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    No one better mess with my Fairchild Channel F or F will mean f'd up! (Seriously, mom had one of these forever, it was actually fun.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gentlegamer View Post
    I think Lynx would have been a good closer.
    Yeah, you're right. The Lynx for its time was a beautiful handheld.

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    I remember around when it was going to come out or just after they did a Lynx tour of various malls like NOA used to do a couple times of year back in that period. I must have sat on one of those for an hour, and the games were decent. I never did grab it, but I really enjoyed the time on the couple games I hit, one I think was Chips Challenge, and another was some arcade like game. The screen was better than the Game Gear had, and it was comfy enough to use too, plus unique in how it could get flipped over. The problem was I was a kid on a small Nintendo and comics allowance, and then also the other games shown didn't looks so hot at that time. I didn't bother peeking a look at one again until after 95 when it was toast, and even then the amount of things I would have liked to play just wasn't there. It was nice, but it just didn't get the support that the two big fish did and might as well throw the TE in there too.

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    Emulation doesn't always cover every game console. For example, VCR-based systems like the Action Max can't really be emulated since there wasn't much to them. Also the Viewmaster Interactivision was VCR-based and so obscure that there would be no market for an emulator for a machine only remembered for its lollipop looking controller and a few VHS tapes of kid's shows that were compatible. In those cases, Youtube videos will have to suffice for anybody nostalgic for those systems.

    I just discovered there was an RCA Studio II emulator. Wow. Who would have thunk it? And who's actually playing it?

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    Now there's a concept. Hit up one of the oldest gaming forums on the internet and remind us all that these very well known consoles that are still played and enjoyed by many, many people even today need to be remembered! Because god knows none of us remember them! Or have been keeping up with all the ways that these consoles actually have been preserved, like nearly everyone that's posted in this thread previously has pointed out! IT'S A CALL TO ARMS, PEOPLE! THESE CONSOLES NEED TO BE PRESERVED NOW!!!

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    these are the console that deserve to be immortalized
    And just who died and made you the guy to decide what consoles deserve to be immortalized?

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    so post a picture of the Retro console you have.
    And that has to do with... what, exactly? Second, do you even know where you are?

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    Only Odyssey in OP might risk being forgotten. The rest mentioned are nowhere close to being at risk.

    Some that probably are more at risk of becoming forgotten:
    3DO, Action Max, Arcadia 2001, RCA Studio II, Virtual Boy, Pippin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dire 51 View Post
    Now there's a concept. Hit up one of the oldest gaming forums on the internet and remind us all that these very well known consoles that are still played and enjoyed by many, many people even today need to be remembered! Because god knows none of us remember them! Or have been keeping up with all the ways that these consoles actually have been preserved, like nearly everyone that's posted in this thread previously has pointed out! IT'S A CALL TO ARMS, PEOPLE! THESE CONSOLES NEED TO BE PRESERVED NOW!!!


    And just who died and made you the guy to decide what consoles deserve to be immortalized?


    And that has to do with... what, exactly? Second, do you even know where you are?
    The pictures are so the OP can put them on milk cartons so they don't stay lost. They'll be featured next to the missing children posters at your local retailer. Police will raid garage sales to prosecute delinquent classic console owners. This anarchy will finally be curtailed and everyone will rebuild wood panel TVs for their Odyssey overlays. PCs and Macs will at last revert to Commodore 64s and Amigas. Handhelds will all be made with monochromatic screens. At last, we will all be able to sleep, perchance to dream...

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    Quote Originally Posted by celerystalker View Post
    The pictures are so the OP can put them on milk cartons so they don't stay lost. They'll be featured next to the missing children posters at your local retailer. Police will raid garage sales to prosecute delinquent classic console owners. This anarchy will finally be curtailed and everyone will rebuild wood panel TVs for their Odyssey overlays. PCs and Macs will at last revert to Commodore 64s and Amigas. Handhelds will all be made with monochromatic screens. At last, we will all be able to sleep, perchance to dream...
    Of course! How did I not see that? It all makes sense now.

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    Things aren't all that dire thanks to the cheap consoles that pack games in with cart support available at toy stores and walgreens everywhere. Then you have all the downloadable and remastered games on live and the psn granted many kids don't know the consoles these were on or certainly not what they look like etc. but that is where we come in if they are interested you can buy them one or show them one talk to them play with them buy them some books or show them some sites. most aren't interested but that goes for most of historyyyy

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    It's depressing the high prices nowadays.
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    Got that right. Other than something I just couldn't avoid from one flea market shop a couple months back I've not bought NES/SNES stuff in over a year because I'm fed up with the abuses. I instead of sold off junk I don't have an interest in any more, pared back a few other items and decided I'd rather be a PC gamer again and got a balls to the wall big end gaming computer. I'd rather buy stuff on GoG.com and Steam than feed trolls and crooks. If I see a deal though I won't turn it down but I don't expect to see it anymore and definitely not with any consistency. This area in particular doesn't support old gaming well and it turned to the worst when Buy it Now Books (Half Price Books) decided to start pricing all their video games (loose) at the highest paid BINs or more from ebay. As there are chumps online there are less but some offline who eventually feed those bums or they wait it out for the 30-50% off coupons and clean them out when the doors open that day. They caused this formerly killer used game/movies/music shop in town here to have to match their tactics so they weren't picked clean as they used to be cheap and fair.

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    The PS4 is the BEST thing since sliced bread!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tanooki View Post
    Got that right. Other than something I just couldn't avoid from one flea market shop a couple months back I've not bought NES/SNES stuff in over a year because I'm fed up with the abuses. I instead of sold off junk I don't have an interest in any more, pared back a few other items and decided I'd rather be a PC gamer again and got a balls to the wall big end gaming computer. I'd rather buy stuff on GoG.com and Steam than feed trolls and crooks. If I see a deal though I won't turn it down but I don't expect to see it anymore and definitely not with any consistency. This area in particular doesn't support old gaming well and it turned to the worst when Buy it Now Books (Half Price Books) decided to start pricing all their video games (loose) at the highest paid BINs or more from ebay. As there are chumps online there are less but some offline who eventually feed those bums or they wait it out for the 30-50% off coupons and clean them out when the doors open that day. They caused this formerly killer used game/movies/music shop in town here to have to match their tactics so they weren't picked clean as they used to be cheap and fair.
    yup, over 60 to 100+ for some nes or snes titles, popular, like final fantasy or mega man, or not is ridiculous.
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    Sad isn't it? It's why I went into Famicom and back into grabbing up some GBA games too and then now most recently I dusted off my GoG and Steam accounts as I'm just not going to play into the trap. You can see my dwindled supply of old gaming goodies in the signature below as I've kept the best of them, and a few that are stupidly priced now I just hold onto because while I barely use them I do and won't pay $200-300 for the cart again (like Earthbound and Wild Guns.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tanooki View Post
    Sad isn't it? It's why I went into Famicom and back into grabbing up some GBA games too and then now most recently I dusted off my GoG and Steam accounts as I'm just not going to play into the trap. You can see my dwindled supply of old gaming goodies in the signature below as I've kept the best of them, and a few that are stupidly priced now I just hold onto because while I barely use them I do and won't pay $200-300 for the cart again (like Earthbound and Wild Guns.)
    side-note, led modified s/nes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by rez670 View Post
    It saddens me so very much when i here about how good the xbox one is or the ps4 or what ever i'm calling all gamers we need to preserve all the old consoles for future generations and these are the console that deserve to be immortalized: SEGA Genesis SEGA saturn SEGA dreamcast NES SNES N64 GameCube Playstation 1 PlayStation 2 XBOX Atari 2600 Magnavox Odyssey these console might very well be forgotten just because there supposedly "Obsolete" well there not we need to save these consoles in 2025 people need to be able to play these consoles cause if we dont who will so post a picture of the Retro console you have.

    Um, what the heck did I just read...?
    Im looking for Bonk for the NES. No need to pm me though, unless you would accept bits of string for tender.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zthun View Post
    The PS4 is the BEST thing since sliced bread!
    When it works.

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    Quote Originally Posted by otaku View Post
    Things aren't all that dire thanks to the cheap consoles that pack games in with cart support available at toy stores and walgreens everywhere.
    Seeing that gigantic end cap of AT Games Sega Genesis classic consoles made me sad knowing firsthand how people's ears will react to their utter rubbish sound quality.

    Seems like Sega would have wised up like SNKP and got the hell away from that.

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    Sega doesn't care. They've never cared if you look how much work they didn't put into any of their emulation packages on whatever format they creeped out. The AT Games is just the most obvious due to the off key audio, but really when they're blatantly allowing the usage of ROMS on an open SD card port they've basically given up and will take whatever they can get.

    If you want the real sad thing about it, those who buy this won't really just be those who had a system long ago, but it will be a cheap system with a crap load of games for some kids who wouldn't know any better so it'll either sound good or drive them away if it's bad enough to their own tastes.

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