I played Specter on the Super Nintendo as a kid, that might be a contender. It’d older than Super Mario 64.

It’s a tank game where you roam around an endless flat space, hunting other extremely-low-poly tanks. The only other objects are cylinders sitting there. It was actually pretty fun.

Why wouldn’t they be? We hand-wrote all our good games until, like, yesterday.

Joyless money-hoarding is why I’m currently able to joylessly pay rent during this terrifying bout of unemployment