Thread 12006054

What is the oldest game you can play 1+ hours straight without interruption? While enjoying it of course.

Pong. What the fuck kind of question is that?

>>12006054 (OP)
Tell me you're a dopamine-fried brain zoomer without telling me you're a dopamine-fried brain zoomer.

this board would be better if it disallowed things zoomers wanted to talk about, remakes and 6th gen.

>>12006054 (OP)
Pac man for me

>>12006054 (OP)
Oubliette (1983)

>>12006054 (OP)
I miss Groovyposting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrsZWT-0-IE&list=RDVrsZWT-0-IE&start_radio=1

>>12006054 (OP)
Oblivion

>>12006054 (OP)
Galaga (1981)

>>12006054 (OP)
any infocom adventure

>>12006071
You forgot 5th gen

>>12006071
Just ban rpgs, these are things that only retards play

>>12006054 (OP)
Probably Chrono Trigger

>>12006071
/vr/ needs age verification. I think under 40s should be culled

>>12006054 (OP)
i dont play games from before the 3rd gen, so i guess metroid or super mario bros for the NES?
Might be some PC games that are older though but i never remember how old those games are relative to the NES

>>12006071
actually this board would be better if -oomerposters were banned

>>12006054 (OP)
Galaga.
I would say Pac-Man, but trying to achieve a higher score than my best in it has taught me I actually fucking hate Pac-Man because ai will spend 3 gours grinding on it and 2 of those hours will be spent resetting on failed attempts where I lose a life on round 1 or 2.

>>12006054 (OP)
I played Battlezone on the Atari 2600 for 2 hours once. I didn't even know 2 hours passed I was having that much fun.
>>12006067
fpbp

>>12006067
>What the fuck kind of question is that?
OP here. I have seen a ton of retards on /vr/ posting "2nd generation games can only be played at 10 to 15 minutes at a time".

So I wondered what non retards thought.

>>12006054 (OP)
>Pong
Do you seriously sit down and play Pong for hours?

>>12006210
Enldless posts about mega man and GnG being nintendo hard would get tiring

>>12006479
If I had nothing better to do, sure.

>>12006210
Anyone who doesn't remember 9/11

>>12006054 (OP)
5th gen stuff. Earlier games are like tech demos without a fully realized gamefeel. They lack a gameplay loop that keeps you playing longer.

>>12006421
How about you play some yourself and answer your own retarded subjective question for yourself, we don't know what you like

>>12006054 (OP)
Probably Tetris. I tend to play the NES version, but the gameplay is the same as always, and occasionally I will just sink a whole hour into it.

Tetris is a good example of perfected simplicity, an extremely pure videogame.

>>12006421
Give us some examples then, what are some 2nd generation games which you feel that you can easily play over an hour?

>>12006054 (OP)
E.T., while listening to Minneapolis synthpunk duo E.T.

Asteroids probably? I've put dozens of hours into it when there was an arcade in my hometown.

>>12006054 (OP)
Frostbite

>>12006054 (OP)
Super Mario bros on nes. Don’t think there are any older games I enjoy unless you count the old ultima trilogy dos ports based on early 80s releases.

>>12006054 (OP)
It must've taken you all your willpower to write that sentence without stopping to check tiktok.

>>12006836
You enjoy Pong so much you would play it if you had nothing better to do

>>12006054 (OP)
Aerobiz supersonic. Trying to make an Oceania route work is tough, but addicting.

>>12006054 (OP)
Marble Madness is arcade GOAT tier.

>>12006054 (OP)
The Oregon Trail

>>12006054 (OP)
Pac-Man

>>12008996
This, also Centipede or Space Invaders

>>12006054 (OP)
That depends very much on what your personal definition of "interruption". If you imagine that the game ending and restarting a new one isn't an interruption then all kinds of old games can be played for 1+ hours. And if you have such a vivid imagination you'd probably be entertained by counting your fingers and toes, so even the most mundane of video games would be thrilling.
>>12006067
That's amazing. Who do you play with that's so equally god like that a single game lasts over an hour.

>>12006067
If you can play a game like pong for an hour straight you have nothing going on in your head.

Enduro on the 2600

>>12006054 (OP)
Mario 64, though I don't play shit older than n64 much

>>12006054 (OP)
Pengo, i'm kinda autistic i know,,,,but i don't usually play it so when i do i waste a few hours

Like, any classic arcade game? Space Invaders or Pacman or whatever

>>12006054 (OP)
Joust (1982)

Dragon Warrior I. Honestly a lot of the Dragon Quest games are good for this, but I always appreciated the first one specifically for how simple it is. It's been a nice comfort game to turn my brain off for a few hours and grind.

>>12006054 (OP)
Castlevania symphony of the night. Sonic 3 and knuckles, Saga Frontier

>>12009158
I can easily see putting an hour in Pong with a friend.

Zork

man a text adventure built for a modern level of command parsing would be awesome

Battletoads

>>12009978
How do you mean? AI stuff?

>>12006054 (OP)
NES Tetris

>>12009978
>tryhard underage cringe
man a child built for an ancient level of not being a weirdo parsing would be awesome

>>12006054 (OP)
minecraft

>>12010194
You sir, are an epic troll :)

>>12006054 (OP)
Not retro, but Cyberpunk 2077

>>12009978
Zork's parser was the first and crudest of infocom's parsers, though it was still far beyond the average text adventure of the day. Infocom improved their parser steadily over the years, and non-commercial IF games kept that quality in the 90s on out. Try some more recent stuff, they're pretty good.

>>12010352
kids. lol.

>>12006054 (OP)
Silksong.

Mario Bros

>>12009471
>Castlevania symphony of the night
this is correct

>>12006054 (OP)
mario paint

Diablo 2

Pac-man

>>12006054 (OP)
Space Invaders probably

>>12006054 (OP)
While enjoying them, Mappy (1983) or Mario Bros. (1983), though idk if it'd be "without interupption". I'm pretty good at those games but I don't know if I can go an hour on a single credit.