do you remember

[chuckyoufarley]

COLECOVISION look what i found in the top of a closet

i have to get a monitor for it

 

[NOKUY]

i had a colecovision....game system

this thing:

i never got into video games tho...always rode bmx bikes and let that shit slide.

we had games id play from time to time...ladybug was fun ..and donkey kong jr

...and dont laugh but i played the smurf game a bit ..hehe

only other games i ever liked were ms pacman, and tekken (not on that old system tho)

 

[chuckyoufarley]

nice nokuy i also had an atari with about 20 games i put them out with 2 wooden chairs ,i put a FREE sign on them and went inside and remembered i had seen 4 games for this coleco system, in like 5-7 min total i went back out to get them and all of it was gone lol
goes to show ya put free on something you need removed and it gone in minutes lol

 

[marx2k]

It's amazingly sad that I can remember seeing (and being moved by) the ADAM computer system. Yikes.

 

[79towncar]

Sorry i wasen't born in 1942! HAHA just kidding it looks like it's from the 70's.

 

[zlock]

Sorry i wasen't born in 1942! HAHA just kidding it looks like it's from the 70's.

I think I see "1984" in the manual....
Before my time too, though.
Being born in 87 I remember being a little kid playing with windows 3.1 the most, but I also remember what I guess was just DOS (having to type in commands to launch programs...)
Always had a few computers in my house from as far back as I can remember... Its amazing how much has changed in just the short time I've been alive...
I still play Street Rod every now and then (I think its still available for download at streetrod3.com)
I remember we got a computer with Windows 95 and that was so high tech and fancy compared to windows 3.1, haha
Good times!

 

[dimebagdk]

i've had colecovision, atari 2600 , amiga 500, the old 8-bit NES (wich i still own, it works and i've got like 10 games ) , SNES,N64, playstation 1&2. then i've realized that i didnt play console games no more so stopped buying new ones.

 

[whyme2]

If you are an old gamer, and are nostalgic for the old arcade games - google MAME. It is an open source Arcade Emulator.

Check out some of the MAME Arcades on Youtube.

And I guess I'll mention that I had the old Atari 2600 and even the Commodore Vic 20 (the 64 was too much money). Have a working Intellivision in a box somewhere.

 

[Agent-Smith]

I grew up playing Atari and the original NES, I became a master at Duck Hunt and Mario because my parents couldn't afford to buy games and that's what the system came with brand new LOL, but then I went to Sega, Sega Genesis, SNES, Gameboy, N64, PS1, PS2, Nintendo DS, and Gamecube but now I'm hooked on World of Warcraft! LOL

I remember the old printers that used only the green and white striped paper with the holes that ran down each side to help keep the paper aligned LOL, man those sucked ass!!!

 

[zlock]

I grew up playing Atari and the original NES, I became a master at Duck Hunt and Mario because my parents couldn't afford to buy games and that's what the system came with brand new LOL, but then I went to Sega, Sega Genesis, SNES, Gameboy, N64, PS1, PS2, Nintendo DS, and Gamecube but now I'm hooked on World of Warcraft! LOL

I remember the old printers that used only the green and white striped paper with the holes that ran down each side to help keep the paper aligned LOL, man those sucked ass!!!

Unless someone threw it out, I've got a box of that paper downstairs, LMAO.

 

[Mr. Burgundy]

Wow...you just HAD to dig up that nostalgia, didn't you The pics are great..thanks for finding those. Sometimes I play my XBox or PS3 a little bit longer when I think about having to walk (or ride BMX bike) to the 7-11 or an ARCADE and wait in line to play pinball...

Anyone else learn how to play poker and other card games via INTELLIVISION (5 card stud, Texas Hold 'em, and a few other variations)? That shifty eyed dealer still makes me crack up inside.
The older systems taught me gratitude -I really cannot listen to anyone complaining about video games when those same people never remembered a day without the pause button.

Some random names from my youth that still brings a smile to my face...

Dig Dug...Congo Bongo...Colecovision Baseball with the pimped out controller...TECMO BOWL! the original...TEMPEST...Pitfall....Defender..Donkey Kong..Yie Ar King Fu....10yd fight...COMBAT...Asteroids...Missile Command...The INTELLIVISION sports game bundle...Ms Pac Man

I am aware this is relative-but raise your hand if you ever opted to stay in and play with friends or solo, and then hear the next day the place you thought about going to got shot up or there was drama-gaming is not a bad idea afterall...

 

[marx2k]

Anyone else learn how to play poker and other card games via INTELLIVISION (5 card stud, Texas Hold 'em, and a few other variations)? That shifty eyed dealer still makes me crack up inside.

I learned to play poker on Commodore 64's strip poker.

 

[barletta]

Had a 2600 from sears with woodgrain on it. REAL woodgrain. Asteroids, Robotron, pacman, pitfall, super pong (like 100 different pong games). I never had a colecovision, intellivision, or commodore, but always wanted one.

I'm typing this on an Apple IIgs j/k

c:
cd/a:
a:
run

Something like that. "A computer is not worth having if you don't have a printer." I could have bought 6 fleer Jordan rookies in ~1991 for $1200. I had 550, and was working, and could not convince my mother to loan me the rest of the money. They sold, and I bought a word processor and a Haro 1b frame and fork a week later with my $$. I think I used the word processor successfully (not typed and saved on disk which I could have done on my ol skewl pc with word perfect) like 3 times.

 

[NOKUY]

HI bought a word processor and a Haro 1b frame and fork a week later with my $$.

nice

my first frame was the original Haro Master....and my current bike is a '99 haro master

..not to take the thread off trak

but:

like this but never ran my bars "chicago style"

here is my current master...currently green...i did both paintjobs tho (same bike here):

 

[barletta]

Wow that master frame is a throw back. Check the stands built into the back triangle. That's a poser bike, though. Flatland frame, pegs, and no gyro and the bars too far forward. I haven't really been on a bike in forever, but I was playing with my sister's BF's unknown bike, and it was a fukkin TANK. Had to be like 30lb. Those old haro race frames (1a, 1b) were tough and light. What's Chigago style, leaned forward? The bars need to line up EXACTLY with the seatdick for tricks. I guess if I was just crusin Chi-town with Kanye and Common, we wouldn't be doin many tricks. Can't sweat up a good pink polo!

 

[NOKUY]

ha ....yeah we always called bars that were way forward "chicago"

i always run mine pretty much inline w/ the same sweep as the forks...and just a bit more narrow than my shoulders... (im a flatland rider tho)

 

[oldpink]

got an old commadore pet 16, 1 BBC Micro (Uk only machine and crap)
2 Atari's got a 64 and a 128 that I installed my first hard disk in (woow a whole 4m)
1 texas insrtruments TI rubber pads and connects to a TV and a sinclare

my first ever was an IBM 8086 tower (yeah its a tower 3ft tall and made from cast iron)
2mb ram, 40m hard disk and 2 x 5 1/4" floppy drives (paper ones not plastic)
I had an amber screen rather than the bog standard green txt
then I managed to get a new graphics card that gave me a whole 16 colours on screen

still have loads of old components and mothrboards and shit in boxes
some of it should be in a museum

 

[jefff]

Mine was a Vic5? I think it was the first commadore. Bought it for the kids, played with it 5 min and it never made it to the girls. I think the next was a 20? Bought a hardrive fot it, sweet little cassette recorder.

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,


My first was a commodore 64. Upgraded to a floppy drive.....gotmy through college before PC's were a common item.

I even learned to program in Machine language (assembly).

minds_I