Atari 2600

Ruu_Old

Chuckles galore at this one, linkeh.:)

petes

Shouldn't that be here


I had a 2600. A mighty machine. Oh the joys of centipede and pole position.

Ruu_Old

Ah but can you defend your city, they'll show no pity, ya know!

Archeron

When Night Driver came out and I first seen one of those paddle controllers, I almost wet myself with excitement. My bro actually paid over £100 for Centipede in McKenna's electric (remember them??) and I can still remember the huge poster ads in the window.

Remember Combat? the tanks and planes shooting dots at each other. Class.

So what machine did your 2600 lead to next? I went down the Spectrum 48k and 128k route, thus forever declaring myself arch enemies of anyone who owned a commodore.

Funny, even now at 30 years old, I can say to some mates that I've known since childhood " the Atari ST was much better than the Amiga 500" and you can still see their blood pressure rise. Ha!

petes

I got a Amstrad 464+ from my parents. After that I had a Snes, then a N64, then a Gamecube and now have a DS. Anyone else see a pattern here?

Pigman II

Anyone remember in the very early 90s (era of 16-bit computers and the 8-bit consoles) Atari re-released the 2600 with the only selling point being that it was UNDER FIFTY BUCKS (strange statement considering the currency was IEP at the time.)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAadfsJrmM

Cooee

on a Vic20.................the Commodore64 was a beast of a thing compared to that!
Friend has a Spectrum XX?? - one with the membrane keyboard!

In school had to load Basic from a cassette tape on a Sharp MZ80k....and type in games by hand...from program listingins in magazines
Tried writing my own text based flight sim???????????

This is mid 80s stuff

nollaig

had an atari 2600, It was class. Had centipede, Pac-Man, Space Attacks. There the main ones I remember. Then I progressed to the NES, Then mega drive, then PS2, and now I have a PS2.

Didnt Atari have a console out aroung the time of th mega drive & snes? The jaguar or something? Did anybosy ever play that?

ambro25

Putting aside arcades (yum...), CBS Coleco here (only slightly later than VCS, still less than 8-bit tho). Aaah, Turbo and Dukes of Hazzard with the steering wheel, what memories!

Then over the last...oooh...must be 20 years or thereabouts...[big breath intake]:

*computer-wise*
C64, Atari 520ST, Amiga 600, 386 Zenith laptop, Apple Macintosh (classic monobloc shape), 486/P1/P2/P3 clones or self-built, currently AMD64 HP (heavily upgraded with non-HP parts) & Dell D600.

*TV console-wise*
SMS, MD, SNES [...big void, skipped the troubled late 16-bit/early-32 bit era...] DC, PS1, N64, PS2, GC, XB1.

*and retro period in a big way a few years back* NES, 3DO, CDI, PC-E, PC-SGX, Saturn, Jaguar, NeoGeo, Pippin.

*portable console-wise*
GB classic, GB color, GBA, GBA SP, currently DS original shape.

*and retro period in a big way a few years back* GBP, GBP light, WS, WSC, NGP, NGPC, Supervision, VirtualBoy, GG, Nomad, Lynx 1, Lynx 2, PC-E GT.

And yet... I never was into Pokemon:Gotta Catch'em All

Always put "getting a 2600" on the back burner, until I grew out of it

Ruu_Old

nollaig wrote:

had an atari 2600, It was class. Had centipede, Pac-Man, Space Attacks. There the main ones I remember. Then I progressed to the NES, Then mega drive, then PS2, and now I have a PS2.

Didnt Atari have a console out aroung the time of th mega drive & snes? The jaguar or something? Did anybosy ever play that?

Yep, it came out not that long after the Megadrive. They were made to compete with Playstation and N64 but flopped.

il gatto

We had several versions of Pong built into two handsets with knobs on them, and one had a reset button. Then a Commodore Vic 20, followed by a Spectrum 128k, then an Nes, then I lost interest until the Playstation. Currently on a PS2, but I'll invest in a PS3 when the price drops a bit. Also had a Gameboy (original) and an Atari Lynx.

sioda

Moon patrol and jungle hunt my all time fave 2600 games

dib

I loved H.E.R.O. and Jungle Hunt. I remember playing Jungle Hunt for hours and hours trying to get to the Cannibal Camp at the end of the game. I never did and to this date will vehemently deny it's existence!

Miguel_Sanchez

'A real hit joystick controls the screen' or so they had us believe.

My folks ran a computer shop in the early-mid 80's so we had Apple II, BBC Micros and the like around our house.
We had a PacMan knock off called Snapper for the Acorn Electron computer. Anyone remember them?
Also played Wizardry on the Apple II for years before we completed it. Now that was a quality game

On the Commodore 64 I loved:
Spy vs Spy
Spy Hunter
Raid Over Moscow
Loderunner
H.E.R.O
Manic Miner
Boogaloo
Prisoner
Zodiac

Great stuff.

ixoy

Archeron wrote:

Funny, even now at 30 years old, I can say to some mates that I've known since childhood " the Atari ST was much better than the Amiga 500" and you can still see their blood pressure rise. Ha!

The hell it was :mad: !

The Amiga 500 kicked the ass of the Atari. More games and better ones at that. And don't forget the clincher - an Amiga was used for the SFX for Babylon 5!

BLITZ_Molloy

I bloody hated the Atari 2600. It was my first console after our family C64 broke down. Talk about a step down in graphics! And most of the games were pure gash.

I thanked my lucky stars when we later got a Mega Drive at launch. People look back on games like Altered Beast and Golden Axe and laugh nowadays, saying they look so crap. But after 2600 Double Dragon those games were pure pixel pornography. The only games I was interested in were arcade ports (me being an arcade urchin from as soon as I could walk) and the MD certainly didn't dissapoint on that front.

super_furry

Archeron wrote:

Funny, even now at 30 years old, I can say to some mates that I've known since childhood " the Atari ST was much better than the Amiga 500" and you can still see their blood pressure rise. Ha!

If you say that aloud in my local, you'll most likely get a hiding. And quite rightly too. Commodore for LIFE! I went for the 2600 to C64 to Amiga - the path of the righteous.

Ay Cee

See the price in the ad? 129.99.

That was a lot of pounds in those days.

Kipperhell

I still have my atari and it works fine. I remeber the first major price drop on it and the sudden increase in people buying them. It came buddled with pacman and combat. Just got a Wii and there is a game really like Combat on Play.
Currently have Atari 2600, Amstrad CPC 6128, Comadore Vic 20, Ps, PS2, Xbox, N64,Gameboy, Gameboy advance, DS, Gamecube and Wii. Won't bother with the Ps3 or Xbox 360. They just simply cost too much. I really don't like the idea of the massive functionality of the new consoles. It feels like they are really trying to fleece people this time round.