More! More classic game systems! More pictures! More
scrolling!! Another 3DO model (run through the best gaming display ever made, the Commodore 64 monitor), Colecovision.  Emerson Arcadia-2001, featuring "I Can't Believe It's Not Pac-Man!"  The Atari 5200 Joysticks: So irredeemably bad, they sank an entire system, and possibly Atari, depending on how you look at it. (The failure of the 5200 and subsequent game industry crash paved the way for Nintendo's NES.) Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has trouble properly putting the curly-corded joysticks back in their Colecovision.  The Magnavox Odyssey, spiritual successor of Ralph Baer's "Brown Box" invention, and the thing that inspired Pong; the rather nifty three-sided Telstar Arcade with steering wheel, lightgun and paddle knobs; and the Fairchild Channel F, the first game system to use game cartridges.  Channel F, Bally Arcade, Atari 2600 VCS  1977 Standalone Atari units Video Pinball and Stunt Cycle ("Jump 32 Buses In Your Living Room!"), and a Texas Instruments TI 99-A.  An authentic Atari retail demo kiosk, with an Atari 800 and a suspiciously modern-looking television.  HOLY CRAP I'M BACK AT GRANDPA'S HOUSE  Astro Blaster, Ms. Pac-Man, Joust, Bosconian, Millipede, Bubbles, Asteroids, Venture, Girlfriend, Robotron 2084, Dragon's Lair, Cobra Command, Star Wars  Sega Turbo, Donkey Kong, A Dude With A Big Fro (Scramble), Gorf, Indiana Jones, Popeye, Missile Command, Pac-Man, Pengo, MotoRace USA (I can't believe I figured out what that one was), I AM SO DONE TYPING NOW, HA HA HA HA HA! |