Proper retro 1st computer

kepler_johan

dinnyman wrote: »

The Mitsubishi MSX - MLF80.
A present from Santa (Peats on Parnell Street)

Best game was Chucky Egg!

heh there, do you still have the mlf80? I've got one myself with a dodgy keyboard and looking for parts/replacement.

CathalDublin

surprisingly I know or a few people with this system in the early eighties
NAME Television Computer System
MANUFACTURER Rowtron
ORIGIN United Kingdom
YEAR ? 1981
BUILT IN SOFTWARE / GAMES None
CONTROLLErsc Two controllers with 12 buttons and an analog joystick
CPU Signetics 2650A
CO-PROCESSOR Signetics 2636 (Video controller)
RAM Unknown
GRAPHIC MODES Unknown
COLOrsc 8?
SOUND Single channel beeper
I/O PORTS Cartridge slot, Video output (UHF channel 36), Power input
MEDIA Cartridges
NUMBER OF GAMES At least 21 cartridges were released
POWER SUPPLY 15v DC, 8 VA, - -(o- +
PRICE £79.95

Optimus Prime

There was one on adverts a while back, it might not have been exactly that but it looked very very similiar.

Lorfarius

Mine was a Commodore 16. Remember pestering my parents for ages to get some sort of computer mainly because a neighbour had a Speccy 48K. It only last 8 months as the power brick dropped off the edge of the table and broke, parents couldn't afford to replace it Was several years before I got a different computer.

At least I got to play classics like Cops n Robbers and Mr Puniverse before the C16 died!

CiDeRmAn

Ah the Speccy 48k, and Manic Miner....
But one of the first I got extended play on was an Atari computer with membrane keyboard, the 400 I think.
Also my cousins Vic 20 got some play, I really want one of those, along with a matching C64, plus a couple of flash carts, loading times are not fun people!

Sparks43

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Ah the Speccy 48k, and Manic Miner....
But one of the first I got extended play on was an Atari computer with membrane keyboard, the 400 I think.
Also my cousins Vic 20 got some play, I really want one of those, along with a matching C64, plus a couple of flash carts, loading times are not fun people!

I am one of the sad sad people who enjoyed loading times

Just love that sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avnSAgJMKKM

Atavan-Halen

Err, PS1 or Gameboy Colour count?

DinoRex

I also started out with the 'friendly computer'



TJ Hooker wouldn't steer you wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEI7mm8M7Q

chopperbyrne

Got an original 2600 second hand at Christmas in 1988 I think (may have been 87).



It broke after a month or two and we got a reissue 2600 for under fifty bucks!

longshotvalue

No Dragon 32 on that list. I remember writing a game in basic on that in school.. ( should have stuck with games writing) a very very loooooooooooong time ago..

CiDeRmAn

atavan-halen wrote: »

Err, PS1 or Gameboy Colour count?

Don't worry about getting your coat, we'll forward it to your address, in the gutter, just leave quickly and quietly, thanks....

CiDeRmAn

As I have said before, there will be many people around for whom the first computer/console was either the family PC, PS2 or 360.
In a couple of years we'll have retrogamers whose first exposure to video games was the Wii!
Thankfully, I will be past caring, drooling, no bowel control, and unable to use the remote control for the telly, just like now actually bar the bit about the remote...

unky chop chop

chopperbyrne wrote: »

It broke after a month or two and we got a reissue 2600 for under fifty bucks!

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Under 50 bucks,under 50 bucks,now isn't that nice
Loved that ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=913xrM9FYpI

I badgered the oul pair for a 2600 but got a c64 instead.Educational values and all that. Much better system anyway