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bond1
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Quote: "Like buying a PS3 nowadays"


Yeah I suppose it pretty much was! It was the technological marvel of the time. I disinctly remember standing in the store around a large group of people ooohing and aahhhing at the graphics of Donkey Kong, which was the included game. "It looks just like the arcade!"

Almost, but not quite. A HELL of a lot better than the Atari 2600 though.

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I used to repair those Amstrad MegaPC's. The Megadrive part was a full length card and you switched between the PC and the Megadrive by sliding the front cover across. A major design fault though was that you couldn't slide it across with a cartridge in the slot, so you couldn't play games and then switch to the PC if your boss walked in

I have an Atari Lynx, Master System and Gameboy in the loft and have owned stuff going back to the old Grandstand TV games. My favourite though that I still own is a handheld LED (yes - LED not LCD) game based on 'Battlestar Gallactica' from 1978. It took a 9v battery and the control was just a three position switch. I sadly lost the battery cover when I was a kid but there is a nice picture here:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/Battlestar.htm


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I said it before - An original Atari Pong game. Not a Super Pong like the one shown above.

But my favorite is the Virtual Boy.


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Posted: 19th Feb 2008 09:54
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Quote: "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"


I have both of those, also the rarer Sinclair ZX-80.

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My oldest it the Nintendo. I also own the Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Playstation and PS2. No next-gens


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the oldest console i own is ps2 and the newest is a nintendo Wii
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Though I have some older stuff, this is my favorite. Complete, like new, in the box, TI99/4A

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All these poor kids who's earliest systems are previous-gen consoles!

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You guys ever heard of the Einstein? - that's an underated computer, a lot like a CPC464 but with a disk drive as standard and a really great keyboard...



This has to be my favorite 8-bit computer, damn expensive, but so far removed from the old dead-flesh keyboard Speccy. I never owned one, only knew 2 people who had them, but I mean these things lasted until the ST and Amiga days!.


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had a nes my mom sold it because "I didn't play it enough" My favorite system grrrr how did i lose that cord anyway

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Easily the best out there. No lag, brilliant FPS, and the graphics are so utterly realistic you feel like you're actually there. Sound effects are brilliant and it's even portable!



Hmm, I have an old game-thing hidden away somewhere. I never really did use Games Consoles...

Oh wait! I've got this dance mat thing that plugs into the television. It's ancient, it only has 3 colours...

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Rofl!

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Posted: 21st Feb 2008 05:13 Edited at: 21st Feb 2008 05:14
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My oldest console is the Wii, and I used to have a PS2. That's the newest old console here!
I also have that one the INH mentioned, although I almost never play it.

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I've found a way to replicate it on the PC, and despite its age, it's actually better in its normal form!

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my oldest is the non color game boy aka the first game boy my next oldest would be saga genises(hopefuly I spelled it right I sold it so I don't have it any more.)

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Acorn Electron.. can't beat the beige peice of plastic capable of loading tape-deck games in just under 5minutes.

Elite FTW!

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Hehe, just bought a Lynx on ebay, £25 with carry case and 5 games, hmmmm nostalgia .


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Got my vectrex yesterday, ...

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Well you can't get much more nostalgic than vectors - I always planned to get one when I have room, beside my arcade machine when I get off my butt and build it. The vectrex is cool though, I remember my dad would rent one some weekends, I have a fairly geeky family as a whole .


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I have a the commodore 64 which was a great console. I like playing radar rat race, mission impossible, the count, centipde, and my favorite c64 game k Star Patrol. I owned at that game.

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Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The first Nintendo system there ever was.

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I used to have a intellivsion system somewhere. No idea what happened to it now that I think about it..


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*Mega bump!*

Let's keep this thread alive, it's interesting! My colleciton recently expanded to 64 with the aquisition of a Super Magic Drive add-on. (Google it!)

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Mine was a Grandstand console. Was B&W and had variants of pong (paddle controllers) with a cool football one. You had these switches to make the ball or bats smaller, or to change the angles to be a bit more crazy. What made it stand out was a light gun game. You had to shoot this bouncing pong ball (square). Was seriously cool at the time. Plus the gun was awesome. Looked really like some SWAT type effort. All black and half snipery looking. Never get that through security these days

Also had some of those little arcade games. You know the ones that looked like little arcade machines. Think I had Scramble and Firefox (that game totally ruled). Heh, I remember hiding porn inside the Firefox console when I was about 13. Good olde dot matrix porn.

My mum chucked everything out when they moved to Cyprus. Most of my childhood memories ended up on the dump, but a lot of the electronics (including 2 speccies and an ST plus *loads* of games) ended up in a charity shop for like 25 quid. Wish she asked first (considering I am a programmer for a living and it means a lot to me).

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Only console style thing I own is a Nintendo DS with an R4 Cartridge, although i do remember the 1st computer game i ever owned, for the Spectrum Sinclair ZX81, it was a austrich game, you controled the austrick, and collected eggs.

it was such a poor game, and slow responce so instead of playing the game, I loaded the code, changed things like end of level messages to obscene gectures, saved, then distrabuted to friends.

Just think if origional games like there whernt so crap then i might not have got into programming

I dont have an atari any more, but i do have some disks in a cupboard, shadow of the beast, gods, lemmings, origional games like that, all much better than some of the crap which companies bring out nowerdays

CUBase was an atari programme aswell, i've got a HiRez version of that somewhere, but dont have the HiRes GreenScreen Monitor anymore, (a monitor only capable of showing shades of green)

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Oldest console is a Atari 2600



Oldest computer is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k Plus



Not my pictures, i couldn't be arsed getting them out of the loft to photo them

My oldest hand held console is a Tandy Space Shot. I couldn't find a Google photo so it must be rare! I't pre LCD and uses battery sapping red LEDs

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This is the space shot?


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Wah! that is the beast, where did you find that?

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You know a computer is seriously old when its got stained wood effect to fit in with "Older" Furniture.

I got a question here, why is it that when i had an AtartiST, it lasted about 10 years, (including Keyboard), now I usually have to replace my keyboard about once a year?

what happened to quality?

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Google, first page.

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Google image was pants I should have looked at web results

Yea back in the day all TVs had the teak wood effect cases



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Lol i hated TVs like that

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Quote: "I got a question here, why is it that when i had an AtartiST, it lasted about 10 years, (including Keyboard), now I usually have to replace my keyboard about once a year?"
Actually mine started to stick a little so a friend of mine took it apart and sprayed some electric stuff on it. Was really annoying as was the type of ST (older ones without internal drives) that had a tiny unheld spring against every key. If you were not careful then was storm of springs flying in every direction. Worked fine for a while then started playing up. Mate was away so I gave it ago. I may now have a degree in CS and yonks of being a programmer so on, but I was a bit of a dufus at the time (apart from programming). Basically I thought he used WD40 (why not? works on everything else). Nope. Bad idea. Took ages to get rid of the oily WD40 which was well difficult with all the springs and the like. Never was the same until my mum sold it in charity shop years (and years) later without telling me

Saying that, this stupid MS wireless keyboard (good reviews BTW) is annoying me. Why do all wireless keyboards seem to suck at any distance greater than 1 inch? (inc. my old logitech stuff). Think something is interfering, but thats not the point. Right, time to get one of those wired Eclipse 2 keyboard methinks. I'm a light whore (and more importantly so is my bird for bluetooth type blue light) and everyone loves this keyboard. And come to think of it, apart from HDTV computers (like my projector one) there is no real reason to have wireless keyboards once you stop doing absolutely everything on your bed (school thru uni). Can see the point of wireless mice though (wire pulls).

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Woohoo, found pictures on ebay of all my old stuff









Pretty much found everything (even my porn hider Firefox) apart from Grandstand was a different design, but the gun is the same. Totally slick gun that one. And the ST was an STm (no internal drive so grill at top is thinner). But I upgraded it to 1mb (only about £100 I believe...).

You know it's bad when the sellers all say "Vintage retro"

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SNES, oldest console in my house. I know it's not that old, but it's the best imo.


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I have the NES system from way back. I thinks thats the oldest one I have.
Ah the joys of duck hunt


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