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favorite video game system

Impossible to say for me. I have every one ever released in the US, save for an Adventurevision. I grew up with an Atari 2600 and ColecoVision, so I tend to favor those, but I've enjoyed quite a few consoles over the years. My current favorites are the Xbox 360 and PSP. I will say, that of the old systems, the Atari 2600 is naturally the most intriguing as the homebrew scene for software and hardware is tremendous with high output and high quality. The Vectrex is up there to though in that regard, just not to the same degree...
 
DOS-Master said:
what is it? I like the atari 2600 and 5200 they both tie
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What, no 7800???

It was great for those games built specifically for it (PolePosition, OneOnOne-Dr.J vs. Larry Bird, Choplifter, etc. (and what was that hocky game called...?)), but still backwards-compatible with all the 2600 carts.

I used to get sucked-into a lot of games vs. my kid (which I always 'threw', so's not to bruise his young ego (yeah, right!)).

--T
 
Terry Yager wrote:

> What, no 7800???

Yeah, I my first console was a 2600, but then I went 7800 -
just to show off to my NES friends.

The 2600 has some great games though, Mario Bros., Dig Dug,
Crossbow (funnily enough their also 7800 games too - I've only
got Dig Dug on the 7800, which is a little bit harder I must
admit - still a classic). Also Activision had some great games
for the 2600 like H.E.R.O., Tennis was a little gem, Keystone
Cops, Pitfall 1 & 2, River Raid was another goodie.

> It was great for those games built specifically for
> it (PolePosition, OneOnOne-Dr.J vs. Larry Bird,
> Choplifter, etc. (and what was that hocky game
> called...?)), but still backwards-compatible with all
> the 2600 carts.

Yeah, my 7800 was funny in that regard playing the 2600 games.
The colours were all funny - then I discovered this was
something to do with NTSC<->PAL cause when I set my telly to
NTSC mode the proper colours would be displayed. I still have
my 2600 in this regard & plus it's all about good memories it
brings.

I didn't have the hocky game myself, but on the box it seize
it's called Hat Trick. I never really got many 7800 games,
which is why I'm interested to get some when I have more time.
I added one to my collection last year, but now I've got to
fix up the power stuff unit to get my console working again -
to the repair shop. Thankfully the console still works well.

The only delima I've had in regards to collecting games is
being careful to get the PAL based games, apparantly the NTSC
7800 games don't go too well (even if the telly supports the
NTSC bit - it's all 'bout the console). Pity though there's
not much around here in Oz - which limits me to PAL countries
or countries which hopefully have PAL games (the sites are
good in this regard).

But yeah, the 7800 games I've enjoyed have been Ballblazer,
Commando, Dig Dug, Planet Smashers, Scrapyard Dog & Tower
Toppler (also known as Nebulus on other computer systems).

CP/M User.
 
Terry Yager said:
What, no 7800???

It was great for those games built specifically for it (PolePosition, OneOnOne-Dr.J vs. Larry Bird, Choplifter, etc. (and what was that hocky game called...?)), but still backwards-compatible with all the 2600 carts.

I used to get sucked-into a lot of games vs. my kid (which I always 'threw', so's not to bruise his young ego (yeah, right!)).

--T
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I didn't like the 7800. I already spent my money on the nes (R.O.B. was awesome!)
 
Well, the only console I own is an Atari 5200 that I bought new in the early 80s. I have about 20 game carts, nothing too rare, perhaps the Space Shuttle simulator is the rarest one I have. When I get the urge to play I'll usually put in Defender, Super Breakout or Centipede. The bearings in the trackball are bad so it doesn't work very well at the moment.

Oh, just remembered, I have a Sears Tele-Game system, too. It is, of course, the Sears version of the "second generation" of Pong with separate wired controllers.

I was working at Domino's Pizza when I got the Atari, it totally "owned" my buddy's Intellivision :)

Kent
 
Terry Yager wrote:

> Hat Trick! Yeah, that's it. I used to love it when
> the Zamboni would come out, just to give my thumb a
> little rest-break.

Sorry I don't know it too well, does it play well?

My fav. 7800 game from my collection has to be Commando, it's
so close to the arcade version. I thought it was a
disappointment when I played around with the CPC version -
just goes to show how a video card can have an impact on the
game, but even the soliders work closely to the arcade
version. Scrapyard Dog is also great too, I simply found it
very addictive to play.

Be interesting to get Ikari Warriors for my 7800 - the version
from my CPC I must admit is very good (my favourite game).
Haven't played it at the arcades though.

CP/M User.
 
Vintage: Tie between the Vectrex and the Atari 5200( Space Dungeon rocked!)

Classic: SNES

Semi-Classic: Dreamcast, has my 2 favorite RPGs, Grandia II and Skies Of Arcadia

Modern: Game Cube, highly under-rated

Handheld: Game Gear and Wonderswan Color( first handheld to get true Final Fantasy Ports with FF1,FF2 and FF4 )
 
Starshadow wrote:

> Handheld: Game Gear and Wonderswan Color( first
> handheld to get true Final Fantasy Ports with FF1,FF2
> and FF4 )

Oh boy! The Game Gear brings back memories. I nearly got one
of them cause I liked the Colour Screen. Initally I was
tossing between a Game Gear or an Atari Lynx. I dismissed the
Lynx - cause I felt Atari does the Dirty to itself, by
limiting the number of games it makes for it's machines. Game
Gear I thought was the thing to kick Gameboys butt - in the
end I went for the Gameboy (I suprised myself & others - cause
it was B&W) merely cause it seemed to have plenty of games to
back the unit. In a way it killed Game Gear - which was more
expensive & had less games for it - sure it was 16bit based,
which I thought was another plus, but I questioned for how
long would this unit continue. Sure enough - Gameboy B&W unit
went for a little while - until they brought out the Colour
units.

But now, it just seems these consoles & hand held units last a
couple of years - before their updated. Bit sad really...

CP/M User.
 
the nintendo 64 was good but I'll never forget the Christmas of 1980 when I got my 2600.


games for n64:

super mario 64
starfox 64
nba jam 1997
super smash bros.
 
Eh, its hardly Vintage but Sega Megadrive every time.

I think it got crushed abit by the SNES ( or was it the nes?)

I modded mine with an area switch :cool:
 
Megadrive (Genesis) and SNES were of the same generation, yes. Dunno who crushed who; Sega added a CD option but maybe Nintendo had the bigger market share in the long run. They'd classify as vintage with me, while Jaguar, N64 and what else came before PlayStation 1 are borderline.
 
carlsson wrote:

> Megadrive (Genesis) and SNES were of the same
> generation, yes. Dunno who crushed who; Sega added a
> CD option but maybe Nintendo had the bigger market
> share in the long run. They'd classify as vintage
> with me, while Jaguar, N64 and what else came before
> PlayStation 1 are borderline.

Actually I'm not sure which was the first machine which
incorporated CD into their consoles, but there was an Amiga
console I vagerly recall - released around the same time as
SNES & MegaDrive which used CDs. Think it was called Amiga
CD32? Anyone recall.

Of course there was other powerful consoles as well PC Engine
& another SNK?

Sega did bring CDs to their Consoles, though I belive it was a
little bit later.

CP/M User.
 
The Memorex VIS was 1992. The Sega CD was 1992. The Commodore CD32 was 1993, while the Commodore CDTV was released around 1991. The NEC Turbo-Grafx CD add-on was prior to 1992, as the TurbDuo debuted then. Of course those are all US release dates, but worldwide was about the same, though Japan did get some of that stuff first.

As for Genesis versus SNES, in the US, the Genesis had an early lead, then things were split about 50/50 until around 1993/4ish, when the Super NES took the lead based on the strength of titles like Donkey Kong Country and having a unified product front, whereas Sega splintered things with the Sega CD and later the 32X. In Japan, the PC Engine and Super Famicom were tops and the Mega Drive was a distant third. I'm not sure about Europe, but I know it was one of the few territories where the Sega Master System thrived well beyond anywhere else in the wake of the NES/Famicom.
 
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