[The Collection]

It is always cool when you can share your interest with your kids!

I collect all the classic stuff, my son has all the new stuff and all the Nintendo stuff, and my daughter is really into the handhelds. We have an awesome collection . Too bad it is not all mine

[My Intellivision collection (so far)]

Nice.

How rare is the 3-D Hover Force?

[Video of my new home arcade and game room.]

Looking good!

[Profiles In Gaming: The Odyssey of Ralph Baer]

Profiles In Gaming: The Odyssey of Ralph Baer

 

Thanks for the link. Good article. My prized possession in my collection is a Magnavox Odyssey autographed by Ralph Baer.

[What have you learned/gained by playing video games?]

I learned how to drive a tank.

[What was YOUR very first computer?]

In high school i wanted to buy an Ohio Scientific computer. It was an open board and you had to hook it up to power and a tv. Same time as early TRS80s but cheaper. My Dad said "No way. Dont waste your money. Computers are a fad."

Thanks Dad.

[Price Check on a Gaming Bundle I am Looking at.]

Does the microvision work? If so, you scored in that respect. Screen rot killed most of them.

[Most played]

Galaga, Tempest on mame

Minestorm on Vectrex

Panzer Dragoon on Saturn

Portal 2 on Ps3

Chips Challenge and Battlezone 2000 on Lynx

Gunpei on my Wonderswan

[whats your rarest console?]

I have a flawless sealed Turbo Duo.

 

If it is sealed, how do you play with it?

[What do you think are the most epic game consoles?]

Opps double post. Darned smartphones

[What do you think are the most epic game consoles?]

For sure! Those of us who know the joy of opening a brand new Atari 2600 at Christmas, and also got a PS3 for fathers day 35 years later.... Spending your fast food paycheck at the arcade and pizza place playing Galaga and Defender while the speaker blared with Huey Lewis, Loverboy and Men at Work....

We have experienced the beginning, and I will be the first to buy the virtual reality headset when it comes out.

 

We arent old farts, we are the lucky ones!

[Need advice on making a deal]

There was once life before Paypal - even on Ebay.

Everything I bought was paid for with a money order and I never had any problem.

[JXD s601 - Android Console]

I have owned a Dingoo and a Yinlips and they are what they are - cheap chinese knock-off products. They are not very stable (I had one I had to 'reset' practically every time I played it. Another - very similar to the one that started the thread - had a crappy touch screen and burned through the battery in less than an hour. It never hooked to the internet - I had to sideload everything. It eventually 'bricked' on me and even the smartest high school kid I know was unable to get it running again.

I bought it to play with - not constantly be farting around with the operating system.

I bought an experia play smart phone and am pretty happy with it, but I have given up on these POSs and all the claims and BS videos.

[If You Had $200 to Spend . . .]

If I was starting out - I would buy an Atari 7800 (can play both 2600 and 7800 games), a bunch of games, a couple of six packs of beer and a big bag of Cheetos.

[Vectrex owners roll call!]

I own a Vectrex and love it.

I'm also way to lazy to find the SN on the machine, write it down, and then go to another site and type it in.

I could play a game of scramble in that amount of time.

 

In fact - after typing this post, think I am going to take a nap....

[What do you think are the most epic game consoles?]

The Game.Com is the absolute definition of epic.

The Game.Com is the absolute definition of epic.

LOL. Someone either has a sense of humor or is lacking a dictionary

 

I want whatever Austin is smoking.

 

 

 

IMHO

 

Odyssey - The original started it all and they had to invent everything from scratch.

2600 - Sure, there was a crash, but it wasn't the 2600s fault and everyone played the crap out of that thing back in the day.

NES - Would we really be here talking if the NES had not been successful?

PS2 - Sure we all love the Dreamcast, but face it - Sega screwed up and did not put a DVD player in it and then Sony ate their lunch. There is a whole generation that grew up on the PS1, PS2 and PS3.

[VECTREX]

I bought one at a flea market for $50.

Cleaned it up and it works great!

It is my favorite system - all i have to do is turn it on and play. No adapters, power supplies etc.

Vectrex just plain rocks!

[What's the oldest gaming system you currently have connected to a TV?]

An original Magnavox Odyssey with Ralph Baer's autograph on the case!

 

Booo-Yahhhh

[opinion of Microvision]

Had one as a kid - loved it then.

Have one now - love it now.

The Microvision did not go head to head with the gameboy. It was way earlier than the gameboy and its capabilities were very basic by comparison. It was the next step after the LED hand held games (remember mattel footbal, baseball, soccer,etc).

[Pictures of many game consoles]

At first I thought = "Big deal, console pictures."

Then I looked at them, and WOW! Nice photography! You really made them look great!

I think I will use them for a screensaver slideshow.

 

How about a 2600 and or 7800?

[My new emulation cabinet]

LCD is the way to go.

I bought a MAME machine a few years ago and they went on and on about how I needed this 29" Wells Gardner tube monitor to get the "authentic" arcade experience. It was great until two years later when the monitor went black. The place I bought it from (in Indiana) said they didn't service monitors and gave me the name of a repair place (in HOUSTON!). I had to remove the chassis boards and ship them to Houston. They couldn't fix them so I bought new ones from Wells Gardner for almost $200, The guy told me that I was "Lucky" to get 2 years out of it. Now it works again, but for how long? And the cabinet is built for a narrow screen monitor - it I decide to go LCD, they are ALL widescreen now, My cabinet will look stupid.

 

By the way - you might want to get a custom marquee made up for your machine. It didn't cost much to do and it makes the machine all yours.

[Tiger game.com]

I bought one off of ebay for $12. I have a lot of handhelds and figured it couldn't be as bad as everyone said. I bought four games for it too.

Well, lo and behold - it was every bit as bad as everyone said. Wow, that system could be the mayor of Suckville. I could never imagine buying one for several hundred dollars new. I would have felt robbed.

I stuck in on the wall in my collection and will likely never play it again. Kind off like buying a Yugo so that you can have one of every car ever made.

 

Atari_Falcon - whatever you are smoking, I want some! You sound like a marketing guy for the company.

[1983 Sears Christmas Catalog]

I still cant get over how much the game cartridges cost even back then. $40 back then for a single game for the 2600! That is $100 in today's money.

Makes the new games look like a bargain.

[C64 and Zork II - Internal error #3608]

The warranty card in the game says that if you send a bad disk back to the company - they will replace it. Do you think it will still work?

[C64 and Zork II - Internal error #3608]

I recently acquired a Commodore 64 in working condition. We were able to run the computer, do some simple programming, and save and retrieve files from the floppy drive.

So far, so food

So the next step is to play an old game, right!?!?

I got a new in box copy of ZorkII off of ebay. Unwrapped the game, slid in the floppy, loaded the game, ran the game, got the opening test paragraph and the command prompt ">". Then, no matter what we type in the only reply is:

 

INTERNAL ERROR #3608

-- END OF SESSION --

 

Then the thing freezes up.

 

 

Anyone seen this before?

 

Cat