Proper retro 1st computer

Sparks43

Quick poll What was your 1st machine you had

Starting to feel old as mine was the videopac:eek:

o1s1n

Only someone as old as yourself would refer to 'Sega' and 'Nintendo' as games computers

Sparks43

o1s1n wrote: »

Only someone as old as yourself would refer to 'Sega' and 'Nintendo' as games computers

They were released in the 80s so they are retro and a lot of peoples 1st experience with gaming

So there :P

landsleaving

Amstrad CPC 464. It was great, and I won't hear any different

The giant monitor of doom (ever dropped one?), the giant keyboard.. of doom. The loading noise. What a machine.

Sparks43

landsleaving wrote: »

Amstrad CPC 464. It was great, and I won't hear any different

The giant monitor of doom (ever dropped one?), the giant keyboard.. of doom. The loading noise. What a machine.

What this thing ?

never into the amstrad myself had a speccy and a commodore though

Nate--IRL--

Ahhh yes, the ORIC-1, the ginger stepchild of 8-bit computing, how I miss thee.

Nate

Sparks43

Right whos parents didnt love them and bought them an oric?

Myrddin

Atari 2600 & Pinball, my good ol nan (rip) introduced me to video games when I was a youngling. Where she got the idea from I'll never know, but what an idea :cool::)

Sparks43

EnterNow wrote: »

Atari 2600 & Pinball, my good ol nan (rip) introduced me to video games when I was a youngling. Where she got the idea from I'll never know, but what an idea :cool::)

There were different versions of the 2600 if i remember right always liked the Atari played it on my uncles but never owned 1

Myrddin

There are quite a few versions. Mine was the Junior, small little black console, 4 buttons, silver trim. Where it went to baffles me, I must ask about that :rolleyes::p

Sparks43

EnterNow wrote: »

There are quite a few versions. Mine was the Junior, small little black console, 4 buttons, silver trim. Where it went to baffles me, I must ask about that :rolleyes::p

this the 1?

Myrddin

Sparks43 wrote: »

this the 1?

Thar she blows, it was an awesome sight to a 6/7 year old kid in the 80's I tell ya :cool:

Retr0gamer

Would I be right in saying that Europe only ever got the junior? I think the woodie was US only and Europe only got the 2600 when it was rereleased after the crash?

CiDeRmAn

I clicked Speccy as it was the first computer I had but in the 70s I.had a series of electro-mechanical games machines, a space invaders clone etc.
I spent time with a neighbours pong console, a cousins Vic20 and fiddled with a ZX81.
Love the speccy though, wished I had a C64, laughed at the rich kids with the Amstrad.
I found it quietly disturbing that some people own up to the Playstation being their first but remember with time this will gently, insidiously become the PS2 as the first "games computer" Bugger!

Sparks43

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I clicked Speccy as it was the first computer I had but in the 70s I.had a series of electro-mechanical games machines, a space invaders clone etc.
I spent time with a neighbours pong console, a cousins Vic20 and fiddled with a ZX81.
Love the speccy though, wished I had a C64, laughed at the rich kids with the Amstrad.
I found it quietly disturbing that some people own up to the Playstation being their first but remember with time this will gently, insidiously become the PS2 as the first "games computer" Bugger!

Ah the Spectrum classic



With games like
Manic Miner




Dizzy



Commando

Retr0gamer

Don't forget the 'zombie flesh' feel of its keyboard.

Sparks43

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Don't forget the 'zombie flesh' feel of its keyboard.

Never felt zombie flesh so i will take your word for it :P

Rexelac

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Would I be right in saying that Europe only ever got the junior? I think the woodie was US only and Europe only got the 2600 when it was rereleased after the crash?

Definately had the Woodie version of the 2600 when i was a kid

LoGiE

Speccy followed by a C64... Damn I loved those machines.

Dozen Wicked Words

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Would I be right in saying that Europe only ever got the junior? I think the woodie was US only and Europe only got the 2600 when it was rereleased after the crash?

Our first 2600 was the all black one, like a woodie, only not woodie.

oooh, apparently, A Vader!! My brother played Pacman on it for 12 hours, maybe a crap version but truly a thing of beauty back then.

Retr0gamer

Sparks43 wrote: »

Never felt zombie flesh so i will take your word for it :P

If you've used a spectrum then you'd know it's the only way to describe it

deman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLmsDrc1iDQ

I beat you all!!!!!!!

The Grandstand Video Entertainment System.

CiDeRmAn

I have a woody 6 switched PAL 2600..
I also have the all black "vader" 2600. Interesting thing with that was they were actually made here, in Ireland! So the sticker says.
Great thing about retro gaming/collecting is gathering together all the great consoles you ever owned or, more likely, wish you owned, a retrospective wish fulfillment if you like.
Hence my beautiful Vectrex!

And, yes the Speccy did have a zombie flesh keyboard, part of the character really, better than the plus variants that followed.

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have a woody

Am I the only one who this makes snigger?

Roar

ah, my first true love.. How I miss her..

K.O.Kiki

80s, eh?
I had a basketball.


...
Also, some DOS PC & a Megadrive in the early 90s.
You guys are old.

Dr Bob

Sord M5->Atari 800xl->C64->consoleland (so I guess the c64 is the first thing I could tick on that poll)
The sord was inherited from a cousin and was a bit rubbish but had a fantastic teach yourself BASIC style manual.The Atari was probably my favourite but you just couldn't get games for it by the late 80's ,so I traded up for a beige bread bin.That lasted until about 91 when I went mega-drive...

Rexelac

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have a woody 6 switched PAL 2600..
I also have the all black "vader" 2600. Interesting thing with that was they were actually made here, in Ireland! So the sticker says.
QUOTE]


Back in the early 80's Atari had a plant in Limerick

Optimus Prime

Commodore 64 for me, But i had a game called Astro Wars first, it was a small silver box with a joystiq and a button on it. they had one down at Game On. Loved that thing.

Dr Bob

Rexelac wrote: »

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have a woody 6 switched PAL 2600..
I also have the all black "vader" 2600. Interesting thing with that was they were actually made here, in Ireland! So the sticker says.
QUOTE]


Back in the early 80's Atari had a plant in Limerick

yup later became the Dell plant afaik.
There's a version of the 2600jr that was only released in ireland as well(Atari 2600 Jr. - Black, no silver stripe).

minikin

This was as close as we got to "computers", was put up on the top shelf by mid january as "it gave me epilepsy"

tribesman78

Going to say the Atari 2600. I have another from before this you plugged it in to your TV and it ran on big massive batteries but i can't find a name for it. It played Practice, Football, Tennis and something else with two controllers that were like dials. Basically was two line and a dot going back and forth.

tribesman78

minikin wrote: »

This was as close as we got to "computers", was put up on the top shelf by mid january as "it gave me epilepsy"

A classic. I still have it. I remember getting it for christmas over 25 years ago and i loved it, Played it for hours on end.

Dozen Wicked Words

tribesman78 wrote: »

Going to say the Atari 2600. I have another from before this you plugged it in to your TV and it ran on big massive batteries but i can't find a name for it. It played Practice, Football, Tennis and something else with two controllers that were like dials. Basically was two line and a dot going back and forth.

Wasn't it just called a TV game, binatone did one, grandstand did one, maybe someone has the proper name for it on here? We had one of those, it had a light gun!!!!

PCPhoto

cant remember which came first in my house ... the Atari 2600 or the Amstrad 464 ....prob the Amstrad.

either way I remember letting the tape load ...only to return 20mins later to ..."Read Error A" or something like that ...telling you to rewind the tape and try again.

Dizzy !! ...oh dear gawd !!!!...its beeen ages since I saw a screenshot of that.


PS. My parents GAVE the Amstrad away only a year or two ago.....was still working...hundreds of tapes.

minikin

Would be great to get it on the iphone!
My brothers weren't too impressed that I wrecked their present from santa claus!

Myrddin

When Atavan comes along, Sony will get at least one vote :pac: INteresting results all the same.

thenightrider

My first was an Atarinot sure wich one i rember it was before carts it was tapes took about an hour for a game to load and most of the time it would not load 1st try it would fail just at the end so most of the time it took mabe 3 hours to load some game that my brother would knock of if he kepet geting killed :eek:

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

When Atavan comes along, Sony will get at least one vote :pac: INteresting results all the same.

I thought he got a 360 before a PS3, no? :pac:

dinnyman

The Mitsubishi MSX - MLF80.
A present from Santa (Peats on Parnell Street)

Best game was Chucky Egg!

Retr0gamer

An MSX. Weird, you don't see to many of those unless you are from Holland. Some damn good games on it but most are japanese.

K.O.Kiki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85p7JZXNy8

ntlbell

not a "computer" but bloody awsome

you could get an add on to play atari 2600 games

CiDeRmAn

ntlbell wrote: »

not a "computer" but bloody awsome

you could get an add on to play atari 2600 games

I've got one of those!
The video output is ropey, I'm wondering if it's the caps.
How do you test/see if they need replacing?
I also have the 2600 add on!
And that works perfectly, I wonder if it's worth something?

My favourite game on it was Looping, but it's Donkey Kong was amazing, streets ahead of the one on the 2600.
Visually it looks very like the Intellivision, don't you think?

alpahaeagle

My first machine swa the Speccy, use to sit for hours typing in the programs from C&VG I think, or some speecy mag. Next the C64 another great machine. I then moved on to the Atari ST and Amiga 1200. All good memories.

raddo

Mine was an Amstrad CPC 464 but with the dreaded green screen!!
On some games you could choose green screen or colour.
Remember playing snooker and waiting for ages for it to load only to find out that colour screen was selected instead of green!!
Couldn't see a thing, reload again!
Loved it at the time though especially Manic Miner.

Sparks43

alpahaeagle wrote: »

My first machine swa the Speccy, use to sit for hours typing in the programs from C&VG I think, or some speecy mag. Next the C64 another great machine. I then moved on to the Atari ST and Amiga 1200. All good memories.

The 2 mags i used to program out of were Your Sinclair and Spectrum User

ntlbell

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I've got one of those!
The video output is ropey, I'm wondering if it's the caps.
How do you test/see if they need replacing?
I also have the 2600 add on!
And that works perfectly, I wonder if it's worth something?

My favourite game on it was Looping, but it's Donkey Kong was amazing, streets ahead of the one on the 2600.
Visually it looks very like the Intellivision, don't you think?

I only ever met one other person who had one the excitement getting to swap games

I don't own mine anymore but I have seen some in pretty good nick on ebay I have been tempted a few times.

I always taught they were intellivision's? but renamed for europe

frenzy was my favorite

stimpson

Nate--IRL-- wrote: »

Ahhh yes, the ORIC-1, the ginger stepchild of 8-bit computing, how I miss thee.

Nate

Yeah, I had one too. Always felt I was a bit uncool until I saw an Atmos behind Moss in series 2 of the IT crowd and suddenly it was +1000 nerd points. Lack of software made me learn how to code and I never looked back. Still have it up in my Ma's.

/wipes away tear

mondeo

I'm looking at the poll and the Spectrum is on top which is great, Funny though as when I was a kid in the 80's nobody in my class had the spectrum or heard of it. It was all C64 and the odd Amstrad.

My first computer was the Spectrum +2 and I still own one in original packaging and I'm very proud of it. Playing Treasure Island Dizzy on it there yesturday and boy is it frustrating:D.

My second machine was an Amstrad 464 plus followed by a Amstrad 6128 plus. A brief encounter with an Amiga and then the mid 1990's kicked in and got a pc like everyone else seemed to be doing .

I have an Amiga 600 though which I use to type up Documents for my work and I print alot of them out directly from it to the Dot Matrix printer :P. I like my Amiga, it's my old buddy

Feelgood

ntlbell wrote: »

not a "computer" but bloody awsome

you could get an add on to play atari 2600 games

Dear Lord you just brought a serious load of memories swimming back, Ladybud was the shit!. I think I could only manage to get as far as Horse Radish though, the fooker was too fast for me!

Donkey Kong was class too and looping was amazing. This was a **** hot console in the day, virtually impossible to find games for though. I always wonder why the controllers looked like phones.

Thanks dude ya just reawakened my childhood