Spicollidriver1

Yeah I saw a few select stores this weekend selling it for 30.

Jackskeleton

Old school here. ahhh the classics..

Josh H

The first system I had was an Atari, but not the 2600. Maybe it was the 2500? IT was the one with the stick and the single red button on the back that always broke. Those damn buttons wouldn't last more than a month or two. I was real young when I had that. I didn't get into games hardcore until I got an NES when I was in the 4th grade.

Nitelite

I too am old skool.

I wanted ColecoVision so bad one year for Xmas; my friend had it, and we played mad Donkey Kong. Anyways, my parents got me Atari 2600. I can remember saving up my $2 a week allowance and buying Raiders of the Lost Ark for $40 at Ames. Man, I could never parachute into that little opening underneath that branch! I played my share of E.T., Could Yar's Revenge it up against anyone, and was a masta at Missile Command. Also, anyone remember a game called Fireworld? Really strange game. I have always had some questions about that game.

I also had a Texas Instruments computer type thing. All I remember was a game called Munch Man that was similiar to PacMan, was a bit different. Anyone have a clue what I am talking about?

I had the 7800, NES, SNES, Sega.. blah blah blah. But, what is cool, is I still have the original news letters that Nintendo used to send out quarterly for free. This is pre-Nintendo Power (Nintendo Power replaced the newsletter, but they gave everyone who was getting the newsletter the first issue of Nintendo Power free, which I still have two copies, plus the next 22 or so in a row. I also own the first 3 issues of GamePro magazine, which was my favorite.

I used to write to all the game companys and ask for information about games they were planning on releasing, and got a bunch of newsletters regularly from Capcom, Vik Tokai, Konami, Koei etc. All of which I still have (sadly?).

Anyways, Video Games are a great thing to be into, and I am happy I have lived through the early evolution of it. I still have a promise to myself that one day I will own the original 4 player Gauntlet Arcade game. "Warrior, you are about to Die!", "Valkyrie, your life force is running out!".

qbert

hell yea! that's what i'm talkin about

anyone here remember the ill-fated E.T.??

remember in baseball? all you had to do was hold down while swinging and everytime it was a homerun

river raid rocked

other games were phat like spider man, boxing, KABOOM! (you had to use the rotating paddle thingy), Tank was awesome! (or was it tank-wars??), space invaders, missile command, gosh i had like over 50 games but these seem to be the first that come to mind.

Spicollidriver1

I liked E.T.

mmeadows

Man, I had a pong system. Oh, it had "racquetball" and "tennis" and "hockey," but all it all was Pong. Talk about MFing old school.

Goblincat

Anyone have the pong with the gun? You had to shoot a white square the appeared and disappeared all over the screen.

darkside

I remember paying $40 and $50 for Atari 2600 (shoot it wasn't even called the 2600 then) games like Asteriods and Pac-man. $50 for the worst version of Pac-man every made. Adventure and Star Raiders were my favorite games. I still remember setting the highest score ever on Zaxxon at the local arcade only to have a power outage wipe out my score a week later. Zaxxon and Pole Position were my favorite arcade games. I remember when everyone wanted to be on that Video Game/Game Show on Nickelodeon. Man to be young and play baseball on the Intellivision again.

porieux

Wow, nobody has come in here flaming everyone to hell for not talking about xbx and ps2???!

What a cool place!

TLamm

You bet! Had the atari, had a vic20, even had one of those pong machines. The best was the coleco vision though; played donkey kong for a year straight.. Ended up with 20+ coleco games and I have no clue how since you couldnt copy them back them I must have had great parents...

moviechick

My favorite game on the Atari was E.T. I was four at the time . I still have my nes and snes sytems too so yeah, I guess you can say I'm old school .

stingo

Not that I'm a Star Wars fanatic but... in my local arcade they have the new Star Wars game (3 campaigns - first is Death Star from what I remember) and I played that. But right next to it was the original vector graphics version - maybe it was nostalgia but I preferred the older game. Also remember Epyx's Star Wars coin op too. (Also liked Ripoff as well - maybe we can see an update of that?)

Canis Firebrand

Heck yes.

I had an Atari 2600, Colecovision, commadore 64, vic 20, apple IIc.
All from the span of about 6-12 years old.

I didn't get a nintento until I was 14 or so. and my PC I got when I was 22.

notoriousaurus

I still have over 200 Atari 2600 games!

Love it Love it Love it!

Last year I was in a local newspaper article with my fat as$ laying in front of my A2600 plugged into its own dedicated tv. That was kinda cool.

The article was both poorly written and misquoted me several times...ah the price of fame!

Collin

TI-99 4A - Had one of those and loved it! It was the TI equivalent to the Atari 800 XL.

Munch Man was awesome!

Daryl

We had a Vic-20 back in the day. The worse part was - we didn't immediately get the tape drive to record our programs. We would spend 2-3 hours typing in these BASIC programs from Compute magazine, and then play them all day. At night, we'd have to turn off the computer and we would lose the program. The next day - same thing all over again!

Eplicon

Old school for me indeed, but nearly all of my gaming needs were on the Atari 800. Those were the days when software was just as expensive as it is now! It was a $1000 system back then, and that was without a disk drive or modem! I had to settle for a tape drive, the Atari 410 (which tended to be notoriously unreliable in its latter production run). What sold me on the system was not simply the better graphics and sound over the game machines, but one title in particular: Star Raiders. It's usuall cited as one of the best games ever made for the system, despite its simple graphics and sound. It has quite a bit of repeat gameplay value to it, and for a game that was made in 1979!

I also remember having to go through the agonies of typing in long programs in BASIC from Compute! and Antic magazine, which often would take me several days or more to do, entering in code a couple of hours a day (and I was a fast typist). It was a bummer when the articles didn't have screenshots and made the programs sound a lot better than they were, which sometimes resulted in getting these not-so-great looking games! It was particularly rough in the early days when I didn't have a disk drive and to wait 10-30 minutes for a program to load or save. This was also in the days before including disks with the magazines was thought of, too.