A question...

RE:Well

man, im 15 and i had an atari AND a comadore 64 =]
i have 2 8 bit nintendo's, 1 super nes, a 64 (which i hate), a playstation, a gameboy advance, pentium II, and a 486... lots of junk.... the newest thing i got is a gameboy advance.. anyways that was off topic... what i was trying to say was.. uhh... if having a atari makes you one of the "original" gamers, that makes me, a young un, one of them... therefore, not just your generation has original gamers =]
 
RE:Well

Good point Zuger :-)

Funky is completely right, video games in general are more profitable than movies already, because there is already two or three generations of gamers that created a stable market base.
 
RE:Well

Well, that doesn't make you an original gamer, it makes you a throwback or a history buff! ;-) You've played these games as hand-me-downs; when we were younger, all we had was the 2600 (poor us). I remember a time (picture gets hazy around edges) when many a night were wasted on the likes of Frogger, Missile Command, & Pac Man. In retrospect, boy, did we suck! :-)

I've really depressed myself with this thread; let's have a moment of silence for our lost childhood.

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RE:Well

Do you remember those little arcade machine?
There was pac-man, ms Pac-man, frogger, donkey kong and i think centipede.
I had Frogger and my cosins had the otehr ones, so on sundays when we went at my grandma's we would all switch for a week, so we could pretend that we had them all.
I remember the insane decibel levels on these machines and the annoting sound they made. I wonder how my parents didn't go bonkers when i was playing for hours on those.

To be an original game you would have to had the pong like game that you would play on a black and white TV (any of you guys know those once existed? :) ) You had a selection of the same game (pong), but they were called tennis, hockey, ping-pong, and finally the best one was that big white square that went bouncing in the screen and that you had to shoot with a fake smith and weston. THAT is original gaming.
This is way before remotes, in those times you had to get off your butt to change the channel and turn the thinggy slowly or else your father would yell "fait attention a la TV" (sorry my father does not speak a word of english and it's hard to imagine him doing so). Then we would go to school walking barefeet 50 miles uphill both ways in ten feet of snow...... god i'm turning into my father. :-)


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RE:Well

>Do you remember those little arcade
>machine?
>There was pac-man, ms Pac-man, frogger,
>donkey kong and i think
>centipede.
>I had Frogger and my cosins
>had the otehr ones, so
>on sundays when we went
>at my grandma's we would
>all switch for a week,
>so we could pretend that
>we had them all.
>I remember the insane decibel levels
>on these machines and the
>annoting sound they made. I
>wonder how my parents didn't
>go bonkers when i was
>playing for hours on those.
>

I still have most of those games in Emu`s, i`ll have to get Galaxians and Space invaders.
>
>To be an original game you
>would have to had the
>pong like game that you
>would play on a black
>and white TV (any of
>you guys know those once
>existed? :) ) You had
>a selection of the same
>game (pong), but they were
>called tennis, hockey, ping-pong, and
>finally the best one was
>that big white square that
>went bouncing in the screen
>and that you had to
>shoot with a fake smith
>and weston. THAT is original
>gaming.

YES!!!Finally i found someone that also played it!I thought it had basketball too, oh well, it`s really hard to talk about the charm of the first gaming machine i tried to the generation of EASports and Quake3, with the er,"graphics" it had, but it was really one of the best feelings in my childhood, and made me a gamer.

Damn, now i am really nostalgic...
 
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