’m hanging out this New Year’s Eve.
Until my old desktop died it was Worms Armageddon, which I had a friend burn it for me on a CD (remember when piracy wasn’t a thing?) sometime in the 90s, and I played it up until said computer death in…2012?
That game is still so much fun, naming all my worms, the different accents…I love me a good funny game where I can murder worms
I’ve got a box full of old CDs that I still want to get back to at some point, but the oldest game that I always have installed and play semi-regularly is Heroes of Might and Magic 3, original release Feb 1999. I liked 4 more than most, didn’t like 5 at all, and thought 6 was pretty good… but 3 is one of the best games of all time as far as I’m concerned. And frankly, the 15 year old 2D graphics look better in some ways than the more recent 3D graphics (6 made a lot of improvements, but I certainly prefer how 3 looks to 5).
Now, if we’re talking video games instead of just computer games, I play Final Fantasy II US / IV JP in its entirety once every couple of years, and there’s a ton of other SNES era stuff I go back to once in a while…
Yep. I haven’t seen my original installation disks in over 20 years, and thought the game was forever lost to me until the mid-2000s when I discovered the Ur-Quan Masters.
I’m mostly a retro gamer, so I’ll just list the oldest I’m currently playing: a shareware DOS text-based game released in 1988 or so called Keys of the Kingdom. Yes, it’s a Bible game, and yes it does witness at you at one point. But I find it kinda charming, remixing Bible stories into an adventure game setting, and I’ve had it forever. So I took a go at finally completing it, and am making a nice map of it. I’m actually running it in-browser, so I can easily copy and paste text.
Note that I’m not counting non-PC games, though I did just get back out my old GBA flash cart, which lets me emulate some pretty old games. I mainly got it out to use its audio file playing capabilities, as everything else I use has bit the bucket.
Quick followup on this, I upgraded my computer last year and hadn’t reinstalled the Ur-Quan Masters yet. Then a couple months ago I finally upgraded from an old 17" CRT to a 24" 1920x1080 over the summer.
Thanks to this thread I finally got around to reinstalling TUQM only to discover that there’s now an HD version! Woot!
Over this past weekend I installed it and ran through the entire game. So much fun, and the new pretty graphics were a treat.
I haven’t played any older games for a couple of years now, but the last ones that I can remember playing were Heroes of Might & Magic III, Warlords 3: Darklords Rising, Baldur’s Gate (all 3 circa 1998-1999) and Sid Meier’s Colonization (from 1994-1995).
It saddens me greatly that Shandalar didn’t spawn a whole genre. Having the whole CCG experience distilled down into a somewhat randomized, several hour experience was just great.
