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Have you ever played an Atari 2600 game? Retro
Have you ever played an Atari 2600 game? Not sure what happened here. Poll question became first post. Working on fixing it. Sorry!
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Have you ever played an Atari Jaguar game? Retro
The results of the similar Sega Saturn thread surprised me. So I wanted to ask the same about another black sheep of the 90s, the Atari Jaguar. I never even saw the hardware in stores or other places. I did play the sega saturn (and playstation) port of the excellent Rayman though. Random...
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Have you ever played an Atari Lynx game? Retro
I have never played one, and I have never seen Lynx hardware in person.
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I had an Atari 400 and a tape drive. My friend who's family was richer had an Atari 800 and a disk drive. :)
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Have you ever played a Bandai Playdia game? Retro
If so, please tell me when, how, what game and all the details. This is among my mythical unicorn gaming hardware. The kind of hardware I read about in magazines, but never even saw in real life. I know some of the fmv games were ripped into videos that you could watch, but I don't think any of...
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I had a hand me down 800XL as a kid and it was my first game system. I was born in 82 so I had it well, well after the fact. My Grandpa used to take me with him whenever he needed to buy software for his computer and let me buy a game for the 800XL. I had no concept of different types of computers at the time and would wander around the whole store and try to buy what was probably Atari ST or Amega games and my grandpa would have to tell me "no only games on this shelf will work for your computer".
I still have a working Atari 800XL and play it from time to time. I love that thing so much.
Donkey Kong, Rescue on Fractalus, David's Midnight Magic, Alley Cat, Atari Logo, So many fond memories.
I still have a working Atari 800XL and play it from time to time. I love that thing so much.
Donkey Kong, Rescue on Fractalus, David's Midnight Magic, Alley Cat, Atari Logo, So many fond memories.
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I was born in 84 myself. I can't say for sure that I did play an atari 8 bit game, but I did play some old system that we found in an attic once when I was a child. That system was from the 70s.
Born in 81 and Atari always felt like a relic. Kid down the street had an older brother who swore it was better than Nintendo and had "real games" or something. Probably the first console warrior I ever ran into!
As a young adult stayed in a cabin with some friends and they had an Atari hooked up to the TV. Played a few hours while drinking and it still felt like a relic.
As a young adult stayed in a cabin with some friends and they had an Atari hooked up to the TV. Played a few hours while drinking and it still felt like a relic.
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I totally forgot about Final Legacy. Used to love that game. Completely rolled the score counter twice once.
I've since tried other games as I've added games to my collection now and Lode Runner is fantastic, Donkey Kong is great, Montezuma's Revenge is fun.
I've since tried other games as I've added games to my collection now and Lode Runner is fantastic, Donkey Kong is great, Montezuma's Revenge is fun.
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That's the main thing I learned from youtubing early Atari, they seemed way ahead of everyone else.
Grew up with an Atari 800. Please check out Star Raiders, to this day one of the most impressive games I think have ever been designed for their time period:
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Atari 800 Game: Star Raiders (1979 Atari)
An action simulation/strategy game where as the pilot of an interstellar starship, your mission is to destroy all enemy spacecraft on the galactic chart and ...
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Was always interested in the Atari 400 & 800. Used to look at them enviously in the computer shop, but they were just too expensive for my parents to get.
So went down the Spectrum/C64 route instead.
The Atari 8-bits were great looking computers though, and years ahead of their time. Same designers as the Amiga.
So went down the Spectrum/C64 route instead.
The Atari 8-bits were great looking computers though, and years ahead of their time. Same designers as the Amiga.
So many fun hours playing Star Raiders, Joust, Dig Dug, and Pole Position among others. I remember making up storylines to go along with the gameplay to keep myself entertained. I also spent a lot of time in BASIC and PILOT, and the crappy membrane keyboard on the 400 definitely gave me major 800 envy.
Yes and I just played Miner2049er on my 800XL for the first time today and it's awesome! It's a shame more folks haven't played other 8-bits besides Famicom/NES
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I want to. In my google-sheet, I only have two systems left for making new threads, so the end might be close. But I need to redo Sega Saturn (Did not have the exact same poll options, as it was the first one) abd Atari jaguar (I made an error).
I grew up in the 80s and loved gaming, so have spent the last 20 years just getting the machines I wanted as a kid.
I owned a 600XL, with the RAM expanded to a mighty 64 K. Also had the disc and tape drive for it. There were some pretty amazing games on it back in the day, although the ones that really blew my child mind were the Lucas Arts games like Ball Blazer and Rescue on Fractalus, although the classics like Choplifter and Star Raiders were great too. Oh, and Alternate Reality, which I am still disappointed they never finished as an RPG series.
Started with 65XE then upgraded to 130XE with 1050 drive.
Rebought 65XE years ago (and my 130 is somewhere in parent's attic).
View: https://imgur.com/a/dPzpKsW
I need to buy some other lead because right now I can connect it through RF.
So many amazing memories and games
Rebought 65XE years ago (and my 130 is somewhere in parent's attic).
View: https://imgur.com/a/dPzpKsW
I need to buy some other lead because right now I can connect it through RF.
So many amazing memories and games
