How often do you play your old school consoles (before 1985)

Post by **Metal Militia** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:45 pm

I've always thought about this question for a while and I'm just wondering how often do you guys play your old consoles that were released before 1985 like the Atari 2600, 5200, Intellivision, Colecovision, Vectrex, Odyssey 2, etc? It will probably differ with age because I was born in 1988 and the genesis was my first console so I was born way before these consoles were released, but if grew up playing these consoles you may play them more often.I have the Intellivision, Colecovision, and Atari 2600 and I rarely play them. They just sit on my shelf and look pretty. Once in a while i'll bust one out and play it and it will always remind me how far video games have come.

Post by **superlarz** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:54 pm

Unfortunately the rf out on my intellivision is pretty shot right now so i cant get a decent picture. My coleco sits in its box because the condition of the console is too good to be out on a shelf, however out of all of there consoles mentioned, if I had the games and a console in worse condition I could see myself playing this guy. My 2600 collects dust.

Post by **arion** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:42 pm

I don't have any consoles from before 1985 but i do have one of those 10 in 1 controllers and i do play pitfall and river raid from time to time.

Website · Post by **Hobie-wan** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:17 pm

I rarely play mine too. I'll pull one out every now and then and play it for a few days, then put it away again. When I did the s-video mod on the 2600 a while back, I played it for a few weeks, then put it away again. Though I don't have a lot of space to keep many consoles hooked up anyway.

GameTZ · Post by **darthmunky** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:46 pm

The oldest console I have is the Commodore Vic-20... which is really a PC I guess. But I've never actually played it. So the oldest console I ever play is NES.

Post by **Hatta** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:02 pm

Fairly often. They're the best home systems to play early arcade games on.

Post by **Dakinggamer87** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:42 pm

Hobie-wan wrote:I rarely play mine too. I'll pull one out every now and then and play it for a few days, then put it away again. Though I don't have a lot of space to keep many consoles hooked up anyway.

Yeah, this is same for me!!

Post by **pepharytheworm** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:42 pm

Atari 2600 and Famicom all the time.

Post by **Mr.James** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:39 pm

I don't own any consoles before 1985 but I can relate.

Post by **FreshChurros** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:40 pm

5200 is under my bed in a box and I haven't played it in ages, but lately I've been playing a bit of 2600. Enduro is quite good.

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