Proper retro 1st computer

tribesman78 · 14-12-2010 12:58PM

Going to say the Atari 2600. I have another from before this you plugged it in to your TV and it ran on big massive batteries but i can't find a name for it. It played Practice, Football, Tennis and something else with two controllers that were like dials. Basically was two line and a dot going back and forth.

tribesman78 · 14-12-2010 01:00PM

minikin wrote: »

This was as close as we got to "computers", was put up on the top shelf by mid january as "it gave me epilepsy"

A classic. I still have it. I remember getting it for christmas over 25 years ago and i loved it, Played it for hours on end.

Dozen Wicked Words · 14-12-2010 01:00PM

tribesman78 wrote: »

Going to say the Atari 2600. I have another from before this you plugged it in to your TV and it ran on big massive batteries but i can't find a name for it. It played Practice, Football, Tennis and something else with two controllers that were like dials. Basically was two line and a dot going back and forth.

Wasn't it just called a TV game, binatone did one, grandstand did one, maybe someone has the proper name for it on here? We had one of those, it had a light gun!!!!

PCPhoto · 14-12-2010 01:02PM

cant remember which came first in my house ... the Atari 2600 or the Amstrad 464 ....prob the Amstrad.

either way I remember letting the tape load ...only to return 20mins later to ..."Read Error A" or something like that ...telling you to rewind the tape and try again.

Dizzy !! ...oh dear gawd !!!!...its beeen ages since I saw a screenshot of that.

PS. My parents GAVE the Amstrad away only a year or two ago.....was still working...hundreds of tapes.

minikin · 14-12-2010 01:02PM

Would be great to get it on the iphone!
My brothers weren't too impressed that I wrecked their present from santa claus!

Myrddin · 14-12-2010 01:04PM

When Atavan comes along, Sony will get at least one vote :pac: INteresting results all the same.

thenightrider · 14-12-2010 01:07PM

My first was an Atarinot sure wich one i rember it was before carts it was tapes took about an hour for a game to load and most of the time it would not load 1st try it would fail just at the end so most of the time it took mabe 3 hours to load some game that my brother would knock of if he kepet geting killed :eek:

o1s1n · 14-12-2010 01:26PM

EnterNow wrote: »

When Atavan comes along, Sony will get at least one vote :pac: INteresting results all the same.

I thought he got a 360 before a PS3, no? :pac:

dinnyman · 14-12-2010 01:38PM

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

Best game was Chucky Egg!

Retr0gamer · 14-12-2010 02:19PM

An MSX. Weird, you don't see to many of those unless you are from Holland. Some damn good games on it but most are japanese.

K.O.Kiki · 14-12-2010 05:34PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85p7JZXNy8

ntlbell · 14-12-2010 05:42PM

not a "computer" but bloody awsome

you could get an add on to play atari 2600 games

CiDeRmAn · 15-12-2010 08:25AM

ntlbell wrote: »

not a "computer" but bloody awsome

you could get an add on to play atari 2600 games

I've got one of those!
The video output is ropey, I'm wondering if it's the caps.
How do you test/see if they need replacing?
I also have the 2600 add on!
And that works perfectly, I wonder if it's worth something?

My favourite game on it was Looping, but it's Donkey Kong was amazing, streets ahead of the one on the 2600.
Visually it looks very like the Intellivision, don't you think?

alpahaeagle · 15-12-2010 10:14AM

My first machine swa the Speccy, use to sit for hours typing in the programs from C&VG I think, or some speecy mag. Next the C64 another great machine. I then moved on to the Atari ST and Amiga 1200. All good memories.

raddo · 15-12-2010 01:26PM

Mine was an Amstrad CPC 464 but with the dreaded green screen!!
On some games you could choose green screen or colour.
Remember playing snooker and waiting for ages for it to load only to find out that colour screen was selected instead of green!!
Couldn't see a thing, reload again!
Loved it at the time though especially Manic Miner.

Sparks43 · 15-12-2010 04:19PM

alpahaeagle wrote: »

My first machine swa the Speccy, use to sit for hours typing in the programs from C&VG I think, or some speecy mag. Next the C64 another great machine. I then moved on to the Atari ST and Amiga 1200. All good memories.

The 2 mags i used to program out of were Your Sinclair and Spectrum User

ntlbell · 15-12-2010 09:53PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I've got one of those!
The video output is ropey, I'm wondering if it's the caps.
How do you test/see if they need replacing?
I also have the 2600 add on!
And that works perfectly, I wonder if it's worth something?

My favourite game on it was Looping, but it's Donkey Kong was amazing, streets ahead of the one on the 2600.
Visually it looks very like the Intellivision, don't you think?

I only ever met one other person who had one the excitement getting to swap games

I don't own mine anymore but I have seen some in pretty good nick on ebay I have been tempted a few times.

I always taught they were intellivision's? but renamed for europe

frenzy was my favorite

stimpson · 15-12-2010 10:02PM

Nate--IRL-- wrote: »

Ahhh yes, the ORIC-1, the ginger stepchild of 8-bit computing, how I miss thee.

Nate

Yeah, I had one too. Always felt I was a bit uncool until I saw an Atmos behind Moss in series 2 of the IT crowd and suddenly it was +1000 nerd points. Lack of software made me learn how to code and I never looked back. Still have it up in my Ma's.

/wipes away tear

mondeo · 16-12-2010 12:05AM

I'm looking at the poll and the Spectrum is on top which is great, Funny though as when I was a kid in the 80's nobody in my class had the spectrum or heard of it. It was all C64 and the odd Amstrad.

My first computer was the Spectrum +2 and I still own one in original packaging and I'm very proud of it. Playing Treasure Island Dizzy on it there yesturday and boy is it frustrating:D.

My second machine was an Amstrad 464 plus followed by a Amstrad 6128 plus. A brief encounter with an Amiga and then the mid 1990's kicked in and got a pc like everyone else seemed to be doing

.

I have an Amiga 600 though which I use to type up Documents for my work and I print alot of them out directly from it to the Dot Matrix printer :P. I like my Amiga, it's my old buddy

Feelgood · 16-12-2010 12:13AM

ntlbell wrote: »

not a "computer" but bloody awsome

you could get an add on to play atari 2600 games

Dear Lord you just brought a serious load of memories swimming back, Ladybud was the shit!. I think I could only manage to get as far as Horse Radish though, the fooker was too fast for me!

Donkey Kong was class too and looping was amazing. This was a **** hot console in the day, virtually impossible to find games for though. I always wonder why the controllers looked like phones.

Thanks dude ya just reawakened my childhood

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 16-12-2010 02:50AM

Sparks43 wrote: »

this the 1?

I just found my brother's one, it's perfect but no games

ah well

EnterNow wrote: »

When Atavan comes along, Sony will get at least one vote INteresting results all the same.

That's lousy

lol we're almost the same age but mine was the C64 ~<3

pawrick · 16-12-2010 03:10AM

mine was the C64 Terminator 2 box (still have but a bit tattered on the corners)- but I really wanted an amstrad at the time that was in my local game store.

ntlbell · 16-12-2010 07:41AM

Feelgood wrote: »

I always wonder why the controllers looked like phones.

I was convinced there was away to ring and play other users, I was ahead of time

no one ever answered tho :mad::mad:

Skerries · 16-12-2010 09:17AM

my first one was a pong type machine but i can't for the life of me remember the name of it
it was one with 2 paddles on curly telephone cables with just a dial and a red button
the box had a switch for going between "tennis", "football" and "squash"

Professey Chin · 16-12-2010 10:49AM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Dizzy

FCUK YOU DIZZY!!!:mad:

My uncle had an Amstrad & Commodore I used to play the whole time but my 1st woulda been the Atari ST (well really my sisters but I claimed it as my own :pac:).And I got Treasure Island Dizzy with it (the reason for my rage towards that fcuking egg)

CiDeRmAn · 16-12-2010 12:17PM

ntlbell wrote: »

I was convinced there was away to ring and play other users, I was ahead of time no one ever answered tho :mad::mad:

I can see it now, you, sitting in a playroom, talking into the controller, waiting for a reply, while you parents look on, tearfully wondering what the future could possibly hold, shaking their heads as their dreams of you as a brain surgeon fade away...

Ah well, people who owned Atari Jaguars thought it wasn't a phone, but rather a piece of sh1te, the big difference between them and you is, they were right!

(aside from Tempest 2000, pure shooty genius)

Retr0gamer · 16-12-2010 03:36PM

I thought I was an awesome hacker with my C64. If you type at the start prompt 'Hack AIB bank' you will get a message saying 'Illegal Error'. Thought I was hacking into them. Yesyou can tell I'm not a programmer and I didn't even have a modem.

gymman39 · 16-12-2010 03:41PM

vic 20 and my first game was omega race

Captain Commie · 16-12-2010 03:43PM

first machine i ever had was a C64, loved that thing, with tape and 5 1/4" floppy drive. Would love to get my hands on one again, just for teh craic of it

Feelgood · 16-12-2010 10:30PM

Anyone remember this one

My first experience with a C64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47AQP8rDWZg

Proper retro 1st computer

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