Showing my age here :):

1. Pong, the original, back when TV remotes had wire running to the TV (so you could only take the "remote" around 2 metres from the set)!! We thought it was soooooooooo cool, especially when you got the two blocks for doubles tennis (as opposed to the one block each for singles). I seem to recall there were 4 games - each played with blocks that moved vertically!!! - can anyone remember what the other two games were?

2. The little hand-held electronic games, like baseball and the car game I also mentioned in the Cafe. Plugged into mains power, or ran off batteries (can't remember if these were AA or 9-volt).
This is the baseball game I had:
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Entex/BaseB.htm

The maze game is shown around half-way down this page:
http://www.ralphbaer.com/inventions.htm
And it also shows Simon!!!

Either myself or my brother had Merlin:
http://www.retrogames.co.uk/stock/assets/images/HH_-_Parker_Merlin.jpg

Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate the car racing game I was referring to. It was not an LCD game, it was similar in form to the baseball game.

:) :)

What are others' favourite electronic games from yesteryear?

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Hey... It's Electronic... Kind of.



Now this really shows my age. Loved it when we were kids in the '50's.

Gettin' greyer,
Ziggy

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or this one from the early '60's.



These tiny slot racers were great in their day.

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> or this one from the early '60's.
> [slot car set image]
> These tiny slot racers were great in their day.

:) I used to enjoy slot cars in the 80s when I was a teenager, used to play against the boys as the other girls weren't into those games. Do you know what the makes of the cars are on the box, they look like Fords?... (and I shall not stand by if this thread deteriorates into a Fords versus Holdens flame...). However, as I think you come from the US, the cars could easily be representations of American cars - of which I am not very familiar.

:)

> > or this one from the early '60's.
> > [slot car set image]
> > These tiny slot racers were great in their day.
>
> :) I used to enjoy slot cars in the 80s when I was a teenager, used to play
> against the boys as the other girls weren't into those games. Do you know
> what the makes of the cars are on the box, they look like Fords?... (and I
> shall not stand by if this thread deteriorates into a Fords versus Holdens
> flame...). However, as I think you come from the US, the cars could easily be
> representations of American cars - of which I am not very familiar.
>

The original 4 cars it came with were:

1. 1960 Chevy Corvette convertible
2. 1960 Mercedes 300SL convertible
3. 1954 Jaguar XK-140 convertible
4. A Hot Rod coupe ('32 Ford)

There were extra cars you could buy but they were pretty much just variations (different colors of coupes or convertibles) of these originals.

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If I'd only known that thirty years later I'd be the poor guy on the table! LOL.
(I don't think my nose lit up when they took out my kidney though).

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[re slot car set]
> The original 4 cars it came with were:
> 1. 1960 Chevy Corvette convertible
> 2. 1960 Mercedes 300SL convertible
> 3. 1954 Jaguar XK-140 convertible
> 4. A Hot Rod coupe ('32 Ford)

What cool cars to have racing. :)

I have 3 games-related ambitions for a spare room (I have the room, just not the games):
1. A really cool slot car set
2. A pinball machine
3. An electric train set, but one with lots of scenery and tunnels and so forth. And one of the engines must have "steam" coming out.
:) :)

> 3. An electric train set, but one with lots of scenery and tunnels and so
> forth. And one of the engines must have "steam" coming out.
> :) :)

4.) An arcade machine
For those that aren't aware, visit Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. You can show your kids how well you (mis)spent your youth... :)

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> Showing my age here :):
>

Hehe, me too ;)

> What are others' favourite electronic games from yesteryear?
>

Space invaders
Asteroids
Centipede
Zaxxon
Donkey Kong
Arkanoid
...

Oh dear, what good times ;)

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Aloha, Uli

> > Showing my age here :):
> >
>
> Hehe, me too ;)
>
> > What are others' favourite electronic games from yesteryear?
> >
>
> Space invaders
> Asteroids
> Centipede
> Zaxxon
> Donkey Kong
> Arkanoid
> ...
>
> Oh dear, what good times ;)


Some of the first games I learned on....Boy do I feel old...The heck with that..I am OLD.

Rocky
>

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> 1. Pong, the original, back when TV remotes had wire running to the TV
> (so you could only take the "remote" around 2 metres from the set)!! We
> thought it was soooooooooo cool, especially when you got the two blocks for
> doubles tennis (as opposed to the one block each for singles). I seem to
> recall there were 4 games - each played with blocks that moved vertically!!! -
> can anyone remember what the other two games were?
>

One of the others was for sure 'Breakout'. With the paddle at the bottom of the screen bouncing back a ball, that removed bricks on the top of the screen until all were removed.

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Aloha, Uli

Arcade favs: Tron, Asteroids Deluxe, Missile Command, Galaxian, Galaga, Berzerk, Robotron, Mad Planets, Xevious, Spy Hunter, Major Havoc, Star Wars, Ikari Warriors, Time Pilot, and oh so many others. Didn't get into most of the driving games until Sega released Virtua Racer in the mid '90s, which was the first arcade driver I remember with a really precise force-feedback setup (I can describe the mechanism if anyone cares; it's remarkably simple). Also helped that I repaired the games in the mid 90s, so I could chalk up many service games :). Didn't like pinball games until Addams Family came out in the '90s (running through the Addams Family service menu soundcheck, there were two back to back sound clips that always brought a chuckle: "It has to warm up" "so it can KILL you!!!")

Yes, I have MAME. :)

Console favs: Atari 2600 games such as Combat, Space Invaders, Laser Blast, and Pitfall. I bought a nostalgia Atari joystick two years ago that runs off battery and has ten of the old games built in, like Circus Atari, Adventure, and Yar's Revenge. My Atari 5200 was fun but short-lived.

Computer: Going back to the 80's, there was one game that was overwhelmingly fun for me on the TRS-80 model III. It was called Invasion Orion, and it was just a crude tactical starship simulator programmed in BASIC. Their version of "Star Trek" was also fun because it was machine code and ran in real time.

Handheld: I had a Coleco Football game, of course, but my favorite was my little "Battlestar Galactica: Space Alert" game. Simple 3x7 matrix of LEDs that simulate Cylons coming at the Galactica and you having to shoot them as far away as possible.