Patient Gamers

16097 readers

266 users here now

A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

^(placeholder)^

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

cod@lemmy.world

briongloid@aussie.zone

BurntWits@sh.itjust.works

127

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

submitted 2 days ago by Wrufieotnak@feddit.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

148 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 6 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

can't remember WHEN it came out, might have been 89 might have been 90 but Batman The Videogame for the NES (the first batman game)

absolutely fantastic game, amazing soundtrack, easily one of the best Batman games ever.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

Sunsoft was on a bit of a roll there. The same composer did the soundtrack for Journey to Silius AKA Raf World. They made simulated instrument sounds from the CPU's sound channels in an different way from everybody else... listen to those games, Gimmick!, and Hebereke.

[–] donio@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

(the first batman game)

Sorry to nitpick but there were several Batman games before that. The first one that I know of was Batman (1986), an isometric exploration game on 8-bit micros. It's a very good game for its time and the engine later evolved into Head Over Heels (1987) which uses a different theme.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

Meant the first one on the NES.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

The game is great up until that bullshit last level. That clocktower level was brutal and then you have to fight two overtuned bosses in a row.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Had a SEGA, the batman videogame fucking ruled, probably still does. I can picture that game so vividly. Still remember celebrating with my brother when he beat it 🙂

So yeah, seconding your recommendation for sure.

[–] a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

1000% this game had amazing music. For a system that had only a couple of pulse waves, a sine wave, a white noise channel and a sampler channel using an algorithm that was already over 30 years old in 1983 some games really got an amazing amount of expression out of them. I've always felt that this game's soundtrack was criminally underrated.