Coleco vision was the bomb if you were lucky enough to own one. The controllers were awful. Unless you bought the one with baseball.
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The other two controllers are posted are for Coleco vision. The one you gripped with your fist was for the baseball game. That one was actually pretty good because you could choose all the bases to throw to with the finger buttons. The ones that came with the system though weâre God awful. There was no standard in those days.
everything in the 80s had wood grain. I find it funny how PC cases are going back to that.
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that wood grain comment is crazy cuz itâs true
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Yes controllers were terribad but had 1 more lvl on Donkey Kong & better graphics on Pitfall then Atari 2600
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Not many know the struggle of early PC gaming on Tandy that was only 88% IBM compatible buy a game hope it works!
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Ahhh, the old Tandy 1000ex. I know it well. Kings quest games were on like 3 or 4 seperate disks and you had to change them if you entered certain areas of the game. Wait 2 min for it to load and if you went back to the other area do the same again. People complain about load times now!
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Yep I had one with 256k memory & 5 1/4 floppy upgraded to later 384k & a 3 1/2 floppy even had 1200 bps modem for my BBS. loved the KIngs quest series had the OG Test Drive & Prince of Persia
Man, I feel like a baby looking at these other commentsâ:sob:
Ha! Dont were the odd ones
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Started with #14 then went to #12
Really had a great time on the wii and xbox 360 bc of Rabbis go home on the wii and minecraft story mode one and two on the xbox 360. Good times. 
Really wish the company for mc story mode desiceds to make a third game and put all the story modes back on steam and make them cheap games so everyone can play.
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I started with #9
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2 for me.
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Born in May of 90 so youâd expect me to say something like 6 or 7, but I go back to way earlier, before this pics implied #1, the Atari 2600, and I never realized how weird it is and why no one my age relates in any way, let alone anyone younger. With the exception of my wife everyone I socialize with or relate to is at least 20 years older than me. My grandfather started me out at 2 learning my abcâs using an 8 inch floppy to play My First Alphabet by Atari on the Atari 600XL. I then unknowingly went in order of how things came out, some of my other favorites from âchildhoodâ being MS-DOS games like Xargon, Jill of the Jungle, Hocus Pocus, Monster Bash, Doom, Duke Nukem or to get to console games, Tempest 2000 or Iron Solider 2, and my favorite game of all time is a tie. I replay both yearly and have since I first played them at release and eventually was able to beat them on my own (as gpa and dad would not help) those games being : A Link to the Past and Super Mario RPG. I didnât realize how lucky I was till I was a Sophomore in high school and I mentioned my grandfather and I ended up beating House of the Dead 4 in an arcade while on vacation for under $20 total. My friends were confused, âYour grandfather beat that with you in the arcade? How the?â Then as I went on to explain how much House of the Dead 2 on Dreamcast with the light guns we had played together over the years, I watched as their confusion got even worse. See my grandfather collected video games, he quite literally had every console from the atari computer up to sometime between #10 and #11, after the release of the gamecube and before the Xbox. I mean everything even including the more rare consoles or console add ons like the Sega CD and the Jaguar and Jaguar CD (speaking of Jaguar I have to say both the game and the soundtrack for Tempest 2000 = absolute banger, quite literally with a good sub) Not just the consoles though, he had every game for every console from the NES forward that he owned, even all the Jaguar CD, Sega CD and Sega Saturn games (Mr. Bones anyone?) every game in duplicate, one to open and play and one to stay sealed and go in the video game room on the shelf in alphabetical order. He especially lucked out and picked up over 30 copies of Earthbound from Hastings for only $5 since he worked there and got first dibs on âclearanceâ, he just couldnât pass up the deal, only to watch those things skyrocket in value over the years. Then opened up an âebay storeâ, right after ebay got going, selling video games. He had a system down by the time Amazon branched out from books and he started selling on there too. He knew when to buy what, how long to hold it, when collectors would be buying vs families, hence he knew what to stock. He had me swapping out faulty NES contacts, replacing batteries in gameboy and GBC games (mostly pokemon), he even ordered extra boxes for pokemon games when he saw them come up on ebay for sale to pair with ones that didnât have it. Had hundreds of snipes placed on bids on ebay every day if not more. It was intense, somewhat like this response. Apologies, I got to reminiscing.
If youâre wondering about the collection, itâs intact as far as I know, thereâs an overly long story to tell there but to make it short(er) and very abruptâŠgpa at a some point while I was in Army training put the whole of the sealed in box collection in climate controlled secure storage somewhere. gpa passed 12/28/2011 and by the time I got out of prison (after a bit over 2 1/2 years) on 01/04/2012 the conclusion was only gpa knew where the locker was and he never told anyone. We assumed all the sealed games and a bunch of the older consoles and games completely lost. That is until my dad moved to Chicago. He asked my sister to help him move and a box ripped open a bit, and she saw it was full of gpaâs sealed collection. She was so mad, she told her wife and just left. Her wife then cussed him out about it as sheâs been with my sister since 8th grade, she was more than justified. Iâve never brought it up with him but I assume he has it all. Him and I donât get along to be nice about it. He did casually say in 2022 while in Florida at gmaâs funeral that he couldnât find the light-guns and asked if I knew if he still had them last I knew. So it may not be intact anymore. I just dunno how to navigate that situation and I donât care to. As much as Iâd love the collection or part of it, gpa made me who I am and thatâs good enough of a legacy I think.
Again sorry. Iâm overly verbose.
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I mean the post is meant to evoke a personal story⊠We want to read this
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that was a crazy story, thanks for sharing. your grandpa sounds like an amazing guy
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wow, nice story, this is wild.
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i started with 6 when then 14 then 13
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nintendo wii goated
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I started with 2 but iv played them all
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Iâm pretty young still, so Iâve mainly played at #18, but I truly started at #15.
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