Master of Orion (1993)

The first Sonic the Hedgehog for the Mega Drive. I play all 3 (4?) of the original Sonic games, but that’s the oldest though.

I play through my Mega Drive games occasionally. Alex Kidd is probably older… Wonder Boy is great, too!

OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)

And there’s a community of players who have modded the everloving fuck out of the game and the engine itself, one of these patch packs is OpenTTD JGR and we play it like it’s a model railway simulator

On the regular I still fire up Zork 1-3, Ultima 4, StarTropics, OG Metroid, and Maniac Mansion.

Carmaggedon(1997), via a reverse engineered dethrace

Knights and merchants

Solitaire and Minesweeper. Literally the best games for when I just want to play something that doesn’t require a lot of attention (no story lines, long load times, or remembering what I was doing the last time I played). Just enough to focus my attention while waiting around, but able to close out when whatever I was waiting on is ready. Just really calming for the most part.

breakout. I think it’s the oldest ‘playable’ game. It feel ahead of it’s time for the late 70’s

Just booted back up chrono trigger

Wing Commander on the ol’ Dosbox.

I may or may not still have a pvpgn vm and a Windows xp vm with a lot of baal rush setups set to run.

I’ll play D2 till I die.

I’ve been playing jet moto with my kid. Just like I did with my dad, back in 1996.

Age of Empires 2

The oldest single player game I keep going back to is Super Mario World on the SNES, Copyright 1990.

I will occasionally play games older than that, but the SNES is where my actual nostalgia begins.

Super Mario World every year or two. The soundtrack alone cheers me right up.

Would Tetris count if its always whatever new Tetris Ultimate Reloaded DX etc etc edition? I feel like it shouldn’t but its basically the same game just polished up.