Quandry 378 Posted January 29, 2015 I was just tooling around on Wiki and found this article. It brought back a lot of memories so thought I would share here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983 Were you a gamer in 1983 and if so what was your system? I think I was still on the family Intellivision back in those days! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedy_w_beans 4270 Posted January 29, 2015 I was playing games on a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (Sinclair ZX81)... Cassette tapes, 2k of RAM -- woohoo! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GregM 1109 Posted January 29, 2015 I wasn't even born back then, but my first experiences with videogames were in the late 80s with Super Mario Bros. for the NES and Test Drive for the Commodore Amiga. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StrokerBoy 772 Posted January 29, 2015 BBC Model B. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparkysx 125 Posted January 29, 2015 I've still got the family ZX81 and the little printer that came with it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tilstad1 33 Posted January 30, 2015 I recall not being interested n getting ANYTHING atari, as I had seen how horribly bad the games were at friends houses. They all had this incredibly eleborate, amazing and promising box art, and then the game graphics themselves were often not more that a moving square on he screen. Total let down. I think many stayed away from game consoles back then, as the games that was released, was often in the pure ripoff category. Simply too much wortless bad game releases, wasnt worth he time nor the money. When the commodore 64 came out though, thats when I jumped into it. Have a couple of them, now with the Chameleon cartridge, which has a cpu speeder, like the old super cpu. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparkysx 125 Posted January 30, 2015 I remember I saved up £400 and bought an Amiga 500+ Batman pack when it first came out, still have a few Amigas now, one set up and working. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gruntfuggly 562 Posted January 30, 2015 BBC B, Commodore 64, Vectrex... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Terz1 745 Posted January 30, 2015 I remember I saved up £400 and bought an Amiga 500+ Batman pack when it first came out, still have a few Amigas now, one set up and working. I had the batman pack too . Loved the Amiga 500+ . It had a disc drive, I was so excited at the time after coming from cassettes. A game called shadow of the beast blew me away graphics wise. Earliest I had was a commodore vic20 then, commodore 16, zx spectrum+2, acorn electron, nintendo nes, sega mega drive, sega saturn. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lupogtiboy 452 Posted January 30, 2015 Aha, my other addiction! I started out with an Amiga 500+ Cartoon Classics pack, my mum and dad convinced my brother and me that it would be too expensive, and when they pulled this gift-wrapped box out, I thought it was a Scalextric! This is my other 'hobby' and I have collected quite a lot of consoles and computers over the years, my favourite being the Vectrex. My collection so far stands like this (I think!) Nintendo NES x 5 Famicom (Jap import) x1 SNES x 4 SNES USA x1 Super Famicom (Jap import) x1 Gamecube x3 (x1 silver Jap import) Wii x2 Original Gameboy x3 Gameboy Colour x2 Gameboy Light (Jap import) x1 Gameboy Advance x1 Gameboy Advance Mini x1 Advance SP x1 DS Lite x1 3DS x1 Virtual Boy x2 N64 x4 (x1 Pikachu Edition) Sega Mastersystem 1 x2 Mastersystem 2 x3 Megadrive 1 x3 (x2 Asian import) Megadrive 2 x2 Mega CD2 x1 32X x1 Saturn x2 Dreamcast x3 Gamegear x8 Atari 2600 Woodie x2 2600 Darth Vader x1 2600 Junior x6 7800 x1 520 ST x2 1040 STe x2 800XL x1 Jaguar x1 Lynx 2 x1 Commodore C64 x2 C64C x2 C128 x1 Plus 4 x1 P500 (prototype) x1 Amiga 500 x1 Amiga 500+ x1 Amiga 600 x2 Amiga 600 HD x1 Amiga 1200 x1 CD32 x1 Sinclair Spectrum ZX 48k x2 +2 x2 +3 x2 Phillips CDi x7 (various models!) Video Pac x1 3DO Panasonic FZ-1 x3 Panasonic FZ-10 x1 Goldstar 3D0 x1 Microsoft X-Box x4 (x3 Crystal) 360 x2 (x1 ROD!) 360 Slim x1 Sony PS1 x5 PS2 x8 (some don't read DVD's or PS2 games!) PS3 x3 PSP x3 Others Milton Bradley Vectrex x1 NEC PC Engine (USA import) x1 BBC B Micro x1 Amstrad GX4000 x1 Bandai Wonderswan Crystal x1 Fairchild System F x1 Mattel Intellivision x1 NEO GEO Pocket x1 NEO GEO Pocket colour x1 Grandstand TV Pong x1 Binatone TV Pong x1 I have a few tabletop games too like Astrowars ect... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GregM 1109 Posted January 30, 2015 Poser. Do they all get regular love & play? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lupogtiboy 452 Posted January 30, 2015 LOL! Yes they all get used when I can, but mostly the PS3 and X-Box360 if I'm honest...... I always loved Chase HQ, I remember going round my mates house after school, he had a Commodore 64 with the piano and disc drive and a proper monitor, spent an age loading the game up, had one go and my dad was always waiting to take me home!! I also have an obsession with Bomberman, I am trying to collect a version for whatever format it was on! My brother and I have done a few presentations for college students, so I took a few older consoles with me and what was new at the time. As soon as they saw the graphics on the older units, they ignored them completely! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StrokerBoy 772 Posted January 30, 2015 BBC Model B. Long break after that, then a Megadrive, PS1 and PS2. Never progressed past that. Oh, someone gave me a DreamCast once too. The missus has a Wii but it doesn't appeal at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GregM 1109 Posted January 30, 2015 No worries lupogtiboy. If you can, try to grab a CD unit for your PC Engine along with the Super System Card 3.0, so you can play awesome games like Dracula X (Castlevania Rondo of Blood), Gate of Thunder and Winds/Lords of Thunder. Or you can download them at bargain prices on the Wii's Virtual console service. Either way, these games rock IF you are into 16 bit shooters and action games. My stuff Nintendo: NEC: Sega: Sony: Microsoft: Am I 1337 now? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Terz1 745 Posted January 30, 2015 Three old school shooters I loved were Xenon 2 megablast, r-type and battle squadron. The last two are available on google play. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparkysx 125 Posted January 30, 2015 mmmmm, best I can do is:- PSP PS3 PS2 N64 Amiga 600 x 3 ZX81 Gameboy Atari ST XBOX 360 plus various PC's that don't really count. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparkysx 125 Posted January 30, 2015 I had the batman pack too . Loved the Amiga 500+ . It had a disc drive, I was so excited at the time after coming from cassettes. A game called shadow of the beast blew me away graphics wise. Earliest I had was a commodore vic20 then, commodore 16, zx spectrum+2, acorn electron, nintendo nes, sega mega drive, sega saturn. I've got Shadow of the Beast on my Amiga, I could literally play it within 5 mins from now, but it's very hard and the graphics don't seem as good anymore 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Terz1 745 Posted January 30, 2015 True. Things have moved on so much since then. One of the hardest games ever! I remember it having good music too. Oh I had an amiga 1200 too. Had the PS but then jumped to xbox 360. If I get another it will be PS4. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wez-li 1790 Posted January 30, 2015 Some great consoles mentioned here, nice to see we've got some retro gamers on the forum I used to work for a import game retailer in the late 90's so I've had pretty much everything, and seen/played every console. My favourites are Neo Geo Super Famicom (SNES) PC Engine Saturn Dreamcast I love 2d fighting games, and was literally just playing KOF 96 five minutes before I logged on here I've sold all my old machines, currently only have ps4, 360, wii, GC, psp, 3ds. But still have plenty of retro titles to play 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wez-li 1790 Posted January 30, 2015 I have had a few consoles in my time, but do miss my NeoGeo CD. 'Max 330 Mega Pro Gear Spec' still trips off the tongue. Dorvack NeoCD was soooooooo sloooooow. Who puts a single speed CD drive in a console made to replace the biggest cartridges of all time Lol Still cool though Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
berman 5315 Posted January 31, 2015 Still got my woodgrain 2600 somewhere. Wish I had my ms1 pack with safari hunt hang on + snail maze. Still have a ms2 and fav games are r-type and chasehq (later is my u/n on other forum's). Wish i still had my c64, favourites were Stunt Racer, Load Runner and Creatures. Had a Nintendo, favourite being days of thunder, SMB2 and a knight game i can't remember the name of. Also had a standup arcade machine that I bought off a neighbour who had a room full of them for $350 nzd, it was like a clone of R-type with more detail, sold it back to him and have since forgotten the name of the game. Have a PS3. For goodness sake don't let me start collecting vintage gaming too... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wez-li 1790 Posted January 31, 2015 I had the batman pack too . Loved the Amiga 500+ . It had a disc drive, I was so excited at the time after coming from cassettes. A game called shadow of the beast blew me away graphics wise.Amiga was great wasn't it, that and the Atari ST had brilliant support, all the top movie licences and arcade conversions were on it, plus classics like sensible soccer, chaos engine xenon2 and others I could probably name if I sat down and had a think Never worked out why Amiga games were £5 more, £24.99 as opposed to £19.99 on the ST, when they were almost identical?? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Terz1 745 Posted January 31, 2015 Ah chaos engine. Another cool game I forgot about. I remember the atari st. I remember as a kid sweating over which to get, amiga or st?? amiga always had the edge in graphics etc. Like you said we paid a £5 premium for it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
topforcein 1764 Posted February 1, 2015 My first console was the 2600 atari and loved it used to spend hours on centipede just clockin it over and over liked the smurf game also. Then got my parents to get me the spectrum 48 k from currys mine came with a few games the joystick tapeplayer and the bonus sinclair tv. To witch I have all in original packageing. I managed to get hold of a 14" matsui tv a month back so I can still use it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparkysx 125 Posted February 1, 2015 My parents owned 4 computer/dvd/video shops when I was younger, so I had access to everything. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites