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Me? Here's some of mine:
INTELLIVISION: I always kind of regret not having an Intellivision back
in the day. Of course I DID HAVE ONE for about a week before it died on
me (black screen of death..). I figured if the hardware was this
shoddy, I wasn't even going to bother (I had been playing my 2600 for
years without one problem). So I took the "Tandyvision" Intellivision
clone back to radio shack, and bought the Colecovision for $214
including tax instead. And yes I REALLY LOVED the colecovision, it was
a dream come true, but sadly mine died on me after about a year and a
half... had to send it out to get fixed which seemed to take forever...
by the time I got it back, things weren't the same, and my Colecovision
hobby never picked up the momentum again. This probably contributed in
a small way to it's demise..
ATARI 400 COMPUTER: I remember when they discontinued the Atari 400
computer, they REALLY clearanced these things out cheap, I mean I think
they were, what? $49.95 at K-mart? Man, I gotta tell you I STILL regret
not buying an Atari 400 back in the day. I was on the fence about it,
and I think what happened is that by the time I decided, they were all
gone, already liquidated. Talk about a GREAT game machine. The Atari
400 was truely a gamers dream. Oh well..
NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM: Okay, the thing is, by the time the NES
hit, I was a die-hard Commodore 64 user. The C=64 REALLY WAS everything
you could ever want in a computer: Great games, great sound, WAREZ,
programming, you name it. So when I saw the NES in the summer of 1985
at LONGS DRUGS, I was impressed. I said, wow, these graphics are great,
just like the arcade - BUT NO BETTER THAN THE N64 !!!! - So I guess
looking back maybe I made the correct decision at the time based on
circumstances. I DID, finally, get a used NES back in early 1991...
does this count as "having one back in the day"?
After that, I pretty much had everything at one time or another, except
for a CD-i.
Me? Here's some of mine:
INTELLIVISION: I always kind of regret not having an Intellivision back
in the day. Of course I DID HAVE ONE for about a week before it died on
me (black screen of death..). I figured if the hardware was this
shoddy, I wasn't even going to bother (I had been playing my 2600 for
years without one problem). So I took the "Tandyvision" Intellivision
clone back to radio shack, and bought the Colecovision for $214
including tax instead. And yes I REALLY LOVED the colecovision, it was
a dream come true, but sadly mine died on me after about a year and a
half... had to send it out to get fixed which seemed to take forever...
by the time I got it back, things weren't the same, and my Colecovision
hobby never picked up the momentum again. This probably contributed in
a small way to it's demise..
ATARI 400 COMPUTER: I remember when they discontinued the Atari 400
computer, they REALLY clearanced these things out cheap, I mean I think
they were, what? $49.95 at K-mart? Man, I gotta tell you I STILL regret
not buying an Atari 400 back in the day. I was on the fence about it,
and I think what happened is that by the time I decided, they were all
gone, already liquidated. Talk about a GREAT game machine. The Atari
400 was truely a gamers dream. Oh well..
NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM: Okay, the thing is, by the time the NES
hit, I was a die-hard Commodore 64 user. The C=64 REALLY WAS everything
you could ever want in a computer: Great games, great sound, WAREZ,
programming, you name it. So when I saw the NES in the summer of 1985
at LONGS DRUGS, I was impressed. I said, wow, these graphics are great,
just like the arcade - BUT NO BETTER THAN THE N64 !!!! - So I guess
looking back maybe I made the correct decision at the time based on
circumstances. I DID, finally, get a used NES back in early 1991...
does this count as "having one back in the day"?
After that, I pretty much had everything at one time or another, except
for a CD-i.
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