Board 8 > How old was the oldest game you loved when you first played it?

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I can think of three games I first beat and enjoyed a decade after their release, and only one of them would I say that I loved.

Enjoyed:. Super Mario Bros. 2: the Lost Levels (~20 years after release)
Enjoyed: Heavy Rain (10 years old)
Loved: Final Fantasy X (10 years old)

3D Monster Maze, the game was around 30 years old when I first played it.

8 years old - Final Fantasy VII

The game that made video game my number 1 hobby.

Chrono Trigger when it came out on DS.

Tales of Rebirth I played like a year or two ago which would be about 16-17 years post-release, became a series fav.

This may or may not be the oldest (I'm not gonna think about every non-current game that I've played) but I do remember playing Kirby's Dream Land 3 for the first time in 2010/11 and I consider it in my top 2 Kirby games.

Combat for the Atari was released in 1977. If I wasn't playing it 10 years later, it had to be pretty close just because I'd already be pretty young in '87.

I generally mostly current games, so I don't really have much that fits the bill. Higurashi and Tsukihime are 10/10 games I played ~8 years after they came out, though that was mostly because of the time it took for them to be translated. Can't think of any other 10/10s I played more than 5 years after their release date.

The origins on peekaboo can be traced back hundreds of years

I specifically remember playing a game a few years ago and thinking "oh, games this old and this good exist that I haven't played," but I can't remember what it was at all, beyond it being GCN/PS2-era.

I got way deeply into Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (1987) in 2020 so that's probably my answer, 33 years

I don't know about "love", but I played Solomon's Key 2 (1992) via Switch Online this year and enjoyed it a lot.

Another game I played his year is Paper Mario (2000), which I would probably say is in the "love" tier.

Finally there's Symphony of the Night (1997), which I also played this year and enjoyed a lot but I'm not sure if I would go as far as to say I love it.

So my answer is somewhere in the 22-30 range I guess depending on how strict you are with the term love

Probably FFVI when I played it for the first time circa 2017, I think it was

I have no idea what the oldest one is but I played FFVIII for the first time last year and quite enjoyed it, I think it was 22 years old at the time?

Alter Ego for Commodore 64, when they remade it as a browser game.

So around 2006 I got into trying out a bunch of the SNES classics I missed when I was younger - specifically I loved Earthbound, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, and Mega Man X. I think Mega Man X was the oldest when I played it at about 13 years. I also may have played Super Metroid a bit later so that is another candidate as well.

MZero posted...

Finally there's Symphony of the Night (1997), which I also played this year and enjoyed a lot but I'm not sure if I would go as far as to say I love it.

Great catch -- I played this 10-11 years after its release and it would be in the love-category for me.

Also I needed to extend my poll options. Welp.

About 21 years. "The Amazing Spider-Man vs. the Kingpin", Sega CD. I thought it was just a port of the Genesis game until an article on Cracked showed a bad ending and got me interested enough to learn it was a totally different game with the same plot. Love that game.

https://www.cracked.com/article_21313_the-5-most-sadistic-game-over-scenes-in-video-game-history.html

Played Contra: Hard Corps this year so that was 28 which is definitely the largest gap no question.

When did mass effect 2 come out? Played that last year. What an absurdly good game

The answer is probably Chrono Trigger, which is one of my favorite games that I didn't play until much much later, mostly because of its limited releases especially in Europe.

Super Metroid. Played it at the end of 2019.

I've been getting into CT and LttP and FF1 lately but that's cheating a bit since I dabbled with them back when they were closer to relevant

Symphony of the Night is definitely a 10+ year game for me, first played it like in 2010 or so?

I dont know for sure what the oldest is though.

came in here to reference chrono trigger- i suppose i shouldn't be surprised a lot of board 8 had the same experience

came out in 1995, i think i first emulated it in 2007

If you count playing the DS remake of Chrono Trigger (as my first exposure to the game at all) while using the release date of the original, then I think that wins at 13-14 years. Otherwise I think it's Trails in the Sky which I played 12 years after it released.

Metal Gear Solid is another option, but I played Twin Snakes which I understand to be substantially different from the original, and using the Twin Snakes release date I only played it 8-9 years after release.

Silent Hill 1 - played 18 years after release and loved it

Sin & Punishment and Pokemon Puzzle League would both be 22 years after release for me. Thank you, NSO.

Not quite sure how to quantify "love" in this case. Oldest game I can think of that I really liked and instantly grabbed me was Fire'n Ice, which is an NES game, on NSO. That would have been around 29 years old last year. Finished every puzzle in that game. Still holds up really well IMO .

I didn't play Chrono Trigger until 2013

Lots of NES classics I didn't get into until post-2010

I just played Dragon Age: Origins in the last year or two and loved it.

Zelda II was I think 30 years old when I played it for the first time a couple of years ago.

Fiop posted...

Not quite sure how to quantify "love" in this case. Oldest game I can think of that I really liked and instantly grabbed me was Fire'n Ice, which is an NES game, on NSO. That would have been around 29 years old last year. Finished every puzzle in that game. Still holds up really well IMO .

Oh right, that's the English title of Solomon's Key 2 I mentioned earlier. High five!

I guess I played Kirby's Adventure some time after Nightmare in Dream Land, which also would have been at least 10 years after its original release.

Kirby Super Star (1996) I didn't play until it re-released in Kirby's Dream Collection (2012) so that would be 16 years

SMRPG was prob 10 years old when I first played it. Crazy how well it aged.

I'm old so I played most of the old good games when they were coming around.

Maybe Galaga. I got really into that with Tekken 1 to the point I'd play it just to play Galaga. Must have been a little over 10 years old by then.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (2004), first played in 2020

Arctic Thunder in the arcade. That was several years ago, but the game itself had been out long before I first played it. I liked it a lot, and I stopped at the mall a fair amount just to play that.

MZero posted...

Oh right, that's the English title of Solomon's Key 2 I mentioned earlier. High five!

Cool, I missed that earlier. Glad more people are getting to play this, heh. The original kart is super expensive and I think NSO is the only other way to play it, so glad they added it.

FL81 posted...

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (2004), first played in 2020

This would probably be the second oldest for me, at least that I can think of. I think I played this in 2017-2018ish?

I'm not sure Planescape had passed the 10 year mark for me when I played it - probably not. I guess if we count the JPN release Trails is basically there but I wouldn't count it that way personally.

I didn't play CT until the DS re-release but while I liked it I dunno if I'd say loved.

Hmm, Baldur's Gate 1+2 probably? That or Planescape, probably. Baldur's Gate has way more of a lead on time from release (well over 10 years), but I like Planescape more.

To resurrect an ever-so-slightly old topic, I'm going to correct my answer to Demon's Crest on SNES which I only played last year or early this year, can't remember. But I fucking loved it and go play it on NSO please. That game is an absolute gem.

foolm0r0n posted...

SMRPG was prob 10 years old when I first played it. Crazy how well it aged.

Not very good considering Paper Mario is only a few years later and demolishes it in every way! (Also in general I played that game all the way through on the SNES classic - same way I played FFVI - and unlike FFVI, I wasn't that big of a fan.)

_Blur_ posted...

Not very good considering Paper Mario is only a few years later and demolishes it in every way!

Tried it and nope. Same with TTYD.

Lemmings. Roughly 27-28 years old when I first played it.

Mega Man series. Never played it as a kid, wasn't until my early 20s that I decided to give it a try. Played through every game, as well as the first three X games.

Easily my favorite of the classic side-scrolling platforming style. For comparison I have no love for any of the older Mario games.

When I wad a kid we had a Commodore 64 and I was obsessed with a game called Yi Ar Kung Fu.

I think I was about 6 when we got it and it wass around 4-5 years old so I went with 4.

Thats my earliest gaming memory.

I played 1987s Xybots in 2019 and thought it was very cool, thats 32 years

yellowwolley posted...

When I wad a kid we had a Commodore 64 and I was obsessed with a game called Yi Ar Kung Fu.

I think I was about 6 when we got it and it wass around 4-5 years old so I went with 4.

Thats my earliest gaming memory.

I had a gameboy anthology game that included it

you were right that game rocks