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Darkfoil
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Everyone likes to brag about how up to date and powerful there pc's/consoles are so I thought it would be interesting to find out what people have tucked away gathering dust under the stairs.

Here's mine. One of the first Atari Lynx games consoles to hit the market. Can't remember exactly when I bought it but it wasn't long after the official release in the UK back in 1989 or 1990.

Do you have something older?

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Posted: 17th Feb 2008 18:18 Edited at: 17th Feb 2008 18:28
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The oldest console I own is part of a collection of 63 consoles (I enjoy collecting them!) My oldest console is the Magnavox Odyssey, which was the world's first home games console, 1972.

None of my consoles are packed away under stairs, in lofts, etc. All 63 and more to come are sitting proudly on display on shelves in my bedroom.

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This bad boy provided me with hours of entertainment.



Other than that, I have an N64 and a Genesis.

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sega mastersystem2, still play it ocationaly

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Soon, I will be the proud owner of a Vectrex!


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Aargh! I've wantd one for ages but can't get hold of one!

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Inspire, lol.

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Posted: 17th Feb 2008 19:10 Edited at: 17th Feb 2008 19:10
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Not a console, but it plays games, the Acorn Electron...I think we still have some of the games for it as well, love how they run off of cassette tapes...Though not seen the computer since my Dad brought it town when I was 8...mind you he took it back up when my, my brother and sister were playing a game where we type messages to each other on it...I called her a b****...so it got confiscated and I got so grounded.

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I use to have a genesis, but it broke. So I just have a N64

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an xbox(original)

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I have the original NES
not the advanced one, but the first nitindo: the NES

and quite a few games for it.

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Until three years ago I had a Master System 2. It had Alex Kidd in Miracle World. I played it so much.

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I gave it to a bored countryside girl, by the way, along with many games and a gun.

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A guy at work has a Vectrex he got for $20. Jealous!

My oldest game console is an Atari 2600 original.


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I've got an N64, and a C64, both in perfect working order (and probably a really old DOS computer laying around somewhere).

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Sega mega drive.
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Have owned in my days an Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, etc, but right now the oldest consoles in the house are the ps2 and the GC...I really want to get the NES, Genesis, and N64 back though...


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sega master system

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Posted: 17th Feb 2008 20:50 Edited at: 17th Feb 2008 20:50
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Odyssey 2 ftw



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lets see my oldest game console was an Atari 2600.
All my other game consoles-NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, Playstation 1, Game Boy- I have either sold or gotten rid of.

The Atari 2600 console, cables and controllers, and game cartridges in all are still in a box in my moms garage.
And it was the only game console that brought my whole family together for video games in the living room and rather than just watching tv only.
Dad and Mak like to play the tennis and the One on One with Jordan versus Bird. Mom and I loved to play Outlaw, I liked the game of Adventure, Diane like the racing games, and Wes loved to play Space Invaders.
Every time he come to visit us, he set up in the living room and play endless hours of Space Invaders on the tube.

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Quote: "Odyssey 2 ftw"


AKA (when manufactured by Phillips), the G7000 Videopac

(might be, I can't see the pic you posted!)

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I think the oldest thing I have is an original gameboy, but I have all sorts of old crud in my attic that I'm not sure about, too scared to investigate, spiders the size of dinner plates up there .

The most useless console I have is a CD32, damn that's a horrible object, got it for free from a mate who couldn't bring himself to bin it.


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Posted: 17th Feb 2008 21:07 Edited at: 17th Feb 2008 21:07
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Quote: "AKA (when manufactured by Phillips), the G7000 Videopac"

Yes, indeed.

Quote: "(might be, I can't see the pic you posted!)"

It shows fine here.

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Oldest one we ever owned was the Intellivision (pwnage) Unless the Atari 2600 came first? I don't know the timeline so much. But we owned those 2. They were my moms when she was a young adult. We got rid of em... I think we just threw 'em out >_< WHY? I don't know. Parents... Oldest we have now is the NES.

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Atari 800 XL (early 1980s ?).
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the snes and gameboy.

And i think PONG was the first home console....

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Quote: "And i think PONG was the first home console....
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Hahahahahaha That's gold!


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Quote: "Hahahahahaha That's gold!"

According to wikipedia, the Magnavox Odyssey was the first home console.

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@ aluseus GOD

look at this website
http://www.thegameconsole.com/

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PONG wasn't even a home console, it was an arcade machine and then a game for the Atari 2600.
Edit: I stand corrected.


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Keo C, check the link that kaedroho posted.

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Not really into consoles myself.

I still have the most awesome 'console' ever though - The Amstrad "Mega PC" - a megadrive and Amstrad PC in one!

These aren't my pics, but they demonstrate it pretty well:



Then, slide the panel on the front, and voila, a megadrive!



I had Windows 3.1 on one of these things for ages until I screwed it up. Played sonic pretty well still though


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Commondore 64 with Casette player (Games) Really afwul loading times



I love the north and south game but you need to everytime change casette when going into battle changing turns etc.. And everytime it loads like hell lol!!

The normal casettes works bit better tho. (There is a hole for diffrent casettes not normal casettes what the casette player uses :/ The hole is at top of the keyboard)

Also i have another commondore 64 what does not have the hole but casette player only LOL!!!


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Atari 2600, SNES Super Mega Drive Gameboy Pocket and a color!
Boy do they all have memories!


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Intellivision!

The first one, not the improved one.
It brings back good memories of playing Utopia...
You'd build a city and a fishing fleet, and then watch the entire thing get destroyed by a damn hurricane.




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pong was an arcade game, and they made it a game console
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_%28first_generation%29

and that is where i first learned pong was a game console...
and your right though, Magnavox Oddysey WAS the first video game console, but i think pong holds a solid 2nd or 3rd.

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Oldest console I have would be the SNES, love that system. Computer wise I still have my C64 and a nice collection of games on tape. Just the other day I downloaded a load of my old C64 games and played them through an emulator. Most of the good ones are still great fun to play and the nostalgia factor alone is great.


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a gameboy color

i traded it for a bike

i plaed zelda games, and final fantasy legends 2

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I still have my Atari 400 Computer from 1981-2. It is a computer but it ran things off of cartridges like BASIC and games like Centipede, Galaxizn, etc. It had ports for the same joysticks used by the 2600, which I also still have. I probably havent run it in over 15 years - should try that one day

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I have a Pong game back in the closet with my TRS-80. I wonder if they still work?


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You can beat the AI in pong by moving the paddle one time

edit: fixed spelling error

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Hehe, some vintage stuff gathering dust in your collections - especially like the orange C64!.

I just bid on an Atari Lynx, nostalgia was never this expensive!.


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yeah, the first game console was the Magnavox Odyessy.

True, Nolan Bushnell created Pong as an arcade machine first. It did become a small dedicated game
machine too. It came out before the Atari 2600. I did acquire one a very long time ago. It just played Pong, naturally.




My most favorite home computer of all time was the Apple IIe.






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Just to clear up the confusion between the Odyssey and Pong. Ralph Baer and Magnavox made a TV tennis game in the 70s and other TV tennis-based games (i.e. football, hockey, pretty much all the same!) for a console called the Magnavox Odyssey. Atari were quick to step in and made a version for the arcades, which they called Pong. Magnavox sued Atari for copying their game, the case ended with Atari paying Magnavox a large, one-time fee for the rights to TV Tennis (i.e. Pong), and the rest, they say, is history!

I've just spotted the pic of the Amstrad Mega PC, which I don't have, but I've got a similar machine, called the Sega Teradrive (though it completely unlinked to the Mega PC), it's pretty much the same kind of thing, i.e. desktop PC with a Mega Drive built in.

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Ive got one of the first Binatones. Its been gathering dust for many years now. Might go see if it works actually.

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Quote: "My most favorite home computer of all time was the Apple IIe."

Yeah!
My father have one of those, he made a lot of games and programs on it when he was young. However, he didn´t buy the floppy reader so all the apps where saved onto audio cassettes. The Apple can´t read those anymore, but I managed to save the programs onto a pc.
The Apple II was also the first computer I used, I remember that I used to plot pictures on it when I was like 6-7 years old.


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Wow, some real oldies turning up here, but I haven't seen mention of the vic-20 or zx-81. Nobody got one of those tucked away? It was a Sinclair zx-81 that got me interested in computers way back in 1981 when I was serving in the RAF.

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Colecovision! Dang I think my parents paid about $300 for that bad boy, and that was in 1981! We weren't rich either....that was a lot of money back then..



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Like buying a PS3 nowadays


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Mine was also an Intellivision


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