I feel like a kid again.

[ihmeyers]

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..

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.

[ChrisW6ATV]

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..

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

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by 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!

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.

[ChrisW6ATV]

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.

[frenchy]

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!

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by frenchy

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.

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

Charles

[bgadow]

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".

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by bgadow

I was leafing through some old magazines this week and came across an ad from '83 for Intellivision, comparing its baseball game with Atari.

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.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by frenchy

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.

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?

[zenith2134]

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? )

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.

[colortrakker]

You mean this one?



It was called the GX...and there was no system in it - just those gigantimundical speakers. By the way, for your reference, that's a 13" tube.

[zenith2134]

Ah, thats the one! I remember going into FuncoLand in the 90s and being like "What's THIS?!" Seems I still don't know! Better off without a Samsung videogame I'm sure....

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by zenith2134

Kx250rider, Which episode of Seinfeld? Huge fan here.

She's the waitress at the deli in all the season 8 episodes where the deli was involved, and also a few in season 7. (The thinner one of the 2 regulars). Sadly, some of the best scenes where she has good lines are only in the deleted scenes on the DVD

Charles

[zenith2134]

Aweome, I think I remember her. I still wonder why they chose to cut so many scenes, only to put them on the DVD later. I suppose it can be marketed as an 'added-bonus' towards buying the collection. I have seasons 1-5 so far.