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"Only after you've experienced the sheer joy of slaughtering your best friend will you know the true meaning of fun."

Best quote I've read all day!

What a great year to be born. Which makes me a decrepit old man by digg standards.

Older than the inter...

Oh, I get it!

Now we know what came first when people ask about the chicken and the egg.

people used to stay up all night with this stuff

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Space War looks so realistic! I hope my typewriter has enough RAM to run this game.

ah, the good ole' days when you had to partially assemble your game console with a soldering iron and molten hot metal before you could play "Tank Wars".

Lol no wonder my mom owns at old games. She could always beat Tetris within the half hour or so.

ah, the good ol' days of my Atari 2600 and Asteroids... Was there a better way to spend an afternoon? I still remember how insane I was to get that for Christmas...
And now, I'm gonna spend $500 on a PS3, and then another $60 to buy a "Retro Arcade Games" disc so that I can play all the old school games, with all the old school graphics... The price we pay for nostalgia...
Apparently I'm joining Boognish in the decrepit old man category.

Pong is still the greatest electronic game ever made.

FINALLY something diggworthy...........what a load of sh!t I've seen on the front page of digg lately

lol @ bowling

I used to play my dad's hand-held football game that was made around that time. All I remember is that the case was green, it was a little bigger than an original gameboy, the field was surrounded by a stadium and the players were single led's. I remember it being pretty entertaining and I had my NES at the time. Excitebike ruled! BTW: I learned how to program BASIC on a TRS-80 CC3.

"Wow the graphics are amazing!"
-Mnl1964- (1978)

I remember before TV's had coax all you had to hook up your video games were a flathead screwdriver and two screws. Atari 2600, those were the days, man.

OMG!! I owned Chess Challenger....and Mattel Handheld Football......now THAT brings back memories....

the funniest thing about this ad is the copy on the left column. It reads..

"only after you've experienced the sheer joy of slaughtering your best friend will you know the true meaning of fun."

I was 5 years old when this issue came out. I remember my Dad showing me how to play backgammon on that same exact machine!! There were also the all niters playing Asteroids on the 2600...my personal best was flipping the game like 6 times... lol, back then apparently their numeric digits only went to 999,999 then back to 0.

"Now there are games whose color images try your gambling instincts at blackjack, your "destroy" capability against an enemy tank"

Game manufacturers, please bring back games that develop my "destroy" capability.

Not that it this will resonate with very many people, but damn the Fairchild Channel F had a great controller. I still marvel at the genius and simplicity of it today. When the Wii came out I thought "Wow, someone had a Fairchild Channel F when they were a kid."

Having lived during the birth and evolution of gaming, and having been part of the gaming pioneer days by owning and promoting almost every game since pong, looking back, we all knew two things:

1. We would be vindicated, and that Video games would one day be 3-D, and also become a main stream hobby.
2. We would probably never get laid in High School.

My dad had that the electronic chess game pictured in those articles. It was actually pretty good if I recall, but then again, I was pretty young and not very good at chess.. which is the same as today, except I'm much older.

"GAMES' REFERS TO MODELS, SIMULATIONS, AND GAMES WHICH HAVE TACTICAL, AND STRATEGIC APPLICATIONS"

Those are some amazing graphics...
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Ah, the TRS-80 Model one... the *first* retail microcomputer (that's what we called PC's back then). It came out six months before the Apple II. I remember booking hour long time slots at the public library to program that thing and saved my programs on audio cassette... Those were the days... back when you actually had to know how to program if you wanted to use a computer... The games were simple, but fun, and nothing beat the fact that you programmed them yourself! Those days are long gone... How many kids now learn anything more than pressing the "start" button? Bring BASIC back, I say! And, dagnabbit, you kids, get off my lawn!

In 10 or so years people will look at the Bioshock, Halo 3 and others like a joke as well. Imagine that..

I can even smell the decaying paper reading this.

20 years from now, we're going to look back and say "god Halo 3 was so old school."

awesome schematics - now I can make my own!

I like the "then and now" section of the article... like they were reviewing ancient history.... LOL... at the time, "then" was only 3 years earlier!!! I bet they never thought that someone would be looking at this stuff 30 years into the future! Now, *that's* "then"!

Sweet I can't wait for these to come out! :-)

Actually back in the 70's I did have that Mattel Electronics Auto Race game (shown on page 3) as well as one they did for Battlestar Galactica (the original series).

"Milton-Bradley's nonvideo "Comp IV" selects one of 32,000 random-number combinations when turned on. The players then try to guess the number."

WTF?!

"Only after you've experienced the sheer joy of slaughtering your best friend will you know the true meaning of fun."
-still true today

Looks like GTA IV will give those games a run for their money.

my dad had this game he would let us play, but would keep hidden somewhere for safe keeping... http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularEl ...

i remember playing it as a kid in the 80's. It was actually pretty fun...until Nintendo came out and brought us Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Rad Racer, and Zelda.

Fav part: "the joy of slaughtering your best friend"

This is until the hyjinx of Mr. Broderick.

Best part: the GT 5 Prologue banner under the article. Really shows how far video games have come

Wow. Just.. Wow. You needed to seriously keep your imagination in top working condition those days. Or smoke a lot of weed.

BTW, grandpa on page 5 looks like he's trying to grab a hold of Timmy's joystick.

I think I saw the Apple IIc mentioned a few comments back... one word : Zaxxon!

Remember in those days the boxes that contained the games consoles? Always had a picture of a family gathered around the TV as if it was the best night of their life teehee!