Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!
Chess. It’s over 1500 years old!
Played with various ROMs of popular late ‘70s and early ‘80s arcade games.
Oldest game I’ve this year:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Warrior
on Steam Deck
I’m a bit bummed the question wasn’t about the oldest game I’ve ever played (as I misread it at first), but that would be:
Pong. Which is argueably the first ever video game. It’s a square, which represents a ball, because circles were too advanced for that time period, and its bounding between two rectantgles which defend the ball from getting past them. It’s essentially ping pong, but I guess the hardware couldn’t handle the ping, only the pong.
I have an MSX from 1984 permanently setup on my desk. I use it regularly to play some old games. So about 1983-1984 games are the oldest I play often.
