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This thread is inspired by OLD Atari video games (mostly the ones for consoles) , but in acuallity can be about any old games. Basically the discussion is limited to games at least 10 years old. My favorite Ancient Atari games: Bank Heist, H.E.R.O., and Seven Cities of Gold.
Go on, discuss, experience nostalgia, have fun!

There was a racing game. I forget what it was called.

And Space Invaders and PacMan. Ahh, those were fun. But my favorite gaming days were in the Nintendo era.

Atari: Yar's Revenge, Adventure, Combat, Pitfall, Spiderman, Superman, Master Blaster... etc...

NES: Final Fantasy, Wizardry, Tecmo Bowl

Sega Genesis: Might and Magic III: Gates to Another World, El' Vente, Demon Hunter Yokho, Phantasy Star series, Shining in the Darkness, Etc...

There was a racing game. I forget what it was called.

And Space Invaders and PacMan. Ahh, those were fun. But my favorite gaming days were in the Nintendo era.

Pole Position?

There was a racing game. I forget what it was called.

And Space Invaders and PacMan. Ahh, those were fun. But my favorite gaming days were in the Nintendo era.

Aye, them Nintendos were good. I remember when it was a big deal that the SNES just came out. And there was nothing quite like the original Super Mario Bros.

Defender

Aye, them Nintendos were good. I remember when it was a big deal that the SNES just came out. And there was nothing quite like the original Super Mario Bros.

and DUCK HUNT!!! :D

Love my light gun!

Pole Position?

YES! That's it!

Man, I haven't remembered that name for yeeeeears.

This thread is inspired by OLD Atari video games (mostly the ones for consoles) , but in acuallity can be about any old games. Basically the discussion is limited to games at least 10 years old. My favorite Ancient Atari games: Bank Heist, H.E.R.O., and Seven Golden Cities.
Go on, discuss, experience nostalgia, have fun!

10 years ago was 1997, so I think an awful lot of games are contained in that bracket, like Fallout, Final Fantasy VII, and Lords of the Realm II. Now as for really old games, we have classics like Commander Keen, Prince of Persia (none of that 3D business), Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, TMNT: Turtles in Time, and a whole lot of other NES and SNES games.

My favorite of favorites though, was Space Invaders.

do you remember the cheat to fire twice as fast?

I just recently (within the last year) sold my Atari 2600 along with all 45 games that I had acquired for it. I played a LOT of Pac Man, Mrs. Pac Man, Breakout, Super Breakout, etc.

My favorite of favorites though, was Space Invaders.

10 years ago was 1997, so I think an awful lot of games are contained in that bracket, like Fallout, Final Fantasy VII, and Lords of the Realm II. Now as for really old games, we have classics like Commander Keen, Prince of Persia (none of that 3D business), Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, TMNT: Turtles in Time, and a whole lot of other NES and SNES games.

Tha's true. Mostly I mean games from the 80's (and possibly 70's).

never had one

This thread is inspired by OLD Atari video games (mostly the ones for consoles) , but in acuallity can be about any old games. Basically the discussion is limited to games at least 10 years old. My favorite Ancient Atari games: Bank Heist, H.E.R.O., and Seven Golden Cities.
Go on, discuss, experience nostalgia, have fun!

Atari had some good games.

But Sega Master had R-Type and that was a great game.

This thread is inspired by OLD Atari video games (mostly the ones for consoles) , but in acuallity can be about any old games. Basically the discussion is limited to games at least 10 years old. My favorite Ancient Atari games: Bank Heist, H.E.R.O., and Seven Golden Cities.
Go on, discuss, experience nostalgia, have fun!

Finally, somebody that admits their old enough to remember Atari. lol

Montezuma's Revenge, Crystal Castle, Q*Bert, Pitfall & Frogger.

Pitfall and Frogger, couldn't get enough of those.

I played a ton of Defender, Tempest, Centipede...with the quarters I spent on Joust alone could probably bought me my own arcade machine. Battlezone, loved that game. Red Baron was harder to come by, but that was even better.

What time is it? Burger Time!

And TRONNNNNNNNNNN

If anybody would like to download some of these classic games, here (http://www.atariguide.com/menu/2600alphaframe.htm) is a site you might enjoy.

List of Atari Games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_2600_games)

Dig Dug and Frogger

=)

Dig Dug and Frogger

=)

Holy crap, how did I forget about Dig Dug? Fucking DIG DUG!

Oh, and I also, for some reason, dug Tapper.

And TRONNNNNNNNNNN

:eek: the movie was so cool when i was a kid

Dig Dug and Frogger

=)

DIG DUG FTW!
I totally forgot I had that.....because I had it on my NES. If I get into NES games that I played/loved we are all in trouble.

Good ol' fashion PONG.

I remember getting my first video game (a GameBoy pocket) when I was 5, so whatever I played on there would be more than 10 years old. It was probably Mario or something. We got a Super NES later, and my family's favorite game was Donkey Kong Country. Not sure how old that is though. My parents also had an old Atari that we used sometimes. I remember beating my brother at the football game by like 80 points, only to discover that his controller thing really wasn't working...and there was a basketball game where the ball was a square. I remember that.

Space Invaders

also...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BMuXha6USrc

Not an Atari, but for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis?!... c’mon) you’ve can’t beat a bit of Road Rash, especially Road Rash 2.

The theme for the Hawaii track is one of the best game themes ever made.

Sonic 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 are a couple of my favorite games still.

I had this game called entombed which I thought was awesome. But apparently no one has ever heard of it.

Sonic 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 are a couple of my favorite games still.

Yeah they were huge on the Atari.

My friend had this game where you shot fish in a barrel. Game wins.

Combat FTW. Seriously--when you would get your opponent over in a corner and you were bouncing a bullet off 15 walls and spinning him and he couldn't do shit? I was always the guy spinning and cursing. ;)

:eek: the movie was so cool when i was a kid
It’s still cool now!

Anything with Jeff Bridges in it....

Q-Bert and Frogger. Oh Frogger...I never defeated thee...

Hm, my favourite was an F-14 simulator (and it was pretty good too, considering it was on an Atari...)

Sonic 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 are a couple of my favorite games still.

A few years ago - well, probably 5 or 6 now - my roomie and I decided we were going to beat SMB 3 without using any whistles. She had this old NES that would flip out on you if you bumped it. We ended up starting at least 3 times because somebody would bump the machine and we'd have to restart it and lose the game. I think it took us about a week to get through all of it, playing in between studying/going to class/working/etc.

There was this one game, I think it was either Atari or Sega Genesis where you actually get to fly the F-117 Nighthawk, and the aircraft was blue for some reason. It was awesome and it sparked my life long hobby of aviation.

Haunted House, on the original Atari. :)

And just to show my age, the first video game I played was on a black & white Pong TV console, which my older brother bought. It had no cartridge slot, even, just variations of Pong hard coded in ROM. You had switches you could throw to make your paddles small, and to change the ball speed, etc.

Thinks... would've been around 1980.

There was this one game, I think it was either Atari or Sega Genesis where you actually get to fly the F-117 Nighthawk, and the aircraft was blue for some reason. It was awesome and it sparked my life long hobby of aviation.

http://takegame.com/simulators/pictures/f117.jpg

I'm not aware of any other F-117 sims....was it that one? I'm pretty sure that there were console versions, but that's a pic of the PC version so they might be a little different. Probably released a little too late to be an Atari game though. (Microprose's F117A Stealth Fighter...the prequel F-19 Stealth Fighter is good too) I still play it every now and then. One of my favourite games growing up. :D

http://takegame.com/simulators/pictures/f117.jpg

I'm not aware of any other F-117 sims....was it that one? I'm pretty sure that there were console versions, but that's a pic of the PC version so they might be a little different. Probably released a little too late to be an Atari game though. (Microprose's F117A Stealth Fighter...the prequel F-19 Stealth Fighter is good too) I still play it every now and then. One of my favourite games growing up. :D

That's probably it, although my memory is a little fuzzy on the exact details.