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    Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/14/09

    In reply to Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
    I still have my Atari 2600. The joysticks are shot though. They suffered from the same crappy design flaw that the Coleco Intellivision controllers had, using a bubble membrane as a contact. The Intellivision controller (for those too young to remember) had these bubble membrane buttons that would eventually loose their shape over extended usage. Eventually even mashing them down no longer worked.



    The 2600's joysticks used these same type of contacts inside the joystick housing. They too would eventually wear down making extra work to move objects/characters left, right, up, down, etc. The Raiders of the Lost Ark game was the most susceptible to this at one critical point in the game, which frustrated me to no end..
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/13/09

    In reply to Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
    I still have a Simon; they are/were cool as hell! And, oh, real pinball, how I miss thee.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/13/09

    In reply to Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
    Adventure was my fav. Finding all of the Easter eggs was a blast.
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    07/13/09

    @FrankenPC: The Magic Dot!! Wasn't that said to be the first easter egg in video game history?
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    Image of Eltigro Eltigro
    07/13/09

    @ackthbbft: There's the wall you can go through and see the programmer's name. Wasn't aware of a dot though. And yeah, I believe it is the first game known to have an easter egg. At the time, Atari didn't let programmers have their name on the game, so the programmer made his name in a secret room.
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    07/14/09

    @Eltigro: I believe that is correct. It's the first documented egg.
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    Image of alysonnation alysonnation
    07/13/09

    In reply to Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
    the simon game is crazy similar to google chrome logo
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    Image of Golf_Nut Golf_Nut
    07/13/09

    In reply to Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
    I had intellivision so I was in the minority among my friends. The Basketball game rocked. And I remember playing a Space game with my dad before watching the original BattleStar Galactica with him!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/13/09

    @LoverofNewCommentSystem: Ha Ha! Intellivision!



    The first of many tech products that was probably better and maybe should've been cooler. But, at least in my parts, was most definitely and inexplicably lamer and would absolutely get you made fun of.



    Intellivision! Ha!
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    Image of robjennings robjennings
    07/13/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Was it lamer in comparison to the Atari 2600 or the Colecovision? Or both? I've owned all three as a collector but I'm too young to remember popular opinion at the time.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/13/09

    @robjennings: It was an age where anything that was different was inherently less cool. (And, of course, I mean age like 5-10 years old, not age like "the video game age").



    So all you kids with the fancier doohickeys or the programmable whatsidoodles may have thought you were cooler, but what you were was different, and different is scary to a child (or child-like adult). Different didn't become cooler until you went to college. (And even then it depended on what college you went to.)



    Personally, I would sneak off to my nerd friends' houses to play their better, less cool systems. But in my house, it was Atari all the way.
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    07/13/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: My friends had colecovision and I didn't think it was that great. The controller was weird. The only game I recall being decent was baseball.. But your right. I did get a lot of shit for having Intelivision!!
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    Image of Eltigro Eltigro
    07/13/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: George Plimpton didn't help matters any.
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    Image of Zombie Peach Zombie Peach
    07/13/09

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    SOMEBODY GET THIS FREAKING DUCK AWAY FROM ME!!!

    Adventure also had the first Easter Egg!
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    07/13/09

    In reply to Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
    In the mid-to-late-70s I had a game similar to Duck Hunt, but it used a gun to shoot at ghosts that were also projected from the gun. I think it may have been called "Ghost Blaster," but I can't find anything about it using Google.
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    Image of Skeetz Skeetz
    07/13/09

    @CSX321: So the target is projected from the weapon? You can't miss! That sounds like a game where everybody wins.. I thought that idea only plagued kids of today.
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    07/13/09

    @Skeetz: The gun swiveled in the middle, so that the front part projected the ghosts, and the back part was used to aim and had the trigger. It never worked real well, as you can imagine.

    Ah, here it is! "Ghost Gun" it was called.
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    07/13/09

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    While Adventure was surprisingly fun, you could not be more wrong about Atari Basketball.



    Hours and hours were spent trying to get those two little guys around each other at my house.
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    Image of Skeetz Skeetz
    07/13/09

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    I hope those are the other "feet" on those basketball players and not what I think it is..
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    07/13/09

    In reply to Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
    I must admit, I never knew Duck Hunt existed before the NES. I've been trying to find screenshots or videos of this old version but I still can't find anything. I did run into this though which I really want to play (but probably shouldn't since I'm at work).



    Duck Hunt
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    07/13/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: It was an analog version that required a real gun and cleaning the birds after you shoot them.
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    07/13/09

    @Geisrud: I guess I should try the keywords "Hunting" and "Dick Cheney" to get to said analog version
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    07/13/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher: no, no. put those searches together and you will find some very interesting sites. give it a go.
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    07/13/09

    @Purple Monkey Dishwasher:
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    Image of Complexified Complexified
    07/13/09

    In reply to Electronic Games of 1979: Addictive, Exciting, Primitive as Hell
    I hate the fuc***g dog in duck hunt. The most annoying SOB ever!
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    07/13/09

    @Complexified: Duck Hunt Dog killed
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/13/09

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    I still love Space Invaders, I also still suck at it.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    07/13/09

    @VenomIreland: you shot were they were -- you need to shoot where they will be
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    Image of VenomIreland VenomIreland
    07/13/09

    @Nick: Curses, but you should have seen how I shot through my own shields to shoot them while remaining protected!
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