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

[cerridwen]

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!

[fylthevoyd]

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;)

[Zepp]

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?? ^_^

[themnax]

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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[fritz]

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

[YankNBurn]

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

[MattInVegas]

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.

[MattInVegas]

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

[SithInHeels]

Tandy RS and my Intellivision. Good times.

I remember typing in code for Hours
from "Compute's Gazzette" magazine

I used to do that too!

[Meagain]

Just dumped all my C-64's at the flea market,
6 C-64s
3 drives, one was the newer white one.
bunches of atrai and aftermarket joysticks
An Atari keypad
2 Mach5 cartriges
2 "machine gun" inline joystick plugs that gave you rapid fire
a 300 baud and 900 baud modem
2 processer books
couple of progamming books,
and about 200-300 programs including two complete GEOS sets.

$15.00

Broke my heart. But I needed the storage space for my Amigas that I never use and I can always get an emulator on the net.

Hey Matt,
I used to type in those old programs too!
Remember typing a line then the checksum number didn't match at the end, so you had'a go back and find the error? Or didn't the Ti have checksums?
We used to rip Atari joystricks apart and use the switchs to hook up to steering wheels and pedals off of lawnmowers and such.
Later we used PVC pipe to make airplane controls for FlightSimulator in the PC world.

Atari joysticks also worked on Amigas, they'd also take an IBM style....oops could'a used those TAC IIs on the Amigas http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/embarassed.gif

[ZePpeLinA]

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.

[Soberbeah]

i still play sega genesis on a regular basis

[Zepp]

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

[shaggie]

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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[mbworkrelated]

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.

[shaggie]

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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[mbworkrelated]

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.

[psychedelic goddess]

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! :D

[dd3stp233]

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.

[Flight From Ashiya]

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.

[shaggie]

Radio Shack had one with 4 games, ping pong, hockey, and two others. If you put the slide switch exactly between two games, you could get a game that wasn't even on there with more paddles. :)

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[Musikero]

The oldest games I can remember are Pacman (remember that little ball with a mouth?) and Loderunner (Apple).

[Musikero]

I used to play Streetfighter II almost every day after school when I was thirteen. My favorite fighter was Chun Li because she was really quick and she wore that skimpy Chinese dress with the slits up to her hips. I used to make her kick and hit the pause button. :blush: :lol:

[shaggie]

I used to play Streetfighter II almost every day after school when I was thirteen. My favorite fighter was Chun Li because she was really quick and she wore that skimpy Chinese dress with the slits up to her hips. I used to make her kick and hit the pause button. :blush: :lol: Shame on you. :)

There are different skins for the Tombraider game. You can make her play nude.

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[JerryWobbles]

atari food fight was the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizneee eeet

[Musikero]

Here's a list of the videogames I used to play: Punch Out, Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. 1 and 2, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong, and Contra. There are more, but I don't remember their names anymore.:(

[themnax]

well i remember arcade versions of dig-dug, zaxon, and even tank, when each were brand new and pretty spectacular compared to anything we could as yet, at the time each of them came out, get our hands on at home.

but again this was arround the time the first take home and plug in 8 bit byters were first becoming available.

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[shaggie]

Atari Adventure is probably my favorite for that machine. It seems to have a lot of variability to it that the other games don't.

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[AreYouExperienced]

After getting my xbox modded, I can now play every game from Atari2600, Colecovision, MAMEOX (aracade games), and pretty much every other console pre-N64. It's great, if you have an Xbox, I highly recommend doing it.

[shaggie]

What type of mod?

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[AreYouExperienced]

Well my friend did it for me, but he installed a soft-modded hard drive with Xbox Media Center. It's great, if you have it hooked to the internet you can check the weather, listen to streaming radio, and all kinds of other good stuff.

[Spirit Wynd]

I just sold my Atari 2600 and over a hundred games last year. Also sold a thousand Commodore 64 games, and have another thousand with the hardware in my room... lol, and its set up on the table... just in case I grow tired of my PC. Besides, I think some of the older games are far better in concept than today. They should take some of them and re-make for win xp. One in particular is Alternate Reality:The City and The Dungeon. Make them for pc and finish the rest of the series as well.
Oh well, just dreaming I guess...