What's the oldest videogame you still play?

[talkingmime]

37. They are great machines. My storage area used one for security up until a year ago.

It had worked fine for 35 years, but the company was bought by some conglomerate and they made them replace the Apple II with a commercial system that usually, but not always, opens the gate now.

When I was developing on an Amiga 500, I kept my C=64 next to it. The Commodore monitor had both composite and RGB inputs and a switch on front to toggle between them. The C=64 had the boot and OS code in ROM so you simply turned it on (like a calculator) and it was there. If I had to run calculations for a constant I needed in my Amiga code, I'd just switch to the C=64 and start a short program and then go back to coding on the Amiga.

I also built a pinout from the expansion port to a test board and made some pretty cool circuits controlled by the C=64. It's sort of sad, but assembly language and self-modifying code are a thing of the past, taboo even. I used to use both regularly, but that was long-long ago in a 1 MHz galaxy far-far away.