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Video Game History Museum
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 02:21
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Just ran across this. I think it deserves some attention.
http://www.kickstart...-history-museum
http://www.kickstart...-history-museum
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 03:35
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Agreed, binary. I have no cash to spare at the moment, but I encourage anyone who can to kick in a mere Sawbuck (that's an Abraham Lincoln to you kids born after 1965) or a fiver note. I hope to be able to contribute Something. I have a decent collection of Consoles (Atari 2600's, original Nintendo, and some more on up, a SEGA portable, etc.) and a lot of 5.25", 3.5" and CD-ROM games that I've collected since I started gaming on video at home (1977.) I now regret having thrown away a few games over this time, but I can't think that the games I did throw away would be worthy of display -- unless they have a "Pitiful Attempts" section. I think I might still have a copy of the original cartridge that was included in the premiere release of the Atar 2600 system that came with a racing game, tanks and I think a helicopter game and something else. I also am pretty sure I have a Pitfall cartridge somewhere in my stuff, too.
If I can scrounge up a few bucks before the end of the month, I'll toss in my own 5 spot.
Any dedicated gamer of any stripe should be willing to contribute if they can. I remember when people use to write serious articles about the "passing fad" of computer gaming, be it consoles or PCs. I remember when the video gaming industry exceeded the revenue of the film industry. I remember before that when other serious articles predicted this. At the same time there were news articles about how videogames were ruining the minds of the youth of America.
Mmm. Good times. I've been a happy (and smart) video gamer since I played Space War, which debuted in 1968! I used to beg my mom for quarters to play it while she waited at the Returns section of the Sears at the Ala Moana Mall in Honolulu (we lived in Hawaii at the time.) If you wonder what that game was like, rent the movie, "Soylent Green." In the opening scenes where the woman is playing a video game, that's the one.
I've been video gaming since it started and I'll be dreaming of video games as I shuffle off this mortal coil. If you have any interest in gaming and are sure you'll never 'grow out of it,' then you owe it to future generations of gamers to assist in preserving for them, the history of video gaming.
dunniteowl
If I can scrounge up a few bucks before the end of the month, I'll toss in my own 5 spot.
Any dedicated gamer of any stripe should be willing to contribute if they can. I remember when people use to write serious articles about the "passing fad" of computer gaming, be it consoles or PCs. I remember when the video gaming industry exceeded the revenue of the film industry. I remember before that when other serious articles predicted this. At the same time there were news articles about how videogames were ruining the minds of the youth of America.
Mmm. Good times. I've been a happy (and smart) video gamer since I played Space War, which debuted in 1968! I used to beg my mom for quarters to play it while she waited at the Returns section of the Sears at the Ala Moana Mall in Honolulu (we lived in Hawaii at the time.) If you wonder what that game was like, rent the movie, "Soylent Green." In the opening scenes where the woman is playing a video game, that's the one.
I've been video gaming since it started and I'll be dreaming of video games as I shuffle off this mortal coil. If you have any interest in gaming and are sure you'll never 'grow out of it,' then you owe it to future generations of gamers to assist in preserving for them, the history of video gaming.
dunniteowl
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Posté 24 août 2011 - 01:09
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You lived in Hawaii? Wow. That's my dream home location. One of the islands, I couldn't care less which one. As long as I have a red Ferrari, some free time to grow a stache, and an independently wealthy writer to scrounge off of, I would be happier than a pig in RodentDung.
As for all your consoles you still have, nice job. I wish we had held onto all those old consoles and games. Missile command devoured hours of my time. So did that weird fantasy game with keys in the castle you had to collect and that one magical wall you could somehow pass. I can't recall the name or the fine details of that game.
Intellivision D&D was the first D&D game I ever played in Electronic format. Loved the bow and arrow and Ladders (z-axis!). Was that named white plume mountain, I'm fuzzy on all this stuff since we gave it all up. My big regret though is giving all my gold box games away. Those had amazing manuals with them.
As for all your consoles you still have, nice job. I wish we had held onto all those old consoles and games. Missile command devoured hours of my time. So did that weird fantasy game with keys in the castle you had to collect and that one magical wall you could somehow pass. I can't recall the name or the fine details of that game.
Intellivision D&D was the first D&D game I ever played in Electronic format. Loved the bow and arrow and Ladders (z-axis!). Was that named white plume mountain, I'm fuzzy on all this stuff since we gave it all up. My big regret though is giving all my gold box games away. Those had amazing manuals with them.
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Posté 24 août 2011 - 05:39
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IN the words of the astonished: You GAVE AWAY your Gold Box Games?!?!?!?!?!?!?! What were you THINKING !?!?!
And Yes, Hawaii. Oahu on the Kailua side, to be Pacific and Fair (tradewinds.) Loved it as a kid. Personally last time I visited, it seemed very over-rated. Everything is expensive and once you've gone around the island a few times, it'd be nice to have somewhere else to go that doesn't involve swimming in the ocean or climbing knife edge mountains. It's beautiful, I grant you.
Check out Soylent Green though, anyone, to see the first video game I ever played. When I saw the movie at the theater (yes, I went and saw it at the Walk In Outdoor Theater at Naval Air Station: Barber's Point in Hawaii) and saw the game, I nearly wet my pants trying to tell my friends, "I played that game!" They just kept saying, "Shut up, I'm watching the movie." No sense of history.
dno
And Yes, Hawaii. Oahu on the Kailua side, to be Pacific and Fair (tradewinds.) Loved it as a kid. Personally last time I visited, it seemed very over-rated. Everything is expensive and once you've gone around the island a few times, it'd be nice to have somewhere else to go that doesn't involve swimming in the ocean or climbing knife edge mountains. It's beautiful, I grant you.
Check out Soylent Green though, anyone, to see the first video game I ever played. When I saw the movie at the theater (yes, I went and saw it at the Walk In Outdoor Theater at Naval Air Station: Barber's Point in Hawaii) and saw the game, I nearly wet my pants trying to tell my friends, "I played that game!" They just kept saying, "Shut up, I'm watching the movie." No sense of history.
dno
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Posté 24 août 2011 - 11:23
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foil- wrote...
So did that weird fantasy game with keys in the castle you had to collect and that one magical wall you could somehow pass. I can't recall the name or the fine details of that game.
Adventure!
Loved the game. One of the names behind the wall was "Robbins", I think.
(There was a knockoff called "Venture")
Edit: Just looked it up, the name was Warren Robinett.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(Atari_2600)
Edit 2: Looking at the wiki, I see a mistake. The "Gray Dot" (they refer to) was actually called "The Orb".
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Posté 25 août 2011 - 01:35
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dunniteowl wrote...
IN the words of the astonished: You GAVE AWAY your Gold Box Games?!?!?!?!?!?!?! What were you THINKING !?!?!
dno
Lets just say: not thinking with my head. Those were the days of more interest in pub hopping and girls. A shelf full of gold box D&D games didn't go far into impressing the ladies in those days. I shoulda known better. It might have scared off the normal ones but then maybe today I would be hooked with a woman who loved D&D (p.s. ladies: I'll take rich also
). LARPing could have a whole new level of awesome. And I would still have my precious Gold boxes and manuals 
@Axe_Edge, thanks for the title. I think that was it. Will go check the link to see for sure. I'm sure I will recognise any "screen shots".
Edit: yup. That's definitely it. I forgot about all the different coloured castles. I can't beleive they put that in a pack for the xbox 360. It was fun in the 70s/80s, but would be as interesting as beansprouts today.
Cheers
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Posté 25 août 2011 - 02:38
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foil- wrote...
It was fun in the 70s/80s, but would be as interesting as beansprouts today.
We made the game even more challenging by finishing level 3 with everything in the yellow castle. Finishing with the sword, bridge, chalice, orb, all 3 keys, bat, and yes, all 3 dragons = "Epic Win"
