Re: When Is A Game Old?

On 4/8/2024 11:09 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:27:05 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
 On a related note: what's the oldest media (tape, floppy, cd-rom,
cartridge) you still have for a game?
 I still have a 5.25" floppy disk for Infocom's "Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy" for the Apple II lying around somewhere. I've no idea if
it still works, though. According to Mobygames, that dates it to as
far back as 1984 (although, honestly, I can't remember how 'new' the
game was when I purchased it).
 On PC, that honor probably goes to "Ultima VI" (1990). I imaged (and
then discarded) most of my floppy disks years ago in order to make
space and only kept the disks for a handful of favorites. The Ultima
games definitely fall into that last category.
 But I think the oldest video game 'media' I still have are the faded
pages ripped from some magazine that listed the Basic code that made
up a really primitive 'Star Trek' game. I dutifully typed it out into
my 8-bit and was immediately disappointed by the results. The disk I
saved the code to is long gone, but for some reason I hung onto the
magazine pages. It's yellowed and crinkly and probably missing a page
or three, but it's still buried in the closet somewhere...
 

Similar to that I have some old programming books in storage at my parents' house which have listings for some games.
The oldest other stuff would be some old Sega Master System games, the oldest most likely being California Games from 1989.
The oldest PC game I have physical media off would be Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge from 1990. I once bought this in a grab box in the shop, and I think someone had already played it and returned it later, as it gave my computer it's first virus.