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Nage Waza · 10-26-2010, 10:21 PM

Here is the history of my oldest systems:

My dad came home from Hong Kong with one of these (I only remember a pong like game, I was probably about 7 at the time). I don't know where it went, but it may be packed away somewhere.

He then came home from somewhere else with a vic 20! I learned to program Basic and saved to a cassette. The best game was Radar Rat Race and Money Wars. Somehow, the only cartridge I still own is Radar Rat Race. I have kept most of my cool things since I was little except I cannot find the cartridges for this system.

I forget where this came from, but even now I know it sucked. The best part of the Atari was toggling the switches to make the games do things that were not intended. I have a bunch of games in great shape, but only a handful of boxes:

My neighbor and I both got Intellivision's on the same day! Not a bad system for it's time, but was slow. I don't collect anything for this system.

The NES came from Consumer's Distributing (at Chinook!). My dad, bro and I were stuck to the NES for years. To this day, I own two of them with a bunch of games which I still collect. I own a few games that are collectors items and are worth quite a lot. My best game is a near mint sealed Metroid cartridge. I got the game years ago and didn't have to open it because I didn't have a controller that was working well at the time, late I found my original cartridge and the box collected dust.

The SNES is also a great system, I play Super Metroid annually!

I also had the Genesis, Turbo Grafix, and the rest of the systems.

10-26-2010, 10:21 PM	#106
Nage Waza Offered up a bag of cans for a custom user title Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Westside Exp:	Here is the history of my oldest systems: My dad came home from Hong Kong with one of these (I only remember a pong like game, I was probably about 7 at the time). I don't know where it went, but it may be packed away somewhere. He then came home from somewhere else with a vic 20! I learned to program Basic and saved to a cassette. The best game was Radar Rat Race and Money Wars. Somehow, the only cartridge I still own is Radar Rat Race. I have kept most of my cool things since I was little except I cannot find the cartridges for this system. I forget where this came from, but even now I know it sucked. The best part of the Atari was toggling the switches to make the games do things that were not intended. I have a bunch of games in great shape, but only a handful of boxes: My neighbor and I both got Intellivision's on the same day! Not a bad system for it's time, but was slow. I don't collect anything for this system. The NES came from Consumer's Distributing (at Chinook!). My dad, bro and I were stuck to the NES for years. To this day, I own two of them with a bunch of games which I still collect. I own a few games that are collectors items and are worth quite a lot. My best game is a near mint sealed Metroid cartridge. I got the game years ago and didn't have to open it because I didn't have a controller that was working well at the time, late I found my original cartridge and the box collected dust. The SNES is also a great system, I play Super Metroid annually! I also had the Genesis, Turbo Grafix, and the rest of the systems.