Console Wars

It's still up there in the attic, somewhere.

I love Atari and wish I could find one.

No Only tritis well old video games but I would rathet study nowdays…why amanda science look to your frontiers I am a key to your heavens look for the blue flame rocket engines…

They have the Atari's for sale at Family Dollar for $45.00 please go to your local store. They are located at the top shelf near the Cash Register. I have seen the Atari's at several locations. HURRY BEFORE THEY SELL OUT FOR CHRISTMAS.

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Thanks for the trip down memory lane + Amanda Blain I used to love swinging over the alligator pits. Good times!
Atari might not have been the first or even the best, but it's definitely the one with the most memories attached.

i was more of a colecovision system playa myself! 🙂

When I was a teenager .I use to stop by my girlfriends an play video games with her we had a lot of fun!!

I still have my Intellivision in working order.

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I'd love to get one of these again. I had great fun on mine back in the day!

Pitfall was my favorite game growing up along with Frost Bite a little known game.  Do you remember it?

+ Matt Keithley  Colecovision, first system to introduce "Donkey Kong" and mario trying to save the princess.  my favorite game was "Zaxxon" top down view of fighter jet shooting stuff. xD

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+ Amanda Blain River Raid

Pitfall was great.  I even had it on C64.

Pitfall was my favorite to + Aaron Carey

river raid, pitfall, maze craze, rip off pac-man, good stuff

My first console was colecovision. River raid!

Certainly did have one. My brother and I had it hooked up to a tiny highres monitor. At one point, we had a very long ongoing Berzerk competition. Everyday, one of us would come home with the Atari left on displayibg our respective high scores. Lol. Good times. 🙂

I miss my 2600. I'm old.

I miss Defender.

I can't believe so many people mentioned pitfall…that game was a never-ending nightmare. Jungle Hunt was the same idea, but a billion times better.

And + Derek Ross, defender was awesome – but what about River Raid?

Oh, and fuck ET.

Jungle Hunt for the Atari 2600

Final de River Raid / River Raid Ending

It had no ending, no levels…nothing. Just endless running from screen to screen.

I loved my Intellivision.

Amanda is number one !

I had an intellevison

Ahh, I have fond memories of my Atari 2600, combined with my Commodore 64, it carried me for a very long time. Pitfall, Defender, Pacman, Frogger, Joust, Space Invaders, and so many more eroded countless hours from my youth.

I wish I had one now… STOP!

No, I don't; and, you probably don't either. I have fond memories of those games and I'd like to keep it that way. I remember countless hours of fighting through the jungle, avoiding alligators and logs; galactic invasions fought off, wave after wave of aliens repelled until catastrophy!

Yeah, those memories rock!

Now, think back a bit…
It's (possibly) your first console gaming system, you got it for your seventh birthday, it was a big deal because they were expensive and your family didn't really have much extra money…

A bit more…
There are games the whole family can play together but you're allowed to play by yourself too; and, boy do you play when you have the time. Gotta slay some more flying ostriches…

OK, Focus…
A lot of us played Pitfall, a lot. It was great, right? Clear your mind… Pitfall went on for*f'ing*ever and it (almost) never changed! Asteroids and Pacman sucked up endless hours and we didn't have to go to the arcade! They were awesome! But, they were really pale imitations of the arcade versions weren't they? Seriously, big blocky things floating on a black background and breaking into smaller blocking things when you shoot them. vs. Vector graphics asteroids and ships. 

But…but…but…
The graphics were cool, right? Well, they were then at least. For in the home. Now, they're not as cool are they? Our phones do photorealistic OTF rendering and shading with dynamic environmental physics. Right?

Wow, um…
I loved my Atari 2600 and my C64, and some great computer games of yesteryear. Anyone else remember Karateka on the Apple ][? I used to beat it everyday during lunch in Jr High School, damn that story never changed.

They are classic consoles, computers and games. They've become iconic points in the evolution of gaming and computing. We grew up on them. We loved them. We love them. We have fond memories of them.

Keep it that way. Look back fondly and remember the joy you derived. Consider the honor you have of being near the forefront of a technology that changed the world as we knew it. Some people will never have any concept of a gaming system not being available.

My daughter is two, she has my Nexus 7 (2012 edition) [Yeah seriously, WTF, I was stoked when I got my first digital watch. It had a calculator, wooo hooo.] and there will never be a time in her life when a game isn't just available or when she's not connected to the World. Holy sh…smokes!

Look back fondly, they're perfect memories, beautifully gilded by time and youth. Look back fondly but don't go visiting. Visiting will break the illusion of perfection steeled by time and ruin the fond memories. It was awesome, and it can stay awesome so long as I remember it was awesome!

+ Morgan Lake that was….beautiful!

I have three working ones, here. Every 6-12 months, I dust them off and plug 'em in. (There's not really any improvement on HDTVs.) XD

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Cool!

The most beautiful thing

No I had other stuf to do then play games guess I miss out

Christmas 1979, It was the best present I ever got and still brings all the good times flooding back.

Asteroid, and Missile Command 🙂

Thanks, Adobe. For giving graphic designers the tools necessary for consumers today to enjoy better ads than what we see here. Yikes!!

+ Amanda Blain …this post speaks so highly on you, my friend. 🙂 …and yes, 2600. I was one of the people who blew money on E.T. and understood why they buried those sorry S.O.B.s. 😉

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I was given one that was ment to be broken but just needed a new power cord.
i only ever had space invaders because to us at the time new games were too expensive.
but so many hours spent on that plugged into my 14" portable tv.

Did I have one??? I've still got it! – love my old 2600 🙂

Classic Atari! It's in the garage along with the classic Mac & Sega.

Intellivision FTW!!!

Lol, well…Until you lose the inserts anyway…

pitfall did sort of have an ending… if you played it long enough you could crash it. i wasted many days racking up points to do it- a Polaroid screen shot got me an official 'pitfall adventurers club' sew on patch 🙂

those were the good ol' days!

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My parents sold it in a garage sale…… I almost cried…… almost….

my Commodore Vic20 had better games and graphics…. 😉 and yet I was always at my buddy's house playing Atari

Yar's Revenge, Missle Command, Defender were my favorites!

There is a group that still makes and sells new games for the Atari 2600. I have been working on a making a 2600 game for a bit now myself.  Check out AtariAge for more info. out.  http://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=21

First had a gameboy, then the first x-box, and then the 360.  Not planning on getting any new system for a long time, not at current prices (and my 360 is running great after more than 5 years, and seems to me be actually more reliable than my old x-box, which before I got the 360, started giving me messages about discs being unreadable or not being x-box discs)

FROGGER!!!

It was the ipad of its day.

Nice game

I had 1 ….. I really enjoyed it a lot. too much fun

We got a PSP , Xbox 360 ….labtop ,iPad note desktop and don't even think of it……coming to my place . Cctv entire estate !

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missile command and pitfall.  Those were my two favorites.  I showed my son an youtube video of the Indiana Jones game without telling him what it was and he couldn't guess it.

9999 game in a box +1

Activision had some excellent titles back then!

yes beuteful

i wanna play pacman

Boy, do I remember having that when it was first released.
Man, ATARI was the hottest thing since sliced white bread when it hit the streets.

Why atari is still number one well i still have a atari 2600 game console and it still works and plays cartridges from back in the day. Cheers.

I STILL have an Atari 2600.

No I didn't. My father was going to get me one for Xmas and I told him I didn't want it – I wanted a Commodore 64 instead so I could learn how to use a computer and play games too. Best decision ever! I eventually graduated to an Amiga 2000, then a 4000 with a Video Toaster and Lightwave 3D that led to my teaching 3D animation for about 2 years at a college. I still miss my Amiga's (my ex ended up with them..no idea if they are still functional or not). I do still have some C64 games floating around…including the Star Trek: The Motion Picture cartridge that i LOVED!!

I miss you Atari.

1 saw one for sale at a flea mkt with 20 carts for 150.00 ! i Shot my original one just to see it fly! lol