Favourite 70s/80s Home Video Game System?

CanuckAmok

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Fri Nov-21-03 01:43 PM
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Poll question: Favourite 70s/80s Home Video Game System?

We had a Bally Astrocade. Miles more advanced than the Intellivision or the Atari 2600 (it even had a cartridge with which you could write your own games and programs in "Basic" and save them to tape). Unfurtunately, some corporate shuffling and extremely poor marketing/distribution killed the sophisticated Bally Astrocade. It was the Betamax of video games.

Later, we had a NES. Still have it, actually.

So, what did you have? What was the best?

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eileen_d

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Fri Nov-21-03 01:45 PM
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1. My favorite would be the one I had at my house...

the Atari 2600. And it's currently at my house. Anyone up for Combat?

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jayfish

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Fri Nov-21-03 01:51 PM
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4. The Sega Master System

Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 02:04 PM by jayfish

It had some great and very unique games as well as some awesome and way before their time LCD shutter 3-D glasses. 2nd would have to go to Colecovision. All of the Atari 2600 games and faithful translations of Donkey Kong and Zaxxon. Those baseball controllers were pretty sweet too.

Jay

On Edit: How did this get down here.

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jeter

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Fri Nov-21-03 02:09 PM
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8. What about the Gemini system?

I remember my cousins had a Gemini and I had an Atari. But each system could play the same games.

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RandomKoolzip

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Fri Nov-21-03 01:48 PM
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2. I had a colecovision...

and I loved it because you could get a module to let you play atari games. Then coleco put out the ADAM computer...anybody remeber that travesty? THE CPU WAS IN THE PRINTER. (my family had three of them; the first two broke after a couple months....)

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NYYFan

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Fri Nov-21-03 01:55 PM
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7. All Hail Colecovision !!! I had one too

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mark0rama

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Fri Nov-21-03 02:54 PM
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11. The Adam bomb!

I remember really wanting one when they were announced. My first experience with vaporware: it took them so incredibly long to get the thing to market that when it was finally available, I didn't care anymore.

Didn't this failure take Coleco down? All those Cabbage Patch Kids couldn't save them.

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Emboldened Chimp

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Fri Nov-21-03 01:50 PM
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3. Super Nintendo ruled

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bucknaked

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Fri Nov-21-03 01:52 PM
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5. Coleco. In particular, the Coleco Adam.

My father bought one for the family back in 1984. It played both cartridges and video game cassettes.

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imax2268

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Fri Nov-21-03 01:53 PM
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6. I had several

Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, Playstation, now I have a Playstation 2...

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Spirochete

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Fri Nov-21-03 02:31 PM
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9. Commodore 64

Those were fun. You could do your own programming, or play games on them.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Fri Nov-21-03 02:38 PM
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10. Played mostly A2600 but voted Intellivision. It kicked @ss.

Edited on Fri Nov-21-03 02:39 PM by JCCyC

On edit: I might have voted Colecovision if it ever made it to Brazil. Alas, it was not to happen.

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