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In the early 90's there were a bunch of text-based MORG's played on dial-up. There were also a lot of text-based stand-alone games. I played Moria (as in the Mines of Moria from Lord of the Rings). You were a capital "H". All the easy monsters were lower case and the hard ones were upper case. Add a few keyboard commands for attack, move, and portal to the town to haggle for goods. Very simple but very addictive.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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If you can get by with text-based, try to find "The Colossal Cave" or one of the similar variants. You should be able to find the source code (basic), which you can dissect to see how it works.
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Unreal Tournament GOTY often referred to as UT99. Newer version came with game editors and the current version of the Unreal Engine is downloadable.
https://www.unrealengine.com/[^]
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My biggest issue with this is that they still haven't completely worked out the legal issues with emulators. It's really hard to find real Amiga 500's and C64s these days and original copies of corresponding games like Neuromancer (Amiga - Think the Matrix Movie before it's time), WhizBall (C64 Version is Best) and Midwinter (Amiga). Sure, games like Myst, Sid Meier's Pirates, Kings Quest and some older games have been licensed for sale, but many older games will not run on new hardware and they haven't been legally ported yet because there isn't a "market".
Microprose Falcon 4 is an example of an brilliantly efficient and well written game, but it runs like garbage on many version of Windows 10 because the DirectX9 emulation is so awful on Win 10. Falcon 4 runs way better on Steam Proton OS (Wine), but it's not 100% certain that GNU\Linux Wine is completely legal. Also, there are mild incompatibility issues running Falcon 4 under Wine instead of native Windows even if the frame rate in Wine is blazingly high and the frames are smooth.
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Frogger is an old but simple game I played way back when there were places called arcade halls.
Simple graphics and controls, teaches hit detection... And controlling your frustration levels.
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Read "Ready Player One" and list all the games mentioned there!
Barring that:
Zork
Empire (1977)
Rogue (1980)
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Ha, where do you start? So many games, so little time. Here is a list of some games with differing styles. I'd suggest starting with games with limited styles/movements/features, and trying games with differing styles, so not to get overwhelmed trying to figure out too much and work up into more complex games. Also, search out and play some poorly developed games, learning what doesn't work, and why it doesn't work, can be helpful. And makes your mind work thinking how you would make it better.
BASIC Programming - 1979 Atari 2600 cartridge
Cartridge and Keypad Info
Bouncing Babies - 1984 DOS (Left/Right movement, gravity, physics/bouncing)
Pooyan - 1982 Konami (Up/Down movement, timing, gravity, velocity)
Rush'n Attack - 1985 Konami, many platforms (Left/Right movement, jump/climb/shoot, timing)
Leisure Suit Larry In The Land of The Lounge Lizards - 1987 DOS (Adult-themed game, User Inputs questions for responses)
Heretic - 1994 Raven/ID Software DOS, modified DOOM engine (First-person, look up/down, inventory of items, spawning, random sounds)
EarthBound - 1995 Ape/Nintendo (Role playing, 2D world with oblique projection, screen morphing, halu
Battlefield 1942 - 2002 for PC (FPS, single or multi-player over network or internet, historical maps)
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
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For DOS and windows: SkiFree, Mine Sweeper, Monuments of Mars, and Jill of the Jungle. Commodore 64: Grid runner, Legend of the Exploding Fist, Spindizzy, Impossible Mission, Jungle Hunt, Pitfall 2, Giana Sisters, and Gorf. Amiga: Star Control and Lemmings.
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Some of the first 3d space simulation games: Descent, Freespace
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Any of the Sierra games from the 90's. "King's Quest", "Space Quest" and heck "Quest for Glory". They have a mix of command line interpreting and point-and-click, but they all have graphics.
You can find them all on Steam.
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If the goal is to teach programming concepts and have a fun time, then by all means look into "COREWAR Dewdney".
Do a search on those
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keyword. Read the Wikipedia article.
I started my kids on a few games that I created (text based & boring) Then went to the 1984 original Dewdney version. I recommend starting kids on a version close to the original (a simpler assembler-like language and with fewer operands). The original version runs, and is over in an eye-blink. I made a version that ran under Power Basic and allowed a slowed down, blow-by-blow view of the progress of the battle. This helped the kids see where their programs strengths & weaknesses were.
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I was born in 1973, and the most classical games I remember are Space Invaders, Asteroids, Centipede, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
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I just about replied with a Dr. Demento Christmas playlist, to cleanse the palate, but knowing that song is stuck in your head is my evilness for the day! Serves you right! 
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Last night I heard a loud twangy sound like the sound of metal coming loose and springing - or like a steel guitar string snapping. I looked around - it was dark and I was in bed - and I didn't see anything unusual.
I wake up later, and my brand new computer is off, and the power light is flashing. Flashing.
So I'm thinking it overheated. Only it wasn't working itself ragged, so I wasn't sure why. All I could think of was $1500 worth of parts I just bought returned to the manufacturer.
I hit the power button, because why not? If it's broken, it's broken, right? I can't kill it anymore than it was.
It turned right on, and my screen from last night came right back up. The machine didn't reboot.
It woke up.
Windows changed power settings on me for some reason, making my computer go to sleep after two hours.
Apparently when my machine is asleep the power light flashes.
I actually think the twangy sound was a relay in my machine clicking off or something when it went to sleep. But I'm still not sure.
Anyway wow was my heart pumping. You'd think I just cheated death or something, the way I was so shaky.
Thanks Microsoft for terrorizing me this morning.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I'm starting to wonder if mine is doing something similar.
I hibernate it every night, and the last two days when I come down it's turned on.
Could be the cat - he knows how to do it - but I dunno.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oy, cats 
I never know the source of strange noises anymore, because of cats.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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The noises aren't as bad as the smells ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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On my comp, it was wake on lan setting.
In MS manner, this is reset after every update.
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Yup. Some updates will even rest your file associations - that's irritating as well, but worse it's just stupid.
But there will be some here that will say "you should have known to check your power settings" after the update.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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😬What a way to wake up! My heart would also be thumping!
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I love this PC. This new build is fantastic, but it has scared me more than once now.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Your computer, under the control of a bot-net run by a 16 year old Azerbaijan, was watching 1950's television's "Andy's Gang" [^] [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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