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Subject: First video game system?
Written By: 80sRocked on 09/12/02 at 11:59 p.m.
What was your first video game system? Mine was, of course, an Atari. It was sooo cool. We had the essentials: Frogger, Pac-Man, and Baseball. I remember on the baseball game, the ball was a square box and basically all you could do is hit, pitch, and point the joystick in the direction you needed to run. When our Atari finally went out, we threw it away. I wish we would have kept it, just to have it now.
Some of the games I had were, Frogger, Pac man, Baseball, Basketball, Night Driver, Combat, and some war strategy game that I could never figure out how to play.
What about everyone else?
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: pell on 09/13/02 at 01:33 a.m.
Technically, my first home video game was Pong, although I don't know if you would call it a video game system.
Then one Christmas we got an Atari 2600 that came with Combat, along with Pole Position and either Pac-Man or Space Invaders, or maybe both.
A few years later we got the Atari 7800 that could also play the 2600's games. That was the last game system my family ever owned, although I owned a N64 for a little while last year.
My favorite Atari games were Joust, Combat, Berzerk, Atlantis, Pole Position and Space Invaders. I couldn't begin to name all the games that we had.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Edgewood_Dirk on 09/13/02 at 09:15 a.m.
Mine was a 2600 as well, though I prefer the Activision games over the Atari games that were available, except perhaps Yars Revenge and Warlords. At least one of my friends had an Intellivision and another had a Colecovision, so I had no lack for games. :)
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Screwball54 on 09/13/02 at 10:12 a.m.
As everyone knows mine was the Intellevision
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/pix/intellivision_purple.gif
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: pure_energy21 on 09/13/02 at 11:45 a.m.
My first video game system was a Nintendo. Especially in the late 80s, these systems were huge and every kid on the block played Mario and Zelda. It was one of the coolest days when I got a Nintendo. Now I have a PS2 but I sometimes take out my old NES and still play it.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: pell on 09/13/02 at 03:03 p.m.
Quoting:
Mine was a 2600 as well, though I prefer the Activision games over the Atari games that were available, except perhaps Yars Revenge and Warlords. At least one of my friends had an Intellivision and another had a Colecovision, so I had no lack for games. :)
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I forgot about Warlords. That was also one of my favorites. If you positioned the paddle just right, you could get past your opponents' defenses every time.
I also liked Breakout a lot, which was another ball and paddle game. I guess I never got Pong out of my system. :)
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Race Bannon on 09/13/02 at 03:56 p.m.
Mine was the Colecovision. Had aseroids and some other spaceship flying game I can't recall the name of. It was state of the art in the early 80's, now i remeber as very two dimensional and kinda fuzzy. Got the x-box a week ago, progress is a wonderful thing.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Breaker on 09/14/02 at 00:58 a.m.
I had a Pong type system as well, but really wanted an Atari 2600. We could never afford one back then. My actual first system was a Colecovision. I had Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong JR, Zaxxon, Space Fury, Lady Bug, Circus, Q-Bert, and Mousetrap. I remember playing for hours on end and friends would come over just to play Donkey Kong because it was WAY better than the one that came out for the 2600.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: jamminoldies on 09/14/02 at 09:14 a.m.
mine was an Atari 2600.I had a lot of games.But,after I while I got tired of it so I gave it away and got a gameboy in 1993.-howard-
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: ThunderVamp9 on 09/14/02 at 12:52 a.m.
Mine was a ColecoVision, which I still have. Had the Atari2600 adapter so I could play Atari 2600 games on it, the steering wheel, everything. The ColecoVision games were so much better than the 2600 versions....
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: m@ on 09/15/02 at 03:18 a.m.
i think i too had an atari, although i dont remember it --- maybe it was a family friend and i just played on it a couple of times.
the first ones i remember were my brother's gameboy and my sega mega drive... which i still have. although i don't play on it anymore.
oh but those afternoons i'd spend with Sonic the Hedgehog... what a star!
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Richard on 09/16/02 at 08:38 p.m.
My first video game system was Intellivision. It came with a Poker and Blackjack game. I also had Frogger, Donkey Kong, Snafu, Baseball, and Football for the system.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Jessica on 09/16/02 at 09:06 p.m.
A Nintendo with the basic Mario/Duck Hunt game. I got it in 1986 or 1987.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Shannon on 09/17/02 at 05:14 a.m.
Atari
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: DJ Midas on 09/17/02 at 05:59 a.m.
We had Atari's Super Pong prior to the 2600. I think you could play four different variations of Pong or something...
I miss my 2600. Some of my favorite games were:
Yars' Revenge
Defender
Pole Position
Enduro (My hand got tired on this one)
Chopper Command
Raiders of the Lost Ark (once I figured out how to solve it)
Video Pinball
I never figured out those "Swordquest" games...did anybody? ???
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: pell on 09/17/02 at 09:29 a.m.
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I never figured out those "Swordquest" games...did anybody? ???
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All the Atari adventure games seemed strange to me (Swordquest, Adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark) because I had never really played that kind of game before, and I didn't have the manuals to any of them because someone gave them to me used. I was completely lost.
After playing Space Quest on a pc, though, adventure became my favorite kind of game.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: MissC on 09/17/02 at 01:57 p.m.
I still have my Atari 2600! It still works, too. In 1992, while at summer school in college, we couldn't afford cable, and my TV only half-way picked up one station. So, we played Atari instead.
This is a little off the subject, but how about the video arcades? When I was in junior high, every Wednesday was "double token" day and we'd all ride out bikes there after school and play video games the rest of the day... Pac-Man, Galaga, Frogger, Centipede, Tempest
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Sarah on 09/17/02 at 03:28 p.m.
First let me say that THIS is vintage...remember the old Atari COMPUTER computers? Like the ones in school (if not an apple...) Well, we had (HAVE) the Atari800XL! You could still play games, but the cartridges were smaller...PLUS we have the DISK drive that gave us a whole bunch of other games- we had Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Pole Position, (star trek? I think it was called), Roundup, anything you didn't have, you could program!!! My major is making me take an intro to computers class as a requisite, I just want to say, "if I could program my own video games, I can handle today's "double click" computers!!! lol
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Tempest (Guest) on 09/18/02 at 03:01 a.m.
Nintendo.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: BatRastard on 09/18/02 at 05:55 a.m.
My first was Atari... and I could play my favorite game Pittfall for hours, and hours. Some years ago I found Pittfall on Super Nintendo and bought it, while playing I came across a door that had the ORIGINAL Pitfall hidden inside and I couldn't play it worth a flip anymore!!! Man, those games were the she!t back then.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: ookla_the_moch on 09/19/02 at 01:00 p.m.
One of my first gaming systems was the Omnivision. I remember playing "bugertime" for hours on end! Anyone else remember that game. I hated those darn pickles! >:(
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: pell on 09/19/02 at 08:37 p.m.
Quoting:
One of my first gaming systems was the Omnivision. I remember playing "bugertime" for hours on end! Anyone else remember that game. I hated those darn pickles! >:(
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I don't think I ever played "BurgerTime" but I remember the ads for it on the back covers of comic books. In fact, I have a few of those since I bought a bunch of back issues.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Crazy Don on 09/19/02 at 09:42 p.m.
Actually, I had one of those crappy primitive video games in the 1970's that had three variations--pong, hockey, and I believe handball, which was a one-player game. I had an Atari 2600 and loved it and practically wore it out but I eventually got sick of it. Towards the end of the 1980's I got an NES and played that to death.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: Benny on 09/20/02 at 01:49 p.m.
Man, I was the first kid on the block to get the 2600. I hounded all year for that puppy. I still have it, along with a couple SEGAs, nintendos, Playstations, etc.
Oh, yeah - you can still play ALL of the arcade games on your PC, whether it be the home console games or the real arcade classics. I'm building my own arcade machine. You gotta check out my home page!
www.http://alltel.net/~rr15807
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: ArchAngel on 09/21/02 at 05:52 p.m.
Pac-Man arcade. My friend who lived in the building's basement owned the arcade. I used to make every excuse that i possibly could to go down there and play. There was an actual line up of kids waiting to get a game in. When they lost, they'd go to the back of the line and wait their turn.
I didn't own an actual system until Nintendo came out.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: SammyReed on 09/22/02 at 09:58 p.m.
Oh, yeah! The Atari "Pac-Man" cartridge, and its wonderful theme song:
"Doo-DOO-doo-doot"
...and 1 point per dot ... I mean, square.
Anyway, on my 8th birthday in 1977, I wanted a Selectavision (the 1st VCR). But my dad said he couldn't afford it because it costed so-many hundred dollars, so I got a TV tennis game.
I got an Atari game for my birthday in 1982, and with that came the baggage of having a load of bratty kids from the neighborhood (welcomed in by my brothers), half of whom I never heard of, coming over just to play what was supposed to be MY Atari game. Well, with only 1 TV in the house, what could I expect? The times I could find to play it myself, I have to say, were golden! My favorite game was "Missile Command", game 17, because the way things moved on that level it looked like it was on film and I thought that was neat.
I bought a TV tennis game at a yard sale a few years ago that had to be older than the one I had when I was a kid. The sound comes through a speaker on the game, and you have to turn the TV down when you play it because you hear static over the TV. It even takes batteries.
And what can I say? I bought a new 4-head VCR a few months ago for $56. Progress, buddies.
Subject: Re: First video game system?
Written By: BillieJeanDavy on 09/22/02 at 11:08 p.m.
My Atari was so RAD!!! I used to play Snoopy and the Red Baron every morning before school!