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Like Me, Grimlock! on Facebook · by **Me, Grimlock!** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:36 am

Let's hear it. What's your favourite ancient video game system? I'll define "ancient" as anything released before New Year's 1990. That would include Intellivision, NES, Colecovision, Atari, and technically the Gameboy... or anything else older than 1990. I'll even take Pong. And what games did you play most/own at?

I can see right now a lot of NES on this list, but I'm hoping for more variety.

Mine was the Colecovision. I grew up with it, a lot of my first games were on it, and I'd still play it if I could find one at a decent price or if my first weren't filled with more dust than machinery. Reasons this system was cool were Donkey Kong, Venture, Lady Bug, Mousetrap, Pepper II, Mr. Do, and a slew of others.

News Credits: 4 · by **typh0id** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:47 am

Well my favourite is easily the NES...For all the obvious reasons...But I actually never got one until it was almost exitinct (I finally bought one when they remodeled it in a last-ditch attempt to sell a few more before retiring it for good)...

Up until that point I had an Atari 2600...Had about 40 games for it but my favourite were: Pitfall II (of course), Yar's Revenge, Fast Eddie, Kung Fu Masters, Wizard of Wor, Battlezone, and Mario Bros.

by **Psycho Warrior** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:55 am

The NES, but if we go further back I'd say the commodore 64

by **8 bit** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:58 pm

Anybody remember the Odyssey 2 from Magnavox? We had one for a while, I think it would equate to the Atari, though I'm not entirely sure. It was a pretty fun system in the pre-NES days. My two favorite games were Pick Axe Pete and Quest for the Rings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey²
http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.p ... ail&id=109
http://retro-treasures.blogspot.com/200 ... sey-2.html

Before that, we had a system from Radio Shack that you could hook up to the TV and play games that were on a cassette tapes! How crazy is that? The games I remember were Shooting Gallery and Cookie Monster's Letter Crunch. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the console, nor can I find anything on the internet about it.

Like Me, Grimlock! on Facebook · by **Me, Grimlock!** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:06 pm

8 bit wrote:Before that, we had a system from Radio Shack that you could hook up to the TV and play games that were on a cassette tapes! How crazy is that? The games I remember were Shooting Gallery and Cookie Monster's Letter Crunch. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the console, nor can I find anything on the internet about it.

I remember the Commodore Vic 20 was like that. From what I can remember, the games were programmed in BASIC of all things.

News Credits: 1 · by **Duke of Luns** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:18 pm

I'm going with the NES. Sorry, but a lot of old Atari 2600 games(the only other ancient system I've ever played) really don't hold up that well. However, I can't fault them for trying, as a lot of videos and articles I've read make it seem like they had a lot of innovative ideas. But the technology just wasn't there.