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Oldest gaming console you've played?
by htmlfan - 12/5/07 8:29 AMI wanna say Atari but thats cuz I like Atari games. The oldest console I have played is NES.
Pong Clone
by johnbuker - 12/5/07 9:28 AM In reply to: Oldest gaming console you've played? by htmlfan1st video game console I ever got was a pong clone- played several variations of pong.
Still own the following consoles (not including handhelds):
-Odyssey2
-Atari 2600
-Intellivision
-Collecovision
-NES
-Sega Genesis
-3DO (purchased recently off ebay for $10 just so I could play a demo of a Mario game that was never released)
-SNES
-Playstation
-Playstation 2
-Wii
The oldest one I've played
by Jimmy Greystone - 12/5/07 9:43 AM In reply to: Oldest gaming console you've played? by htmlfanThe oldest one I've played was this really old TI made thing. It was basically a big keyboard that hooked to your TV, and had a cartridge slot on the right. I forget the name now, but it predates the first Atari console by a few years. Maybe someone else will remember games like Car Wars and Hunt the Wumpus to be able to tell me what it was exactly. I want to say TI-89, but I think I'm confusing that with my graphing calculator.
I also remember playing ET on the Atari, and some game that was like a paper airplane flying around shooting stuff.
Sounds like the TI-99
by johnbuker - 12/5/07 9:54 AM In reply to: The oldest one I've played by Jimmy GreystoneWhich was actually a computer. It had game cartridges as well as cartridges that ran programs like business software.
I can remember getting magazines for that thing that had pages of code you could save on a cassette tape and run the programs from. Spent countless hours typing code in order to get it to display pictures and play simple games.
atari
by bloodyR - 12/5/07 2:49 PM In reply to: Oldest gaming console you've played? by htmlfanThe first console I played was the Atari 2600. We also had an Apple II+ that we used mainly for games (Karateka, anyone?). Over the years (decades), I've owned the following systems at one point or another:
NES, Sega Master System, Genesis, SNES, TG-16, TG-16 CD, Atari Lynx, Neo Geo, 3D0, Jaguar, Saturn, PS, Dreamcast, Gameboy Advance, PS2, XBOX, Gamecube, and XBOX 360. The PS3 doesn't have any good games yet, and the Wii just doesn't do it for me, so not sure if I'll ever get those.
Yes, I'm old and have spent WAY too much money on videogames... 
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by ph15h - 12/6/07 3:55 PM In reply to: Oldest gaming console you've played? by htmlfanfirst one i ever played was that donkey kong game where mario had to climb things upward.
That wasn't really a console
by Jimmy Greystone - 12/6/07 3:58 PM In reply to: uh by ph15hThat wasn't really a console, it was an arcade game. I think they might have released it for the Atari 2600 as well, but it was mostly an arcade system.
Donkey Kong
by johnbuker - 12/7/07 6:39 AM In reply to: That wasn't really a console by Jimmy GreystoneDonkey Kong was the pack in game that came with the Collecovisions. There was a version for the 2600 too, but it was horrible. The Collecovision version was very similar to the arcade version except that it only had 3 versions where the arcade version had 4. A lot of Collecovision consoles were sold on the strength of that game alone.
Mistake
by johnbuker - 12/7/07 8:03 AM In reply to: Donkey Kong by johnbukerColecovision DK has 3 levels instead of 4...wrote "versions" instead of "levels" by mistake...If I remember correctly, the Atari version only had 2 levels...
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