old games console?
 

just been having a conversation with someone about old games consoles we had when we where young


does anyone have a clue what sort of console this person is describing?

had one of those very early game machines with the football ,tennis

Shaz says:
amiga?
Shaz says:
or a commodore?

before them

Shaz says:
lol i thought the amiga was the first one

it was black and white on the tv, just a white bar going up and down the screen
Shaz says:
yeah i know which game you mean but i cant think which games console it would have been

it had a big knob to change the programme
Shaz says:
that was a joystick
no it was a big switch thing

it had football , tennis ,skeet , squash that i can remember . skeet, you had a gun to shoot at the screen



anyone any ideas? cos i'm stumped

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I had something like that - did you have to plug it into the TV. I think it was orange and had cartridges that you put into a slot in the top. Played tennis mostly - basically two square paddles and a square ball.

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i dont know Gayle i'll ask him

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Was it an Atari games console?

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going back to the 70's i think it was, there were quite a few like this

I seem to remember my brother having something similar to this

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...nimex_t338.jpg

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ah it could well have been one of those, i'd forgotton about that

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thats the thing

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its not that one, he says lol

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Sorry, think it was this one...........

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...iva_t-800c.jpg

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i give up

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It had a big switch in the middle of the console

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tell him to check here

http://www.old-computers.com

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flashy who said a red knob ??

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no EMZY , not one of those sorry

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ok sorry, you said a big knob to change the programme


bite me ;)

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this one???

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...scoreboard.jpg

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what colour was it?

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Gayle was very near to what it was It had paddles

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Emzy..... that looks like something medical!

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Ive never know one to be used for something medical, but each to their own i guess

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the console was black i think

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not the last one i put up then?

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aahhhhh no but it did have some orange switches on it

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i give up lol check on that link and see if you can find it :D

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thanks for your help

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I tried, and failed :(

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mick may remember what it was

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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...-sports_2s.jpgNot for giving up yet lol

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oooooooohhhhhh I had one of those. There was football, tennis and double tennis on it.

You had a controller each and it plugged into your telly. You put batteries into the console and had a round controller each.

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bringing back memories for you????

We never had batteries for ours lol

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It was a binotone if I remember rightly

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i had a tv game it had 10 games - 8 different ones 2 were practice ones, it had tennis, squash, target practice - where you had to press the button when it hit dead centre otherwise you missed, football, and i cant remember the rest - i got it one year for xmas and i only chucked it out 2 years ago... even though the batteries had leaked in it and wouldnt work. Forgotten what it was called though.

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lol how good did those consoles seem at the time
and spectrum sinclairs - did anyone have the athletic game where you had to press two keys alternately to run really fast ? hah ha it used to drive my dad nuts

"whats that bloody noise?"
"im running dad i'm runnin"
"well run a bit bl***y quieter then will you "
ee those were the days

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*LOL* keetah i had one of them!!!

and u used to get cramp from doing it so fast

and u still wud lose :(

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Oh yes, i remember them too. Having to wait for what seemed like an eternity for you games to load whilst watching a multicoloured screen and listening to strange noises lol

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i thought it may have been this, because he mentioned a gun

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but he said it took 6 huge batteries, so i dont think its that

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No it sounds similar to the "pong" consoles that I was posting to, they all took batteries but I just couldnt find the right one :(

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it has to be one of these....MICKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!

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The one I was talking about was very similar to this but I seem to remember it as being mostly orange - may be my mind's playing tricks with me and they were just orange buttons! lol

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We had the one I am sure you had Gayle .. the unit was completely orange. Think Forceten may have got it; 'Binatone' definitely rings a bell.

Just loved the 'Ping' as you hit the target (no not 'Pong' LOL). Was just about my level.

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that is the thing Emzy , thankyou .

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Woohoo! Got there in the end

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This is it!

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young children would laugh at these consoles . But these were the fore runners of the playstations...

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yeah you are right Dave, you should try having a go on some of the games Reece plays on his ps2, i havent got a clue about them ;)

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in like 20 yrs the kids of this day and age will be saying god do u remember how primitive the ps3 was - i remember i actually had to use a controller!

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funny you should say that Mani, have you seen the new cerebral controllers that are coming out?

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I loved playing on my old binatone game. I used to play myself :D