Oldest working game or console you have

[shin kai]

I did not see anything similar on the forum and it's a question I ask every now and then.

For me, I still have a working copy of Super Mario Land (got it used), with a GBA to play it on. It blows my mind how I didn't have a problem with the small screen back then but I'm also used to having a lot of screens and text larger size to avoid too much eye strain.

I still have a link cable between GameBoys and the printer. Ah, good times when Costco and Target had different colored GBC's and N64's stacked in that big plastic case.

Unfortunately, the oldest thing I'll still have soon will be a DS since I really had to do some spring cleaning and finally had to get rid of old stuff I don't need anymore.

Super Mario Land, in the beginning you baffled me with how come Mario's fireballs went zigzag (at least I could snipe enemies with it) or why Koopa shells exploded. But now, I finally have to part ways with you.

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Then again, I wouldn't mind getting a used Dreamcast and play some Shenmue or Power Stone (co-worker of mine bought a boxful of those VMUs for a like $1 each).

[The Almighty MegaMan]

Man, keep it! How much space does a Game Boy game occupy anyway? Hahaha

Perhaps it is because in many many years I had a severe lack of games, but I'm going the other way around - within the span of two years I've gotten 5 consoles (N64, PS2, GB Micro, GBC and a Wii - yeah, full force Nintendo) and if I'm able to, I'll get a Dreamcast.
I'm also on the fence about the Saturn

Answering the question, I'm not sure. I still keep my famiclone games. F1 Sensation which I recall playing 18 years ago worked the last time the famiclone turned on.
I have faith in the little thing to work still!
Aside from that, there's also Terminal Velocity for PC and Pokemon Yellow.

[Drageuth]

Oldest game I have is probably the first Super Mario Bros. for my NES. My NES came from an Action Set bundle, so it's no older than 1988.

Other than some 5 and a quarter inch floppies I have kicking around in my closet somewhere (which may or may not have a couple of games), that's the oldest I won.

[Ragnar]

My copy of Combat on the Atari 2600 is older than I am:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_2600_games

Edit: They made it till at least '82 though. I have no idea when mine was manufactured.

[shin kai]

within the span of two years I've gotten 5 consoles (N64, PS2, GB Micro, GBC and a Wii - yeah, full force Nintendo) and if I'm able to, I'll get a Dreamcast. I'm also on the fence about the Saturn

Come to think about it, there was only 1 other person I know that owned a GB Micro (I remember big ads of it on myspace) and damn, true to it's name, that thing was tiny.

Speaking of Saturn, I've seen lots of Saturn pad clones on eBay. Supposedly the original pads were excellent for fighting games but I wouldn't know myself. Sega's consoles, especially Dreamcast, were those things to me where I appreciated it much more after I grew up.

When it came to Super Mario Bros, I must've had 5 copies including the ones with Track Field (3-in-1) or only with Duck Hunt. I remember I had Milon's Casle but because I didn't know what the heck to do in the beginning and nothing responded, I thought the cartridge was a dud and never gave it a 2nd thought. It wasn't until I saw the AVGN episode that I realized "Damn, so maybe that cartridge wasn't a dud after all."

[TheHipsterKid95]

Unfortunately my oldest is the NES, I really want to get my hands on a Magnavox Odyssey.

[Elin]

A year and a bit ago, I bought a copy of Pier Solar, a newly developed RPG for the Mega Drive. I didn't wind up playing that much of it because it was a pretty busy time for me, but what I did play was on my ancient Mega Drive that I dragged out of storage, which was still fully functional after all these years. It was the same one I played games like Sonic on growing up, and we got it when I was four, making it almost as old as me. It was so surreal to be playing a completely new Mega Drive game on the same console I played new games on growing up.

I also have a working Japanese copy of Phantasy Star 2, which was originally published in 1989 and thus might be older still. But I bought it second hand as an adult, and have no real way of knowing whether it was an original 1989 copy or one published later.

No older stuff than that here, I'm afraid. We had an Atari 2600 growing up, but I was never that interested in games back then, and didn't really make an effort to hold onto it as I grew older.

[crusher]

Got two NES systems in the house with shitloads of games. The oldest being SMB + Duck Hunt and Gumeshoe. Had a Commodore 64 at one point but I think it broke and was thrown away.

[Cookie Monster]

My Sinclair Spectrum ZX is still in working order

[Fyre Fox]

The oldest thing I have is my Atari 2600. It still works, Though sometimes I need a matchbook to make the carts sit right in it (I'm talking about YOU Pitfall 2). I've been playing that thing for about 24 years now.. I'm shocked it still worked to be honest.

[rengoku349]

I've still got my old Genesis I got for my fifth birthday. Still have the Sonic cartridge I got with it.

[Jazzmarazz]

My Sinclair Spectrum ZX is still in working order

:JealousJazz:

My oldest is my 2600 Heavy Sixer. Next oldest would be my Ti99, but I don't have a PSU to test it out right now.
Just looked at the Atari titles and I own three of the release titles. Air-Sea Battle, Indy 500 and Combat.

[Mohit]

Super Nintendo Entertainment System is my oldest

[Kool Aid Man]

Atari 2600 with 1978 copy of Combat. I have Space Invaders for the 2600 that shows a 1978 date on the box and cartridge label but all the databases list a 1980 release date. Could be a misprint?

[brandonba]

my oldest is atari 2600 about 30 games. still have all my other systems nes, snes, genesis, saturn, n64, dreamcast and so on