This will reveal the age of some gamers on here - if you remember this!

[Darren S]

I remember my m8 having one of these consoles. We would have been about 7 or 8 years old when he had this. It's a Philips Videopac system - from about '81, iirc.

Makes me feel kinda old - lol.

Amazing kit in its day....

D.

 

[seb]

I don't remember the one you posted...

I had one of these though...

[IMGO]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Atari_5200_-_trojandan_14871272.jpg[/IMGO]

and this!!

[IMGO]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Commodore64.jpg[/IMGO]

wait 2 hours for a game to load and then it crashes!!! what a way to spend saturday morning lol

 

[richy22]

LOL I had one of these and it was similar to the Atari.. wait 2 hours then it crashes

Gotta love the sound of the load screens!

[YOUTUBE]FdfJhTle8fg[/YOUTUBE]

 

[alanc1000]

we had an Amstrad CPC464 green screen, cassette tape games i remember include Roland on the Ropes, Roland in the Caves, Harrier Attack, Animal Vegatable Mineral, Biggles..... i loved that console.

 

[seb]

flol @ the load screens...

my mate had a spectrum too. then one xmas we found this in his garage!!! happy days where had!!!!

 

[Peperami]

flol @ the load screens...

my mate had a spectrum too. then one xmas we found this in his garage!!! happy days where had!!!!

Ha ha, we had one of those. Remember many a day spent playing lotus turbo challenge 2.

It followed this...

Commodore 16, was a classic.

 

[Sarah]

i had one of these

 

[Darren S]

I don't remember the one you posted...

I had one of these though...

[imgo]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Atari_5200_-_trojandan_14871272.jpg[/imgo]

^^^^ - ah, you had the deluxe version. We had the mere 2600 system before that.

flol @ the load screens...

my mate had a spectrum too. then one xmas we found this in his garage!!! happy days where had!!!!

^^^^ - I remember getting that for a combo birthday & Chrissy present one year. Thought it was brilliant. I can even remember those games on the left-side that came with it. Batman on the keyboard (obviously), then EA's F-18 Interceptor and New Zealand Story above that. Christ, I'm sad.

As for loading times - I remember waiting approx 15 minutes for F-19 Stealth Fighter to load up on the C-64 tape. Take off, fly a few minutes and then get nailed by an enemy MiG. Rewind tape and retry. Were we ever that patient??!

D.

 

[biojo]

http://www.atarifun.com/atari 2600 console and controllers.jpg

that was mine nice wood effect

 

[Peperami]

New zealand story was mint!

The noise of the little bow and arrow was hypnotising... duw duw duw duw duw

 

[Darren S]

i had one of these

I did want one of those, but ended up getting a C-64 instead. I don't think I've ever actually seen one!

D.

 

[Darren S]

http://www.atarifun.com/atari 2600 console and controllers.jpg

that was mine nice wood effect

Snap - that's the one we had. I'm pretty sure its still in my parent's attic - shoved in a corner somewhere. I'll have to dig that out and retry it - for old times sake.

D.

 

[kneebs76]

We had a grandstand game - it was from the late 70s / early 80s, it had 2 paddles that slid off the side, and also had a light gun. It had a knob that you turned to select the games - skeet and tennis are the only two I can remember. I've had a look for pics of the one we used to have but can't find the exact one.

This was then followed by speccies, an atari 2600 and various other computers. I loved my 48K spectrum

 

[Dafthead]

we had an Amstrad CPC464 green screen, cassette tape games i remember include Roland on the Ropes, Roland in the Caves, Harrier Attack, Animal Vegatable Mineral, Biggles..... i loved that console.

Oh god I had one of those, it was mega s**t

But I loved harrier attack.

Also had a spectrum 128k and an amiga a600

They were all gash but I have fond memories of them all

 

[Sarah]

i had one of these

I did want one of those, but ended up getting a C-64 instead. I don't think I've ever actually seen one!

D.

i have never seen one cept ours...still have it up in ma rents loft somewhere

 

[riz]

Damn you lot were spoilt, i had a BBC micro A + B, chuckie egg FTW, anywhere i could get chuckie egg?

 

[Darren S]

We had a grandstand game - it was from the late 70s / early 80s, it had 2 paddles that slid off the side, and also had a light gun. It had a knob that you turned to select the games - skeet and tennis are the only two I can remember. I've had a look for pics of the one we used to have but can't find the exact one.

This was then followed by speccies, an atari 2600 and various other computers. I loved my 48K spectrum

I 'think' I remember that. We did have something before the Atari and I remember the name 'Grandstand' and the games being inbuilt into it. Probably the same bit of kit, then?

D.

 

[Leeshez]

I had the Atari 2600. I have a 48K in the loft next to my Amiga 500 and Xbox. Oh i have a playstation 1.

 

[Leeshez]

Oh there is a tornament 10 at my dads. It wasout before the the posh and modern Atari 2600.

 

[Darren S]

Damn you lot were spoilt, i had a BBC micro A + B, chuckie egg FTW, anywhere i could get chuckie egg?

Lol - what do you mean, spoilt? Those BBC Micros were circa £400 when new - no chance I could have wangled one of those - only child or no only child!

D.

 

[riz]

lol your stuff looked a bit high end compared to mine, i think my pops paid 1k for it i think, I had a football manager game aswell, Jesper Olsed + Linekar FTW

 

[Darren S]

lol your stuff looked a bit high end compared to mine, i think my pops paid 1k for it i think, I had a football manager game aswell, Jesper Olsed + Linekar FTW

- I remember asking my dad to drop me off at my m8's house on the night he got his BBC Micro. He phoned saying that he had some 'cool' games on it like Hunchback, Frak! and Granny's Garden - rofl!

But I got the usual parent-to-kid comment....... 'You can't, its too late and you've got school in the morning'.

Arrggh!!!

D.

 

[Darren S]

Oh there is a tornament 10 at my dads. It wasout before the the posh and modern Atari 2600.

Never heard of that one, Lee. You're clearly older stock than I am. :rasp:

D.

 

[riz]

Frak oh my god memories , did uget a jcb game?

 

[Final Maxim]

ftw

 

[MarkCup]

Ataris f***in' rocked. Spectrums and Vic 20s were where it was at...only I had to make do with an Oric 1...

Fear the 48k RAM LOL

 

[Nigel]

we had an Amstrad CPC464 green screen, cassette tape games i remember include Roland on the Ropes, Roland in the Caves, Harrier Attack, Animal Vegatable Mineral, Biggles..... i loved that console.

I've still got my Amstrad cpc464. Guzzler was a great game! Also had a james bond game, think it was a view to a kill, the cave bit was cool.

 

[Darren S]

Frak oh my god memories , did uget a jcb game?

I don't remember the JCB game, but just for you, riz......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak!

Ataris f***in' rocked. Spectrums and Vic 20s were where it was at...only I had to make do with an Oric 1...

Fear the 48k RAM LOL

Feckin hell Mark. So you were the One that bought the Oric-1?! And I thought Toshiba MSX's were rare....

D.

 

[Leeshez]

Oh there is a tornament 10 at my dads. It wasout before the the posh and modern Atari 2600.

Never heard of that one, Lee. You're clearly older stock than I am. :rasp:

D.

It was a console with 10 games. The joysticks was connected to the console.

 

[Darren S]

ftw

Love the 80's reggae tape-deck!

D.

 

[riz]

http://www.freeloader.com/en/free_o...se=download;fl_bob_cid=619;fl_bob_dcategory=1

 

[riz]

http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/

 

[realnumber 1]

My computer life started with the ZX81:approve:
A massive 1k

 

[ukaskew]

^^^^ - ah, you had the deluxe version. We had the mere 2600 system before that.

2600, 5200, but I had a...

I say had, but it's about 2ft behind me as I still have it to this day, fully boxed with all my original games, instructions etc and working as well as it ever did (including the light gun which you need to compensate 2in to the right for!). Backwards compatible with all 2600 games as well, not even a PS3 has that kind of functionality

 

[Henry]

bro and i made do with Grandstand's Astrowars and Firefox until dad thought he'd buy a Spectrum (largely only because he thought he'd be able to learn basic and use it as some sort of.. 'personal computer'. the idiot). gaming commenced shortly afterwards. tape azimuth adjustment sucks.

happy days!

 

[Darren S]

^^^^ - ah, you had the deluxe version. We had the mere 2600 system before that.

2600, 5200, but I had a...

I say had, but it's about 2ft behind me as I still have it to this day, fully boxed with all my original games, instructions etc and working as well as it ever did (including the light gun which you need to compensate 2in to the right for!). Backwards compatible with all 2600 games as well, not even a PS3 has that kind of functionality

Those joysticks have ledge status - I used one of those on my C-64 for years afterwards!

D.

 

[Vish]

i had one of these

I had one of these! Was really my dads though. Think I had zelda and minator (??).

I never understood how it works, I tried copying the tapes to minidisc to keep forever lol

 

[ukaskew]

Those joysticks have ledge status - I used one of those on my C-64 for years afterwards!

D.

I take it you've heard the ET story from our beloved Atari consoles?

http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp

 

[Darren S]

Those joysticks have ledge status - I used one of those on my C-64 for years afterwards!

D.

I take it you've heard the ET story from our beloved Atari consoles?

http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp

The land-fill one? Yep, I heard about that - but not until years later. I actually had E.T on the Atari and didn't think it was that bad. Total crap if you looked at it now, mind.

D.

 

[matt|H]

First console I ever played was NES, followed by Sega Saturn and then started on the Playstations.

So glad I didn't have to use any of this cr*p lol.