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The Greatest Old School Video Game System...

post #1 of 11
Thread Starter 
Yeah, this should be in the video games forum but let's face it, some of us assholes just weren't around for anything older than the SNES.

OK so is it the...

A) Atari 2600
b) Intellivison
c) Colecovision

One of those 3 and nothing younger than 1985 or pre-Nintendo which ever comes first.

How and why?
post #2 of 11
Intellivision.

Sure, Atari had a hammerlock on the market, and Colecovision had the tape drive and A.D.A.M. late in the game-but Intellivision had the coolest games.

Tron Deadly Discs, Tron Maze-a-Tron, B-17 Bomber, Pinball, D&D...

The controllers were freaky and awesome, they had that cool (yet somehow disturbing) voice module.

Intellivision was greatness...
post #3 of 11
Blah, blah, blah...

[This message has been edited by Hot Animal Machine (edited 03-12-2001).]
post #4 of 11
Thread Starter 
Intell also had that funky TRON Solar Sailor game which used the headset voice command. I never saw it, never played it, I only just heard about it while researching a piece I'm working on for NAME DELETED.

Course Atari 2600 (which I still have and play) had classics like Star Wars: Arcade, Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Krull.

Just got me Flash Gordon, Alien, Joust, and TRON off Ebay.

Atari 2600: Still dame good times in the 21st Century.
post #5 of 11
Lovedid me my 2600.

But I secretly coveted my sidekick's Intellivision...
post #6 of 11
I had the 5200. I loved it. It's still here, but it doesn't work.

Ahhh, Star Trek Simulator...the BEST!
post #7 of 11
Django, I have the Intellivoice and Tron Solar Sailer (which as a game was ass). Perhaps one day I'll be able to fill that void in your life. Although as far as the Intellivoice goes, you're much better off playing Bomb Squad and B-17 Bomber (which was the best of the few Intellivoice games that came out).
Intellivision had better games in my opinion, pure and simple. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough 'licenses' until very late in the game so most of the name games didn't show up on the platform. But the best games they had drilled the best games the 2600 had into the ground. Tron Deadly Discs, Dungeons & Dragons Treasure of Tarmin, Sub Hunt, B-17 Bomber, Utopia and a myriad of smaller games from Infocom (Dracula, Beauty & The Beast, Ice Trek) were all better than anything the 2600 had going for it.
2600 had all the power in the world behind it, and had some good games, but in the end just wasn't powerful enough to do cool enough things. The games graphics and AI left much to be desired, even in those simple times. Sure, I loved a few games like H.E.R.O., Yar's Revenge, etc., but even the games I loved got old quickly.
Colecovision had one thing really going for it that I remember. That was the first system in my memory that used 'easter eggs'. I only remember one, and it was on the Smurf's game. Once you got to the end where you had to save Smurfette, if you turned around to run out of the room and leave her there she stripped naked to entice you to save her. Man what a great easter egg.
post #8 of 11
In regards to the old atari systems.

My parents always kept some old 8 tracks around in the same drawer they kept the games for my atari. Sure enough I didn't pay attention and tried loading an 8 track onto my atari.

It almost worked, almost.

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post #9 of 11
Geeezz...I missed all this numb-thumb goodness when I was out there racing things with real engines, burning real fuels, going really fast with actual wind blowing over me.



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-KRONOS AN ARMY OF ONE
post #10 of 11
That was cool too, but what did you do on those crappy bad weather days?

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You want a little? Huh? You want any?
-ButtheadnPopeye.com- and -for my stalkers-
post #11 of 11
Why, fix what was broken on the good weather days! Silly!

Or golf...the all-weather game! Well, at least in California where the weather doesn't get too extreme and lightning isn't an issue.
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-KRONOS AN ARMY OF ONE

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