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[mrkgoo]

Not really trying to bump an old thread, but seeing as it never got moved from the Off-Topic forum (and only had one reply ), I thouhgt I'd just repost it here.

My brother was recently going through some old junk , and apart from some various Game & Watch stuff, he found some of this stuff:

Algas (Bandai)

A simply LCD game, which has three stages - first stage dodge missiles, second shoot, third dodge and shoot or something. With each stage, you add another part of a robot physically to the hand held unit, so the whole thing builds into a giant robot:

Two-player Space Laser Fight (Bambino)
Two player LED game

BlasterGame (Shinsei)
Our one's in Japanese. LED space invader type game.

Digital Derby (Tomy)
This things is neat...it's powered by a motor, which pulls these ribbons which have pictures of cars on it. One ribbon travels faster than the other. AS you change gears with the lever, the 'speed' the ribbons are pulled changes. You steer by the steering wheel, which moves a clear plastic tab with you rcar on it. If your car hits a ribbon car(must be sensors under the ribbon), loud flashes underneath simulate a crash. Try to get the counter as high as possible before time runs out. The start button is awesome..you push it to start the motor, and hold it until it continues on its own.

Anyone have cool stuff like these? How much are they worht now, if they're still (mostly) working? BTW, all these games are battery powered too. I googled the images from www.handheldmuseum.com.

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

I used to have that Digital Derby handheld. Bought it from the local Drug Store with my allowance back in the early 80's. Now that I think about it, I'm not exactly sure why they were carrying videogames but I guess that's just the way things were way back when. Digital Derby sucked ass btw. Even by the relatively low standards of the time.

 

[MetalAlien]

I use to have the race car thingy too, I remember I quite enjoyed that. I used to have a Q-bert watch that was very cool, but while I was in 6th grade I believe, some other kid thought it was cool too and it disappeared shortly there after. I seem to remember having a mini donkeykong (maybe it was pac man) arcade machine, about 9 inches high or something. I think Gizmo plays one in Gremlins.

 

[wobedraggled]

I had Digital Derby as well, I would kill for that Algas though

Heck I still have a Vectrex

 

[Fuzzy]

I also had the Digital Derby.
In fact, it might be in a box in the shed.

 

[drohne]

this was my first videogame.

i probably still have it somewhere.

 

[MetalAlien]

I had Digital Derby as well, I would kill for that Algas though

Heck I still have a Vectrex

Now Vertex, that's something worth owning. You are lucky.

 

[belgurdo]

I had a Digital Derby, although I didn't know how to play it when I was a kid :\

 

[DJ_Tet]

I loved Derby Digital, the start button was a cool touch that I had forgotten about. Of course, I never had one, but I always had a fun time when I got to play it.

Cool topic, here are some of the things I played with as a child:

Everyone had that. I didn't, I had a cheap knockoff version.

I couldn't play it for shit, but cool to see the actual unit again.

My parents had this, had no idea what it was called, but apparently people wanted to play Backgammon with Omar Shariff. Go figure, must have been popular because there are versions up to Omar IV lol

Who knew GAF made videogames back in the day? Here's a pic for all you noobs who thought GAF started with the internet

Where's George Lucas?

Of course, THESE things were fun back in the day. I had a few of them, the whole playfield is in water, and you have a push button that sprays air to move the floating objects. I had a basketball one for two players, it was pretty damn cool, one button on each side trying to get the ball to the other side and threw the hoop to score. It was surprisingly hard to find pics of these games, but here's a Pac Man one on Ebay.

 

[Barnimal]

OMAR? :lol

 

[belgurdo]

OMAR? :lol

I always wanted one of these things after I saw one in a book, but even in 1993 they were impossible to find

 

[Barnimal]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4315&item=8189865421&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

more

 

[Lemming_JRS]

Y'all will love this book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-1271091-5635069?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

It's filled with huge color photos of hundreds of old hand-held games. Bandai, Nintendo, Epoch, Entex, Bambino, etc. Good stuff.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

i found those MsPacman and Frogger miniarcade machines at a garage sale like 6 years ago for $5 a piece. They aren't very fun to play at all, but still cool to have. I'll have to dig 'em out of the garage one of these days.

 

[DJ_Tet]

How sad that isamu's Mario Kart joke pic topic got twice as many replies as this thread.


DON'T MAKE ME POST MORE OMAR!

 

[heavy liquid]

Microvision was my first videogame system:

I also had this cool Scramble game:

 

[8bit]

 

[DJ_Tet]

I found a game I had that I didn't remember I had :lol

Atari's first (and only released) handheld game. This is a handheld version of Atari's Touch Me arcade game (which was released in 1974), and it's the game that Milton Bradley got the idea for Simon from (it's the exact same game, just bigger). See the Atari Museum for more information about this and the arcade version of Touch Me.


This thing was cool. I left it outside and it rusted
Notice that Nintendo obviously stole the touching theme from DS from Atari.

 

[mrkgoo]

I found a game I had that I didn't remember I had :lol

Atari's first (and only released) handheld game. This is a handheld version of Atari's Touch Me arcade game (which was released in 1974), and it's the game that Milton Bradley got the idea for Simon from (it's the exact same game, just bigger). See the Atari Museum for more information about this and the arcade version of Touch Me.


This thing was cool. I left it outside and it rusted
Notice that Nintendo obviously stole the touching theme from DS from Atari.

That's pretty cool.

How many of these old devices are actually still fun to play? I played the Bambino I posted, with my brother earlier, and we were yelling at each other as if it were some FPS deathmathc. Ah, good times.

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

This is still fun, or at least for me it is. I remember taking long car rides with my parents down the Oregon coast and sitting in the back seat playing this thing. It doesn't play anything like football but I still had a blast with it.

 

[MickeyPhree]

Hey, it ruled back when I was six.

 

[accord 4 me]

Hey, it ruled back when I was six.

that would still rule if i had some that were working. i had like 7 or 8 different ones like that. those were awesome

 

[DDayton]

I have the Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Frogger stand-alone "mini-cabinet" games.

They are actually very detailed for LCD games... with multiple playfields! I was surprised when I tried one out once, as you actually got a decent variety of gameplay.

I had a weird Galaga/Space Invaders clone in a "mini-cabinet" once... not sure where that ended up.

 

[DJ_Tet]

I agree, that Double Dragon game was fun.

The Touch Me game I had would still be fun, it had cool sound effects to help you remember the color scheme, and it sped up like Simple Simon and all that.

I wrote the owner of that site asking for help identifying the few games I remember I had but couldn't find, hopefully he'll be able to help.

 

[Gek54]

Damn, I still have this...I remember grabbing it at a garage sale when I was 3.

 

[Mermandala]

Played this a lot but it was no Pitfall. consoles>portables is eternal.

 

[Stinkles]

I still have fond memories of playing this:

Oh come on. It's just jokes.

 

[belgurdo]

that would still rule if i had some that were working. i had like 7 or 8 different ones like that. those were awesome

I had many of the big Konami ones (mostly Ninja Turtles games)...God, I wish I knew what I did with them