The oldest videogames you played (at the time of playing)

[Jama7301]

How are platformers dead?

Aside from the steady stream of Mario games that has never stopped, there have also been a number of high-profile platformers such as Sonic Mania, Shantae, Owlboy, The End is Nigh...and that's just the 2D ones! A Hat in Time and Yooka-Laylee both definitely qualify. I think there was also a new Crash Bandicoot, but that might have been a remake.

Looking further afield, there are games that technically belong in other genres that have a high degree of platforming in them. Cuphead (which technically belongs in Run-and-Gun, but then so does Megaman), Hollow Knight (Metroidvania), Steamworld Dig 2 (ditto)...the list is extensive. The games may not be "pure" platformers in the "run to the right and avoid enemies" sense, but all have a large degree of quite difficult platforming in them. Hollow Knight's White Palace has one of the nastiest platforming sections I've seen in a non-Kaizo game.

By the by, those are all from just the last two years, and they're just the ones I personally am aware of. If anything, I'd say platforming is one of the healthiest genres around.

This list just reminded me that I need to go pick up Celeste as it looks like a sensational platformer.

[Eldan]

And it reminded me that I still can't finish Hollow Knight and that at least the vanishing of the White Palace was one good thing that happened in the world of Hollow Knight.

[Cespenar]

And it reminded me that I still can't finish Hollow Knight and that at least the vanishing of the White Palace was one good thing that happened in the world of Hollow Knight.

Wasn't that area optional and only needed for the "true ending" anyway?

[Eldan]

Yes, but it also unlocks the true final boss, and I at least wanted to try taking her on.

[GlassGolem]

My favorite old game of all time is Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, with the expansion, Alien Crossfire. It's a classic turn-based Civ-type game, before the franchise went off the deep end into the current dumpster-fire of mechanics designed to cripple human players down to the level of the AI. It's also highly unique, with mechanics not seen in any strategy game, before or since, like terraforming that lets you alter the shape of the map. It's not without it's pet balance issues (infinite city spam is a big problem), and the AI is hopeless, but it's a great game, and lots of fun, with lots of depth and nuance.

SMAC is one of my all-time favourites, but the terraforming, while rare, isn't unique - I think Populous (1989) was the first. The SMAC mechanic I liked best was the unit customisation.

I still play Deus Ex (the first one) every few years, and Shogun: Total War (the original - I believe there was a remastering at some point). The oldest in recent years is probably Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (1993, so a little over 20 years at time of playing), but it didn't age well...

[Rockphed]

The oldest in recent years is probably Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (1993, so a little over 20 years at time of playing), but it didn't age well...

I suspect I played this game back in the 90s, but can you link to more information about it?

[Cristo Meyers]

I hit Earthbound for the first time in years not too long ago.

I oddly found myself not really able to get into it. I played the hell out of this game when it came out under the tagline 'This game stinks!', but this time I got up to the 5 moles in the desert and just can't make myself do it.

[factotum]

I suspect I played this game back in the 90s, but can you link to more information about it?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/buzz-a...ace-into-space

[halfeye]

Might have been Moo2 at the time I played that, maybe ten years ago.

I also played Java Dungeon Master, that was good for a while, probably at about the same time as Moo2, so since it wasn't exactly the same game as Dungeon Master, not technically as old, but an elder playing style.

[Aeson]

Maybe Space Invaders, Galaxian or Pac Man, which were probably at least 25 or 30 years old the last time I played them, though I don't specifically recall when that was.

[NovenFromTheSun]

In recent memory, Ultima II; My version of I is a remake made somewhere around the time of IV's release.