The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: menace on October 02, 2003, 10:11:43 am
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I started on the VIC-20 then "graduated" to the C-64, then a 386 sx-25 (sx stood for Sux) then 486 and on and on. I never had an atari 2600 as me and my brothers couldn't comvince my mom of its obvious educational value...I always wanted one of those coleco tabletops but it was never in the cards :'(
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Omni at a friends house, then Intellivision at another friends house. Finally I got a Colecovision, then another (they kept breaking), tried to buy a C64 off TV and got ripped off. my next machine was a 486SX (played Indycar Racing from papyrus 24/7) then came SNES, N64, PS1, PS2 and many PC's inbetween. Only have PC's now since Consoles are a waste of money to me. (I play them for 5 months then sell it off at a loss)
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1. Atari 2600 of my own (much begging to Mom and Dad involved), also massive amount of quarters spent at the arcade from my paper route money ;D
2. Intellivision at a friends
3. then Colecovision at a friends
4. Vic-20 thrown in there somewhere, my Grandpa won it at a school raffle
5. A friends Commodore-64, we played that damn Bruce Lee game for hours at a time
6. Nintendo (NES) came along
7. Sega Genesis in the Army
8. 486DX-33 after I got out and started college (Castle Wolfenstein starts it followed by Doom and Quake and skipping many classes)
9. At this point, just a PC, step-son has an X-Box, and of course the MAME cab
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I started with playing an Atari 2600 at a babysitters.
Then pong at my aunts.
Then NES at my neighbors.
Played Master system at another friends.
Then I got a NES
Then my parents got a 8086 computer I played with.
Then I got a genesis.
My parents got a 386 and I got the 8086.
In high school I built a 486 computer (I still have the 1.2 gig hd I use in a set top mp3 player).
Then I went backwards. I picked up a TRS-80 from my 6th grade teacher that retired.
And i picked up an atari 2600 from a garage sale.
I picked up a Genesis.
Then I was happy for awhile. The next system I bought was an n64 from a roommate in college.
Then in college I bought this PIII 500.
Then a dreamcast.
Then a gamecube.
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Apart from arcade games:
ZX81 programming machine code in to play Galaxian etc
Then nothing for a long time
Sega Megadrive
Playstation 1
PC
Pretty boring I'm afraid
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God, I don't even remember anymore. I have been playing electronic games for as long as I can remember.
APf
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A few arcade games when I was really small.
Then a Colecovision with the Atari 2600 adaptor.
Then a Pong console. Then an Atari 5200 from a Garage sale that didn't have any joysticks (never did get any).
Nes eventually came, then Supernes.
I got a 3DO when I was in the Army.
Back from the Army. Got an Atari 7800.
First Computer 486/100 Mhz. Then 233, then 300, then 450, then 500, then 650, then 1200. Currently own 286/10, Pentium 120 (won't boot), and 486/100 laptops, 486/50 and 486/100 desktops, pentiums 90, 133, 200, 333, 400, 533, 650, 733, and 1200. And a couple of incomplete systems as well. My god, I didn't even realize I owned like 14 computers until I just typed this.
I also currently own 7 Genesis consoles (but only 4 cartidges). They are left over from a buyout of a pawnshops videogame section I did back when I was an ebay seller, most of the don't even work. Also have a dissasembled Nes that doesn't work (and it isn't the edge connector either), an Atari 800, a Pong Console, and a DDR clone console on the way.
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Pong/lightgun console
Atari 2600
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
(End of parental purchasing)
Nintendo (bought and sold on several occasions)
Gameboy (breifly - sold it)
Amiga 600
Pentium 200mhz
Nintendo 64 (bought and sold within a year -
I LOVED the fact that it came with 4
controller hook-ups out of the box)
AMD Athlon 1.3 Ggz
Free Pentium III 600 from work (for the arcade cabinet)
Dreamcast
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Pong on the Telstar (Coleco's first console)
TRS-80 model 1 at school
Atari 2600 at friends house
Intellivision
Apple II at school
IBM PC 8088 at school
Nintendo 8-bit
Turbo Grafix 16
Playstation
Dreamcast
Nintendo Virtual Boy (off ebay)
Vectrex (off ebay)
Stargate, Robotron, Joust
Hard Drivin, Marble Madness, Spy Hunter sit down
PS2
XBox
(Gamecube at the end of this month :-)
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Telstar (poor man's pong ;D)
Bally Astrocade
Magnavox Odyssey 2 (had cool "programming" cartridge and no way to save :P)
Atari 2600
Intellivision
Colecovision + 2600 adapter
Vectrex
Atari 400 computer
Commodore 64
Amiga 1000
Sega Master System
Genesis
NES
Playstation
Nintendo64
Saturn
Dreamcast
XBOX
PS2
Dual AthlonMP 2000+ w/ Ti4600
RandyT
*edit*
forgot about my SMS :) And then there was the VirtualBoy I picked up on closeout and the GB, GBC and GBA in there somewhere too......
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My gaming began with Pong then Fairchild, Atari 2600, Colecovision, Pac-Man Watch, VIC-20, NES, SNES, PSX, PowerMac and now a PC inside of a large wooden MAME monster. I've also collected most of the classic game consoles, then sold them. Now I own a Jaguar, Saturn, Dreamcast, N64 and PS2. GameCube and Mac G5 are on my wish list, X-Boat I think I'll pass on.
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My god, I didn't even realize I owned like 14 computers until I just typed this.
You either live by yourself or have the world's most understanding spouse!!! I get "the look" when i bring parts home--not even a whole PC!
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vic-20 at neighbor's house
atari 2600
commodore64 at same above neighbor's house (he taught me basic/baby-sat me once a week over a summer)
commodore64 at jr high school (basic)
genesis (brother & I pitched in together)
ibm 8086 at high school (pascal class, but tetris when the teacher wasn't looking)
8086 at home
ibm 286 & macII at high school senior year (year book)
286-16mhz first year college
486-66 third year college
pen-200 after graduating
friends have playstation and gamecube
Currently have a athlon 1ghz, and bought a dreamcast after the price dropped to $50.
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My god, I didn't even realize I owned like 14 computers until I just typed this.
You either live by yourself or have the world's most understanding spouse!!! I get "the look" when i bring parts home--not even a whole PC!
Yes, I am single. Also the computer thing isn't quite as bad as it sounds. Two of them are laptops that live in their little carrying cases all the time. Two are in arcade cabinets and two more are designated for arcade cabinets. I only have one actual desktop unit set up. The rest are just stacked up in a corner, and I (of course) don't have enough monitors to go around anyway.
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Let's see if I can remember correctly. I think the years are accurate.
1976 - Talked parents into buying a Pong machine from Sears for christmas.
1977 - Purchase better (4 pplayer) Pong-type system at church rummage sale.
1977 - Best friend gets an Atari 2600 for christmas.
1978 - Joined computer club at high school. A time-share system with hard copy terminals. Space Slalom and Star Trek were two of the games on it.
1978 - Talked parents into purchasing an Odyssey2 console for christmas.
1979 - Added "The Voice" speech module to the Oddyssey2
1980 - Dad brings haome a Commodore PET with black and white monitor. It is on loan from work.
1981 - Talked parents into purchasing Vic-20 for christmas.
1982 - Purchased 16K expansion cartridge for Vic-20 with birthday money.
1985 - My father buys a Commodore 64.
1985 - I purchased a Commodore 128 with a 1541 disk drive and 1200 baud modem with my own hard earned cash.
1986 - 1581 3.5" disk drive purchased for C128.
1988 - I purchased a Comodore Amiga 2000
1990 - I bought a Sega Genesys
1992 - My girlfriend buys me a 32X expansion for the Sega.
1997 - My wife (girlfriend from 1992) and I purchase a 100 Mhz pentium PC.
1999 - Upgrade the 100 mhz to 200 mhz.
2001 - We purchase a used 233 mhz Pentiom MMX PC with 17" monitor from work for $50.00. The 200 mhz becomes the MAME machine.
2003 - We purchase a 1.8 Ghz P4 PC. The 233 becomes the MAME machine.
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I was at the toronto auction on oct 4th and my buddy commented that we could likely strike up a conversation with just about anybody seeing as we all have a unique interest in video games (and likely computers) I get the same feeling on this board--its like we lived parallel lives :o :P
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More memories...
Other than the time spend at the arcades I spent my gaming hours this hardware...
Played the classics (ports), Pacman, Galaxian, Centipede, Robotron on:
Atari 400 computer
Atari 600XL w/ 64K RAM (was cheaper than the 800XL)
Atari 520ST
Atari 1040ST - one game stands out here - Time Bandit (no relation to the movie)
Played many PC games - Ultima, Wing Commander on:
386DX, 486, P233
NES - Zelda and few others
Sega Genesis - Bought it just to play Sonic.
PlayStation - Spyro and Crash Bandicoot series.
GameBoy Advance - love Metroid Fusion
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Telstar (poor man's pong ;D)
the one with the lightgun? I have that.
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Sir Poonga,
Ranger, Sportman, Marksman, Gemini, or Telstar Arcade?
http://www.pong-story.com/coleco.htm (http://www.pong-story.com/coleco.htm)
I really, really wanted a Telstar Arcade when they came out.
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Sir Poonga,
Ranger, Sportman, Marksman, Gemini, or Telstar Arcade?
Wow! Cool link. I had no idea there were so many under the Telstar name. I had the original one (http://www.pong-story.com/coleco_telstar.htm)
MMmmmm..Beige plastic and artificial woodgrain. :)
RandyT
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TRS-80 model III with optional cassette player to load games. Got it from my brother who used it on the USS Nimitz back in the early 80's. 16k of ram.
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Hmmm...Lets see. Aside from the arcades thoughout...
Colecovision at a friends place
Atrai 2600 at a friends place
Then I got my own 2600
Commoder 64 at a friends place
8088 computer <Tandy 1000HX - no hard drive just floppies and a black and white tv>
NES <still got it>
Super NES, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafix 16 at friends places
286 <Tandy 1000RL - with CGA monitor - tres cool>
Gameboy
486 dx 66 upgraded to dx2/66 and dx4/100 later on
Various pentiums <75, 100, 133, 166, 166MMX, 200MMX, 233MMX, PII, 300-450, PIII550, 1Ghz, now 2Ghz
Sony PS1 <modded of course>
Sony PS2 <modded of course>
Currently have: NES, Gameboy, PS1, PS2, 486/33 laptop, p100 laptop, 1-p133, 1-p166, 5-p166MMX, 3-pII-300, pIII-650, PIII-1Ghz, P4-2Ghz <all working too>
Plus everything else in the server cabinet :P
So you're not by yourself Paigeoliver. Although, stangely enough, I'm not married either. ::)
Xar256 ;D
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Well, it all started in a liquor store with star castle, 1980. I then found the doughnut shop with pac-man.
My dad owned a bar, and I would play Space Invaders in there. That was sweeeet!
Playing at my best friends house every morning before school on his Atari 2600! I was jealous when he got that! (also 1980)
Coleco head-to-head football! (1980, maybe '81)
Anyway, first home computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99 4/A (1983). I then dumped way to much money into it making upgrades and buying games. My neighbor got an Apple II with the funky green monitor and I would go play on that with him a lot also.
Next I got a commodore 64. Used that until like 1992. :o Then I was given an Apple IIc or some crap. Pretty useless. I gave it away.
Bought a Pentium II 233mhz PC system for $2500 in 1996. Still using that same case, but have upgraded myself since.
Bought Nintendo 64.
1998- Discovered MAME, Dave's Classics, and BYOAC. 8)
BONUS: I just remembered this old game. Not a video game exactly...It had a steeering wheel, and a car on a road. I think the car was metal or plastic, and a "screen" behind had cars that scrolled at you. I think it was like 1974 or 1975. I was too young to really remember details. Anyway know what this game is?
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BONUS: I just remembered this old game. Not a video game exactly...It had a steeering wheel, and a car on a road. I think the car was metal or plastic, and a "screen" behind had cars that scrolled at you. I think it was like 1974 or 1975. I was too young to really remember details. Anyway know what this game is?
Was this it? I really enjoyed this one (for some reason)
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i remember that racing game!
How come nobody mentioned having a Vextrex??
this was the sh*t back then:
(http://www.roachnest.com/vectrex/images/vec_unit_gray.jpg)
i never got to own one though...
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RandyT: Yeah, i remember that one! But the one I am talking about is different. It was in a hamburger joint my family used to go to. I think it was 10 cents to play, i don't remember. Dammit!
Vextrex! Yes, I forgot! A friend had that and i used to play it with him. That was in high school, around 1985. :o
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BONUS: I just remembered this old game. Not a video game exactly...It had a steeering wheel, and a car on a road. I think the car was metal or plastic, and a "screen" behind had cars that scrolled at you. I think it was like 1974 or 1975. I was too young to really remember details. Anyway know what this game is?
Was this it? I really enjoyed this one (for some reason)
RandyT, holy crap, you just brought back a flood of memories with that thing. I loved mine, between that and my handheld football and my Evil Knievel wind-up motorcycle, I was in techno-heaven.... :o
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Holy crap!-- I still have my filmstrip racer (or whatever it was called) I traded it for some train stuff when i was 11, then promptly opened it and hacked it so i couldn't crash. I guess i was "building" my own arcade controls back then too ;D have to pick that up when I'm home for thanksgiving.
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Magnet_Eye,
Was it Bally's "Road Runner"?
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/roadrun.htm (http://marvin3m.com/arcade/roadrun.htm)
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9340 (http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9340)
I remeber playing this way back when.
I also remember an eve older one that they had at the campground my family used to stay at. It had a similar cabinet, but the game looked more like a cartoon, and the race track was a constant curve to the left. I am still trying to track down the name of that one.
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I think this first one is the older game I remeber, but they all appear to be similar.
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/cspeed.htm (http://marvin3m.com/arcade/cspeed.htm)
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/drmast.htm (http://marvin3m.com/arcade/drmast.htm)
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/sroad7.htm (http://marvin3m.com/arcade/sroad7.htm)
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BONUS: I just remembered this old game. Not a video game exactly...It had a steeering wheel, and a car on a road. I think the car was metal or plastic, and a "screen" behind had cars that scrolled at you. I think it was like 1974 or 1975. I was too young to really remember details. Anyway know what this game is?
Was this it?
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hand held electronic football game ---->
atari 2600 ---->
lots of quarters in the arcades ---->
c-64 ---->
Games on aunts tandy computer ---->
lost of quarters in super mario brothers at h.s. bus stop (which caused me to miss the bus many of times)
nes ---->
lots of 100 yen coins in the arcades (while in japan) ---->
genises hand held ---->
took break away from computers and technology
quake on pc's ---->
never stopped after quake
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A few coins in machines...
Sinclair ZX-81...
Sinclair ZX Spectrum...
Lots of coins...
Commodore 64...
Amiga 500...
Amiga 2000...
PC (too many to mention...
A few coins now and then
Never did consoles.
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My dad taught me how to kill Nazis on a 286 in Wolfenstein 3d.
Then SNES, N64, Pentium III 650MHz, Xbox, Xbox 360 and
my cabinet when I'm finished.
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In order of first appearance in the living room:
Atari 2600
pong console
Commodore-64
NES <- "ordered" through relative. Promotional use only box.
NES x2 to replace #1
NES x3 to replace #2
PC
PS1
SNES
GameCube
As far as "modern" PC games, Quake1 was good, but Team Fortress got me hooked.
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couldnt afford anything as a kid. lucky to get a meal on the table! but friends had atari 2600's and id usually get to play galaxians and space invaders at the arcades when i had some pocket money. high school brought me the wonder of the appleIIe with castle wolfenstein. lost interest in computer games after high school except for an old galaxians cocktail at the cafeteria when i went to trade school. and the next buzz i got out of games would have been when a friends boyfriend showed me age of empires on his laptop. they went out to dinner and when they came back in the wee small hours i was still on it! then from there-
MAME
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Wow!! I almost forgot all about my Fairchild! I spent many hours on that, especially Drag Racing...
I wish I still had it. It went into the attic when I got my Atari 2600 and I never saw it again.
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As far as "modern" PC games, Quake1 was good, but Team Fortress got me hooked.
a friend of mine had 5 computers in his house all networked (this was 1998 - 1999) we'd all go over to his house on THursday night to play cards. After a while we decided it was more fun to bet on quake winners rather than cards. We'd drink beer and play quake all night.
I wish I could find some of those older quake maps
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Our first system must have been around 1976, it was a home version of atari combat, but black and white, and had two sets of "battlezone" type joysticks. I remember it because the sticks broke more often than the 5200 sticks. Anyone remember this gem, I can't find a reference to it, and I can't remember if it was early atari, or coleco, or what.
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Zakk, it was Coleco Telstar Combat. Played that bad boy for hours. Still haven't found one on greedbay I'm willing to pay for.
I started with the combat by coleco
then the 2600
and all those cool ass handhelds
A vic 20 Can't believe how much you payed for a 3K expansion card
Then a 64
There was a Apple IIe somewhere in here
A real early IBM clone
then about a ten year hiatus while I concentrated on ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?---
then a pentium 100
then a mmx200
then a III
Now a IV HT
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Sweet jesus that was it! I kept looking for TANK. Released in '77. Hmm, we had (and still do have) one of the early early heavy woodgrain vcs's and I'm sure we got it in 77 before they started making the cheap chinee version. I should check the label on it. So that means we broke the combat game so quickly that good ole dad went out and got us a vcs. I remember we had a jar of parts for the 2600 controllers...we found a place that sold the plastic inserts for the sticks and we bought like 10 of them. Ahhhh memories.
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My first memories of gaming were of an Atari 5200 and a Sega Master System (at the same time) that my father had bought "for me" even though I was only 2 or 3 at the time.
My grandfather had a Colecovision for me as well.. but again... I was very young and the system itself was already a few years old before I was born.
First system I remember getting was an NES when I was 5 or so.. and it had been out for a while already.
Then Genesis
Super Nintendo
GameBoy
From that point on, I've had a great number of systems.... :)
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My first run-in with a video game was in 1980 (I was 5 years old) and I convinced my mother to let me play Pac-Man at the mall. I had heard of Pac-Man and eating ghosts so I thought that was the object of the game, to eat ghosts, and I didn't know anything about the "power pellets". The game was over quickly; I thought I'd "won" and my mother thought it was a waste of a quarter.
In '81 the neighbor kids got an Atari 2600, but they were older than me, one was the age of my older brother (4 years older than me) and the other was the age of my older sister (6 years older than me) and they never let me come except for one or two times. That's when I saw Combat, and even played it a little.
In '82 some new neighbors moved in to the house across the driveway that had been vacant since about '79. One of them had a Pong machine and brought it over for a while.
In '83 I stand in front of a Pole Position machine at the laundromat, spinning the steering wheel and pressing the gas pedal, wishing someone would give me a quarter.
In '84 Karate Champ showed up and by that time, my sister had her first job and it was working at that very laundromat. She gave me quarters and I got pretty good at the game.
Also in '84, Punch-Out!! showed up there. I loved that game.
In '85 I had been saving up for a while for an Atari and my brother showed me a K-mart flyer with Atari 2600's on sale for $35 ("Darth Vader" model, one joystick, no pack-in cartridge); the height of the so-called video game crash you know). I had $40 saved up and this bought me the Atari plus five 99 cent games out of a bin near the register (my parents sprung for the sales tax). Defender, Asteroids, Star Raiders (ugh; should have picked Yars Revenge instead), Space Attack and Armor Ambush. The neighbor kids that'd had the Atari in the early 80's had sold it around '83 but they still had one game for it, Missile Command, which they gave to me for free.
In '86 my cousin is one of the first people to get an NES and that thing was simply amazing, quite a step up from his old ColecoVision. We had a blast with Super Mario Bros. figuring everything out, this being back before everyone knew everything there was to know about the game.
In '87 I get both an Atari 7800 and a used, but perfectly working NES.
Also in '87 I spend a small fortune's worth of quarters on Super Punch-Out!! which showed up at Fossa's General Store.
Pretty much a dry spell until '91 when I discovered Street Fighter II in the arcade next to where I worked at the time.
In '92 I bought an SNES specifically for the SFII cartridge. I was impressed, it being the most accurate arcade-to-console port I had seen at the time.
That's the extent of it for the most part. I bought a PlayStation in 2000 to play Syphon Filter and Syphon Filter 2, but other than those two games, I never cared much for modern games. I discovered Mame in late 2001 after buying a couple of the arcade classics discs for the PlayStation and now I could play the games I really wanted to play, i.e. Punch-Out!! and Super Punch-Out!!.
A little while ago I finally got my hands on a real Super Punch-Out!! machine and that is all completed other than the fact that I still need a flyback for the lower monitor.
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Mine went something like this.
Atari 2600
TI99/4A
Commodore 64
TI99/4A
486SX25 - Doom machine
486DX100- Doom2 machine
TI994/A
Several more pc's... There was some Unreal and quake in there somewhere.
Xbox.
Pentium 4/3Ghz - Doom 3 machine.
Ohh yeah, and now I play with the TI emulators cause I can't get parts anymore even though Chad has like 20 of them he doesn't use.
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Generally the standards: 2600, Odyssey2, NES, Playstation. Various others at friends houses. Mostly it was computer games since about 1981. Apple//e up to now with multiple PC's.
This handheld was awesome:
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My gaming history, in order:
- Arcades (early eighties) : faves = Galaga, MsPacMan, Robotron, Defender
- Atari2600 (mid-80s): faves = Empire Strikes Back, River Raid, Pitfall
- AppleII+(mid-late 80s): faves = Lode Runner, Captain Goodnight, many others
- Computers (the dark years, 1990-present): everything from block Tetris on my IBM PC-XT to Quake3 on this PC. Wish this PC could play Q4, but alas it's too slow. I'd rather play Robotron anyway. :)
- MAME (2002-forever!!!): Gaming has come full-circle. The originals, and always the best.
Eric.
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1) Arcades (1980 - 1989)
2) Intellivision (1981 - 1983)
3) Atari 2600 (1982 - 1983)
4) Apple II+ (1982 - 1985)
5) Nintendo NES (1987 - 1989)
6) Dark Ages (1990 - 1998)
7) Sony Playstation (1998 - 2001)
8) PC (1999 - Present)
9) Sony Playstation 2 (2002 - 2004)
10) Gameboy Advance (2002 - 2004)
11) Emulation (2003 - Present)
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In the 70s we had a
deluxe pong of some kind edit: Unisonic Tournament 2000 (http://www.videogamenews.net/HTM/GamePageHistory/unisonic2000.htm) it had slider controls with silver knobs and the controllers were removable from the console on curly little wires...
In 77 grandpa got a TRS-80 model 1
Then we got a TRS-80 Color Computer that my dad spent an additional $400 quadrupling the memory to 64K and puting a non-chicklet keyboard into.
Friends had Atari 400s and 800s in the early 80s and of course 2600s were everywhere.
My neighbor had a Bally home arcade system that was sweet.
School had Apple ][s
Then dad got a Tandy 1000EX in 87 or so. Man that was sweet. 8 colors at once!
After that it becomes a blur. I have owned literally dozens of computers since then, and except for emulators (and mostly of the 79-83 era games) I don't game much at all.
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Next to my fond memories of visiting the local arcade (it had a hydraulic Space Harrier deLuxe cab with my drool on it):
- A pong clone (early "direct-to-TV" console, where pong was named "tennis")
- Commodore PET
- Philips P2000T
- Commodore 64
- Commodore Amiga 500 -> 2000 -> 1200
- ATC/Apricot PC
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Atari VCS "woodie"
Atari 800xl
Commodore 64
Atari 130xe
Atari 520st
Amiga 500
Atari 520stfm
Amiga 1200
Pentium 60
Playstation
Saturn
Dreamcast
Mamed 2 Jamma cabs
PS2
Xbox
Mamed showcase cab
Good times!
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Mine basically evolved with whatever I could get in some manner other than theft. A lot of it involves older relatives having stuff I could see but not touch.
First game memories are of the Xmas my stepmother got my father a 2600. I wasn't allowed to touch it but man was that thing sweet. It went into a closet shortly thereafter and I never saw it again. This is probably 1979-80.
At some point not too long after, my aunt got an Odyssey 2, but that was in her bedroom, so was off limits to me. Then I saw my stepmother's parents also got one, but also in their bedroom, and also off limits. Guess is 1981 or so. A couple years later same aunt is dating this guy who decides to buy several brand new cabs for her and put them in a spare room. I remember Pac Man and an Asteroids cocktail and there were about 3 more cabs. This was early to mid 80s... again, when we visited, not allowed to play them because my mother wanted me to go outside. Same house also had the whole lineup of Coleco tabletops, sometimes I got to play those.
At some point when 2600 was totally clearing out, maybe 85, I get a 2600 and some games to play on my 13" b/w TV. Man that was heaven. Bowling, Pigs in Space, Star Raiders was brilliant. My little brother and I used to play Activision Boxing and I would corner him and just pound his nose until he threw a snot tossing tantrum on the floor.
Christmas, probably 1988, my mother tells me I can get an NES if I can come up with half. I manage to convince neighbors that they need a lot of odd jobs done and come up with the $45 so I do get one. SMB all day and night. I tell my stepmother all I want for Xmas is an NES game and she gets me DK Jr, man was that a huge disappointment. All those awesome new games and she gets me one I had for the 2600. At some point in the next year my mother asks me if she can throw the 2600 away since I have the NES now. For some reason I tell her yes.
From then on, through middle school and high school, it's all watching Genesis at my friend's house, but not playing much as he was always into RPGs. We would also have huge Baseball Stars (NES) tournaments until no one could come up with an NES that wouldn't blink so much it erased the cart memory all the time.
I was out of games until Sophomore year in college my roommate's gf's little brother gave me an old TG16... I found the TurboList, found a clearance Duo, and was hooked. I was all TG16 until release day for the Saturn when I dropped way too much on a Saturn and the 3 free games it came with... played that a long time, then got an N64... played that a lot, sold it while it was still worth a bit in about 96 or 97. Was out of games again until I got my son an N64 for Easter in 2002... that was it, I got into console collecting bigtime for a couple of years. In 2003 I picked up a POW cabinet at a yard sale, that was the beginning of the end of consoles for me and the start of an even worse addiction, cabs. In 2004 I pick up a nonworking pin at a yard sale... pins are 10x worse than cabs.
So, here I am now, thinning out the console collection, refining the cab/pin collection... though still in the "most don't work" stage.
Man that post was longer than intended.
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alright, my turn
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God... Where to start.
'76 ish... My older sisters had an Oddessy. Color overlays and all.
'78 - Atari 2600.
'82 - VIC-20 - Sometime around here, I found a Donkey Kong CP in the trash of a arcade op... Promptly wired it to work with the 2600.
'85 - Apple //c
'88 - Nintendo
'90 - IBM PS/2. 2400 bd modem. BBS heaven. 20M hard drive. I was in geek heaven.
'91 - Super Nintendo. Sega Genesis.
'92 - The invasion of the clones. Started building my own PCs. Stopped keeping track of which revision I was on. I just remember my first 4M of ram costing like $100.
'97 - PS I (I wait till they go on sale...)
'99 - Gauntlet cab on Ebay. Paid $800 for it and still had to replace the power supply, joysticks, and t-molding. OK, didn't -really- have to replace the t-molding. Starts to go downhill from here.
'02 - PS II
'04 - mame Cab
'05 - Still working on mame cab.
Projected:
'19 - Still working on mame cab.
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Great Thread....
I started with an Atari Stunt Cycle home game (And hey, It looked and played EXACTLY like the arcade version - pretty cool for 1976 :P
Lots of neighborhood friends had PONG machines, so I avoided getting one.
First Console was an Atari VCS, and about a month later a good friend got an Intellivision - we had a lot of fun arguing which was better and playing them both constantly.
My first Handheld Console was the Milton Bradley Microvision, which I always say I'm gonna try to find on eBay, and never do. I also had a couple of handheld including the exact racer Randy T. posted, Mattel Football, a Space Invaders Clone, and some game from Badai that involved two space characters dueling if I recall correctly.
Eventually my parents bought me a sweet C-64 setup, with the 1541 drive, and a Smith Corona Daisy Wheel Printer (The noisiest printer I have ever used). When that finally gave up the ghost I picked up an Amiga 500, and finally moved onto the PC platform when I got a P100 system in '95
I've had an NES, Genesis, PS1 and PS2, but usually only played a handfull of games on any of them.
Through all of that time I've always enjoyed Arcade machines, primarilly Vids, but when I was in College I really started playing Pins a lot more heavily. I'm actually happy about discovering BYOAC because the money I save not buying Videogames can be put towards Pinball Machines
P.S. I don't think that my gaming eveolved so much as it was created by an Intelligent designer. I blame Ed Logg and Larry DeMar as the most likely candidates. ;D
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Let's see..
- Pong (Redish one - I think it was Sears)
- Handhelds (Matell Football, Hockey - Racing Game picd above
- Arcades (Godfather ran an Arcade - remember Galaga cocktail & various Chicago Coin Games)
- Atari 2600 for Christmas (Brother actually opened it early and played with it for a day then re-wrapped it)
- NES with Robot
- C64 with disk drive and Monitor
- Sega Genesis
- Sega 32x
- Sega CD
- Playstation
- Dreamcast
- Saturn
- PS2
- Xbox
Computers
- Cousins IBM-AT
- 1st PC - Packard Bell from Price Club 486sx25 with 180HD
- P1 - 166mmx
- P2 266
- AMD 1gig (In Mame Cab now)
- AMD 1.8
- AMD64 3.2
Below is a pic of my favourite handheld football game!