JB0 Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Atari 5200.Nice until the joysticks broke thirty minutes later. But seriously, that's a sexy piece of hardware.
JB0 Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Pffft, kids. My first console was the 2600.What, not a Studio II? A Channel F? An ODYSSEY? You're just another newb like all the rest of us.
renegadeleader1 Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 What, not a Studio II? A Channel F? An ODYSSEY? You're just another newb like all the rest of us. Comodore Vic-20 you young whipper snappers.
Valkyrie Hunter D Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Well if we're going into the very FIRST console we've owned, I am proud to say that my ColecoVision served me well through my olde gaming times of yore. On a black and white TV no less. That thing had the funkiest controllers I've ever encountered; stubby joystick, huge rectangular base, and a big ol' keypad that I never used.
areaseven Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 My very first console was an Atari 2600 (black 4-switch version), which my parents bought in 1984. I had less than 10 games on that console before it conked out. But my all-time favorite back in the '80s was the Commodore 64. Back in the day, Electronic Arts had sweet "album cover" packaging for their games, and I spent a chunk of my allowance on Skyfox and Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict. Good times.
ErikElvis Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 First console was the ol wood console 2600. Was a hand me down from my bro. I didn't learn controller abuse until the Nintendo. Even got so mad at it once I threw it out of a second story window. I ending up just picking it out the bush and hooking it back up.
rotorhead Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Atari 2600. I feel old. And yes, ET was as bad as they said it was.
renegadeleader1 Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Atari 2600. I feel old. And yes, ET was as bad as they said it was. As bad as this?
jenius Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 My first console was Intellivision... God, the baseball game was infuriating.
mikeszekely Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 I thought this discussion was just SNES vs Genesis, but if we're talking first console, mine was a Magnavox Odyssey². I was very young at the time, so I don't remember it super well. Mostly I remember playing a lot of Attack of the Timelord.
JB0 Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 And since we've got the Commodore crowd in here... my first COMPUTER was a TI 99/4a. 16-bit power!
Guest davidwhangchoi Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 oh yeah? how bout an apple 2e? anyone remember karatica?
mikeszekely Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 oh yeah? how bout an apple 2e? anyone remember karatica? No... but I remember Odell Lake. Computer wise, and I guess gaming-wise post Odyssey and pre-NES, we had both a Commodore 64 and an Atari 800XL. I'm not sure which we got first, and which games we played on which device, because they really blurred together for me, and IIRC they used the same joysticks and both played games off of floppies or some other non-cartridge format. In fact, the only game I remember for sure being for the Atari was "David's Midnight Magic," a pinball game, because it was the only game we had that plugged into the 800XL's cartridge slot. If I was pressed, though... I think Jumpman Jr. was for the Commodore. I loved that game.
Guest davidwhangchoi Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 did anyone beat Adventure on the 2600? my age 7 skills weren't good enough at the time.
renegadeleader1 Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 Does anybody remember a game back in the day similar to Karateka that had you attacking a pagoda except you could explore it by going up and down ladders and the enemies were all armor clad samurai that wielded swords and halberds etc in addition to boobytraps?
F-ZeroOne Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 I'm so sorry. Sorry, are we talking Amstrad owners here?
Black Valkyrie Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 (edited) Any love for Mega/ Sega - CD . Edited June 7, 2015 by Black Valkyrie
Keith Posted June 7, 2015 Author Posted June 7, 2015 Any love for Mega/ Sega - CD . Lunar 1 & 2, Snatcher, Popful Mail, Flink. Silpheed. Truly the rolls Royce of the 16 bit era.
Valkyrie Hunter D Posted June 7, 2015 Posted June 7, 2015 I got much love for the Sega CD. Never got to play Shining Force CD, so I'm actually playing it on an emulator now.
JB0 Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 Sorry, are we talking Amstrad owners here? No one deserves to suffer with a Sinclair computer.
Guest davidwhangchoi Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 I got much love for the Sega CD. silpheed baby! and street of rage with butchered voice overs
Black Valkyrie Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 silpheed baby! and street of rage with butchered voice overs That's it, what about Final Fight, Lunar 1 & 2 and Popful Mail .
JB0 Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 Sonic CD is the best Sonic, anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong.
Valkyrie Hunter D Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 I still remember fawning over the screenshots in magazines of Japanese Mega CD games that never made it stateside like Shadowrun, Lodoss War, and Annette Again.
GU-11 Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 I remember wanting to buy a Sega CD2 as an add-on to my Megadrive II in the mid 90's (yeah, I'm a late adopter), but the price was much more than I was willing to pay for. A few years down the road, the Playstation was released, and I totally forgot about the CD.
Keith Posted June 8, 2015 Author Posted June 8, 2015 That's it, what about Final Fight, Lunar 1 & 2 and Popful Mail . Damnit, I said those!
Black Valkyrie Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 Sonic CD is the best Sonic, anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong. The Japanese version .
JB0 Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 The Japanese version .I will Sonic Boom your face if you don't take that back!
Black Valkyrie Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 Its true, played both version and the Japanese is far superb.
Shadow Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 I too remember drooling over screenshots of the Sega CD in gaming mags, and how badly I wanted to play Sonic CD from the screenshots revealed then. I saw the shots of Sonic and Metal Sonic in the animated highway chase sequence. Something I wouldn't be able to do till many years later.
F-ZeroOne Posted June 8, 2015 Posted June 8, 2015 No one deserves to suffer with a Sinclair computer. You had a Beeb, didn't you?
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