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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prince of Persia, 1989.

This game pioneered rotoscope animation and directly influenced the Tomb raider series in many ways:

Crumbling slabs that you fall through
spikes that kill you if you fall on them, but you can walk through them
Clanging jaws that will chop you in half
the re-cycling of multi-tier map design, when one big room with many levels becomes a central atrium to which you return many times, just sometimes higher or lower than you were before. Also a very clever use of limited memory resources.
A random doppleganger encounter that hurts you when you hurt it.
block-based jump physics with standing, running, and vertical jumping
hanging from ledges as a mechanic
little known fact about prince of Persia but if you holster your sword and hold X and T while drawing your sword, the player draws a pair of uzis instead

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Be aware that the game requires you to memorize the level layouts, including multiple completely blind jumps.

It's still a great game, bit I thought it'd mention this because it may frustrate players trying it out.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Oh and you have to beat it in under an hour or you automatically lose.

That was a fun mechanic. Fun, fun, fun.