I feel like a kid again.

[newhallone]

Originally Posted by Carmine

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.

Yeah it's best just to have the Nintendo!

[drh4683]

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!

[Chad Hauris]

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.

[freakaftr8]

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!

[kx250rider]

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

[freakaftr8]

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

[zenithfan1]

I second that statement! Very cool!

[Carmine]

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.

[newhallone]

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.

[NowhereMan 1966]

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.

[Rome]

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

[bgadow]

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!

[freakaftr8]

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..

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by freakaftr8

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........

[colortrakker]

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:



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