Re: When Is A Game Old?

On 4/9/2024 4:33 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 09:23:30 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:

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?

 

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.

 You weren't missing anything. "Revenge" wasn't a very fun game, from
what I recall. Its combat was slow and tedious, but also lacked the
depth and versatility of the tabletop game. And its story wasn't very
engaging. It was one of Westwood Games (of "Eye of the Beholder" and
"Command & Conquer" fame) earliest titles though, and one of the last
games to sport the Infocom branding.
 I've had similar experiences from that era of returned PC games being
sold 'as new' (although without the 'fun' of paying for a virus ;-).
Too many store owners were extremely confrontational when called on
it, too.
 

This one I found way later. I remember I was choosing between Daggerfall and this one, and chose the Battletech game because they wanted full price for Daggerfall years after it came out.
But well, I think they just found some stuff when cleaning their storage and decided to put it all out.
It wasn't like this was even a proper computer store, this was a department store with a small computer section. Which, come to think of it, didn't actually survive until today.