Show us: your oldest installed PC game or working electronic

[MarkShot 631]

I was trying to come up with an interesting challenge.

Show us:  your oldest installed PC game or working electronic

Items must be executable for immediate play or electronic and working (if batteries applied).

My submissions:

Old PC DOS (CGA) - Rail Mgmt and Stock Trading - 1830PC ... developed by Bruce Shelly of CIV fame

Old PC DOS (EGA) - Uboat WWII - Aces of the Deep ... series of Sierra titles

Mephisto Chess Computer with stylus (hand held) - ELO rating 1800 max --- Beats the amateurs like me (2xAAA batteries)

I have but not installed maybe even older games.

Well, show us what you got?

[1ajs 49]

my 1978 pdp8 count? have a asr33 for interfacng with it or if i can ever getting working my serial loop adaptor

got music software for it on paper tape
as for games i got a copy of space war from around then on paper tape writen in basic for the pdp 11 

[Leo_the_robot 67]

erm... one sec I have something quite old... if 1980 is old for a PC game lol.

Now this is running the 1991 open source version of Zork compiled to run in the linux terminal.
the original game was released in 1980.  so I hope this counts.

if not here's the actual original 1981 DOS release running in modern terminal using FROTZ

On 12/11/2022 at 4:37 PM, 1ajs said:

my 1978 pdp8 count? have a asr33 for interfacng with it or if i can ever getting working my serial loop adaptor

got music software for it on paper tape
as for games i got a copy of space war from around then on paper tape writen in basic for the pdp 11 

Gods yes, I want to see this!  big fan of space war and the old pdp computers given they were what kickstarted the early hacker/tinkerers at MIT at the model railroad club way back when.

[1ajs 49]

On 12/20/2022 at 9:28 PM, Leo_the_robot said:

erm... one sec I have something quite old... if 1980 is old for a PC game lol.

Now this is running the 1991 open source version of Zork compiled to run in the linux terminal.
the original game was released in 1980.  so I hope this counts.

if not here's the actual original 1981 DOS release running in modern terminal using FROTZ

Gods yes, I want to see this!  big fan of space war and the old pdp computers given they were what kickstarted the early hacker/tinkerers at MIT at the model railroad club way back when.

i will have to service my paper tape reader as my copy is saved on paper tape

[kSlank 152]

[anonymous1234 216]

Hi!

My oldest game is Elder scrolls II: Daggerfall (1995). I'm really bad at playing it but it's fun, so I play it sometimes.

In case anyone's interested, it's free on Steam and it already installs DOSbox automatically. 

[Terring 6,476]

Right now I have only 5 games, ordered by date:

Amerzone (1999)

Deus Ex (2000)

Empire Earth (2001)

SimCity 4 (2003)

Command and Conquer Remastered Collection (2020)