I still use my Atari 2600! and I have about 300 games

I'll bet there is a few games I wants in your collection

Old classics are classic for a reason. Still fun to bring out and try now and again ^^

Yeah, I have a Playstation 2 I can play Playstation 1 games on, a Gamecube, and my XBox 360.

Always been a PC gamer, even as far back as the Commadore 64. But I also had an Atari, NES and SMS.

I have a Sega Genesis system up for auction if anyone is looking for classic games. It is the only REAL game system I have ever owned and I only bought it to resell it on my eBay store. I did some gaming back on my C64 system but that was about it. Haven't had a dedicated game console I really used since about 1980. That one had just 4 built in games with no expansion possible.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sega-Genesis-16-bit-Video-Entertainment-System-games-extra-controllers-/300731374237?pt=Video_Games&hash=item4604fc9a9d

I'm a PC gamer. All the wonderful stuff you can play on them, with better graphics, better play styles, greater variety, lower cost (How can you beat free?), and more intelligent player bases.

AND you can watch porn on 'em!

More intelligent player base?
Not across the board, sadly. And PC elitists make me sick to be a PC gamer.

There's also the issue of entry cost and the inconvenience PC gaming affords (consoles you stick the game in and play, PC gaming can end up taking at least an hour to get running, sometimes longer if you're not as up to date as you could be, or if you need to find X program or X tweak/mod to make something run).

Consoles are trending towards that same patch cycle as PC games, now that they have online capabilities. As for player bases, some of us just know how to separate the wheat from the chaff.

P.S.

Yes, I am a P.C. Elitist. Problem?

Yup.
Can't stand the pompous attitude of PC elitists. It's so pathetic and it's just as bad as the console fanboys they decry.

I'm a gamer i play everything, console, PC, handheld. Games are interactive books for me. Some are good, some are terrible, and some I'll play again. All that matters is that you enjoy playing them.

Holy crap, someone who speaks sense in this journal.

Yup. I play a wide array of games and systems as well. Skyrim on PC one day, Gauntlet II on NES with some friends, or maybe Warlords on Atari. It's all a lot of fun. You can't dismiss older games just because of the technology. A lot of them had perfect, fun game play or a great storyline and characters. Age hasn't diminished them.

Man, thats what I call "the good ol days"

Sadly I don't have anything that's been around as long as the 7800, though I love playing those games when I get the chance. Lately I just rock out on 16 bit~

But Genesis DOES!

What NintenDONT.

I remember when they came out.

Played Pong a lot and beat everyone who challenge me.

Same with Atari...and I had a Commodore 64 too.

Wow! Makes me feel old >_<*

I love to play my activision anthology and my atari anthology on my portable >3

People fail to realise how easy it would to program games like that...

I no longer have a 2600, but heck, nowadays many of teh Atari 2600 games are in a plug-in joystick!

Gotta give credit where credit is due, and Ralph Baer made the first videogame system.
Google him sometime. You'll be surprised what that man has made that everyone knows.

I think me and my little brother had one of those... I liked Hide-n-Seek (or whatever it was actually called) for some forsaken reason.<X P

Granted, with the number of 'Gamestation' consoles I saw for sale the last time I visited home, I wouldn't be surprised if I had a knock-off, which is why I have such a hard time pinning what I used to own. o.x

i know what you mean panda jenn i feel really old to

i still have a working atari 800 home computer

heh I still love breakin out the Sears Super Video Arcade for some Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Burger Time, yeah.

I've still got the Atari 5200 I grew up with... ^_^;;

As well as my Odyssey2, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Sega Master System, Dreamcast, Sony Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Micro, DS, DSi, PSP... ^_^;;

i have a ps2 and i play all of my ps1/psx games on it and ive been finding ps2/ps1 games at my local thrift store for like 3 -4 bucks a pop plus the ps2 doubles as a dvd player the regular one not the slimmed down version mind you. so it serves double duty for me.

i have a ps2 and i play all of my ps1/psx games on it and ive been finding ps2/ps1 games at my local thrift store for like 3 -4 bucks a pop.
plus the ps2 doubles as a dvd player the regular one not the slimmed down version mind you. so it serves double duty for me.

Never had a dedicated game thingie of any kind, never wanted one, will probably never own one.

I grew up with a Colecovision, and have owned every major console and handheld to hit the US market. Then I had to sell the entire collection to pay for student bills.

On a side note, I always find it hilarious when the games I loved and played the most as a kid show up on other folks' "Worst Games of All Time" lists. Like the NES Who Framed Roger Rabbit game; I played the HELL out of that when I was 10 and apparently had no idea I wasn't supposed to like it, haha.

The Atari 2600 had some pretty awesome games.

Berzerk
Yar's Revenge
Defender
Vangard
Demon Attack
Cosmic Ark
Dragon Fire
Omega Race
Combat
Breakout
Warlords

When all else fails: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J7MWiMzQb.....p_and_ball.jpg

Sorry to say, I never had one. My first console was an original NES which came with a copy of Super Mario Bros. 2... I think that was in... '86-'88? I think I was 6, but I could have been younger...

I had three Atari 2600s and in my living room right now, I have an original Intellivision. :D Had ALL the games when I was a kid, including the four speech synthesis ones, and the two hard to find AD&D ones.

I still own and play with an atari 7800, still got the boxes for the console and most of the games too.
But I also still play games on my T1200-060'50 or A1200-040'40 from time to time, admittedly I use winuae more often these days... poor towered 'miggy's keyboard socket is failing pretty badly.

I think my fave atari game has to be Crystal Castles

Do do want to older Nintendo games.

including PS2 games.

Isn't the point of videogames is to have fiun ? I don't even care which is better.

I wish we still had our 2600. that was some good times

The oldest system I have is a Super Nintendo, I need to go get new cords for it since the cords that originally went to it got accidentally killed by my mom when she was vacuuming lol I still have yet to play the old Ghostbuster games I found for that system, since without the cords, no play x.x I also used to play Mario on that system when I was younger XD

my fav. atari games were asteroids, that spaceship game wenn ya go into hyperspace, you see difrent colour quadrangles, popoye,

Defender, Star Raiders or Gyruss?

think it was defender

You should really reconsider dude. You are missing out in deep and cinematic experiences brought to you with dynamic HD visuals and realistic immersive gameplay.

plus netflix.

Screw Pong. I've put way more hours into the Bay12Games game Dwarf Fortress.

Forty years? That thing’s older than me! ^_^

40 years, and they still dont use the algorithms they worked before in the next game so as to reduce the amounbt of work needed for the next gen? Wierd how the computer industry, in programming, coding, refuses to folow the method everyone else uses? Or iss it becauase, if they analyze how to code, write that method down as an algoirhm, and repeat, by now they would have computers as good as any average coder, musician, artist etc, and so would be able to churn out tousands of mediocre games a year with little actual human effort required?

I rewired my Atari Jr for RCA cables with a kit and also bought a Harmony cartridge. Glorious, crisp, blocky graphics. :D

So, that 7800 is made of stone and wood right? Man you is ooooooooolld..

the first doesn't necessarily mean the best. Nintendo was better.

congrats Atari I has a 2600 "woody" 20+ odd games Sears Pong the 1st one & another Super Pong & a 5200
Should get a pic of them all

We got the Sears branded 2600 and had about 10 carts. Going to friends houses meant getting to try out different games since few people had large collections.

And your parents were convinced that the numbers from pong would burn in the screen...

I've seen DIY videos for taking the whole Atari console and all it's games and stick them inside an Atari joystick.

Ahhh the ole 2600, brings back the memory of me and dad going hour after hour at Missle command to get the 1000000 mark, Can ya say thumb blister

Jeeze, you asked the wrong question. :P But here goes.

Was born with the atari waiting for me. Played frogger, tank, pong, pitfall and an odd assortment of games till I was about 6. Nintendo educated me on some of the tougher games such as mario, captain skyhawk, andtetris.{OMG I never played zelda! O.O} After some more years, we got a super nintendo and continued with the mario's, Battleship, and my all time old school favorite even to this day-Gradius 3. For many many many years, I played on that console and own one even today, but as times changed, so did my console and I turned to sony playstation 1 after the prices started to come down. My favorites was Gran Turismo, Grand theft auto, and Medal of Honor. Then the PS2 had gotten its "bugs" worked out, and it was next up. Again medal of honar series, Gran turismo series, and this time two new ones poped up, while one stole my heart forever. Armored core seires and resident evil series.

But the one that took the iceing on the cake was Tribes Aeral assult.

From 20-21 years of age, I was found with a controller in my hand, on the couch, playing my very first online based game. In the wonderfull world of dial up land, I had absolutely no way of playing such a fast paced, action packed, first person shooter untill playstation decided to vamp up their gameing from a dull "pre arranged robotic action game", to chaotic, free ranged, unhindered madness. In fact, dureing my time playing tribes, I felt as I had actually molded the game play and unspoken rules till the end of the tribes glory days.
I found a way to use the "unuseable" laser sniper rifle. I achived a way to fly back and forth to the enemies base without ever landing on the ground, and I had developed a way to attack someone that no one could imitate. For a year solid, "There was no compition here. Everyone could just give up" as I was a terror in the sky, and a nightmare in the enemies base.

Sometime in 2008 newer games started to become more popular with the online guys, slowly the servers started to empty out. A lot of the old school die hards stuck around, but mostly the dial up guys like me was stuck with one of the last dial up games ever produced by playstation. Every single game developed afterwards was for high speed DSL or better. And the last times online seemed to hurt the worst.
After a year solid of being a terror, I was truely hardened and professional at tribes, and the last few times I tried my hand, it seemed novices had started their own server to just dink around. However they either labled me a cheat, or got tired of me makeing mince meat out of them as the only time I ever got kicked out of a server was after I captured enough flags to end 4 games in under 20 minutes.

Ever since then, its been PS2 and of course, your most favorite of all favorite manufactures.....Microsofts X-box 360. :P Left 4 dead, boarderlands, and Bio shock.


I WILL LET YOU IN ON A LITTLE SECRET THOUGH!!!!
Do not buy or even think of owning a X-box 360, unless its the slim! The old big boxy and clunky style was scrap from the factory... They had every known problem to mankind resulting from piss poor manufactoring.
Im not an engineer, or even a computer geek. I am an auto repair technician, but even I know that their main problem is from heat removal. The damn things cook themselves stupid. Don't buy one, not even if you think you can put an additional fan on it, it will not help.
Add to that that the soder they use is extra brittle, and its just begging for $150 to be flushed down the toilet.

I've got a vectrex. beat that!

Old School Games...nice.

Tho I'm more of a NES, SNES and Genesis fan than I am Atari. It's funny. Atari tried so hard to be up to date with graphics and gameplay, but ended up failing and are now just a company that distributes and once in a while produces games for other consoles but not make their own. Same story with Sega.