Did anybody here play any of the game consoles in the 70's?

I played the Sears Pong. I remember when my dad brought it home

http://www.pong-story.com/atpong2.htm

and then a few years later my dad brought home the the Coleco Telestar Arcade

http://www.pong-story.com/coleco_arcade.htm

Did anybody here play any of the game consoles in the 70's?

I played the Sears Pong. I remember when my dad brought it home

http://www.pong-story.com/atpong2.htm

and then a few years later my dad brought home the the Coleco Telestar Arcade

http://www.pong-story.com/coleco_arcade.htm
When I was a kid, my family had one of these in the late 70's:

http://www.pong-picture-page.de/catalog/images/Atari%20C-380%20Video%20%20Pinball_brown_www.JPG

It's funny how those big consoles only played just the 1 game.  Technology sure has changed

I love those old Video Tennis/Pong games, where it says on the box that you can play 4 exciting games, which is basically 4 variations of Pong ;D

I love those old Video Tennis/Pong games, where it says on the box that you can play 4 exciting games, which is basically 4 variations of Pong ;D


If you have ever played "GTA: Vice City", then you would have heard their commercial for a home video game.

It went something like "play the red dot that goes around eating the blue squares, or play the game where you are the blue circle shooting the evil red squares".  Classic of what the games were like 15 years ago.

I still play GTA on occasion, but I never really do much.  I simply drive around the city, listening to the radio stations.  :)

I still have my old Pong consol and the TV I used to play it on from around 1978. The game and TV still work!!!

I also used to have an Atari, and my favorite games at that time were Asteroids and a game where you drove a futuristic car on the moon from which you had to shoot aliens etc. Cant think what this game was called right now...It was Moon______?





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I still have my old Pong consol and the TV I used to play it on from around 1978. The game and TV still work!!!

I also used to have an Atari, and my favorite games at that time were Asteroids and a game where you drove a futuristic car on the moon from which you had to shoot aliens etc. Cant think what this game was called right now...It was Moon______?


Moon Patrol!  There was a coin-op version, but you're looking for the Atari 2600 version (with PIXELS AS BIG AS CATS!) reviewed in 2008:

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And if you like your chiptune brought a little more up to date, here's the Moon Patrol Theme, as performed by Zebes System in 2010.  Shred that guitar, pound the drums, buy an album, and keep banging out those 8-bit grooves.  

Anybody know a Magnavox Odyssey emulator that works? (that was THE console of the '70s; it was the first commercially released console.)

Anybody know a Magnavox Odyssey emulator that works? (that was THE console of the '70s; it was the first commercially released console.)


I remember the Odyssey system.  What a piece of sh*t!

http://hotwebgames.com.br/consoles/imagens/odyssey_console.jpg

;D ;D ;D

I remember the Odyssey system.  What a piece of sh*t!

http://hotwebgames.com.br/consoles/imagens/odyssey_console.jpg

;D ;D ;D


In that picture is the Oddysey 2, which was a step up (though not by much) from the original Odyssey.

I often heard people say when the Odyssey first came out, it was super exciting, though I don't know how exciting it can be.  The overlays you pasted on the screen did not move, but the lights on the screen did, so all it was, was Pong in different forms. 

On Youtube, there is a clip of it being demoed on 'What's My Line'.  The screen overlays kill me, because the tennis players on it don't move, but the white lights do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F522GBtZPk

In that picture is the Oddysey 2, which was a step up (though not by much) from the original Odyssey.

I often heard people say when the Odyssey first came out, it was super exciting, though I don't know how exciting it can be.  The overlays you pasted on the screen did not move, but the lights on the screen did, so all it was, was Pong in different forms. 



We finally upgraded from Odyssey 2 to Atari 5200 in, gosh, 1983.  It was like going from a Model T to a DeLorean in one go!  My brother's Nintendo in 1988 made the Atari look stupidly retrograde.  I'd lost interest in video games by then with a focus on synthesizers and girls (endeavors frustrated on both fronts, such as teenage life), but I remember seeing my brother's TV consuls getting more complex.  Computer games were still relatively primitive in the mid 80s.  I remember playing Castle Wolfesnstein on the Apple IIe!

http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/4/3106/bwolf2nx9.jpg

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I think we still have the Intellivision  and it still works.  My grandparents use to have a lot of games for it, but now we only have a few.  I remember playing Pitfall because the sound when you fall down the ladder and when you run into the brick wall.  I'd jump off the building when I got  bored of continually climbing the buildings Beauty and the Beast.  I was a Burgertime master.

http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/4/3106/bwolf2nx9.jpg


Dang, look at those realistic graphics.  It's like actually being in the game :o

Dang, look at those realistic graphics.  It's like actually being in the game :o


Yeah, but here's some with audio!  (Back in the day, computers didn't have voice synthesis, and the Apple ]a sound chip, so having Nazi actually yell "HALT!" at you was freaky, and the scream from "Creepy Corridors" - an audio sample that ate up more memory than the game itself - was downright terrifying.)

Yeah, but here's some with audio!  (Back in the day, computers didn't have voice synthesis, and the Apple ]a sound chip, so having Nazi actually yell "HALT!" at you was freaky, and the scream from "Creepy Corridors" - an audio sample that ate up more memory than the game itself - was downright terrifying.) 


My brother used to think the guards shouted:

"Halt!  Allspice!"

;D

"Halt!  Allspice!"


The funny thing is that the endgame - of which you've posted the screenshot - was based on an actual historical incident, the chief difference being that in the game, you're an Allied prisoner instead of an German Colonel (who, depending on whose version of the story you believe, was either a German resistance fighter, a German loyalist who was fed up with Hitler's military incompetence, or probably a little bit of both).  

I kinda like the game's version of history better.  Simpler that way, and as the first "stealth" shoot-em-up, no less fun.  

But it freaked out my 9th grade history teacher when we he mentioned this in a passing comment during the WW2 part of the course, and I told him someone had written a video game about it. :)

We had Pong, too!  I can still hear that sound in my head.  We had to play it down in the basement on the crappy old television because my father said it would ruin his good TV.  It always left a burned in line from the score and the "net" that went right down the center.