Im talking Atari 2600, Commadore 64, the original Pac Man, Zaxxon, Mario Bros., Pole Position, Star Wars the Arcade game.

Are you old school?

I am old school...

6 years old...
get atari 2600 for christmas...
play pacman for what seems like 3 weeks straight...
found out what "pacman-wrist" was...
tell my little brother that contollers used to have a real joystick and ONE button and have him look at me like I just rambled off the theory of relativity...
go to friends house to play ladybug and zaxxon on colecovision...
Spending all my allowance at the 7-11 playing Star Wars
Thinking pitfall had amazing graphics...
Seeing space invaders on atari 7800 and thinking, "man..video games don't get better than this"...

those were the days...

Heck yes!

Um, yeah... I think so... :)

Anyone who had an Atari 2600 is most definetly old school. Me included. :D

Old School here as well. I remember blowing all of my paper route money playing Dragon's Lair. I got my 2600 (6 switcher) from K-mart for $126.00 plus tax and played Space Invaders so much my eyes got stuck in invader-tracking-mode. I had trouble reading for a while afterwards. I have the first 13 issues of Electronic Games magazine. I play Sinistar and Discs of Tron on my PC using MAME32. Sunday morning, after sex and coffee, my ex-girlfriend (it's a long story) and I played Frogger and Centipede on my recent Ebay purchase, a shiny 2600 4-switcher with like-new Wico controllers.

Brought a Pong unit when it first came out.

<b>Kahuna</b> :cool:

Also had a pong unit :cool:

Had an pong unit i played when i was real young.... then the atari 2600. Man, i even got a high enough score on Megamania to take a picture of my screen and send it in and got my name listed in some magazine and they sent me a "Megamaniac" patch, which btw, i still have floating around somewhere. Ah, those were the days, playing that and Combat till my eyes were all red and sore. ;)

I missed out on pong .. but certainly had an Atari !!! :) (I am 24 yrs old).

Dood, I'm so old school, I'm arcade... :D

Am I the only one who's parents bought a Commadore Vic-20
It was mainly text based games but the one game I loved was....Tooth Invaders, you were a little spaceman with a toothbrush and the object of the game was to rid all the teeth of scum before the Plaque monster got you.
I loved that game:D

I am old school, and I am gonna reaquire older systems, at least I'm gonna try.

I have been thinking about doing that myself. I really regret getting rid of my Genesis and SNES. I miss Golden Axe so much.

I also had a pong. Actually it was an archaic pong hybrid. It actually required you to put like six D batteries into the console and then plug it in!

My whole family is old scool. We had the Atari 2600. My whole family (grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins) had a running competition on River Raid. I think I made the #2 spot once, then lost it to my Grandma. :(

I still have my NES, in my parents' shed, but occaisionally I pull it out and get in a few games of Tetris or Metroid. I sold my SNES though.

-CM-

oh yeah

DEFENDER !

I had the Odyssey 3...

You can get Golden Axe for the Dreamcast - it's in the smash pack - but you already knew that... I'm looking forward to getting it myself...

I think you mean Odyssey 2. :)

you said "pong unit" (huh huh huh huh huh huh huh)

I own both Asteroids and Centipede stand ups. Super duper old skooool

Old school yes. Loved the 2600. Ahh the memories..

Raiders of the Lost Ark 2 joystick action
Secret room in Adventure
Easter egg in Missle Command
Finishing Pit Fall
Crazy Climber fun
Asteroids and Yars Revenge
Combat: Still one of the best 2 player games around

I had an Atari 800 too. Woohoo. My buddy had Commodore stuff. Radar Rat Race on the Vic-20 was a blast.

Yeah that smash pack game is quite possibly the best collection of games put out.

I want to get it but I am not going to pay for a whole new system. Arn't they supposed to sell the disc on its own?

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

Old school here. ahhh the classics..

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.

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!".

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.

I liked E.T.

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.

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

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.

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

What a cool place! :)

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...

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 :).

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?)

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.

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! ;)