Pong was my first game too, I think my parents still have the original Atari we got. Growing up in the 80s our hit was the old football hand held devices. Many a days wasted with them.
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Pong was my first game too, I think my parents still have the original Atari we got. Growing up in the 80s our hit was the old football hand held devices. Many a days wasted with them.
This machine must be older than me :p
My pops never had a football hand held game, but he did have Baseball and Hockey... ah, memories. He actually still has the Baseball one today, and it still works!
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I remember those too. good times.
Simpler times, my friend. Simpler, better times. :cool:
Mind you, we didn't have Iron Maiden games to waste time with everywhere we went back then, so there's something to be said for today too... I guess. lol
I used to have these:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Educated fool
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I never really got into (watching) sports after that. I remember the Baseball game was really fun tho. I like the little private buttons so you couldn't see what your opponent was doing.
I can relate!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aristo4
My first console was the Nintendo NES, I'm not that young :rolleyes:
When i grew up the psx was all over the place, but my parents bought me a snes instead of it... Still i prefer the snes over the psx, its more fun imo
My first console was the Atari 2600... I am less-young, although I never totally grew up :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aristo4
I am going to show my age the first game system I had (if you can call it that) was PONG!! Then I graduated to Atari 2600, Atari 5200, then Commodore Vic 20 with the cassettes (all you youngsters can look on Wiki about those), graduated to the Commodore 64, then the original Nintendo, Playstation etc, etc...
C=64 was just incredible... I graduated to that after my 2600... and it just blew the doors off anything else that was out at the time (Once I finally got a 1541 floppy disk drive). I eventually ended up getting a 300 baud modem for it and would trade softwarez on local BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems - way, way before the internet). Those were the days. I then graduated to a NES with Robbie and the lightGun/Duck Hunt... Then an SNES... then the Commodore Amiga 500 - then Amiga 3000. The Amiga was again, so much better than any other computer systems out at the time in so many ways. I was die-hard Amiga until Commodore went out of business. How they dropped the ball I will never understand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rayray131
The "Bard's Tale" was great on the Commodore 64
Is the bard's tale as good as the remake they made for mobile? Cuz that shit is amazing!
It was as close to the original D&D as one could get on the computer (c-64). Had it on PlayStation, and everything was a top down view not the 3-D view like the original.
Those look like pretty sophistimicated devices! For their time, anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by OpticSugar
I remember when the NES was the most amazing thing we had ever seen... :cool:
The cool thing about the NES was...
Well, before the NES came out, I was addicted to Super Mario Bros. coin operated standup machine. They had one at a pizza parlor on my way home from school and a whole bunch of us would all gather around it after school every day... There was always someone who had figured out a new hidden level and we'd just stand around watching him try to get to it. I used to fold pizza boxes for the owner for quarters to play. That game was just amazing in its day.
Then, later that year the NES came out, and it came with Super Mario Bros., and the really incredible thing was... it was totally identical to the arcade version. I mean, pixel for pixel identical. The music, the sound effects, right down to the last detail. It wasn't a remake, it was pretty much the same hardware that was in the arcade version, so this was a first time ever that we could play total arcade quality at home. It was a turning point for consoles.
I can imagine :cool:
I got my NES in 1989 i think, or 1990....don't know anything about arcades pre 1990...I was only 8 :mad:
I always loved the arcade games Rygar and Tron. I'm thinking of buying one of those arcades that come preloaded with hundreds of games and you can request specific games to be loaded on it. I loved going to the arcade when I was a kid a million years ago.
Definitely some of the fondest memories. I was so obsessed with Donkey Kong, I tried to make one (a Donkey Kong arcade game)... out of paper, magnets, erector set parts, and a Superman lunchbox. True story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eagleknight
That so friggen cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by OpticSugar
Ah yes......walking into the arcade and those sounds tripping yer mind into a euphoric tantrum of quarter dropping wonderment....... tron , afterburner, galaga, spy hunter, ........ Damn good times
:p
I had an Atari 2600 as a kid, then Apple IIc, then Nintendo, Super Nintendo.
First game I played online was Quake. Lots of the Team Fortress mod, and a little Thunder(something) CTF.
Then StarCraft, Diablo 2, Quake 2, 3, Unreal / UT, Half-Life 1, 2. After that I moved to Acheron's Call 2, PlanetSide 1, Star Wars Galaxies.
Then back to strategy games with Star Wars: Empire at War. Then mobile games.
I may have an addiction to electronic games.
Very cool man. I don't think gaming has the social aspect that it used to back when arcades were a thing... they always had a special, dingy charm all their own. Your story made me think of this article from Nintendo Power, back in the day...Quote:
Originally Posted by OpticSugar
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I remember thinking that was about the coolest thing I'd ever seen, at the time. :cool:
I dunno if i agree, while back in the day when arcades where actually a thing... people who wanted to play games used to go OUTSIDE (Holy Shit), but now i think its best to destroy the social aspect, back in the day you couldnt stay at an arcade for like 6 am, but in your house on your pc, you can stay up to 2pm! And tbh the social aspect of gaming didnt actually die.. it still lives in the mics of every cod player screaming and swearing at you cuz ur shit at the game! But to this day putting your sweet sweet coins into a machine and playing some time crisis is amazing, there is still an arcade near my house... used to go there alot as a kid cuz i had no pc or psx... used to play house of the dead... like... alotQuote:
Originally Posted by The Educated fool
This place is in my neighborhood:
http://barcadebrooklyn.com/
:p
My wife took my there on one of our first dates. Probably why I married her.
Very smooth trickery, taking the kid to a candy store to convince :pQuote:
Originally Posted by OpticSugar
No question there's still a social aspect to gaming... hell, the troopers section wouldn't exist without that aspect, would it? :cool: And Barcades are a cool phenomenon too (though there's never enough pinball on hand for my taste). Arcades just seemed cooler than they actually were I think, as a kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nekroliun
Idk, but how can you call the troopers section a "social aspect" u dont even get to chat with other players! Now THAT IS A FEATURE I WANTQuote:
Originally Posted by The Educated fool
If you could, this board would lose some of its importance. :cool:
Wise words indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Educated fool
Tbh my aim is the most posts in the forums... cuz in my book more posts means god amongst men
Sounds legit. :cool:
Ofc it does my friend!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Educated fool
you are not in competition with men,you are trying to beat the spam bots. :p
Oh shit! Oh no... no im not... spam bots usually get banned... damn itQuote:
Originally Posted by MetalWarrior
Nekrobot? :cool:
You know what they say! If you cant find an oponnent, make yourself your oponnent!
Bump (#RiseAboveSpam)
Kinda oldschool to me:
http://www.uchappy.com/Shooting-Game...nd-Death-Game/
Have fun! :)
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Tetris most abruptly!:D
And if it is serious, then I began with Pac-Man (in a year 1989-1990), WarCraft 1-2 (in 1994), Heroes of the Sword and Magic 3, well and DOOM, Quake and other legends is natural!