Video games, we've come a long way

[Onkel Neal]

For you who are over 30, think back when this exciting. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7639213472647728205&q=Fairchild+Channel+F)

Now, with games that look like this
http://gotymedia.gamespy.com/2005/images/screens/pc/silenthunter.jpg


Contrasted with games that looked like this... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auF7XmQB8Ks&NR)

It's hard to believe we have it so good. :ping:

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[LZ_Baker]

I'm only 20, but the first games I played were on my parents Atari. We also had a Commodor 64 but no games for it. My first computer game was the original Railroad Tycoon. Right now my computer has an Athlon 4200+ X2 and a 7800GT. Thats a big jump :doh:

[Bum]

Neal! Stop posting and finsih the SHIV review man! :huh:

[Paajtor]

I remember playing a text-based adventure, on some RadioShack computer. Had the game on compact-cassette, but you could play it on your stereo too, and hear the binary codes come along. LOL
It was on one of the early Intels.

Text-based...but boy, was it "immersive"! :lol:

[Torplexed]

Neal...that link to the Fairchild Game System commercial blew my mind. Me and my brother pooled our meager funds to buy one of those future electronic antiques in 1979. I'm sending him the the link. :lol: At least JC Pennys is still around.

Yes....games have certainly come a long way in graphics and atmosphere. Still waiting for the AIs to catch up. ;)

[Finback]

*Sniff* Kind of makes me miss my Commodore 64 and Red Storm Rising. The original Sid Meier's Pirates too. And lets not forget Gato. Of course that was after Avalon Hill's board game Submarine.

Then again...:roll:

Not! New technology Rocks! :rock:

Thanks for the Memory Lane stroll Neal!!!

Finback

[GSpector]

Wow, I don't remember the Fairchild but I do remember the 1st computer I got to touch when I was 8. It was actually a Keypunch machine.

When I was about 10, my Father bought an Odyssey system with PONG :o , Then came the Atari 2600.

In High School, I was able to join the Computer club and had a chance to use an Apple IIe. Oh those turtle graphics:doh:

In High School (83), I also learned how to program on a Teletype (no monitor, just rolls of paper with a paper tape reader). Then the school finally got a Hazeltine PC (Wow, a monitor)

I borrowed 30 bucks from my twin and paid $70 (in 84) for a C= VIC 20:know:
Enlisted in the U.S.A.F. in 85 after graduating and bought a C= 128:rock:

I've been PC since 88':sunny:

It's amazing how much technology has changed. I remember when the Monochrome Monitors, CGA, XGA, VGA, SVGA cards came out. And I'm only 40 now.

[StandingCow]

I am 26 years old, I went from.

1. Atari (River Raid, sub commander, etc)
2. Nintendo (Silent Service was awesome!)
3. First Computer. It wasn't even powerful enough to run Silent Service 2 :( I had to play at a friends house.
4. Super Nintendo (From Super Mario Kart to the awesome graphics of Donkey kong Country.. loved this system)
5. New PC (1995) I used this to wait for hours to connect to AOL and play Gemstone 3, a text based MUD...
6. From then on its been computer upgrades, Games like Half Life and modifications (firearms!) to Games of today.
7. This is for the near future, Halflife 2 mods like World at War, Firearms:Source and lets not forget Silent Hunter 4! :)

[Syxx_Killer]

I never had any of those early systems. The earliest I had was a regular NES. I just love the old commercials for that stuff. They are so funny now. This thread made me think of an old commercial for one of the best games on the old NES - Dragon Warrior. That game took up so much of my time back in the day. Here is the commercial for that old game.

http://www.woodus.com/den/games/dw1nes/commercial.php

[The Noob]

I still got an Amiga right here next to my PC. Retro stuff rocks! :rock:

[Sailor Steve]

I had a couple of different Atari systems back in the '80s, culminating in the mighty 520ST, with a whopping 512 KB of RAM, and no hard drive until I got a 20MB monster.

I also remember "somebody" putting up a picture similar to the one "somebody" placed at the top of this thread, comparing a charging destroyer from Aces Of the Deep to the same shot from the about-to-be-released Silent Hunter III. (I tried to find it, but no luck).

[codmander]

same as time compressing in sh3 lmao :rotfl: keep it real 1x rules:cool:

[THE_MASK]

My family went to the local pub every weekend for a dinner and as a kid i got to play................wait for it............. Pong on the table machine. Bit of a line up of kids though waiting to play on this new fandangled gismo .

[Safe-Keeper]

God, how the Super Nintendo rules. I still have a working model and about eight games. Pilotwings is my all-time favourite, with Zelda: A link to the past coming in second (yet I never bought it, we only rented it sometimes).

I remember how the cartidges couldn't stand the cold so in wintertime (back when it was cold and snowed during winter, before global warming got too bad), if we were to bring a game from a friend's house to ours, we'd have to either wrap it in something warm or leave it in a hot place for it to "thaw", shall I say, until we could use it. Strange.

One thing none of us ever did, though, was rip a cartdrige out of the console while it was on. We repeatedly accidentally erased saved games by hitting the "Reset" button multiple times.

Pity we can't play MP games as two of three controllers have a malfunctioning right arrow button:cry:.

[Cap'n Blake]

1.CBS Coleco Vision
2.C-64
3.Amiga 500
4.386SX-20mhz
5.486-66mhz
6.Pentium 233mhz MMX + Voodoo Rush
7.Celeron 450mhz + Nvidia Riva TNT
8.Athlon Tbird 1200 + Ati Radeon 7200
9.Athlon XP 2700 + Ati Radeon 9600
10.Athlon 64 3500 + Nvidia 7900 GT

[Safe-Keeper]

1.CBS Coleco Vision
[...]
10.Athlon 64 3500 + Nvidia 7900 GTNotice a difference:p?

[Hylander_1314]

How many remember having to go to an arcade with pockets full of quarters to play real old style video games like the Blue Max.

[Onkel Neal]

I had a couple of different Atari systems back in the '80s, culminating in the mighty 520ST, with a whopping 512 KB of RAM, and no hard drive until I got a 20MB monster.

I also remember "somebody" putting up a picture similar to the one "somebody" placed at the top of this thread, comparing a charging destroyer from Aces Of the Deep to the same shot from the about-to-be-released Silent Hunter III. (I tried to find it, but no luck).


Yah, da waz me, da beeg cheef. I'll go ta finds it a'gin....

[nikimcbee]

For you who are over 30, think back when this exciting. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7639213472647728205&q=Fairchild+Channel+F)

Now, with games that look like this
http://gotymedia.gamespy.com/2005/images/screens/pc/silenthunter.jpg


Contrasted with games that looked like this... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auF7XmQB8Ks&NR)

It's hard to believe we have it so good. :ping:

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OMG, a VIC-20! I had that moonlander game:rock: Drinking Prune juice now:dead: My first subsim "U-boat" was on that computer! It was written in basic, and you had to type it!

[THE_MASK]

I remember way back when i was a real little kid , if you wanted entertainment you would go outside to play sport or something . How dumb , going outside !!!!!!!

[McBeck]

Yup...C VIC-20 was the first Computer we had at home....but everybody else had the C64, with all the cool games, so I saved up my money and bought a used C64.
You know what I did the first time I started it up?....

I put the powercable into the sameplace it goes on the C VIC-20...and guess what...the manufactor had moved it, but had still placed a jack the same size there.

That fried the damn thing :(!!

Years later my parents got a 12 Mhz 286 PC so I played Gato and later Silent Service II!! My dad played SSII on that thing for many years...lol

[Dowly]

I´m 21, but I started playing quite early.

First gaming platform in our house was the Commodore 64, on which I played my first subsim; Silent Service. I can still remember the fire buttons, T for Torpedo, G for deckgun.

I had a big pause in-between, then I came across Silent Hunter and few years later SHII.

[danlisa]

My First Console - Atari 2600

http://www.csdm.qc.ca/pec/codes/atari2600.jpg

Ah Memories.:D Where I was first introduced to PONG!:o :rock: