I have an old NES and a PS2 with about 10 games each. I still break out the NES and play every now and then.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Intellivision or the 'supposedly-much-more-advanced' Colecovision. Ahhh, Mattell and Coleco, back in the days when videogames were still thought of as just expensive 'toys'. I also remember being at Epcot Center around '81 or so and being blown away by the amazing new Atari 5200 (which totally bombed of course). That company was so stupid - they OWNED the arcade market pretty much, and could have absolutely changed the world with that next-gen machine at that time. But morons and crooks ran the company, and ran it straight into the ground. Later on, the Lynx and Jaguar were interesting items, but the Turbografix 16 was a really amazing machine for the time. Horribly-designed cartridges and almost impossible to get them in or out of the machine, but even now I look back on some of those games that were on it and smile. And my 9-year-old son still has my old Dreamcast hooked up in his room, and the old XBox on the old T upstairs.. Good times, good times.
Is it that one, or Power Stone 2 that is like the Holy Grail for Dreamcast owners? I have always wanted that one too, I saw it playing on a screen one time, and it looked amazing.. like a 3d version of Smash Brothers or something along those lines, only much cooler
Your parents memory is fading. Probably felt like $75 bucks to them back then. I remember having to save my own money or beg my grandma for $20-$25 bucks for a new game like it was yesterday. Look at this ad and you can see the prices of the entire system and some games. http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/527 First game I ever paid over $50 for was one of the Madden games maybe for the 3DO.
haha the 5200. That thing was so awful. My neighbor had one. Complete ****, I played it maybe 3 times and gave up. Sums up anyone's thoughts on it. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AknyR-kRvLc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AknyR-kRvLc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Yeah I bust mine out every once in a while. I have nes with about 60 games. Snes with about 20, N64 with about 20, PS1 with a chip and tons of burned games that barely work and ps2 all in my closet. Its always fun to go back and play them. I could never get myself to get rid of any of it.
My mom paid 39.95 for some games..cause I won 50 bucks from 93Q and bought my own copy of "Moon Patrol" and it was almost 40
Damn, dude you hit the jackpot. Mortalk Kombat and Mario 3 on that was fun as hell. Ahhhh! The good old days.
I'll have to e-mail my dad that link. I wonder, though, if he was talking about when we were living in Germany (he was in the army) and he had to order them for us out of a catalog, not just drive over to KMart (or where ever the hell you bought video games back then)...
I rented that game so many times I should have just bought it. The "juice bolt" sound effects for the turbo boost made this a quality football sim I think this game had the tired every football game theme of Houston having the SLOWEST sorry running backs. Even Eddie George in later games they made him good but didnt make him fast. Nice. So thats what Wooderson got into after Dazed and Confused (lower right) http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/2600_newspaper_large.jpg
