I had the Atari System. I had a cheesy hockey game from Activision that I played everyday. I also played Pacman and Defender on my precious Atari.

In the late 80's I got myself a Sega Master. I simply couldn't believe the graphics. They were awesome. Wonderboy was my favourite on the Sega Master!!

What was your favourite system?? And what games on it made you forget about homework and dinner??

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Atari 2600. Adventure. No comparison. I even knew how to find the easter egg w/credits in it.

I lusted after Intellivision, and my brother had a 5200, but nothing will ever compare to the 2600.

I was grounded when PacMan came out. My dad played that game incessantly. I can still hear the cheesy sounds. Bloop bloop bloop blee blee blee blee bloobloobloobloobloo. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/eek.gif

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Atari 2600 was the best in the early 80's. Then a little further on came 7800 which was even better (still got that one http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif). But my favorite overall in the 80's was Nintendo. Got one around '86 and was hooked. That thing blew every other system out of the water! To this day, I'm still loyal to the big N...it's the only console I'd ever buy.

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We only had the Atari 2600. Sold it only a few years ago though. I wished I hadn't though! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/frown.gif

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I was born in December 1981, so Atari, Intellivision, and all the others are a little before my time. I got a Nintendo in '87 or '88. My favorite games were Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros (all 3) The Legend Of Zelda, Mega Man (1-4 on nes and the Mega Man X series on snes and playstation) CastleVania (all of them) and Ninja Gaiden 1-3.

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All the classics...all those series definitely kicked. Punch Out was another good one. I felt like the king of the world when I kicked Mike Tyson's ass for the first time /ubb/smilies/smile.gif Zelda was definitely the best...14 years later, it's still a popular game as a rom.

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I never think of the NES as an 80s "toy"- simply because i didnt play or even SEE one until 1988. When i think 80s games i think 2800. I remember my mom bought it for me. I played asteriods for a bit- but hey i have standards! So i went over to my friend Jeff's basement where Ka-Boom!, Crazy Capers (im not sure thats right- its where you play a cop chasing a burglar in a mall up endless flights of stairs, elevators, ect., dodging falling objects and jumping over stuff)- and of course Decathalon! They game was very difficult because i was pretty young and you had to wiggle the joystick back and forth like a lunatic. I enjoyed watching even more then i enjoyed playing.
My grandpop used to play Space Invaders when no-one was home and he acted embarresed when we came back to find him playing, but we thought it was cool :-)
The best part of videogaming for me at that time (since then only Metal Gear Solid seems worth my time) were the arcades!
Spy Hunter was "mine" at the 7-11. I never got far enough to all the gadgets you could get- you pressed the big red buttons to use them. Also Legendary Kung Fu Masters! A lot of people dont know of this game- it doesnt help that the only mentions i've heard about it recently (as a compilation for PSX) refer to it by its JAPANESE name. Apparently videogame magazine editors think they are scholars by using Japanese names of VIDEO games (oh brother). Anyway- one time my cousin/brother Billy had beaten the last fighter in the game and was more then half way through it again (the game has you fight all of your foes again after beating the last one- but this time they are a lot faster and harder. It was a great novelty back then), when he stepped away and i tapped the buttons ignorantly before he could put in his initials! I got punched in the arm for it but thats more then understandable lol.
I had PacMan Jr. one time too, but no one was interested as Atari was on its last legs at that time and people were more interested in other things.

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Well, I have a different one. Yes, I had Telstar and an Atari 2600. But nothing compared to my Commodore 64. Everything was so cool on that system. I was really big into games until I found out about modems. My gaming career came to an end at that point... But to me, the Commodore 64 had it all. Great graphics, computing capabilities, AND a modem! Awesome stuff!

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The loneliness just fades away
thoughts of you just memories
no cryin now for what we're missin
time won't forget what you meant to me

Guys do you know about the Amiga!? This came out and was full color, had FMV powers, MULTITASKING, ect in like 19EIGHTY FOUR. This was when IBM and Apple where displaying either black and white or green ASCII graphics! IBM and Apple were so freaked out they bribed the guy in charge of Amiga (or at least it's important decision making) to ruin the company!
In Europe it still got a strong following- enough for it to get lots of great games (they still publish for it!) and they had these AMESOME commercials with real eighties girls http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//00happy.gif gallivanting around- talking on the photo etc. And then I think some guy from the NSA (National Security Agency) shows up at one teenage Amiga owners house and invites him to save our nation with the help of his Amiga prowess!
The Amiga came with one of the first full color printers.
Needless to say the Amiga DESERVED to reign but of course the evil powers that be had them driven into the ground callously.
The thing was- Amiga was BASED on multitasking. The reason IBMs and Macs were so slow (and require so many upgrades and chips to prevent stalling on what an Amiga '91, if ever produced, would have had no trouble running) is because they were (and ARE) based on WORD PROCESSING- that is what they were originally designed for and IBM and Mac STILL base their newly released machines on this archaic concept! Well thats what one site told me http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif I don't really know but I think the reason I detest PCs is because of it's archaic arcitechture (blah if I can pronouce it right do I need to spell it right?).
Anyways in a decent would we would all own Amigas or AmigaTVs (as oppossed to crappy crap WebTVs like I have) in this era and not this backwards Microsoft junk.
Just thought someone might investigate this as I did.
I have to say that while the NES is the system that got me to blow my and my poor abused mother's money on the Genesis, Sega CD, Turbographix 16 and all their crappy crap(™R.R.) games, the only system I still have today is the SNES.
There are still games I want to get for it- which I could pick up for like 5 bucks! HAH.
The lesson I'm learning is this- if I wouldn't buy it 10 years from now, I won't buy it today. Unless I want to wait and get it for 1/12th it's original sales price http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//00grin.gif


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When I was 9 years old,I had a Nintendo Entertainment System Deluxe set w/ robot,light gun zapper,control deck,2 controllers and 3 games like Gyromite,Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros.,but the biggest highlight ever by owning 11 games by the end of 1987.I had fun with the 8-bit NES until August,1999 thats 13 years.Nintendo rocks!

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By August of 1999 I had acquired just about every NES game ever made for free thanks to ROM emulation http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//biggrin.gif Hell, I still think the system kicks! Being a Zelda fan, I can't resist popping on the old classics once in a while when time permits http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

I agree....Nintendo definitely kicks!

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"Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive."

Yup! I'm right there with Roemello. Zelda is one of my favorite series. I have played them all (even the Gameboy versions).

Hey, Sal. Was that a Telstar Arcade you owned? I had one of those. Took a silver triangular cartridge? They were pretty cool. Steering wheel on one side, gun on one side and paddles on the other. Also, you're right about the C64 being great for gaming. Omega Race was one of my favorites.

I personally though, think the Intellivision was the greatest gaming console of the 80's. Just MHO though. I loved the Dungeons and Dragons game for that system.

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If I'm here and your here doesn't that make it our time?

I love my Commador 64 I still play with it today. Same with NES, Atari, and Saga Master. Long live the 80's

The utimate of all my years of game ownership(starting with my first PONG system)was NES and my favorite game.......Friday the 13th.I loved that game so much,I'd sit for hours and yell at the screen whenever Jason killed me..........Ahhh,what memories

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Shakey!!!! I can't believe you said that!!!
I had Intellivision... (nobody ever knows what I mean when I say that because everyone else had Atari)

And I spent countless hours playing Dungeons and Dragons on it!!!!! And you could hear the rats, snakes, and dragons as you were getting ready to go around the corner to where they were..

You are too cool!

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SAL IS A FREAK!!!

Later!! Tina

I was a D&D freak on Intellivision too Tina! I loved "Burgertime" also. These days...it's Playstation all the way, although XBox has my ears perking up!

Yep. I remember wasting away many hours playing A D&D on the old Intellivision. Moving my little stick figure through the labrynth and then firing my bow wildly when I came upon a critter. Man, those were Cool http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//cool.gif days...

You may have been the only other person besides me though that owned one, Tinajo. Like you said, everyone else was Atari. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//tongue.gif

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If I'm here and your here doesn't that make it our time?

And just like the 80's, Intellivision LIVES!!!

http://www.intellivisionlives.com/ http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif

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"Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive."

Atari 2600 (which I still have), Intellivision and the Commodore 64.

Atari games I love: Superman, Adventure, Activision Boxing, Maze Craze, Sky Diver, Video Pinball and Real Sports Football.

Intellivision games: Baseball, hands down.

Commodore 64: some chess-like game called Argon (I think) and this Olympics game.

Hey, TD. Yah! I loved Baseball on the Intellivision also. I got a kick out of the way they synthesized the speech. I can still hear them yelling in that tinny voice - "You're out!" That was good stuff.

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If I'm here and your here doesn't that make it our time?

Wow, I completely forgot about the "You're out." Didn't the voice also say "safe" whenever a runner reached a base safely? Ah, great memories.

Yep! Sure did. I think that was the first game I played that had talked.

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If I'm here and your here doesn't that make it our time?

Yeah!!! I loved Intellivisions baseball, too!!!
"You're out!" that was great!!! "Space Armada" came with mine.. and I played the heck out of it!!

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SAL IS A FREAK!!!

Later!! Tina

You know what system nobody's mentioning? Remember Colecovision? I got that when it first came out. Getting to play "Donkey Kong" at home was an amazing thing for me!!!

Yessir! I had one of those also. Donkey Kong and Zaxxon were my favorites for that system. I might have played Smurf also, but I'm not going to admit to it until someone else does... http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//stareup.gif

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If I'm here and your here doesn't that make it our time?

You know.. I didn't know wnyone that had a colecovision... everyone I know had Atari2600... and I liked to go to my neighbors house and play "Pitfall"

I was always scared of the little scorpion that lurked at the bottom in the underground scenes... yikes!!! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//eek.gif

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Later!! Tina

Yep. That little scorpion used to drive me crazy. I never could seem to get the timing right for jumping over them. Pitfall was one of the greatest games of the 80's, I think.

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If I'm here and your here doesn't that make it our time?

then Nintendo came long... http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif and EVERYONE had Super Mario Bothers!!!

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Later!! Tina

I had one of those also. Matter of fact, I still do have it. Of course, Zelda was my favorite game on that system.

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If I'm here and your here doesn't that make it our time?

Yeah baby! Power to the Zelda fans! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif

I remember Mario too...came with the system, so I kinda had no choice but to get into that one and like it http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif That and Duck Hunt...I loved that game. Until that stinkin' dog laughed at me...that got me a little pissed a few times http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif Mike Tyson's Punch Out was fun too http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//hammer.gif

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"Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive."

It always ticked me off that you couldn't shoot the dog... Stop laughing at me you silly mutt!

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If I'm here and your here doesn't that make it our time?

I loved Mike Tyson's punchout too!!! Then they remade it with just the title, "Punchout" I loved the spaniard... Don Flamenco?

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Later!! Tina

Yeah, that was him. He always complained about Little Mac messing up his hair http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif Or how about King Hippo? http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif I think the biggest pain in the butt (besides Tyson) was that damn Mr. Sandman....that triple punch layed the smackdown on me many a time http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//tongue.gif

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Sandman was tough!!!

hippo was the easiest to beat I though...

The other one that was hard for me was... was his name "Soda Popinski"? Something like that...



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Hippo was definitely simple...but no one's as easy as Glass Joe http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif Soda Popinski was a pain mostly because his punches were so sporadic...he was also in Super Punch Out!! in the arcades.

No one pissed me off more than Tyson though....one uppercut and your ass is down...2 and your dead http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//tongue.gif

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"Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive."

The only video game system I ever had was a Sega Genesis. I still have it to this day.

We got a 2600 back in like 1980, I went to a small school so we were quite cool then. Then in 1983 we stepped up to the Atari 5200. After that we got a Sega Master System (contrary to popular belief the SMS was more powerful than the NES, just bad marketing and timing) I collect every console nowadays though, you name it I probably have it (yes even the coveted PS2) I wish Atari was still around, {sigh} definately have to say Atari was my fav.

Brent

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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
~Pablo Picasso

It seems that most u guys r from the US (quote BloogSport:"OK USA!)...Ever heard of the ZX Spectrum or Amstrad ?! Those and the C64 were the big contenders in Scandinavia 'round the mid-80s (I'm not sure 'bout their status in the rest of Europe). They were all heavily featured in every CPU-mag. Nes and Atari were never that big around here back then.

When the Amiga came out in '87 it was the system of choice...Man the hype that li'l beauty spawned. A few people would get a NES or SNES but Atari ST and Archimedes were not in he scene, though I THINK Atari came out in UK, and I know the Arhcimedes did.

Atari 2600 is definitely my favorite. I still play it and still buy cartridges for it at flea markets and some local Gaming stores. Mario Bros., Donkey Kong and Centipede were a couple favorites. Dig Dug was pretty cool too <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> I picked up another 2600 game system at a local consignment shop and it works perfectly. I plan on putting it up for sale on eBay.

I Love My NES & Genesis. I Had A Good Library Of Games For both. My faves NES Are Life Force, Mega Man, Contra, Bump N Jump, Clash At Demonhead, Final Fantasy & Zelda
And My faves For Genesis Are Sonic 3, Comix Zone, Alterd Beast, Ghouls & Ghosts, Double Dragon, F117 Night Storm & Crue Ball

My first step into computerized games was in 1979, a cheap set with 4 games on it, all of them "Pong"-clones. The fascination for it has lasted about 4 weeks, then it became dull.
In the early 80s, my parents gifted me with the Atari 2600...okay, I´ve pested them constantly until they gave in...played Space Invaders until my eyes were square <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> . Found out the secret trick to increase the firing rate of that turret by fiddling with the power switch...yeah, I was the man!
Didn´t had a large stock of cartridges, as they were quite expensive here (about 50 - 70$), but my faves were Pac Man and Defender.
I still own my old 2600 with 5 cartridges...sold the others which I deeply regret now.

Hibernated the whole computer stuff around the Sinclairs, Commodores and Ataris (another thing to regret deeply) as I´d rather spent my spare time whith tuning up my mopeds. Bought my first PC when "Doom" was released, a 486-DXII whith powerful 4 MB RAM... <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> ...but it was more meant for my first steps into graphic designs (really! I swear! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> ).

Today, I prefer strategic games like Sudden Strike or C&C. Okay, I´m also owning the whole Mechwarrior episodes, and I would be a bad liar if I would say that I never enjoyed a good trashing at UT...but my fascination for the games of that decade never faded completely.

I loved Atari 2600! Anyone remember Yar's Revenge? Great game. We used to swap game cartridges at school. But NES is my my fave...Mario, Zelda, Punch Out...*sigh* Those were the days, eh?

I remember Yars Revenge! Not only do I remember it, I still have the cartridge <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> Never got rid of my Atari 7800 (the 2600 got sold though way back...right after we got the 7800).

As 80's systems go though....my fave is also the NES <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0"> To this day, I've never bought any other brand of gaming system besides Nintendo (although I have gotten everything else via emulation...gotta love free games <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">)

U do know that the roms 4 ur emu isn't legal right Romeo ?! Ur only allowed to have 'em on ur harddrive 4 24 hours 4 for evaluation purposes...Unless u own the actual cartridge...

Evaluation right <img src="wink.gif" border="0">
I've had my roms 4 way too long <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

My A500 is way beyond busted, so now emus my salvation, great way to try & beat my old highscores

Like I give a rats arse about the 'evaluation rule' LOL....nobody in the emu world cares about that...it's just posted up to help keep those against emulation off our backs <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

I've been into emulation since '97 (before I even got my own internet connection...used to bring a bunch of disks and download them off the comps at college <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">)

Originally posted by Roemello:
<STRONG>Like I give a rats arse about the 'evaluation rule' LOL....nobody in the emu world cares about that...</STRONG>

I know Roemello & sorry didn't mean 2 raise any fingers at u <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

I started out on emu much like u, only I didn't start untill mid '99. I only emu older systems like Genesis, Acorn, Amiga & (S)NES <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Couldn't care less 'bout Nemu, Bleem & other new systems. I'll trust the new games 2 my CPU

Cheers <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

No need to apologize....was just being my witty self <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

I started with NES, then gradually got the rest of the consoles and most recently got into MAME arcade emulation <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Man I really need to get a sarcasm-detector, wonder if I can pick 1 up at E-Bay <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

What's everybody playing at the moment ?

Me: Wings on WinFellow, Turbo Outrun on Gens
& Sensible Soccer (not 80s but still the best <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> ) on WinUAE.