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Great games you would recommend from before 1990? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Wrufieotnak@feddit.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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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)

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dragon Quest 3 (and the two previous games) are great on NES. DQ2 is one of the hardest RPGs, though, as the developers admitted they never play tested the final dungeon. First turn AOE insta deaths, mini bosses that respawn, etc. there's a reason they're remaking them, though.

Those were inspired by Ultima and Wizardry, though, if you want even older RPGs. Actually, most SSI AD&D games were fantastic, too, and you can access them legally via steam now if you don't want to futz with DOS, although my favorite Eye of the Beholder games are slightly newer at 1991.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those were under 1st edition Advanced D&D rulesets as I recall. If you started playing after 1990 you are in for a bunch of surprises.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 points 1 week ago

Yes early AD&D was a lot less forgiving in some ways.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure they were actually second edition rules which came out a year or so before the game.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As we are both old enough to have played these when they released it's safe to say neither of is are going to have perfect memories at this stage of life.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

What? No, that was surely only a few years ago :)