Computer Gaming in the 80's - Things has changed a bit

jacor (70) in gaming • 7 years ago

I grew up in the 80's when computer and console gaming basically started off. It is amazing how things changed during the years. I believe the only way to present the actual experience is by the way of images, so I will not say much :)

Way back in 1979 and the 80's we had a savings account at school and every Tuesday morning, we took money to school to pay into the [PostBank]. The money was provided by my parents and I will be forever great full as in 1980 I bought my first Atari game console, which provided me with great pleasure for many years.

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Let's take a trip down Memory lane

Atari game graphics

The graphics was just amazing. The younger generation might think that it is terrible graphics, but at the end of the day it was the best that was available.

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My dad, was king of Atari Pac Man and could play for hours :)

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And I am sure my sister @giantbear till today will hate Atari's Combat as I was always the champion.

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My next console was a Nintendo and it was all about Mario Brothers.

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Then it happened .. A portable console :)

We had the original donkey kong hand console

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And we had Donkey Kong II

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And also Donkey Kong Junior which we can show in real time play :)

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This was the days of gaming back in the 80's and we enjoyed every second :) Anybody else here with the same experiences ? What did you play?

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7 years ago by jacor (70)

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bluehorseshoe (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

I'm an old fart compared to most of you and remember driving from Naples, Florida to Miami with my father as a kid to purchase Pong, our first TV video game.

We were on top of the world and spent a whole weekend drinking Dr. Pepper and playing Pong.
Nowadays my kids and I have made a point to save every platform of video game we've had since they were born.

Excellent post, thank you!

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago (edited)

EDIT: Most of us are old farts these days :) Great to meet you and followed you by the way. I am sure we can learn a lot from each other :)

Thank you for the comment

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

And Pong is before my time :) you win :)

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bluehorseshoe (61) · 7 years ago

It's a win best not to win(lol), but my wife will attest that I certainly haven't grown up yet and when my son asks me to play Battlefield or Call of Duty with him I still kick ass and take names.

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

I am with you and my wife can also attest that some of us will never grow up :)

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thatgermandude (59) · 7 years ago (edited)

I loved the 90s of gaming - the time I grew up in. We had Jagged Alliance 2, Settlers 1, Realms of Arcania, Monkey Island, Commander Keen, Mech Commander, Total Annihilation, Starcraft 1,... I could go on and on with the list :)

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the comment @thatgermandude. I loved Monkey Island!!!

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thatgermandude (59) · 7 years ago

You fight like a Dairy Farmer!

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artedellavita (64) · 7 years ago

Love vintage gaming and everything to do with it! I used to collect Nintendo everything and used to blog about it on my now dormant blog The 72 Pin. haha Loved this article!

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Thank you very much for the comment @artedellavita. Maybe you should start the 72 Pin on Steemit again :)

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artedellavita (64) · 7 years ago

Gotta dust off the powerglove haha Enjoy your day!

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scandinavianlife (67) · 7 years ago

So cool. I´m a bit younger, but I remember Donkey Kong and Super mario. I had a Commodore 64 in the mid 80s as a 6 year old. Later I played a lot of old school games on PC like wolfenstein, larry, police quest etc..then later Loom, Lemmings, monkey island, Amazon, commander keen...Such amazing times.

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Great memories you mentioned there :) You missed the best that was around the time of Lemmings ... Syd Meyer's Civilization

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scandinavianlife (67) · 7 years ago

Ah..yeah, that´s worth a mention. Probably one of the best games ever made, although not a favorite of mine. I´ve tried several times. I loved playing age of empires and sim city back in the days. Im currently still playing baldurs gate..more of a late 90s rpg. But I just cant seem to find similar gaming experiences in modern games. Sure there are some great modern games, but you need a friggin nuclear reactor to run them and theres more emphasis on graphics than story and general "feel".

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

100% agree about not finding similar experiences. I have a X-Box One nowm but we use it more for Netflix than gaming. The closest I got to the golden old days was Halo on the 360. My wife and I played at some stage from 05:00 in the morning till like 01:00 the following morning :)

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scandinavianlife (67) · 7 years ago

Cool :D I gave up gaming some years ago. I was hooked on call of duty and fallout 3 for a while ( another great game is Fallout 1 and 2 btw). Now I just run baldurs gate on my macbook and have a beer and play Gran turismo 6 with my brother now and then. My plan is to take up the gaming when i retire :)

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

My gaming days ended when the kids came :) Now I still play Clash of Clans and recently started playing Golf Clash, as it is short and sweet :)

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scandinavianlife (67) · 7 years ago

Haha. Same here :)

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tinytaruen (53) · 7 years ago

I think nowadays kids don't know how to open GBA or Gameboy.....

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gyanibilli (62) · 7 years ago

Ooh this post made me so so nostalgic. I am a big computer gaming fan and will always remain one. We used to have these video gaming parlours which had coin operated machines and as a kid I remember saving my pocket money to go and play. I have played a lot on Atari and even remember having dreams about games. Taking turns to play and compete with friends was the idea of playing over network back then. I miss those days!

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

@gyanibilli, we also had those. It used to be 20c per game, way back then. I was always wondering if anybody else in the world is also playing the same games... Zygar was one of my favorites of all time.

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sinzzer (66) · 7 years ago (edited)

Ha the Atari 2600 was my first game console.
That was Epic!!
I think my first adventure was raiders of the lost ark, Indiana Jones and pitfall lol.
I even had a sex game, yes that was revolutionary in those days.
All other pictures of those handhold consoles gives me the chills, it's a blast from the past.
Its great to see them again, from my childhood.
Let's say we are the first pioneers of gaming!!!
WE KNOW!!

There was also the commodore 64 and then the Amiga 500, that was epic with Larry and micro soccer.
Damn the 80s was a great time but...... what i see now on this moment is just insane.
My 7 year old son play games what i dreamed of, but hey in those days, we had nothing better and just filled the rest of the game and graphics with our fantasy, that was good enough.:)
Great post!!

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Hi @sinzzer, I also had the Commodore 64 and will never forget Gyrus :) The sound effects was awesome ... For those days I mean. But before my Commodore I had a ZX Spectrum 64K :)

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sinzzer (66) · 7 years ago

LOL Zx Spectrum 64k.
THen you are a elder in gaming!!

That was before my time, i am born in 77 and i got the atari 2600 when i was 9. I begged my father for months lol.
But a friend of mine had the commodore 64, aah those days where fun.
We had to w8 ages for the game to work, with those tapes.
And always those fast moves with the joystick when we played a game like the olympics, but mostly we played micro soccer, or player manager.
Everyone created his own teams, and then we play with each other.
Yep the good old days, and now i am play games together with my family lol
Me and my woman and two kids play blackops zombie haha

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

All gamers will never grow up and I do not have any problem with that :)

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sinzzer (66) · 7 years ago (edited)

Lol yes indeed.
My and my woman played World of Warcraft for years, side by side.
And our kids played it to.
I mean there is nothing wrong with having fun and just have some fun with your family, i am doing that and it's GREAT!!!
But i also learn that gaming is just to clear your mind, not to make a sport about it. its a reward after doing something for yourself.
I wish i had that when i was a kid, but at the end of the day, i got what i dreamed of as a kid, and that is playing games with my family and nobody is complaining about that i play games. :)

lol back in the days, what are you doing behind the tv??
Let me watch TV, stop playing and go outside!! Stupid games blablabla
So i know exactly what my son feels and play along with it :)

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rhino (56) · 7 years ago

My first games console was an Atari, and I sold it on ebay, to invest in bitcoin! I didn't want to sell, but it was worth it.

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

That surely was a great investment @rhino :)

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greenapple (35) · 7 years ago

I had the Nintendo and loved the Mario Brothers. I like the older version than current one...just seems different and more fun....or maybe because I was much younger than. :)

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

I also prefer the older versions

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bluehorseshoe (61) · 7 years ago

Can you still hear the music in your head?

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major137 (39) · 7 years ago

The games now look amazing but back then the games were more challenging and more fun

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Those were the days my friend

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chrisx (54) · 7 years ago

ahahahaha love it... memories
upvoted and following

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Thanks @chrisx :)

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stardust (50) · 7 years ago

I remember that we loved to play this and when my parents came back from Hong Kong they brought us the small new ones we were so popular everyone wanted to play with them. Good old days!

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Those were the days my friend !!

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blackvapor (55) · 7 years ago

My first ATARI was magic. Great memory.

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the comment @blackvapor . What is the best in your opinion? Purple Hays?

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blackvapor (55) · 7 years ago

asteroids on atari and galactica at 7-11. Any OG kush

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dihyrogeno (43) · 7 years ago

Do you still keep the consoles and games from 80s?

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Unfortunately not, no idea what happened to the console, but I surely wished I had the ET game refered to in this article

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mikepedro (52) · 7 years ago

Talk about taking a trip down memory lane... nice post @jacor

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the comment :) It was great times

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mikepedro (52) · 7 years ago

Dude, i had one of the donkey kong pocket games exactly like that one. Hours of fun!

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liberty-minded (63) · 7 years ago

great post @jacor, brings back some great memories! upvoted & following!

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Thanks a lot @liberty-minded. It is indeed great memories... Followed Back

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freddyfish (55) · 7 years ago

What a great post, I was born in late 90's, so I do not have much experience with these consoles, but I can confirm that gaming on my brothers old Gameboy was a hell lot of fun.

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Those were great days @freddyfish! I am struggling with the newer games these days

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pawos (62) · 7 years ago

wow crazy, the good old times. i had an atari 2600 in the beginning of the 90', holy shit, so many nights without sleep...

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Wasn't the 90's also lemmings times :)

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prizzurp (33) · 7 years ago

Can't tell what video games I've enjoyed more, the old ones are the actual ones. One thing i can say for sure is I miss the good ol' times :D

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Same here :) Thanks for the comment :)

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brianphobos (70) · 7 years ago

It is unbelievable how much everything progressed!

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

I wonder if they we will ever have Virtual Reality Atari games :)

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lemouth (72) · 7 years ago

I am really really feeling old when I see this ^^

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

You and me both @lemouth :) Thanks for the comment

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lemouth (72) · 7 years ago

Yep... time is flying in only one direction ;)

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automaton (56) · 7 years ago

My Fav! And at the end of the game the character is actually a girl. It was shocking to me as a kid

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the comment @automaton :) Great to see these images :)

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giantbear (74) · 7 years ago

I had donkeykong 2!!!! It was mine!!! Lol!!!

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

I know :) but I was the best :)

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giantbear (74) · 7 years ago

No you weren't..I was the best...I never even touched your game.

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bigbear (68) · 7 years ago

I bought it for you 2 stop fighting lol

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jacor (70) · 7 years ago

We had some great times with those. Thank you very much :)

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giantbear (74) · 7 years ago

Nope you didn't. We had to use our savings from school to buy the game. I went with and I was not happy at all that I had to use my savings for that game....