Does chess or Parcheesi or Go count? Probably not.

The oldest RPG I’ve played was pretty new at the time — the original Dungeons & Dragons boxed set. The one where you didn’t even have die, but had to cut out chits and shake them in a cup. The rules were fairly simple, especially compared to the encyclopedias you need now just to know all the bits your characters do.

The oldest game we still play is Space: 1889, although I’m running the old setting with the new, lite Broken Compass rules. The oldest rules set we used up until about 2010 was the James Bond:007 RPG. It’s still worth a look.