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« Thread Started on Dec 12, 2004, 2:47am »		[Quote]
I'm just curious to know if you guys owned (or played) other retro consoles apart from the ones that have a space dedicated here.
I remember some like the Intellivision, ColecoVision, Vectrex, Konix, PC Engine, NeoGeo, FM Towns, 3DO... who can know, if it's worth we could even convince Wallace to add new sections
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« Reply #1 on Dec 12, 2004, 3:05am »		[Quote]
I had an old pong. I have been looking online for the exact model but there were so many fakes that I have had no luck. :(

I had Atari 2600. I think that is it. :-/
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« Reply #2 on Dec 12, 2004, 9:43am »		[Quote]
Ah...just noticed you wrote "owned(or played)".

I played a few more.

Atari 2600, MegaCD...erm....well....not that many!

I was mainly into computers. I was never a snob though, just quite poor which meant that the thing I bought had to be more than worth the money. Consols were expensive and were used just for games. Although I enjoyed that, it was hard to justify their purchase. If you see what I mean.

I have more now than I ever did as a kid. I like 'em. Always did but they never convinced my parents as much a real computer.

Y'know. "Dad, I can do my homework on a computer"

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« Reply #3 on Dec 12, 2004, 2:06pm »		[Quote]

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I had an old pong. I have been looking online for the exact model but there were so many fakes that I have had no luck. :(

Man, I remeber that machine! You could play tennis, soccer, squash... too bad they were all little variants of Pong... Those were the seventies 8-)
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« Reply #4 on Dec 14, 2004, 10:33am »		[Quote]
does anyone remember those game machines they would sell in places like argos one was like you would sit on it and the screen was in front of you and as far as i could see it moved.

i only ever saw them in catalogues so i couldnt see the game that was on it.

by the way wallace i dont mean to extract the urine but consols is spelled consoles ??? lol
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« Reply #5 on Dec 14, 2004, 11:43am »		[Quote]
Well....I ain't perfect. It should be spelled consols.

I was drunk when I made most of the board. :P


Erm....and.... 8-)
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« Reply #6 on Dec 15, 2004, 4:50pm »		[Quote]
Didn't have much in the way of games consoles until I bought my SNES for Christmas '93.

My cousins had a Colecovision that became the center of attention that Christmas among the youg 'uns, sometime in the early eighties. It was a decent enough machine for its time. They had 'Donkey Kong' , 'Popeye', 'Mr. Do', couple of others. A friend of those same cousins had a Vectrex. Being a fan of vector-graphics games, I thought it was the coolest little thing! ;)
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« Reply #7 on Jan 5, 2005, 1:59pm »		[Quote]
did you know that amstrad brought out a console at the same time as master system and nes were out called the gx factor

i havent read about it yet its in retrogamer the magazine
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« Reply #8 on Jan 9, 2005, 1:35pm »		[Quote]
yeah it turns out the gx factor was brought out when the megadrive and snes were on there way and it only had 8 bit.
the guy who made it thought that people wouldnt neccesarily go for the most powerful but as an 8 bit console it was really good and there was supposed to be 12 games out on its launch date

turned out there was only about 2 or 3 and even months later there wasnt much more but the real reason it failed is supposedly because there was only about 5 or 6 original games on it,the rest were all ported from old amstrad games with no difference in graphics or anything just that it was a cartridge version. :(
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Re: Other retro consoles
« Reply #9 on Jan 27, 2005, 3:05am »		[Quote]
Yeah, the same thing for the Commodore GS. Why should I buy a keyboardless console when I can have a computer that is absolutely the same and can even let me do other things?
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« Reply #10 on Feb 12, 2005, 5:39pm »		[Quote]
My first post!!

Amstrad GX was pants. Sold one on ebay for a mint to an italian about a year ago so good riddance.

How about an Ingersoll XK-4000 command centre? I was lucky enough to find one in a charity shop in Exeter for £5 with 4 of the only 5 games released boxed. Virtually untouched as well.

To be fair though the games are a bit generic.

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Re: Other retro consoles
« Reply #11 on May 21, 2005, 11:11am »		[Quote]
I've got a vectrex

I've got a vectrex

Na na nee na na
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