I feel like a kid again. - Videokarma.org TV - Video

jpdylon · #1 11-09-2008, 12:13 AM

Spent the entire evening playing video games on my CTC-11.

Even dragged out the old nintendo with metroid, and super mario bros. Other various games as well.

life is good.

John Marinello · #2 11-09-2008, 09:07 AM

Avoid using games that have any sort of intense, stationary images. They'll burn a permanent image into the phosphor. This was especially true with projection sets. There were lawsuits way back to cover the cost of CRT replacement.

kx250rider · #3 11-09-2008, 11:26 AM

I'm jealous... You ARE still "a kid" compared to a lot of us... In order for ME to feel like a kid again with a video game, it would have to be an original Atari Pong

Charles

old_tv_nut · #4 11-09-2008, 04:34 PM

In order for me to feel like a kid again, it would have to be Winky Dink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winky_Dink_and_You

jpdylon · #5 11-09-2008, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by kx250rider

I'm jealous... You ARE still "a kid" compared to a lot of us... In order for ME to feel like a kid again with a video game, it would have to be an original Atari Pong

Charles

HAHA! I have my atari around here somewhere!

jpdylon · #6 11-09-2008, 05:29 PM

Oh I know all about that! I remember buying a CC II at a yard sale that had the tetris game burned into the phosphors. I avoid those games most of the time and If I do go to a stationary screen I turn the contrast down.

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Originally Posted by John Marinello

Avoid using games that have any sort of intense, stationary images. They'll burn a permanent image into the phosphor. This was especially true with projection sets. There were lawsuits way back to cover the cost of CRT replacement.

ablethevoice · #7 11-09-2008, 05:34 PM

In order for me to feel like a kid again, I'd have an Etch-A-Sketch because when I was a kid video games didn't exist...

colortrakker · #8 11-09-2008, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by jpdylon

HAHA! I have my atari around here somewhere!

I just got another one! Guy at work had a 2600 Junior in storage and decided to give it to me. Reset button doesn't work and I already have half the games I got with it, but now I have a good AC supply to use with my original-style 2600, so not a total loss.

Now I can give my ColecoVision a break because that's what I've been playing my 2600 games through.

Marantz7t15 · #9 11-09-2008, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by kx250rider

I'm jealous... You ARE still "a kid" compared to a lot of us... In order for ME to feel like a kid again with a video game, it would have to be an original Atari Pong

Charles

Now you're talkin' I remember those days well. I still had more fun outside on my bike going to a friends house!

leadlike · #10 11-10-2008, 03:28 AM

Hey! old tv nut! I still have my dad's Winky Dink game. It's really a cool idea. I guess it either wasn't very popular or was completely destroyed by children as I have not seen any other sets around.

old_tv_nut · #11 11-10-2008, 12:59 PM

We did what I suspect a lot of families did, and substituted a piece of Saran wrap - never actually bought the game.

wajobu · #12 11-10-2008, 01:15 PM

Pong

Even better, Asteroids!

*zenithfan1* · #13 11-10-2008, 01:49 PM

Anyone ever have the Mattel Intellivision? I would play that thing for hours as a kid. I liked Astrosmash, the race car game and Burger Time and a few others that I can't remember at the moment. I had all the inserts for the controller too. It broke in about '95 before I was good enough with electronics to fix it. I would love to find another one. I still have my Super NES that I use in the living room to this day!

Carmine · #14 11-10-2008, 03:35 PM

I was in court today for something and heard a case about some white-trash that choked his girlfriend for taking the Nintendo out of his hands.

I won't have those things in my house. They are the work of the devil.

freakaftr8 · #15 11-10-2008, 04:45 PM

OMG I have all those old game consoles still.. I still remember the fight my mom and dad got into every friday when my dad bought a new atari 2600 game to play with me when I was a kid. We played these games all night long on the weekends like Asteroids, Adventure, Megamania and all the other great ones on what I can remember to be a nice CTC46 RCA I think. The set died long ago, but the atari lives on. I still have some 200 games in the garage. Sometimes I like to pull em out with the 2600 and play some on my 66 Maggie combo. Good times, lol. But I have to admit that my Xbox 360 is alot more interesting.