Oldest game still on your HD

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2005-06-01 03:54pm

Command & Conquer. I've been missing the GDI disk for about 6 years now, though.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2005-06-01 04:02pm

Probably Starcraft.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-06-01 04:08pm

A Dos/Win 95 version of a GO game, although I haven't played it for a looong time.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-06-01 05:09pm

Guy N. Cognito wrote:I'm surprised only one other person has MOO2 on their computer. I always keep it on, incase I feel like ruling the entire galaxy.

no they asked what the OLDEST thing we have on our HDD

right now the oldest on my system is Rogue/nethack

I also have scorch, Moo, moo2, tie fighter, etc.

I also have Ascii trek in my bookshelf should I ever get the urge to type a bit of C++ for windows....

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-01 05:10pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:no they asked what the OLDEST thing we have on our HDD

right now the oldest on my system is Rogue/nethack

And if I recall, this wasn't supposed to be a contest, either.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-06-01 05:16pm

fine I'll go break out the big ugly binder and type in all 120k of "Ascii Trek", there something from the 1970s that will ream B&B/Viacom franchise rights at the same time.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-06-01 05:29pm

I was playing MoO2 not more than a month ago, and I still have many games from around 1997-'99 in my harddrive like Fallout and AoEII. I'll mention Yoda Stories, though that's on an older comp from '98.

I also have a freeware copy of Baldies for Win '95, and Raptor: Call of the Shadows shareware from 1994, but the oldest I play regularly is still Spaceward Ho!. Damn good game, I actually think it does a few things better than MoOII, though overall it's far far simple.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-06-01 06:07pm

My computer is a fairly recent build so all my old old games are long gone. The oldest i have installed is Homeworld adn thats only because of the SWNR and SoA mods. In actual fact i only have a few games installed because of my addiction to MMO's. Deus Ex, Deus Ex Invisible War, Homeworld 1 & 2 and World of Warcraft are all thats currently installed. I play IW when the WoW server is down but so far it's a great dissapointment.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2005-06-01 06:30pm

X-COM, MoO1, Star Control 2, Space Quest 1 and HHGTTG Textgame (with the microscopic space fleet!)

Dangermouse · Post by **Dangermouse** » 2005-06-01 06:41pm

Sword of the Samurai. A really great Samurai adventure fun type game.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2005-06-01 08:11pm

(looks around)

Atari 5200 emulator: Last Starfighter
Atari 2600: Yars Revenge

PC based;
Probably Lesure Suit Larry or Monkey Wars

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2005-06-01 08:46pm

Red Storm Rising, Moo2, The Incredible Machine (Loved it when I was a kid), Nethack, X-com... I got a lot of them off Underdogs; apparently they're abandonware.

Hobot · Post by **Hobot** » 2005-06-01 10:42pm

Dune (1992)

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2005-06-02 04:03am

DarkSilver wrote:Duke Nuk'em 3D Atomic Edition
still classic fun

Same here. I still love making my own levels.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2005-06-02 04:15am

Damn, the Yosemite Bear has us all licked. ASCII Trek is, I think, the oldest game in existence besides Pong. That's the game that predated monitors, so the information would be displayed on paper via the printer, correct?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-06-02 04:46am

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Damn, the Yosemite Bear has us all licked. ASCII Trek is, I think, the oldest game in existence besides Pong. That's the game that predated monitors, so the information would be displayed on paper via the printer, correct?

originally designed to be printed on paper using unix servers at colleges, don't have it on hard drive, I just have the whole text file of the source code in my home.

Argosh · Post by **Argosh** » 2005-06-02 02:08pm

Lakers vs Celtics (1989)
I've played it alone and with friends, we even had a playoff tournament with everyone playing different teams.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-06-02 02:50pm

Hobot wrote:Dune (1992)

I still have that game on a floppy somewhere, hopefully it hasn't died yet.

Oldest I still have on my computer is either Tyrian or Raptor, I'll have to go check the release dates on them.

Davis 51 · Post by **Davis 51** » 2005-06-02 03:13pm

Full Throttle. But on my old computer it's some adventure game called Hugo 3.

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2005-06-02 07:11pm

Pirates!

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2005-06-02 07:44pm

Archon. Booyah.

Shadowhawk · Post by **Shadowhawk** » 2005-06-02 09:53pm

I'm pretty sure this is the oldest game I've got installed. Haven't played it in a few years though.

tumbletom · Post by **tumbletom** » 2005-06-02 10:32pm

Ive got an old tetris laying somewhere that has been transported from computer to computer over time....Granted it doesnt work on my current compy..

Oh and I still have commander keen 1 and 4 that have been transported similarly--awesome games

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-06-02 11:38pm

Also not installed I have the 512k long AD&D utility program that I coded my self still lying around in hard copy, along with the X-template wargame damage utility for RL, SFB, B-tech, etc, that me and my fellow wargamers from high school coded eons ago.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2005-06-03 12:16am

Millenium and Syndicate.