Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 with all expansions. I'm amazed too see that there people still playing this. It just goes to prove how well made older games were.
And Super Mario Land. (1989) Super Mario Land was my mothers and she passed it down to me when I was younger. I had put a lot of time into that Gameboy Game.
Zaque wrote:In addition, I've booted up BattleTech:Crescent Hawk's Inception and Phantasy Star 1&2 in the last year.
Ooh, Crescent Hawk's Inception! My fondest memories of that game are of breaking it -- keeping the Chameleon, making effectively-infinite amounts of money by investing in the stock market early on, infantry SRMs in the spaceport... there were so many ways to become unreasonably powerful. :D
Learning about compounding interest from Crescent Hawk's Inception was a fundamental life lesson for me.
Hasn't worked so well for me lately though.
Oldest game I play consistently is Dungeon Siege 2. About half way through the third difficulty level now. Sometimes, I reinstall Dungeon Keeper. I'm pretty thrilled now that it looks like someone is doing a remake.
I play Final Fantasy VII every now and then for nostalgia's sake. Super Mario World is something I go back to on a pretty regular basis; much of it is stored in muscle memory and I can plow through the game in a few minutes skipping levels and what not.
Baldur's Gate II and Throne of Bhaal are always installed on my lappy. I get a kick out of making odd party configurations and testing them out against some of the harder enemies like dragons, beholders and the many liches.
Alundra is another game that gets yearly attention from me. How I wish a proper sequel had been made... WHYYYYYYY!?
Now that I think of it, I haven't fired up Mark of Kri in a long time. I absolutely love that game.
Monthly Basis:
Ascendancy - can't believe this isn;t named yet: greatest (and baddest AI) 4X of all time
Be sure to play it with the Antagonizer patch. It improves the AI a great deal—the AI will actually assemble fleets and attack! Looks like you can get the patch at Abandonia.
I installed Doom II today, made it to the 3rd level and had to turn it off, and spent the next 2 hours recovering from Doom-induced Nausea. I wasn't expecting that, I never felt sick from playing it back in the day, but on a widescreen 20'' monitor what used to make sense before now looks like pixel-inferno. I also felt old.
An old game I keep playing regularly, X-Com.
Asheron's Call.
I reinstalled Jagged Alliance 2 with the Stracciatella mod in anticipation of the upcoming Jagged Alliance 3 in July.
Dungeon Keeper or X-com
A solid necro!
I still fire up Dungeons of Daggorath occasionally. Wizardry 6 gets more playtime though. That’s 1983 and 1990 respectively.
Rocket League is getting older.
I fired up League of Legends the other night when the kids were away for a weekend.
I've played some 90s and 00s stuff on Switch Virtual Console last month. Hm.
This thread 
Let's see what I wrote nearly 13 years ago:
Final Fantasy IX (PSX, 2000) - Well, I've stalled on it for a few months now, actually...
So, uh, funny story. I worked on FFIX off and on (mostly off) in the intervening years. The JRPG club had me debating to pick up my old save which was about 75% through the game. Realizing that I'm mostly lost and that the remaster is better, I just recently started over on Switch.
Also working on Metroid Prime (2002/2023) right now and am about halfway through. Not sure if it counts though, since it's the remastered version.
Quake (1996) - I've actually gotten back into it during the past 2 years and occasionally play a few rounds. Sometimes via the remaster, sometimes the original version via QSSM.
Redneck Rampage (1997) - finally picked this up from gog recently after wanting it since it was new. Spent about 2 hours getting it to run well, and then an hour playing through the opening levels. Intend to play more.
Put some time this year into Xenosaga III (2006) and intend to finish it in the coming months. Same goes for Anachronox (2001), and Sam & Max: Hit the Road (1993).
Started and finished Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005) a few months ago. It has aged very poorly.
Oldest I play "regularly" though has got to be 2017's Quake Champions. I play 1-3 rounds nearly every day.
I regularly replay the original Tomb Raider (1996) and two of its sequels.
I was playing Megamania the other day, I like to play it to see how bad my motor skills are getting.
Company of heroes with the blitzkrieg mod and Mass Effect 3 multiplayer are two games that I still have installed and go back to.
I realise it's still within the last 5 years but I still have at least one A20 run in Slay the Spire per day and will do so long as there is something that runs it.
Since it's release back in 2007 I have been playing Rock Band or one of it's sequels/offshoots. This feels like cheating though because while the basic gameplay hasn't changed over the last 16 years, Rock Band 4 is the iteration I am playing and that came out in 2015.
Oh yeah I played a ton of NCAA 14 in the fall. So that's a 10 year old game. Although I mostly played the modded version that is emulated on PC and updated within the last year.
Right now I guess...WoW?
TBH though for some out there reason I've been itching to play Zork again. I blame the Grues
Wow, how did I miss this thread?
The oldest game I'm playing regularly is Star Fleet II (1989) followed by F-19 (1988).
Wow, lots of great stuff in here.
I still play a few games of MOO 2 (1996) and Alpha Centauri (1999) per year. Civ IV (2005) isn't near as old, but that's probably still my most played game.
Alpha Centauri still checks out. Civ IV is also still installed, though it's been a while since I actually fired it up.
MOO2, though, might've been the end of the line for me with space-based 4Xs. Stellaris took its spot in my rotation for a single enjoyable play-through that ran ~75 hours, followed by a completely forgettable 25 hours with Endless Space 2 (literally forgettable -- I went to buy it on Steam at some point and realized that I already owned it and had played a decent amount of it). Distant Wolds: Universe was great, though only after something like $180 worth of expansions and only until I purchased a 4K monitor. And I'm still kinda bitter about all the hype Distant Worlds 2 got, given that it got me to waste my money on it. So not only am I not playing MOO2 at this point, I'm no longer interested in playing any game in the same genre.
A couple times a week I play a little of an emulated version of Pokémon FireRed, the 2004 remake of the 1996 GBA game. I have never finished a Pokémon game, but that doesn't stop me from emulating them and then losing my save somehow and starting over every few years.
Same with FF4 and FF6 which I also regularly emulate, but never finish.
Last time I played Privateer (1993) was 2 years ago according to the save files. I don't bring that out as regularly.
2008’s Burnout Paradise is one I still fire up every few months. Perfect game as far as I’m concerned.
2008’s Burnout Paradise is one I still fire up every few months. Perfect game as far as I’m concerned.
Have you played any of the other Burnouts?
beanman101283 wrote:2008’s Burnout Paradise is one I still fire up every few months. Perfect game as far as I’m concerned.
Have you played any of the other Burnouts?
Yes
Cool cool cool.
2008’s Burnout Paradise is one I still fire up every few months. Perfect game as far as I’m concerned.
That's a fantastic choice. This is one of the few games that I've ever played the whole campaign more than once.
For me, it's probably RaceRoom (2013), although I haven't played it much recently. Otherwise, there's Wreckfest (2014) and Rocket League (2015).
If I could cheat a little, I'd say I still play Tetris every now and then in some form. Currently it would probably be in Puyo Puyo Tetris on my Switch.
I, too, have Burnout Paradise perennially installed and play it now and then. I also fire up the OG FFVII every other year. The last SSX sees some love from me here and there. Pocket Fighter is another little gem I play every now and then.
Veloxi wrote:beanman101283 wrote:2008’s Burnout Paradise is one I still fire up every few months. Perfect game as far as I’m concerned.
Have you played any of the other Burnouts?
Yes
I much prefer Burnout Takedown to Paradise but Paradise did get a remaster a few years ago while Takedown is about 20 years old at this point and sure does look it.
For me it's Jetpac. A game that was released in 1983 and runs within 16kb (yes kilobytes) it still remains for me one of the most fun arcade shooter games ever made.
Fun fact, the first game I played on my Xbox Series X upon its release was Jetpac. Granted I did it because I thought it would be ironic, but I also genuinely wanted to play it.
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