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Proper retro 1st computer

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  • #62
    kepler_johan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭kepler_johan


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

    Best game was Chucky Egg!

    Mitsubishi_MSX_MLF80.jpg

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


  • #63
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    rowtron_televisioncomputersystem_2.jpg
    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


  • #64
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


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


  • #65
    Lorfarius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭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!


  • #66
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭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!


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  • #67
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭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


  • #68
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Err, PS1 or Gameboy Colour count?


  • #69
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    I also started out with the 'friendly computer'

    VIC-20_friendly_brochure_p1.jpg

    TJ Hooker wouldn't steer you wrong:

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


  • #70
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


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

    atari2600a.jpg

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

    Picture%20095.jpg


  • #71
    longshotvalue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭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..


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  • #72
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭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....


  • #73
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭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...


  • #74
    unky chop chop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,966 ✭✭✭unky chop chop


    chopperbyrne wrote: »



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

    ]


    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


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