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What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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Was playing a bit of Stunt Car Racer for the Amiga this week, from 1989, and wondered how far back people are going!

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pong. Which is argueably the first ever video game. It's a square, which represents a ball, because circles were too advanced for that time period, and its bounding between two rectantgles which defend the ball from getting past them. It's essentially ping pong, but I guess the hardware couldn't handle the ping, only the pong.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Tennis for Two was a realtime tennis simulation a full 14 year earlier. Of course there wasn't really a video arcade industry to bring it into the mainstream in the late 1950"s.