Re: When Is A Game Old?

Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@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 box full my old Commodore 64 games in their original
packaging.  The oldest game in that collection would be the Commodore
version of the Infocom game Suspended.  The oldest media I have though
would be a floppy for the C64 version Lode Runner, but I don't think I
have the box for that.

I'm not sure what the oldest PC game media I have is.  I have 5.25"
floppies for Command HQ, Dragon Wars, MegaTraveller 1, and SSG's Panzer
Battles.  I believe Panzer Battles is the oldest of these games in terms
of release date, but I would purcased them all a few years after they
were released.

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).
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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.

I have the Commodore 64 versions of both of these games, in their
original boxes, but the Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy is missing
some of feelies.

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...

I'm not sure why I kept them but I have a copy of the November and
December 1983 issues of Compute!.  It was robably because they were
unusally thick issues for the magazine at the time.  I don't think any
of the type-in programs included were particularly interesting.

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