/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5987842]

Has anybody here ever actually owned any first generation consoles?

[Anonymous No.5987852]

>>5987842
my dad's childhood friend had one of these

[Anonymous No.5987856]

>>5987842
Yep, this was the Golden Age of games, before movie games like Mario, Zelda and Sonic came around and messed everything up.

[Anonymous No.5987858]

>>5987856
>implying pic related wasn't the real Golden Age of video games

[Anonymous No.5987913]

>>5987842
I've played the remake of the brown box at the strong museum of play, but I've never seen an original odyssey. Closest I get is the VCS.

[Anonymous No.5987920]

I have one. More like an interactive board game. Love the space age design.

[Anonymous No.5987929]

>>5987842
Yes

>>5987856
Are you just too retarded to troll or too retarded to do anything except be retarded?

[Anonymous No.5987939]

>>5987858
>tfw ywn play video games that can give you literal cancer

[Anonymous No.5987940]

>>5987858
try it on my OXO

[Anonymous No.5987968]

>>5987842
No, but I have a friend with three of them boxed (two in original boxes, one in a factory refurb box). We live in Fort Wayne, where Magnavox was HQ'd at the time.
It kind of sucks, but looks cool.
I'd never buy one. He found his on craigslist pretty cheap IIRC.

[Anonymous No.5988087]

>>5987842
Wouldn't surprise me if that was the case.

[Anonymous No.5988091]

Pong machines were more common than interchangable game consoles.

[Anonymous No.5988096]

>>5987929
Even if it was trolling it clearly made you throw a fucking hissyfit so it would have worked. But believe it or not, little LARPing zoomer, not everybody loves your precious Nintendo games, some people just like simple games that are all about the -gasp- GAMEPLAY!
Now run along and go play Earthbound or something, the men are talking.

[Anonymous No.5988130]

>>5988096
>projects
>projects
>projects
Top kek kid. 1st gen gameplay was mostly shit and slightly less shit pong. Not only weren't you alive to experience it but you're so zoomer you can't even google and learn what it is we men are talking about. And all that projecting. Wew lad.

[Father Electronics Couture No.5988047]

My first console was an RCA Studio II

[Anonymous No.5990547]

>>5988087
>684 consoles released in the 70s
>haven't heard of a single one

[Anonymous No.5990550]

>>5988096
>b-but Nintendo!
you people are clowns. Also the post mentioned Sonic, too.

[Anonymous No.5990561]

>>5987842
Are Vexxy's first gen? Probably not. Anyway, how long did you own one before you got bored with it?

[Anonymous No.5990567]

>>5988130
This. A majority of 1st gen games were barely video games beyond the fact that they were games that required the use of video. Most of them were basically board games, but with a TV as the board. You still had to keep track yourself, use game pieces, etc. Only a few actually rose up and took the concept beyond overlays you put on your screen.

>>5990547
Aren't most of them just clones of each other anyway?

[Anonymous No.5990572]

>>5988091
This.
>>5988096
So you love Pong that much?
>>5990547
Don't bother learning. It's Pong, all the way down.
>>5990561
No, they aren't.
>>5990567
Want a really fun number? 588 out of 684 consoles in the first generation were dedicated Pong consoles. Five hundred eighty eight. Almost all of them used the same exact fucking chip to accomplish it.

It's not a strange thing that no one talks about the first generation. It was just fucking Pong.

[Anonymous No.5990575]

>>5990572
What are you rambling about? There were 684 first gen consoles? Is this including all minor hardware revisions of the same console, or something? You're as bad as those guys who count every different game localization release as a completely separate game.

[Anonymous No.5990598]

1st gen consoles are too archaic, to the point it can be debatable if they're even videogames on the sense it's usually defined. They lack

>graphics
All they do is project lights at the screen that could be controlled and/or interacted with. Changing gameplay consisted on putting physical overlays on the TV screen. All the action was restricted to the single static screen too.

>AI
There was no singleplayer whatsoever, you needed another human player to play anything.

>memory storage
Very few games could as much as keep track of a score, it had to be done manually. And the concept of saving the game was a pipe dream.

[Anonymous No.5990609]

>>5990575
684 identifiable releases, not hardware revisions. You're as bad as those people who talk when they have no clue what they're talking about. Oh, wait. That's you.

[Anonymous No.5990612]

>>5990575
Here man, do your research. Sad that I had to spoon feed it to you, but what can you expect from a zoomer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_generation_of_video_game_consoles

[Anonymous No.5990617]

>>5987856
Trying too hard/10

[Anonymous No.5990640]

>>5987842
I had a Nintendo Color TV-Game Pong clone, if that counts.

[Anonymous No.5990659]

>>5988130
Projecting? Ever heard of irony?
>>5990550
Who is 'you people?' You do realize the Famicom was a huge part of the change in gaming and that it wasn't a direct dig at them or 'console warring' as you may know it, but simply pointing out a milestone in which games drastically changed.
>>5990598
In other words they were quite different from the games that came after and there is a divide between fans of the era's almost as if there are different people who like different things? Wow.
>>5990572
There was quite a variety beyond Pong, and they were enjoyable without having to study anything, read hours of dialogue, or have somw 'epic story' inserted into them. There are quite a few people who love the 'arcade style' yet somehow people find it absolutely crazy and definitely 'trolling' to like games that were all about just playing and getting high scores, etc...If you were in an arcade and saw an airhockey or fooseball table, would you publically lament at the lack of story, epic grafix and innovation?

[Anonymous No.5991051]

>>5987842
Yes I own it on my Raspberry Pi, and the games SUCK ass!!

[Anonymous No.5991067]

>>5987842
Single or TWO dots on screen
SEARING Ten daughter-card POWER
LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN

[Anonymous No.5991954]

>>5990659
>irony?
You mean when some dumb kid writes a fedora tipping shitpost about gen 1 consoles without even know what those consoles are?
Or the one where he tried to kisplain his failure away by pretending a few blocks on a TV are 'arcade style' and that "hours of dialogue" or "somw 'epic story'" were a thing in 2rd gen games?
Or the one where his autism forces him to continue to make a fool out of himself. Even though he knows he should just STFU, the power of assburgers compels him.
Oh yes. I've heard of irony.

[Anonymous No.5992273]

Pong

[Anonymous No.5992302]

>>5990609
>>5990612

>No swearing or "retard" thrown
>Explain why he's wrong and matter of factly acknowledge his idiocy

There ain't enough boomer threads on this board, let me tell you.

[Anonymous No.5992642]

Anything pre-NES is incomprehensible to my zoomer brain. I think the history is cool and I appreciate it but yikes, there just isn't much more complexity than an lcd game, and highscores ain't my thing.

[Anonymous No.5993093]

>>5987856
Ok boomer.

>>5987939
It's not too late to play Overwatch.

>>5988096
I only see gameplay when playing Arkanoid, True Lies, Super Metroid, or Super Castlevania on the SNES.

[Anonymous No.5993102]

>>5990547
If you've played Pong, you've experienced over 600 of them already.

>>5990575
Do you have ANY idea how many different brands of Pong machines there were on the market back then?

[Anonymous No.5993110]

>>5990598
They're antiques from a different age of man, sure, but just something like Pong is still a videogame even if you need someone to play with.

[Anonymous No.5993149]

>>5992642
>incomprehensible
I don't think you actually know what this word means

[Anonymous No.5993921]

>>5993149

[Anonymous No.5993951]

>>5992642
I'm only 25, but I've gained an appreciation for pre-gen 3 stuff over the past few years, give it time. I think having less time for games has made me appreciate the simplicity of score attack titles, and as I've explored gen 2 libraries more Ive encountered more interesting experimental stuff than I expected.

Give something like "Escape from the Mindmaster" or "Secret Quest" a try if you want something with a beginning, middle, and an end.

[Anonymous No.5995624]

>>5987856
Except Atari completely destroyed the north American video game market by letting everyone and their dog make games with no quality guidelines?

By the time Nintendo hit America the video game crash was at its worst so it was a miracle the nes became any kind of success.

[Anonymous No.5996791]

>>5995624
Honestly this is just so distorted.
Had Atari dug their own grave with retarded business practices? Yes.
Was the market oversaturated with options and no good ways for most consumers to inform themselves? Absolutely.
Were retailers assuming videogames was a fad that had passed? Yes.

But people still wanted video games, computers were still selling and people bought games for those. Nintendo swooped in at the right time to wrestle control of a weak and chaotic market, and they did so by offering better games than anything that was available on home consoles until then, and by the use of proprietary technology employing at least tacit quality control (if anything, putting a choke on just how many games were coming out for their system, which may make them look more controlled and less chaotic), on top of fooling retailers that it was more than just a video game console. Customers themselves didn't really need to be fooled, consumers still wanted good games.

Even without Nintendo, the market rejuvenating was inevitable, either another company, such as perhaps Sega, would have eventually offered a superior alternative to Atari, or the North American market would instead shift much more strongly towards playing games on home computers. The Commodore 64 and Apple IIGS were hits on their own without Nintendo, and without the attractive alternative of the NES, it's plausible that a new home computer would have taken the continent by storm.
Nintendo probably did it faster than anyone else would have, however.

[Anonymous No.5996803]

>>5987929
>>5988130
>>5990550
>>5990617
fucking retards holy shit

[Anonymous No.5996804]

>>5996803
Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

[Anonymous No.5996805]

>>5993951
Yep. Gen 2 games are the perfect pick up and play games for 15 minutes or 5 hours (if the game hooks you into trying to beat your score).

[Anonymous No.5996812]

>>5996804

[Anonymous No.5996823]

I had a lot of early pre 2nd generation handheld trash from my dad when I was very young and then an atari from a thrift store when I was 3.

[Anonymous No.5996828]

>>5996823

[Anonymous No.5996904]

>>5996803
I'd just finished laughing at your stupid. You just had to come shitpost and get me started again.

[Anonymous No.5996937]

>>5996904
i just entered the thread
it just baffles me to see people getting trolled in AD MMXIX

[Anonymous No.5997627]

>>5996937
>it wasn't me and that guy who totally wasn't me was only pretending to be retarded
sounds legit

[Anonymous No.5997792]

>>5993093
>>5995624
Are you autistic or asperger by any chance? legitimate question

[Anonymous No.5998261]

>>5996828
Mine migh still be in a box somewhere.

[Anonymous No.5998762]

>>5996937
>it just baffles me to see people
That's why we come to this site, isn't it? To see the absurd "stop liking/doing what I don't like/do" arguments that abound. Like the Dell OptiPlex thread. Why would anyone care or care to argue about a budget prebuilt computer being used as in a living room? Gonna go over to the silverfish thread and see how posters managed to turn THAT topic into an argument, Yep. Arguing over whether or not you should fear silverfish.

[Anonymous No.5999729]

>>5996828
Hard to believe I had fun with that thing. Thanks for the memories.

[Anonymous No.5999852]

>>5987842
Yup, this is what true boomer gaming was all about alright.

Remember all those silly atari noises whenever a boomer writer shoehorns gaming into another episode of CSI? That's because that's what peak gaming truly was to them, not all the Marios and Nintendos.

Makes it all the more ironic when we complain about zoomers. Me, I couldn't play the atari as opposed to other retro, it's too daunting in how primitive the games are.

[Anonymous No.5999915]

>>5999852
Atari is not 1st gen retard

[Anonymous No.5999935]

>>5999915
Pre-crash console is what matters.

[Anonymous No.5999939]

>>5987842
Earliest I owne is the 2800. It connected to the TV through the rabbit ear adapter thing.

It also uses the same controller ports as the Genis, which is weird because there is only 1 button, but you can successfully play Sonic with it as long as you never need to hit Start. Usually, we used if someone wanted to play as tails.

[Anonymous No.5999942]

>>5987858
1V1
FINAL DESTINATION
FOX ONLY
NO ITEMS

Also that’s more of an amusement device than a game. You controlled the “ball” yourself.

[Anonymous No.5999952]

>>5999935
No, not really, OP clearly meant 1st consoles since none of them particularly sold great. Whereas the 2600 sold 30 million, so in a board specifically dedicated to retro games it would be kinda silly to ask if anyone "actually owned" a 2600. Furthermore a lot of 1st gen consoles where Pong machines or so rudimentary that they almost push the limit of what's a videogame, on the other hand the Atari 2600 is primitive, sure, but it is still behaves how you would expect a game console to act.

Also
>crash

[Anonymous No.6000004]

>>5999952
Wow you are right. I knew from somewhere there were these games where you stuck a piece of plastic on the CRT screen, and literally only controlled the square, but I had no idea THAT was the 1st gen. Goddamn that's primitive. Atari was a marvel of technology compared to that.

[Anonymous No.6000019]

>>5987842
no i had a NES and windows 3.1

[Anonymous No.6000035]

>>5987842
I don't think however my father never played enought because of the blanc tv. Meine was heavily involved nontheless with the local scene and tried many times to overtly pick it uo and bring it home. My earnest memories were of me and my sister trying to best the personal record set up by the local group of entusiasts. I remember how it all started and our little lives, it felt so big then. Love to pLAY

[Anonymous No.6001713]

>>6000035
I beg your pardon?

[Anonymous No.6001732]

>>5987842
I owned a Telegames clone of this machine that I got at a yard sale in the 90s. It didn't work.