Poll of the Day > Do you play video games older than you?

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1988 here. Sometimes, yes. Castlevania (1986) and Super Mario Bros. (1985) are easily my two favorites.
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I play Spacewar! occassionally.
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Yeah. I'm 1989, btw...
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the only game i remember playing older than me is pong. i havent played that in a while though
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no
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Let's see: I've played Final Fantasy I, II, IV, and also A Link to the Past.
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Going from the original release date in Russia, Tetris is a few months older than me (released in June 1984). Other than that, doubtful.
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I only play video games at my current age
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Some nes games sometimes. And I have an atari collection on psp and namco for ds. So I guess mostly arcade games
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I'm amazed! 33% of gamefaqers are over 40! Born before videogames became popular.

Blaqthourne posted...

I play Spacewar! occassionally.

I never played the original. I did play a titration simulation on the U of Illinois mainframe. And I built a simple pattern matching game with potentiometer controls for oscilloscope display in 1961.

The Atari 2600 had a decent version of Spacewar!, but not until 1977? No, 1978.
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Yes. I was born in 1989, but I grew up with the NES. Granted, some of its better games came out in the 90s.
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This is crazy, I have to play games from 1978, and that's not acceptable...
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Infrequently so. Not by choice, just because there really aren't too many games older than me.

dancer62 posted...

Blaqthourne posted...

I play Spacewar! occassionally.

Indeed! Probably the earliest action videogame.

I never played the original. I did play a titration simulation on the U of Illinois mainframe. And I built a simple pattern matching game with potentiometer controls for oscilloscope display in 1961.

The Atari 2600 had a decent version of Spacewar!, but not until 1977? No, 1978.

This PC version from 1985 is what I play:

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Blaqthourne wrote:

I play Spacewar! occassionally.

I've played that too ^.^
or at least ports of it.
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End of December 1990, and I hate old games. I do enjoy late 90s/early 2000s games like Deus Ex and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, but obviously those aren't older than me.

I hate super retro games like Super Mario, Space Invaders or whatever. Bores me to tears, and I just can't wrap my head around how anyone enjoys them in the face of hundreds of more impressive options available today. It takes a very special kind of sidescroller to even get my attention (i.e. Trine).
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Born on 1986 I used to on the old Commodore 64 I had as a kid. Every new system and games I've seen were younger than me.
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Rarely. I have a collection of emulated games that I delve into occasionally, some of those may be of games that are older than I.
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No, but there's very few of those that exist in the first place
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Yeah, quite a bit! Born in '91.
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There are very few video games older than me and I can't say I play any of them regularly.

rjsilverthorn posted...

There are very few video games older than me and I can't say I play any of them regularly.

This, although I have played them before.
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Yes, but not often (born in 1989). Just the popular stuff like Mega Man 2 and Super Mario Bros.

Games werent really games before I was born.
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Not really. Those are some old games. I've never played "Adventure". I probably should.
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Late 1990 here and yes I definitely play games older than I am. A large chunk of my NES games, most of my Game Boy games and even a small bit of my Genesis ganes are older than I am and, unless the games themselves suck or are just not my thing, I play them regularly. This is going by North American release dates, of course.

Before 1984? No thanks.
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1987 AND YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The hell.
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81

Not much worth playing before. I think Pacman might have come out in 80. Can't think of anything else I would care about

kind9 posted...

Before 1984? No thanks.

Ha, born in 84, I've checked out Atari stuff, and yea most of it is ehh, there is a few games I dig tho, and arcade versions too.

Music on the other hand, plenty I like before I was born.
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1992,I always love playing games from or around that year. NES, SNES, GEN stuff, lots of games to go through in those eras I never have yet.
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I'm from '91 and I still occasionally play the original Super Mario Bros for the NES. Not on an actual NES though.
Wait, do we have to play said game on the original console it was released on or else it won't count?
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Not really. Those are some old games. I've never played "Adventure". I probably should.

The 2600 game?

Regularly, no.

On occasion, yes.

I play games on merit, not age.
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Born 1979, so not a lot of games from before me ;)
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No game is older than me
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Zangulus posted...

There arent many that are. And I dont play them on a regular basis.

This I was born 1986.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Regularly, no.

On occasion, yes.

I play games on merit, not age.

Anybody who does otherwise is a casual.
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Atari 2600 was the most popular system when I was born, I got the NES when it first came out.

Yup.
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I was born in '88. After looking at the poll, I thought ,"I still play snes games every so often. I'LL VOTE YES"

Then I realize what I had done. lol at me.
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I was born in 86.

I've played a handful, but in general I don't have much of an interest in anything older than the SNES.
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I was born in 1981, so Id say I was born before games were popular for the most part. The Atari crazy was obviously the late 70s, but other than that, Nintendo was when things really took off.
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This one was tough to answer. I said "Yes", but really, I don't play many games older than I am. My cutoff for the most part is the NES era. I'm 38, so there's a big swath of popular video games from the Atari era that I don't really play anymore.

I absolutely play many, many retro video games, though. I still have my NES, SNES, Genesis, and other systems hooked up. Heck, I played through Mighty Final Fight again last night. :)

Born in '96. I used to play such games when I was little, but not anymore. Not that interested in 2D games now in general, and early 3D games look terrible and don't really offer anything special in terms of gameplay.
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Not really... I mean Pacman and Frogger are and I like those. Most of the games older than me are shit though.
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I have a pretty sizable Atari 2600 collection, and most of those were released before 1983, so yes.

Can't say I play them regularly, but occasionally I feel like playing something simpler for 15 - 20 minutes and they are perfect for that.
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rjsilverthorn posted...

There are very few video games older than me and I can't say I play any of them regularly.

Yep, I am in the same boat I will turn 40 in a few years and really very few notable games were released before I was born.
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Yeah. I started with games older than me. And I'll still once in awhile play games older than me even if I have never played it before
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