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mgb:

I don't really remember even knowing there was a crash at the time. I was 10 in 83 and I didn't even realize that pacman for the 2600 sucked. we played and we enjoyed it.
And through 84 and 85 we went on playing games and loving them.
I still remember being introduced to Jumpman on my friends c64 and I think that even if all other games went away, I would be fine as long as I can play Jumpman.

wp34:

I remember very distinctly sitting in my room the first time I fired up Donkey Kong on the Colecovision and thinking now I can stop bugging my parents to take me to the Nickelodeon Arcade.  Of course I did keep bugging them.   ;D

We still had several thriving arcades into the early 90's in this area so I really didn't notice a "crash".  The main thing I noticed was a glut of fighting games.  But that was a bit of a golden age for pinball so I played a lot of pinball in college.

mgb:

Remember though the crash was in 83 and things started coming back up after nes and things were going pretty well with the fighters in the 90s

SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: yotsuya on August 29, 2012, 09:07:22 pm ---It's funny- I saw the same thing as SavannahLion, but we thought it was cool when we could get a new game for a buck. We didn't realize a crash was going on.

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Don't get me wrong, I thought it was cool. I just wasn't smart enough to suck those games up like a 80's cocaine addict. With the introduction of eBay and the retro-demand for some of those games, I would have easily made back the money and then some.

It was so  bad, I was once offered a full office-sized box of choice 2600/7800 games for free. I didn't have either at the time so I turned it down.  :banghead:

yotsuya:


--- Quote from: SavannahLion on August 30, 2012, 12:20:15 am ---Don't get me wrong, I thought it was cool. I just wasn't smart enough to suck those games up like a 80's cocaine addict.

It was so  bad, I was once offered a full office-sized box of choice 2600/7800 games for free. I didn't have either at the time so I turned it down.  :banghead:

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There was a kiosk at a long-since bulldozed mall that sold Atari games for a great deal. I remember getting Moon Patrol for $4. I got my $4 out of that sucker that very day, and then some. I also picked up Real Sports Baseball for a buck, and that was a great sports game.

We got games like Chopper Command, Kangaroo, Battlezone, Frogs & Flies, Activision Skiing and so on for $0.50 EACH at a long-since demolished Revco. Of course, we also picked up turds like Swordquest, so what did we know.

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