I think I’ve got an idea of a way to make somewhat of an annual thing where I will post games that have turned X years old. There’s a guy who posts daily screenshots so I got an idea to do something similar.

So, what games are turning a little older in 2026?

The 40-Year Old Class of 1986

Space Quest I, Chiller, Bubble Bobble, Hopping Mappy, RYGAR, Dragon Quest I, Metroid for NES, Kid Icarus, King’s Quest III, Adventure Island, Arkanoid, Castlevania, Out Run, Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels

The 30-Year Old Class of 1996

Diablo, Soul Edge, Tekken 2, Resident Evil, Command and Conquer, Super Mario RPG, Sid Meier’s Civilization II, Duke Nukem 3D, NIGHTS Into Dream, Pokemon Red and Blue, Descent II, House of the Dead

The 20-Year Old Class of 2006

Prey, Saints Row, Okami, Bully (PS2), The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Mother 3, Cooking Mama, New Super Mario Bros, Garry’s Mod, Dwarf Fortress, Guitar Hero

The 10-Year Old Class of 2016

Stardew Valley, Pokemon Sun and Moon, Persona 5, Batman: Telltale Series, Pokemon GO, Dead By Daylight, Overwatch, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Yakuza Kiwami, Final Fantasy XV, Civilization VI, Dishonored 2

If there’s any I missed, feel free to talk about below.

  • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    52 minutes ago

    WTF, I remember getting Final Fantasy XV day one, getting pissed at the FOMO carnivals, and thinking surely they would rotate back in or all be included at some point. Still absolute bullshit.

    • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Here’s something I do that helps with “feeling old” when people point out things that happened 20 or so years ago.

      The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion came out 20 years ago, but what was I actually doing 20 years ago? I was like 10 or 11 years old in middle school and my brother’s friend let him borrow the game over the weekend. It was my first open world RPG and I was so excited to play it and could barely even comprehend how big it was. I’ve basically lived two thirds of my life since then. My first job, moving out of my parents, my first apartment, getting my drivers license, my first car, my first real girlfriend, all of my neices and nephews being born, going to an amusement park for the first time, going to a movie theater for the first time, and basically everything else I can think of because I sure as shit don’t remember much from before I was 10 years old. So pretty much everything important that has ever happened in my entire life was between the time of Oblivion coming out and now.

      So yeah, we are definitely getting older. But that doesn’t mean the time in between was just nothing. It feels like 2006 was yesterday because we often gloss over everything in between and don’t really focus on what was actually going on in our lives at the time.

      Edit: spelling

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    4 hours ago

    mmm no. nope. pokemon red/blue was maybe 15 years ago. and oblivion is pretty recent.

    nope time hasn’t really moved on that much. that cant be right …

    jk

    • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
      6·
      4 hours ago

      I’m pretty sure it was yesteryear that all the kids were hazardously catching Pokémon outdoors while staring blindly into their phones.

  • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    The original Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda was February 21, 1986, making it 40 in just under three weeks.

    North American and European releases were in the summer and fall of 1987, though.

  • Sageman@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    I can hear the Out Run music in my head like it’s been yesterday.
    No way it’s been 40 years…

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      You’re pretty young. Enjoy it. Soon you’ll get one grey hair, and then another. And another. Soon you’ll have back problems, and be regularly aware that you need to eat more fiber.

      • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.orgOP
        2·
        3 hours ago

        We all should take the time we have been given for granted, it’s one of the values we really have. Because one day, we won’t ever again get to enjoy what we could now. I try not thinking too hard about mortality and how eventually, I’m going to be too old to play nearly anything.

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Talk about feeling old I played almost all the games until 2006, but fewer of the list after and hardly from the 2016 one. Not trying to one up but figured good place to comment.

      It’s been a fun time seeing progression over the years, haven’t stopped playing since my first Gemini (Atari 2600 knockoff that played the same games) system. Going from 2d squares to a proper video representation has been awesome. I always enjoyed the graphic improvements the gameplay has had its ups and downs but the remembered ones did that part right.

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Maybe this is an Avatar/ATLA situation, but as far as I’m aware Prey came out in 2017.