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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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[–] Tabooki@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Galaga

[–] mortalblade@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Perfect Dark, N64

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 15 hours ago

Thief (1998)

[–] Dvixen@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Freelancer, PC

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Dance Dance Revolution.

(Do you feel old now?)

[–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Mega Drive

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

My first game ever.. good times

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Suikoden

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I am very sad that I've scrolled several pages and haven't seen the obvious one (though I could just be blind):

Deus Ex.

Edit: or perhaps it's because Deus Ex is from 2000 and I don't know if it counts yet. Maybe I'll wait 'til next year!

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 23 hours ago

X-COM: UFO Defense

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Bubble Bobble, Arcade, 1986

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

Metal Great Solid

[–] rocci@lemmy.ml 4 points 23 hours ago

Final Fantasy Tactics

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 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.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Half-Life

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 17 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.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Super Mario Bros 3 - NES

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Warcraft 2 best Warcraft hands down

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995

[–] Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago

I hear people say all the time that it is perfect. It definitely has imperfections.

However while I will insist on it being imperfect it has still been my number one favorite game for at least two decades.

It is easily the closest to perfect I think you could possibly ask for with the hardware limitations and the fact that teams don't have magical infinite time or budgets. Anyone with even a slight interest in RPGs should play it.

Plus it gave us the musical career of Yasunori Mitsuda