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Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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If you think a game should be higher or lower in ranking, then upvote or downvote it. If you don't see a game on the list that you think should be on the list then create a top level reply with the name and system.

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[–] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Metal Great Solid

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

X-COM: UFO Defense

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bubble Bobble, Arcade, 1986

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Warcraft 2 best Warcraft hands down

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Half-Life

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pokémon Crystal is just shy of your 25 year threshold depending on what month it was released (it came out in 2000 in Japan), so I'll say Pokémon Yellow or Pokémon Gold and Silver. We can sit here and nitpick about which is the best, but Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal were all amazing.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Street fighter 2 - hyper fighting edition (arcade).

Played this every day after school for years as did a huge portion of my school.

[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Spyro (series) Playstation 1998-2000

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Super Mario Bros 3 - NES

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 69 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago

Doom

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Command & Conquer: Red Alert (PC)

[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reporting!

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost.

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[–] Retreaux@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Nintendo 64

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Space Cadet 3D Pinball (PC)

(tell me you didn't just hear that sound in your head)

[–] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 53 points 1 day ago

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Heroes of Might and Magic III, PC

[–] rimu@piefed.social 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Starcraft

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Super Mario World. The perfect platformer.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 25 points 1 day ago

Unreal Tournament

[–] afraidofmybasement@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Castlevania Symphony of the Night - PlayStation

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[–] Gremour@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Diablo (1996?)

[–] Azathoth@fedia.io 35 points 1 day ago

Super Metroid - SNES

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wipeout 2097 (Wipeout XL), PSX, 1996

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[–] khortits@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

sonic 3 and knuckles, Sega Genesis

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Quake 2, PC

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Goldeneye - N64

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[–] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

American McGee's Alice (2000) on PC

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spacewar, DOS, 1985

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

SkiFree (PC)

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[–] Retreaux@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Final Fantasy 7 - PlayStation

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donkey Kong Country - SNES

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

Tetris - Gameboy

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

IK+ (International Karate plus), Amiga, 1987

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[–] ramblingsteve@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

UFO (or xcom) - enemy unknown.

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[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

I’ll propose Age of Empires 1. That one is my childhood pretty much 😄

[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 24 points 1 day ago

Rollercoaster Tycoon

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dune 2, PC

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[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Star Control II, PC.

[–] _different_username@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

What a great game. It made me imagine what it would be like to travel such a wonderfully large universe.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Warcraft 2

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