A friend linked me to these:
2600:
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/atariage/
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/atar ... o1_p11.jpg so bad-assed. I want a 2600 now.
C64:
http://www.cupid.de/mags/zzap64.php every mag in PDF's.
Add your own and discuss...
I started my gaming career with an Apple IIe myself (IIRC more or less a 2600 in a big ugly box). Wings of Fury for teh win!
Fr33 old gaming magazines - check it out
great stuff. This thread needs to be bumped, so I remember to download all those PDFs when I find the time.
And at the time C64 and Apple IIe were competing, 2600 was already dead. I was a child back then, my father bought all this stuff, a real computer fiend. I remember talking to classmates in 6th grade, mentioning my father had a computer, and they were like "oh yes, and mine has an atomic plant"... until just a year later, the same guys asked me about C64 warez. Those were the days...
what? How can you compare these? The Apple IIe had much better hardware, was a real home computer (even with a HD iirc), but only very few games. I was always envious for the 2600 kids until the C64 took off. But the Apple IIe seemed designed for people who wanted a serious home computer to work with, while the C64 got all the games and was much better suited, with being able to display a colour picture on TV, while you had to buy a special colour monitor for the Apple IIe, and still had less colour capabilities than a C64.I started my gaming career with an Apple IIe myself (IIRC more or less a 2600 in a big ugly box)
And at the time C64 and Apple IIe were competing, 2600 was already dead. I was a child back then, my father bought all this stuff, a real computer fiend. I remember talking to classmates in 6th grade, mentioning my father had a computer, and they were like "oh yes, and mine has an atomic plant"... until just a year later, the same guys asked me about C64 warez. Those were the days...
these were the first PC's then?Yeah, I must be wrong about the IIe. It's still pretty junky though. I remember if you pressed backspace, instead of deleting the letter it'd put in a Saturn-transparency-like crosshatch to simulate white-out. Can anybody recommend any software? There's always Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and the lake one from elementary school
I think that my progression on computers and game systems went something like this:
-Odyssey 2 (I barely remember this, I think I was about 2-3 at the time. This one made the 2600 look state-of-the-art...
-2600
-Emerson Arcadia 2001 (this one's about as obscure as they come)
-NES
During this time, I also frequently played on a C64 and an Intellivision at someone else's house as well. It wasn't until about 1991 that my family got our first PC (a 386SX/20,) but I didn't own another console until the Dreamcast.
-Odyssey 2 (I barely remember this, I think I was about 2-3 at the time. This one made the 2600 look state-of-the-art...
-2600
-Emerson Arcadia 2001 (this one's about as obscure as they come)
-NES
During this time, I also frequently played on a C64 and an Intellivision at someone else's house as well. It wasn't until about 1991 that my family got our first PC (a 386SX/20,) but I didn't own another console until the Dreamcast.