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

submitted 3 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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[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tbh I've tried and most of those games are quite boring aside from exceptions like Mario which are kinda playable. Pretty much all games from that era have a problem in that they don't respect your time at all and they're frustrating as hell to play (limited or zero saves, lots of backtracking etc, stuff like that).

[–] weew@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Most games from that era were arcade games or designed from an arcade mindset. They are designed to extract the maximum number of quarters from kids pockets as possible.