Now, I notice people on these forums, when referring to a game from 2006 for example calling it an "Old Game"..

Now, I don't really consider any game released after 2002 as an "Old game", but maybe thats just because I am an older gamer..

I think of old games, and I think "Outlaws" by Lucasarts, or "Might and Magic 1-8", or even "Mechwarrior 2"..



So, my question to my fellow posters this evening is, In Your Opinion at what point is a game considered "Old"?

I think this is based on how long you've been playing games. I consider Wolf 3D old, as well as Doom. Full Throttle would go in there as well, even Dark Forces. At the same time, these are examples of "timeless" games (in my opinion).

For myself, I'd consider anything from say, 1998 or so old. But old does not equate to bad by any means. From 1998-2005 I'd consider kind of middle aged if you will. Anything more recent than that I would consider modern, even with the leaps and bounds of graphics, because in my mind that is just eye candy (not that I am complaining about that by any means).

I think in today's age a game is old already before it is released.

To me there is no such thing as an old game.

Age is subjective. But I tend to agree with this.

Indeed. For someone who played games for ~30 years a 5 year old game is still fairly new, but for someone that 5 year old game was their first game and consider it ancient.

For me there's a bit of a difference between PC and consoles too. I mean, with consoles you can easily tell if a game is "old" just by telling which console it's for. A PS1 game is old compared to a PS3 game, for example. With PCs, you had DOS games and then you had Windows games and now Windows games been the main way of PC gaming for the past ~17 years. The above-mentioned Outlaws is a 32bit Windows game just like Skyrim or any other recent PC game, so where to draw the line?

It's not old unless it requires DOS.

I think it depends on your age and gaming history. I started gaming on DOS and the Sega Genesis in the early 90s, and I consider games of the Windows 9x/Playstation era or earlier to be old.

I tend to draw the line at the level of hardware required to run a game well (not maxed out, but close to it), when it comes to PC games. Sure, I can run anything from the "Beast" on my other systems (sans the Mac), but I certainly can't run what I have on my main gaming rig on it.