ok, major old school video games... remember ATARI?

Can u believe I still have my old ATARI and *get this* MAGNAVOX? lol... I plugged it into my tv and the systems still work! I get to play all my old games! Excellent!

 

let's go even older school cerridwen I still have an original "pong" console and it works...I don't have it hooked up....but that is the only video game I have ever played... I have brought my kids video games ever since nintendo...but I have never actually played any of them....as if I need another time wasting habit

 

I have an Atari 2600, super deadly awsome, (as well as a complete Commodore 64) i have something like 40 games for the beast, like basketball, combat, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and Wizard of Wor just to name a few.

Anybody else collect old stuff like this?? ^_^

 

hell i remember PONG! and i was already weaned (i.e. out of the house and living on my own) when it first came out!

i've had atari, comodore, and ohio scientific computer systems, all before you could get any kind of a drive other then audio casset or paper tape, that cost less then a grand. all of which came with basic in rom. and less then 32 k of user ram!

my comodski was a vic 20 i upgraded to near c-64 with an after market expansion buss. i don't remember buying games for them, although such were available, just writing my own 'zen software' in the old line numbers 'spegatti' basic. including a couple of game like things.

never could afford a cpm/s-100 machine. wanted one so bad i could taste it when i bought the first vic-20 in a store in portland oregon, or was it eugene, i don't remember for sure now, but i think i was already living in portland by then.

and we just bought the machine i have now, back in december, for the same price the vic cost new, (complete with clasic nihon engrish instruction manrul, 5K of ram, expandable onboard to 8K, and with expansion bus to something like 28K of user ram, much of the total of 64k of address space, remember 8 line address bus, taken up by memory map'd i/o and the display). some things DO improve.

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I used to flip Donkey kong all the time! I remember Pong too! Crazy how far we've come since then, isn't it?

 

I also have a C64, with 1541 floppy, printer, thier color monitor, joystick, and a super kickass 9600 buad modem

 

Geez. You're making me feel OLD! I remember typing in code for Hours
from "Compute's Gazzette" magazine to play a game on my T.I. 99/4A!
Tape drives were too expensive to buy at the time.
Good tymez those were. I won't go into the C=64 & 128's.

 

2400bps was the highest I could ever get if I wanted one withe the C= label.
Did you guys know that the Atari DB9 style joysticks are perfectly compatible
on any Commodore machine?

 

Tandy RS and my Intellivision. Good times.

I used to do that too!

 

We used to have an Atari 2600, and it had loads of games, I fondly remember a very primitive version of mario world which i always used to play.

 

i still play sega genesis on a regular basis

 

hmm i forgot to mention my miggy (amiga) 500
lol 1 meg of ram, 2 DD floppy drives, No Hard Drive XD

The Amiga is my fav com ever, if anyones interested check out www.amigaworld.net for info on classic and the new OS4 and AmigaOne

 

There were some really perfunctory handheld games. They were basically those little seven segment red LEDs rigged up to have a really poor resemblance to a basketball game. They were still fun, though.

Anyone remember Simon? That thing looked like a saucer. It had four color lighted switches with tones and you had to play back the sequence in the right order. It was a takeoff on 'Simon Says'.

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I remember 'simon'. I think my mum did not want to spend money on such triviality, so i had to play my mates. I was never any good.

 

Pacman for the Atari cost about $40 in some places back around 1980. The video game industry went in the dumpster in the early 80s, at least in the U.S. Atari stuff was selling for a couple bucks a cartridge in the early 80s.

I picked up the original Atari and bunch of cartridges for a few bucks at a thrift store. My, those games were perfunctory. At the time, they were the greatest things. I like Asteroids a lot. One of my favorite games. Atari's Adventure was pretty neat.

I heard that Pong was invented by someone in the military who wanted some entertainment in his off time.

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Gee whiz i remember those games also, i've never grown out of them. I've never progressed in my skill levels either. I think they may have off loaded a few shipments, in this country then.

 

now here's an oldie for ya - do any of you remember the "odyssey" game system?

one of my faves on that system was a haunted house game - it came with a transparency of a house that you taped to your tv screen, lol, those were some good times!

 

Pong, the arcade game, was invented by Nolan Bushnel and he wasn't in the army. There is a good book about the history of Atari call "Zap! The Rise and Fall of Atari" by Scott Cohen. Interesting read for anyone interesting in the history of electronic gaming.

Still have a 2600 and play it once and a while.

Did anyone here ever finish or figure out any of the "SwordQuest" games?? I remember those being the hardest games for it.

 

I remember having the 'Electronic Ping Pong' game that you plugged into your t.v. set in the late 1970s.That was considered 'extremely hi-tech' for it's time.