Stuff you owned from 1970s - 1985

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Even though Id love to say I owned arcade games back then, I didnt. But here are some of the stuff I owned as a kid:

Coleco / Telegames Pongs (with and without guns)
Odyssey 2
Atari 2600
Colecovision (all the expansions including Adam)

Also

Commodore 64 (tape drive then disk drive)
Apple II plus
Apple IIc
Apple IIe

as well as:
Mini game consoles (pacman and donkey kong)
Several different game watches
hand held games

Jon
 
Sears Pong game w/sliders
Odessy
Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Vectrex
Intellivision
Colecovision
Nintendo
sega 16

Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Amiga 500
 
Owned and still have:

IBM 5051 PC
- Coupler Modem
- Printer
- 10MB MFM HD
- 1st series Color Monitor
- Dos, Lotus 123, Harvard Graphics in fabric boxes
- Defender of the crown, Adventures in Math, Bruce Jenners Decathalon, Ninja, Transylvania, The Hobbit.

Atari heavy 6
(Actual games from my childhood, not ones I've purchased later)
- SI, Pac Man, Defender, Yars Revenge, Asteroids, Golf (god what a terrible game).

Nintendo Game and Watch (DK)
Nelsonic Pac Watch
Fire Away EM hand held game
Wizard
Simon
 
Commodore VIC-20
Atari VCS/2600 with 15 or 20 cartriges.
Commodore 128 (most often used in C64 mode) with a 300 baud (later 1200 baud) modem, a Blue Chip (1541 clone) 5 1/4" drive, and later a 1581 3 1/2" drive, and an obscene quantity of pirated games.
 
A diaper.
A bottle.
Some kind of toy cart that I pushed around and made noises.

=)

Pretty sure my dad had an Atari 2600 by 1985. I grew up playing it often...
 
Intellivision (one of the coolest games was Ice Trek, still have everything)
Digital Derby game by Tomy
TRS-80 with 5.25" hard drive
Shogun Warriors with weapons and ships
Evel Knievel SSP bike with rip cord
Six Million Dollar Man doll with lab
Rubik's Cube
Stratego
Casio Musical Calculator
Magical Musical Thing (still got it)

Just tell me when to stop :D
 
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...

Heh.. No need to stop!
To me the early 80s were magic and I remember the excitement in the air about all this.
I had a subscription to Electronic Games and basically hung out in the arcade 2-3 times a week. I use to hang out at a Putt Putt golf n games with a huge arcade in 1980-1981 then from 1982-1983/1984 I lived in Incline Village/Lake Tahoe and hung out at the huge Circus Circus arcade in Reno.

Jon
 
Pong clone free with Philips TV
Atari 2600
Colecovision (stil have it)
Atari 800 ( I miss you :(
Atari ST right at launch 1985
Several early game and watch/table top thingie's

MSX and Sinclair Spectrum where the most popular around me in the early 80's but I never owned one .
I did own an Commodore C64 and Amiga at some time but that was after 1985.
 
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Intellivision
SW stuff, incl AT-AT, but for some reason I really liked the Micro Collection stuff
Hot Wheels
and here's one I remembered recently and found pictures of online..they pop up on Ebay -

Mighty Men and Monster Maker - you picked a lower, upper torso, and head from a bunch of plates..basically made combinations of comic type characters and did a rubbing. I doubt kids these days would enjoy it like I did. I don't think I have mine anymore, but here are some pics I found:

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Even though Id love to say I owned arcade games back then, I didnt. But here are some of the stuff I owned as a kid:

Coleco / Telegames Pongs (with and without guns)
Odyssey 2
Atari 2600
Colecovision (all the expansions including Adam)

Also

Commodore 64 (tape drive then disk drive)
Apple II plus
Apple IIc
Apple IIe

as well as:
Mini game consoles (pacman and donkey kong)
Several different game watches
hand held games

Jon

jON: Do you still have of this stuff? I agree it was fun age and the evolution of the machines, accessories, the games, at home and at the arcade was the dueling attractions for most of us.

-Dave
 
Cool list, bro.

My favs':

Mattel Aquarius Computer (my first)
Atari 800XL with Indus GT floppy drive plus XM301 - I was co-sysop of the "web" BBS in suburban Chicago. I was "Johnny Be Bad". :)
Brand-X Weirdo Skate Deck with Gullwing trucks. Decked out with tail guards, side-rails, etc.
Redline BMX bike with freestyle mods
Atari 2600
Pong System
Donkey Kong JR. Coleco Mini-Cabinet - the best of all of those little games
Game and Watches
Sony Walkman
Sony Discman

I think that's about it. My life was video games, skate boarding, and BMX bikes back then. 7-11 was our #1 destination. These days I'm still about video games and skate on my long board often. :)
 
I had just started collecting arcade games by 85. So I would have had food fight, space duel cocktail for sure. Probably a few others.

Before 85, I was collecting:
2600
5200
atari 8bit (800, 600xl, 800xl 1200xl, 130xe, xegs, 810 &1050 happy, indus gt, xf1551, 830, 850, 1030, ect)
atari ST (I bought early 520st that loaded operating system, 1040 st, meg 2 st, 4096ste, mega ste)
c64
amiga (1000, 2000)
intellivison
intv computer
colecovision
coleco adam
vectrex
fairchild
apf mp1000
bally astrocade
mattel aquarius
odyssey
pong
video music
stunt cycle
telstar
plus I was grabbing any handhelds I could find.
 
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Ooooohhh, the Indus GT drive was the one we gazed at in the ads in US Atari magazines.....they were never imported here and we could only dream of them with their sexy track indicator ( which was rather pointless of course, but that didn't matter it was sexy) and it looked SO stylish compared to the 1050.....


Anyway my list:

Audio Sonic pong clone

Atari 2600 (which is still waiting for me to take it away from my parent's attic one day....I know I stole one of the joystick connectors for some electronics experiment when I considered the machine to be "old and worthless"....

Atari 600 XL with 1010 cassette recorder, later I added the 1064 Ram module, 1050 disk drive and even a 810 interface (when they got dumped for low prices) to hook up a C.Itoh matrix printer :)
The 600 XL was replaced by the 130XE of course and later the

Atari 1040 STfm. For this I built a kit from an electronics magazine which allowed you to hook up an "OMTI" PC Harddisk controller which worked great. Through it's special encoding (RLL instead of MFM IIRC) it even gave you 50% more HD space for free. I managed to somehow get a cheap Rodime (IIRC) HD which gave me a whopping 15 Megabytes....I thought I'd never needed more......

Later I bout the regular ST harddisk in the "MEGA" case, which was nice because with some simple hacking it allowed a second drive to be installed. Still later I built everything in a huge "server" towercase, including SCSI harddisk and one of those ultra cool Syquest removable harddisk drives on which you could put 44 Mb on an exchangeable cartdrige....I still have that tower but havent powered it up for at least 15 years....

Still have a couple of 130XEs, and later I bought an Atari 800 PAL version, which are pretty rare and an almost NIB XEGS system.

Of all the machines I owned I love the Atari 8 bits machines the most. They taught me all the basic things to know about computing and they were the best 8 bits machines of their era.
 
Late 70's:
Atari Video Pinball console
Atari Stunt Cycle console
Atari 2600
Williams Swinger pinball
Williams Winner pinball

80's:
Bally Captain Fantastic pinball (plus ten others we sold off)
Williams Joust
Williams Stargate
Crazy Kong (dedicated bootleg)
Atari Tempest
Apple //e (w/ Novation Applecat // modem!!)
Atari 800
Apple //c
Amiga 1000

Tons of other stuff I forgot that is still in my attic...


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had a couple apple II's, but really loved my stretch armstrong and evil knievel on the wind up stunt cycle. I could make him fly. sea monkey's were fun too, at least until they got fed to the fish. I also had an original x wing and tie fighter toy, the one where the wings pop off...I miss that toy.
 
Most of the items were mentioned. Mostly Star Wars toys back then.

Mattel Aquarius: I thought I was the only one that had one of those!
TI-99 4A is another I had that wasn't mentioned - still one of my favorites and still collecting programs and carts for it to this day.
 
Most of the items were mentioned. Mostly Star Wars toys back then.

Mattel Aquarius: I thought I was the only one that had one of those!
TI-99 4A is another I had that wasn't mentioned - still one of my favorites and still collecting programs and carts for it to this day.


Forgot about aqaurius. I had one of those too. Also have the INTV computer and a coleco adam.
 
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