I feel like a kid again.
 

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. :yes:

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.

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

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

HAHA! I have my atari around here somewhere! :scratch2:

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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

Pong :naughty:

Even better, Asteroids! :banana:

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!

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. :grumpy:

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.

Yeah it's best just to have the Nintendo!:D

I was certianly part of the video game generation, but I never got into them. My brother had the atari 2600, we had that before he got his Nintendo in 1988 for his 9th birthday (he's 4 years older than me).
He played games on mom and dads bedroom TV, the '74 RCA XL100.
I feel like a kid when I find a zenith TV on the side of the road, thats what I was doing then, and Im still doing it today! Old TV's are a connection to when I was a little kid, I loved finding them and taking them apart. Basically nothing has changed! Instead of taking them apart, I fix them, thats about the only difference. I couldn't have asked for a for enjoyable and fun childhood, I loved taking things apart and learning how stuff worked. No offense, but Im glad I never got caught up into the video games. I had too much fun being outside and holding the trouble light for dad when he worked on the '71 Chrysler. Also being asked to go find a tool then to come back empty handed because it wasn't where Dad said it was! "Where the hells the damn cresent wrench!" he'd say. And getting yelled at for leaving tools in the middle of the lawn only for dad to discover when he was out mowing the lawn. "Damn it Douglas, you little wrecker!" Yep, rusty tools would be found in the lawn or in the sandbox next spring after the snow finally melted away.....Haha, good memories!

I never had video games till around 1993 or so...I got an RCA CTC-48 console from trash pick up day and found an NES for $1.00 at a garage sale. We hooked it up in my parents garage and my sister and I played Duck Hunt and Super Mario a lot. That CTC-48 is still in exactly the same spot it was back then...need to get it some day!
Here I have a Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo and NES. Probably about 30 minutes at a time is all I like to play, I never was addicted to them.

Yeah, guess there's a kid in all of us. The nice thing about my garage is that I can have my tools for workin on mmy cars and my tv's all in the same toolbox.. Don't get me wrong but I just like to turn on an old set and play new games on it just for people to say "what the hell is that thing your 360 is hooked up to".. lol, it always amazes my friends when they see it operating! Iv'e actually heard "I want one", then I said go to Walmart, then they say, "no not the Xbox, the tv"! It's way cool!

How about a new Atari 2600?

My wife Kay and I are here at her "time capsule house" in Dallas for this week, and in helping her clean up and organize, I found a new-in-the-box Atari 2600! Maybe we'll hook it up. There's only one TV here, and it's kind of a rare item too. It's the 1983 RCA 19" table model with the zillion-of-inputs jack panel on the back. I think there was a thread about these sets recently. This one is in really mint condition, and the tube is like new!

Since the "time capsule house" thread was awhile ago, I'll recap: Kay bought this house in 1996, lived in it for only 6 months, then came out to LA to take a spot on the TV show Seinfeld. She thought she'd return to Dallas to live, but never did. She kept on maintaining the house, but nobody has slept here until last night!!! In the garage is her old 1989 Supra turbo, which has 40K original miles, is in showroom condition, but has 4 flat tires and a dead battery (and sadly, probably also a totally fouled fuel system). Newspapers from 1997, and canned food that expired in 2000 is in the cupboards, and I'm drinking a Sparklett's Water that expired 8 years ago... She keeps the house for posterity, and in theory to stay here when in town, but it's really in bad shape at this point. The Roto-Rooter is back again tonight, and it looks grim for being able to use the plumbing at this point. We're here to fix it up, but not sure how well that will happen by Saturday when we head back to LA. It's been flooded, and as a result, several of the electrical circuits are shorted. Amazingly, the air & heat works fine. It's virtually untouched except for Kay's Mom coming by every month or so to check on it, and it has a gardener so the outside looks fine. There is nothing in this house, not food nor toilet paper, newer than 1997! So this is why we call it the "time capsule house"

Charles

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Dude that is freakin awesome! Especially that Atari! That supra's sweet too!

I second that statement! Very cool!

Just think, in a few months you could have added the TV sets to the list of things that no longer work.

Could you fire-up the 256K computer, attach your phone to the "internet" and use your e-trade account to buy up some Yahoo & eBay stock?

I did a clean & reorganize on my kitchen last night, and found myself examining old things like Tasters Choice coffee that I haven't touched in years. If there was no expiration date, I'd see if there was a website address on the product.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who tends to reflect for a second when he finds something dated very close to September 2001. I hope that feeling of "remeber when the world was different" will pass someday, but I doubt it will. :no:

My brother and some friends raked leaves for the elderly this fall. One lady gave out some snacks. This girl and guy were eating some crackers and peanut butter snacks and said they tasted funny. Well it wasn't crackers and peanut butter but crackers and cheese. Expiration date.....1996. Moral of the story...never accept food from old people.

I have a Sears Pong Sports IV, an Atari 2600 and the first Playstation. It's funny, one time I played Final Fantasy VII and VIII on my black and white set, it sure was different. I also have a Power Joy, one of those 94 in 1 games in a joystick Mom got me for Christmas one year. She bought it from QVC. Most of them are old Nintendo 8-bit games and I found out the manufacturer was charged with piracy and the people who imported those into the US were fined like $400K/$500K and went to jail. I heard that when people try to sell them on E-Bay, E-Bay pulls them off. Anyways, no matter what, I just fire it up and enjoy the thing.

I just responded to a thread regarding collecting. This is another nice thread on the same lines of vintage video games & I feel like a kid when I play with this system & others I own.

I have an original Intellivision II console with two controllers, though not working, it has great sentimental value as it was given to me on my birthday by my now dearly departed daughter back in the 80s. It will never depart form my sight. Anyone remember the old Curtis Mathis (Rutherford) 25 inch color TV's? This was a great TV to play those games on back then.

About a year ago I found a mint Intellivison II console with brand new contollers. I have the Intellivoice & about 15 games. Some of them are of the Sears brand & two are of rarity in availability (Donkey Kong Jr., Centipede). This is great system & I am always looking for games to add to the collection.

I also have a Gameshark Pro with memory manager for the Playstation that plugs into the parallel port instead of the regular slots. It is a true classic piece & it is very hard to find.

Nice thread,
Rome

I'm another that never got into video games. My lack of any talent for sports seems to have spilled over. We had a 2600; the only things I remember playing were Barnstormer and E.T. I always felt sad when I'd kill the little guy, always getting him stuck in a pit, or something. When Nintendo came along my sisters played it constantly; the only time I ever used it was to have a source of good video while fixing up an old TV!

About 2 years ago I loaned a bunch of stuff to a local museums display about the 60s/70s. When I went to pick them up at the end of the exhibit they gave me a small Radio Shlock console that does Pong and a few other similiar games. Neat to demonstrate with 70s tv sets, but too frustrating for me to play-I'm not even good at Pong!

Hey how about the Magnavox Oddessy!! I still have it tn the garage and this game had overlays that attached to the CRT! Friggin awesome! The cool thing is the overlay is cut perfectly for a 23" CRT as well..

That reminds me of a very, VERY rare TV I worked on once... It was a garden-variety Magnavox 19" portable from 1980-ish with a BUILT-IN Odyssey game!

Charles

Living in Dallas for a week without functional plumbing........

I was about to bring that up last time I was at this thread. That's the only set I know of with a built-in video game besides this one:

http://rickatnite.files.wordpress.co.../img_09442.jpg

A basic 19" Sharp Linytron on top, an NES on the bottom. And yes, this one's mine.

Back in the mid-late 70's we knew a very wealthy family that had one of the first projection sets and the Oddessy system. I recall that they somehow had it rigged so the overlays fit over the projection set. I was amazed with it at the time.

Brings back cool memories.

I have had video game systems since the Atari ones but I would be fascinated to see that Odyssey one.

I have the Atari E.T. game. Although I don't think it should be at the very top, I do think it did get too much of a bum rap though. It's not a bad game, but I do admit falling down those pits were a pain in the butt though. Barnstormer was fun along with Chopper Command.

I was bad at sports but good at games in the Atari days. I learned the bizarre scoring system for tennis from the Activision cartridge, not from playing the real game. You know you have early Atari 2600 components if your joysticks do not have the word "Top" near the stick, or if any of your cartridges have a larger two-digit number before the game name on the edge/top of the cartridge.

I had my 16-year-old twin nephews over to play my Fairchild Channel F videogame system (pre Atari 2600) on my CTC-15 console about a year ago. They have both grown up playing the latest games on Playstation and PS2 etc., but they sure got a kick out of playing those clunky old games, especially Pro Football where the players are just Xs and Os. We get a kick just watching how slow the system is, how it is so heavily taxed moving that many little sprites around on the screen at the same time. Along with the primitive sounds coming out of the unit's speaker (it doesn't even send the sound to the tv.) My Fairchild machine gave out and now I am looking for a replacement on Ebay because one of my nephews keeps bugging me that he wants to play that Football game again!

Next time they're visiting, ask them to call home on a rotary dial phone... We had fun with Kay's 17-year-old nephew that way :lmao:

Charles

I was leafing through some old magazines this week and came across an ad from '83 for Intellivision, comparing its baseball game with Atari. From the pictures the biggest difference seemed to be the ball diamond on the Coleco-the Atari screen was so sparse that they might as well have been on a soccer field. Lots of ads in there (old National Geographics I picked up) for the Texas Instruments computer. In an issue from '70 there is a great ad for a Roberts portable bw video camera/tape recorder, 1/4".

That original Atari baseball game (Home Run) was really pathetic. The 2600 had plenty of potential though. A later cartridge called Real Sports Baseball was impressive for the 2600-it even had teams that ran on and off the field between innings. Real Sports Football was quite good as well, and also a big improvement over the first 2600 Football cartridge. After that, they made Super Baseball and Super Football, which I bought in the early 90's I think but have never opened.

My neighbor had that machine about 1977 or '78. I remember the controllers being really hard to master. How did you twist the joystick handle left or right, or push/pull it, without also tilting it left/right/up/down?

There was a 90s era Samsung with a built-in proprietary video game----forget what it was called, but IIRC it had large stereo speakers builtin and was a pricey system.

I'm a young'n when it comes to vintage video games. My first system was a SNES accompanied by a first-generation gameboy ('D' batteries, anyone? :D)

Had a lot of fun with that stuff circa 1993. I played the SNES on my dad's 1987 27" Trinitron which he still uses today. And on holidays I would take the system to my Grandparents house where they had a 25" system 3 Zenith which was tossed unfortunately.

My last system was a PS2 Sony and then I got out of the hobby.

Kx250rider, Which episode of Seinfeld? Huge fan here. :thmbsp: