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

submitted 2 days 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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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Anyone remember the BBS "turn based" games?

I don't even remember the names, but you would login every day to play your turn. Resource allocation based.

There was a drag car racing one and a space one that I remember.

After searching one that I did play was called "Trade Wars" !

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

My favorite BBS door games were Trade Wars and Usurper. I played way too much of them and they were part of what drove me to host my own BBS.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Something dragon! Red dragon?

I totally remember those lol thanks for the throwback memory!

Yes I cannot remember all the specifics either, but there was finite resources, and you could only accomplish so much per day and it gave you incentive to keep coming back

Found it! Legend of the Red dragon

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Legend of Red Dragon aka LORD

[–] Thalfon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I sorta remember Earth: 2025 and Utopia being a bit like that. You'd generate turns over time and login once or twice a day to spend the turns. Not sure if that's exactly what you meant by BBS though, and the only ones I know offhand I think were all late 90s starts.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I meant actual BBS, in the mid eighties. You would dial into on a phone line using your 300 buad modem. Lol

The "game" was text based and hosted on the BBS server.