Proper retro 1st computer

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Sparks43 wrote: »

this the 1?

I just found my brother's one, it's perfect but no games ah well

EnterNow wrote: »

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

That's lousy lol we're almost the same age but mine was the C64 ~<3

pawrick

mine was the C64 Terminator 2 box (still have but a bit tattered on the corners)- but I really wanted an amstrad at the time that was in my local game store.

ntlbell

Feelgood wrote: »

I always wonder why the controllers looked like phones.

I was convinced there was away to ring and play other users, I was ahead of time no one ever answered tho :mad::mad:

Skerries

my first one was a pong type machine but i can't for the life of me remember the name of it
it was one with 2 paddles on curly telephone cables with just a dial and a red button
the box had a switch for going between "tennis", "football" and "squash"

Professey Chin

Sparks43 wrote: »

Dizzy

FCUK YOU DIZZY!!!:mad:

My uncle had an Amstrad & Commodore I used to play the whole time but my 1st woulda been the Atari ST (well really my sisters but I claimed it as my own :pac:).And I got Treasure Island Dizzy with it (the reason for my rage towards that fcuking egg)

CiDeRmAn

ntlbell wrote: »

I was convinced there was away to ring and play other users, I was ahead of time no one ever answered tho :mad::mad:

I can see it now, you, sitting in a playroom, talking into the controller, waiting for a reply, while you parents look on, tearfully wondering what the future could possibly hold, shaking their heads as their dreams of you as a brain surgeon fade away...

Ah well, people who owned Atari Jaguars thought it wasn't a phone, but rather a piece of sh1te, the big difference between them and you is, they were right!

(aside from Tempest 2000, pure shooty genius)

Retr0gamer

I thought I was an awesome hacker with my C64. If you type at the start prompt 'Hack AIB bank' you will get a message saying 'Illegal Error'. Thought I was hacking into them. Yesyou can tell I'm not a programmer and I didn't even have a modem.

gymman39

vic 20 and my first game was omega race

Captain Commie

first machine i ever had was a C64, loved that thing, with tape and 5 1/4" floppy drive. Would love to get my hands on one again, just for teh craic of it

Feelgood

Anyone remember this one

My first experience with a C64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47AQP8rDWZg

kepler_johan

dinnyman wrote: »

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

Best game was Chucky Egg!

heh there, do you still have the mlf80? I've got one myself with a dodgy keyboard and looking for parts/replacement.

CathalDublin

surprisingly I know or a few people with this system in the early eighties
NAME Television Computer System
MANUFACTURER Rowtron
ORIGIN United Kingdom
YEAR ? 1981
BUILT IN SOFTWARE / GAMES None
CONTROLLErsc Two controllers with 12 buttons and an analog joystick
CPU Signetics 2650A
CO-PROCESSOR Signetics 2636 (Video controller)
RAM Unknown
GRAPHIC MODES Unknown
COLOrsc 8?
SOUND Single channel beeper
I/O PORTS Cartridge slot, Video output (UHF channel 36), Power input
MEDIA Cartridges
NUMBER OF GAMES At least 21 cartridges were released
POWER SUPPLY 15v DC, 8 VA, - -(o- +
PRICE £79.95

Optimus Prime

There was one on adverts a while back, it might not have been exactly that but it looked very very similiar.

Lorfarius

Mine was a Commodore 16. Remember pestering my parents for ages to get some sort of computer mainly because a neighbour had a Speccy 48K. It only last 8 months as the power brick dropped off the edge of the table and broke, parents couldn't afford to replace it Was several years before I got a different computer.

At least I got to play classics like Cops n Robbers and Mr Puniverse before the C16 died!

CiDeRmAn

Ah the Speccy 48k, and Manic Miner....
But one of the first I got extended play on was an Atari computer with membrane keyboard, the 400 I think.
Also my cousins Vic 20 got some play, I really want one of those, along with a matching C64, plus a couple of flash carts, loading times are not fun people!

Sparks43

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Ah the Speccy 48k, and Manic Miner....
But one of the first I got extended play on was an Atari computer with membrane keyboard, the 400 I think.
Also my cousins Vic 20 got some play, I really want one of those, along with a matching C64, plus a couple of flash carts, loading times are not fun people!

I am one of the sad sad people who enjoyed loading times

Just love that sound

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

Atavan-Halen

Err, PS1 or Gameboy Colour count?

DinoRex

I also started out with the 'friendly computer'



TJ Hooker wouldn't steer you wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEI7mm8M7Q

chopperbyrne

Got an original 2600 second hand at Christmas in 1988 I think (may have been 87).



It broke after a month or two and we got a reissue 2600 for under fifty bucks!

longshotvalue

No Dragon 32 on that list. I remember writing a game in basic on that in school.. ( should have stuck with games writing) a very very loooooooooooong time ago..

CiDeRmAn

atavan-halen wrote: »

Err, PS1 or Gameboy Colour count?

Don't worry about getting your coat, we'll forward it to your address, in the gutter, just leave quickly and quietly, thanks....

CiDeRmAn

As I have said before, there will be many people around for whom the first computer/console was either the family PC, PS2 or 360.
In a couple of years we'll have retrogamers whose first exposure to video games was the Wii!
Thankfully, I will be past caring, drooling, no bowel control, and unable to use the remote control for the telly, just like now actually bar the bit about the remote...

unky chop chop

chopperbyrne wrote: »

It broke after a month or two and we got a reissue 2600 for under fifty bucks!

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Under 50 bucks,under 50 bucks,now isn't that nice
Loved that ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=913xrM9FYpI

I badgered the oul pair for a 2600 but got a c64 instead.Educational values and all that. Much better system anyway