Remember Atari 2600, NES, Intellivision, & Colecovision?

I had a couple of atari 2600 s and a Coleco Adam . Got the Coleco in the mid 80 s for like $300 relly cool maching for the time . It ran all the Coleco games , basic and cp/m . It came with a printer that was aslo the power syply . I have some 2600 s I found , bought at auction or some thing , and cartg.s some day I will test them . I have a kaypro I got at auction , it turns on .but I dont have any soft ware for it . I have a big box of 7 inch 1/4 inch real to real tapes , some day I will see what is on them . Maby one real is that one Nixon had the 17 min. hum on .
Coleco Adam - Wikipedia

 

I played delightfully little computer games as a kid. We somehow got an Atari around age 8 I would guess. But there were years in between that one and my next phase of gaming. I think i only played the occasional Prince of Persia on pc and Tetris lol, before getting into Duke Nukem and the likes on pc and having another real interest in it. The N64 was my second console but often tend to count it as my first, as its the first one I wanted and picked myself.

Have you tried Dark souls on ps3 or ps4? I'm still at the beginning of Dark souls 3, but to be fair haven't played a lot yet.

I never got a new game for the Atari other than the bunch that came with it (seconhanded i think) One reason I underrate my experience with it. But if I remember properly I did have a lot of fun with it for awhile. I recall frogger, and a 2d shooter game, and a game where you drove an army truck i think Oh yeah, and a race game that appeared as 3d. You could count every pixel of the car lol

 

i remember when the latest home entertainment technology was called television, and fm radio was some kind of science future gosh wow tech you saw demonstrated at the county fair.

 

Mike Tyson's Punch Out--

Trying to beat that game was like what in the actual FUCK. Haha.

Fond memories for sure.

 

I beat most of the first one and could not get past 1 hour in the second one. They really are hard games. I did not want to try 3 after sucking so bad at 2.

 

3 is my first

 

i've never owned any of those boxes.

(i did own comodore and atari 8 bit computers of that era though)

for me, at first, when computers, cpu in a single i.c., fully functional 'toy's based on them,
became something someone with an ordinary income could afford, back in the late 70's,
it was all about playing with the technology itself,
and writing little zen loops to do pretty things on the screen
with spagetti basic that came as part of the roms that brought them to life.

i was impressed by the grafix, because i'm a visually oriented person, when these game boxes first came out,
but wasn't about to cough up big bux for something that could only play games, about things that didn't interest me that much,
and that i realized i would soon tire of.

so i held off, until this advanced display technology which they brought, migrated to more general purpose, end user programable real computer systems.

as the latter matured, their system software became to large and complex a maze for my poor little grey cells.
as it did, and as they became powerful enough to support this,
my focus shifted to packages i could use to create my own worlds and portray images from them.

so this whole thing of game machines, i thank that genre for bringing the level of imaging i now enjoy,
but otherwise, i bipassed that whole phenomina. never bought a game machine as such,
and really don't forsee myself ever doing so.

but i do look forward to image quality continuing to become more powerful, emersive and realistic.

 

i remember the atari 400 and 800, the commador vic 1001, and the commador pet (which may have been an acronym for personal electronic thingamabob),the apple one,
the elf, the s-100 bus, the cp/m operating system, spagetti basic in rom, the altair in kit form, and before that as an article in popular electronics.

anyone remember byte, and dr dob's journal of computer calisthenics and orthodonta? the oliver engineering paper tape reader. an outfit with the unlikely name of pickles and trout?
the first west coast computer fair, at the cow palace, in san franciso, which was where i saw the apple one. and i guess the guy demo-ing it must have been wozniak or jobes, i forget which.

 

I absolutely love Atari 2600,colecovision and a few Nintendo games (Mostly Super Mario Brothers 1)

 

I remember Pong

 

and in 1972, i was 24 years old.
time do do that thing.

 

Okay, my early gaming experiences came with the original Sega MasterSystem and the BBC B micro computer, both of which I still have in full working order. It is my aim, by the end of the year, to have a garden office kitted out as a games room in order to have all my retro consoles set up along with my pc flight-sim set-up. Full list : Sega MasterSystem, BBC B Micro, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 1&2, Xbox 360, Xbox 1 and PC with flight-sim control system and steering wheel

 

Pong in '72 & Space Invaders, '78. I still have them.

 

Space Invaders!!

I remember seeing something like that on Atari. Or maybe that was centipede. I'm sure it had both...

Video gaming has really evolved; though I didn't care for the direction with the wearable VR. I don't like that. But many aspects are very impressive.

I still jibe with my new-ish PS3. Well, not new but newly bought. I think I got it in April. & of course it's used.

Do you have a PlayStation or Xbox?

 

How things have changed.
This box of tricks is all that you need to run a cinema these days. Although it costs £70,000. it saves £1,000 a week in film costs.

 

i can remember when movie house projectors looked mostly like arc lights and used a carbon arc to produce the light. and occasionally broke the film, that had to be then spliced back together after the remaining part of the reel was run through, and a major movie would come in four or more cans, and the projectionist or their helper would spend the following hours after the showing doing all that repair splicing. this was my dad's second job when i was starting kindergarten in truckee california in 1953. lol. i think the highest tech on them was a bell that would automatically actually ring to tell the projectionist to start the other projector rolling with the next reel for continuity. always two projectors to make that possible.

 

That was how we ran films until 1990. The carbon arclamp was then replaced with a xenon bulb, allowing longer reels to run. At the time that your dad was working, the reels were 20 minutes and the bell was a mechanical device that was triggered by the increasing speed of the top reel as the film was running out. It was purely a warning, to light the other lamp and stand by. The actual changeover was done by watching the cue rings on the top RHS of the screen. The first one was 7 seconds from the end of the outgoing reel, telling you to start the other projector. This was threaded 7 seconds from the start of the incoming reel. On the second cue, the outgoing reel was half a second from ending and the incoming reel was at the start of the picture. 2 buttons were pressed, one to operate the shutters that swapped the picture, the second to change the sound to the other machine. Prior to 1950, the film was cellulose nitrate (highly flammable), so the maximum reel was 10 minutes.
The warning (ding ding) was only fitted to one make of projector (Kalee 21) Many cinemas removed it, since it was fairly unreliable. As a result, if projectionists relied on it, reels often ran out. Since we are in the UK, other US machines may have had them.
Does this picture look familiar,?



I was showing films at our local cinema when I was 13 years old. It was completely unheard of at the time. At the age or 21, I gave up my studies as a cardiologist and took a job as a senior projection engineer in Leicester Square. Three years later, I was appointed as the company chief engineer and ran the first of my 14 royal film performances.
Your reply brought back some happy memories.

 

This is one of the earliest pictures of a cinema projection room. Circa 1920, 8 years before the introduction of sound.