Life as a Retro Video Gamer.

[Atariboy2600]

Like my Life as a Atari gaming life I also gotten other none Atari games and systems from 77 till today and some even earlier ones like the Odyssey and other pong units and wanted to post some of my collection here as well.

 

 

   

Edited September 10 by Atariboy2600

[Atariboy2600]

Me and the Odyssey came out the same year 72 I got the unit from my uncle some time in the mid 70s after I been getting the Atari VCS. Fun Fact: Nintendo's first video game product came in 1972 when they licensed their kosenju SP rifle to Magnavox.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

And yes some how this 50+ years old console still works

 

 

 

[Atariboy2600]

Both Odyssey & Odyssey 2 side by side.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

Back in 79 my father came to visit my family and one day he ask me to follow him to his car and he open his trunk and pull out a complete box Odyssey 2 &bunch of games in a huge brown paper bag and gave it to me to keep. To this day I still have that Odyssey 2 and all the games.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

Fairchild Channel F is very bulky and older as it came out one year before the VCS but got it later on and so far here the first model and model 2 is not yet photo but hope soon.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

Even if the RCA Studio II came out in 1977 it may have well came out in 1877 as this system is soooooo outdated it was never in-dated.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

Bally Professional Arcade is maybe my favored none ATARI late 70s unit next to the Odyssey 2. Some games I'm sill missing like The Incredible Wizard! and hope to find it at PRGE this Sept.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

First got the Arcadia-2001 at Crazy Eddie in NYC for $19.99 and $1.99 for each games many moons ago.

   

 

 

[Atariboy2600]

First got the Mattel's Intellivision from 1979 and been gaming till 87. Here's I'm just showing some of the games as there's too many to fit on the table like next to the Intellivision 2 are one game for each companies next to He-Man game. 

 

         

 

Edited September 10 by Atariboy2600

[Atariboy2600]

Since 1982 at age 10 I still own this old console with a packin Donkey Kong (well every Colecovsion has DK game) me and my brother love playing this until NES came out in 85.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

Some Colecovision Expansions and Add-on.

 

    

 

 

 

   

 

   

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

As a 10 year old kid in 1982 not only did my family got me Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Colecovision, C64 and the Intellivision II but my aunt got got me a Vectrex for my birthday and still got games for it.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

Vectrex in action - 

 

 

 

[Atariboy2600]

Physical gaming manuals and booklets are an endangered species and only shown online pages and none with gaming case and for years I been keeping and collecting extra manuals, books, catalogs and comics just in case I lose any with my box games. 

GOD I missed manuals in todays gaming.

 

[Atariboy2600]

    

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Its not just video games I been holding my old childhood toys and will and wanted to post them here as well as I lived with these together in my life time.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

A closes up look at the very first video game light gun rifle again Nintendo help made this gun for the Odyssey.

 

[Mikebloke]

Nice collection, you've done well. I'm out of it now but there is some nice stuff here. Don't and will likely never have a bally, it's probably the one US console I kind of fancied getting that doesn't have a PAL version (as far as I'm aware!)

[Atariboy2600]

On Nov 23rd 1985 at age 13 I saved up to buy my very first gaming console with my own. At NYC in 1985 where me and my mother gone to 14th street and that same block where I got the NES Deluxe unit at the Woolworth store then the store closed in 97. The NES Deluxe Set was test market in NYC in Oct of 85 and one month later on my birthday on a Saturday afternoon. The same day I got the NES Deluxe Set for my birthday me and my mother gone and ate at Blimpies on northwest corner of 14th Street and 1st Avenue NYC (think of Subway before it was a thing) and I open one of the games and it was Super Mario Bros. Sadly Blimpies is no longer there.

 

 

[Atariboy2600]

In 1988 4 years after I gotten the NES Deluxe Set in 85 one of my mother's friend got a box NES Action Set but later wanted to get ride of it for a Sega Genesis and ask if I wanted to take it for keeps and I said yeah why not and took it home. I been using the Deluxe set so much I had not been playing the Action Set so little I still have it's plastic baggies and twist ties in the box but it's safe to have a spear in case the first one brakes down. 

 

 

[Atariboy2600]

Got each of these games one by one when they first released in the US for the NES. And by far my all time favorite NES games ever made. Super Mario Bros 3 was my very first PRE-ORDER video game I ever paid at Toy's r Us in 1990.

 

1985 - Super Mario Bros.
1988 - Super Mario Bros 2.
1990 - Super Mario Bros 3.

[Atariboy2600]

Super Mario Bros. 3 came out in the US today in 1990. Back in 1990 My VERY first pre-order video game I ever paid was NES Super Mario Bros. 3 at Toys 'r' Us and I still have it later second version with the Right Bros. on the box, label and manual.

 

 

[Atariboy2600]

My back story on the Famicom I lived in NYC and we mostly get many Japanese imports and sold at downtown China Town stores and if any gaming systems released in Japan we also get them on the same day and in 87 as I walked on Canal Street and got my self a box Famicom and games.

 

   

[Atariboy2600]

I got the Famicom AV (aka Top Loader) from a friend who was visiting in Japan and wanted to mail me a Box console with some games for some art trade and so I drew some pictures and hope to hear from her again in the future.