I noticed that pretty much all games I played in my life have been released after 1990. So now I’m asking those with earlier experience here:
Which games can you recommend from before that time?

But: they should still be fun in their own right and not just interesting to play in an historian sense of trying to understand how genres developed.

Games I played that are older than 1990:

  • Tetris (classic for a reason)
  • Pacman (interesting but simple)
  • Prince of Persia (was too young to understand how to correctly play this game, I should maybe try to play it again)
  • The Legend of Zelda (too old school and clunky for my liking)
    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      2·
      22 days ago

      I vaguely remember elf and dwarf were, uh, classes in some games. But the AD&D one I remember had them as races, but you had interesting classes like… Magic-User. I vaguely remember having 8 hp on one? Oof.

      • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        19 days ago

        Pool of Radiance comes out in 1988. 2nd Edition releases in 1989. They might have shifted to 2nd ed at some point but they started with AD&D 1st edition.

        • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          19 days ago

          My mistake then, I could have sworn that 2nd edition came out in 87. The rules in that series stayed consistent as far as I can tell (I replayed them many many times and tinkered with the engine), so they must have just stuck with OG AD&D rules.