Video Game Industry Embraces Retro Classics

Newhouse News ^ | 8/14/04 | Laura DeMarco

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[hole_n_one]

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Those Jakks Pacific things are the absolute coolest. The entire game system is the size of an old Atari Joystick. You can plug it into any TV set and recreate an entire 1980's Video Arcade. Back in the day, those games would have cost around $20,000 and now you can get it for $20.

[need_a_screen_name]

Pong! I've spent many drunken hours in bars playing that... LOL

[krunkygirl]

save for my son who is a heavy 'gamer' and will want to read this

[steveo]

I remember standing in a long line at the mall waiting to pay 25 cents to play a game of pong. The amazing thing is I remember.

[Cobra64]

Pac Man on my Atari computer in the late 70s.

[RadioAstronomer]

:-)

I still have a working "first edition" (without any carts or paddles) BW pong game with the controllers being two wheels on the console itself.

I collect old video games consoles

[Springman]

Does this mean my old atari 2600
and old games might be worth a few bucks?

And to think my Dad said I was wasting money when I bought them!!

[RadioAstronomer]

Depending on the game, some of those old 2600 carts can be worth major bucks. I kept my old Imsai 8080 just in case and now its quite a collector item.

[aruanan]

Video Game Industry Embraces Retro Classics

My favorite game of all time and one of the most beautiful is the Amiga game Blood Money that was ported to the Atari ST.

[TheBigB]

Boy, do I remember the video game boom of the early 80s. There were video arcades in every mall. I had an Intellivision and I don't know how many game cartrdges. You can actually still buy many of the games on disc for your computer here:

www.intellivisionlives.com

[RadioAstronomer]

My three fave games of all time were "tempest", "Banjo Kazooie", and "Final Fantasy X". :-)

[NMR Guy]

MAME

Best thing since sliced bread.

[RadioAstronomer]

and that one that breaks down the brick wall and I can't remember the name....

Breakout. :-)

[COEXERJ145]

^%$*&^#$)(%*$@ How dare you forget Q-Bert.

[gcruse]

I confess. I really, really liked Defender.

[Springman]

I'll have to check, I do have an old pac-man and Laser Blast, not sure about the rest.