My first game console LOL
 

I remember that nasty noise as the tape would try and load. Shit I'm not that old


http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/images/spectrum_48k.jpg

old good daysssss

old gamer here too... PK for life!

Here's mine:

http://www.computercloset.org/Commodore_64_Box.jpg

In catholic school when we first got the C64s in "computer class" I think thats when my fascination started with computers and I couldnt stop playing that rat game where you made him move to get the cheese? Came home and told mom i was going to work with computers when I got old... ah the days of our youth, then by highschool they replaced all the "typewriters" in "keyboarding class" with macs and changed the name from keyboarding to COMPUTER LIT!

fascinated me.

My 2nd computer
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rum_Plus2.jpeg

:thumbsup

Old school baby!

:2 cents::2 cents:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
I just get an new Logitech Driving Wheel For My PS3..
This one..it is cool.


http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-cont...-rennsport.jpg

Now THIS was the good old days..!


http://archive.computerhistory.org/r...2627773.lg.jpg


This is a Decwriter. It is a combination keyboard and printer, with a serial port which connected to a Modem, a 300 Baud modem, which then connected to an HP2000F Mainframe computer.

Programming was done in languages that included BASIC, COBOL and FORTAN (Basic was my favorite). The HP2000F was a "Time Sharing" computer that many people could use at once.

The best was placing multi-player Space War on it. It would PRINT "values" to describe a ship in space, such as SPEED COURSE BEARING RANGE. You could launch photon torpedoes or fire phasers etc. It was all played with numbers (Great for your imagination), and printed reports every 10 seconds or so to update the gameplay with the other players position in both 2D and 3D space. It was GREAT... I miss it!

damn thats some old shit

first computer I had was a gateway that my parents bought back in 1992. pretty lame and had some baseball game that was horrible.

before that my dad had this crazy laptop with a black and orange screen. He would make me type my homework on it and I would have nightmares about the damn orange characters on the screen :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

my first game console was this...

http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey_other.htm

then I got the atari 2600... (still have)

then atari 5200...

then NES.. skipped SNES and got N64 (still have both)

had the genesis... (Still have)

then dreamcast (still have)

Playstation..
PS2 (still have)
X-box 360 (still have)
PS3 (still have - never use)

Learned basic on a Tandy TSR-80 .... on and on and on.. and here I am today..
LOL

DG

This was my first game console and we played it for hours..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../AtariPong.JPG

fuck yeah!!

Dg

Now THAT is a computer, I remember PETs like it was yesterday. Note the built-in datasette, that is a pimp machine.

Hey i want one of those... :upsidedow

This was my first console:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...Atari2600a.jpg

those games are a damn joke compared 2 the shit 2 day

I had one of these.

http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Odyssey2.jpg

My first pc / gaming machine was this crud:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...clair_ZX81.jpg

Used to love it :error

And they were an absolute fucking blast to play.

I had the Sinclair 1000 with the 16k ram expansion pack :)

No way - you've got it wrong.

Think about it. These computers had 8 bit processors and maybe 16k of Ram (not even 1 Megabyte). The screen resolution was maybe 256 pixels wide by 128 pixels high.

Limited power? Maybe. Fun? Absolutely. My imagination during epic space battles outshined the crude graphics of course, but that was part of the fun.

And of course they don't compare to machines of today, but come on. Xbox 360's wouldn't exist without the Atari PONG.

And of course, ALL of these games owe themselves to the ORIGINAL video game: SPACE WAR. Writen in - holy fuck - 1962 - on a PDP-1. Now THIS was a Fucking Machine!!!!! Now THIS was fucking Programming!

http://pongmuseum.com/history/_picts...2631264.lg.jpg


http://www.mediacritica.net/courses/...heads/pdp1.jpg

http://archive.computerhistory.org/r...2652236.lg.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../Spacewar1.png

http://en.flossmanuals.net/floss/pub...1_20070512.jpg

this was my first... boxing rawked

http://www.intellivision.co.uk/intellivision.jpg

I used to lose those fucking control overlays... but my favorites were auto racing, space hawk, astrosmash, dungeons & dragons, and tron deadly discs.

My first was an Apple II back in about 1989 :thumbsup

you're not alone

I played on an apple in the late 80's. The first console I got was a super nintendo. After that nothing until last week when I got the xbox360. I'm always late with these things :)

Wasn't my first computer (that was a VIC-20 -- thanks Shatner!) and had a hand-me-down Atari 2600, but this was my first NEW console that I bought with my own moolah:

http://i29.tinypic.com/2i91j40.jpg

Donkey Kong and Smurf games were killer on that.

Damn, the memories in this thread.

This was also my first console.....and i wish i can find one now? anyone selling it?

Damn I remember this :thumbsup

Aaahhhh.. those were the days..... getting fucking old... :1orglaugh

A commodore was hardly a game console.

We had an early pong/squash/tennis game, I think Sears made it.

:thumbsup

Brings back fond memories

good old days .... still remember when i updated from a zx spectrum to a c64
i was the king

Mine was the Intellivision II. I played hours of Astrosmash and Snafu on that thing.

Damn, you must have been one of the rich kids! :1orglaugh

I had 1 of these too

http://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/at...geekery_03.jpg

Hooray mine tooo !

Ohh the fun of cassette games, leaving them on the TV and accidental wiping them or copying friends games with a double cassette hifi lols such fun i miss the good old days !
:RUN :thumbsup