View Full Version : Post a pic of you as a kid playing a retro system!
aaron7
03-09-2010, 03:32 PM
Wait... what the hell? WHY is there a snowshovel in that pic? I'm going to have to ask my parents on that one.
And figured someone else had that robot. Far as I remember it broke pretty soon after lol
gamegirl79
03-09-2010, 05:49 PM
Awesome pics, guys!
I had that robot when I was a kid too. I forget the name of it but I remember it was able to throw a ball with one of its arms.
Howie6925
03-09-2010, 05:51 PM
Is there some kind of animal sleeping in the entertainment center?
i thought the same thing, it looks like a hippo.
Greg2600
03-09-2010, 05:53 PM
Old Thread
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124843
Berserker
03-09-2010, 05:59 PM
Thanks Greg. Merged!
UnpluggedClone
03-09-2010, 09:41 PM
Google 4 Gaga
UnpluggedClone
03-09-2010, 09:46 PM
No Way DIGI!
kupomogli
03-09-2010, 10:14 PM
I have no pictures of me as a kid. Never liked getting pictures taken but I do remember my mom one time took a picture of me playing Astyanax on the NES when I first got it.
mezrabad
03-09-2010, 10:41 PM
I'm the one on the left. The "old guy" is my dad. It was Christmas of 1976, I think. Dig our shirts. They were groovy.
ShinobiMan
03-10-2010, 12:45 AM
Well I don't have a picture, but here is a video of what is perhaps my first exposure to video games.
http://vimeo.com/10053676
The year was 1989, I was 3 years old and ready to embrace gaming full on. Just look at how mesmerized I am watching my cousin play Nintendo!
Oldskool
03-10-2010, 03:02 AM
Awesome Shinobi.
Flack
03-10-2010, 01:36 PM
http://www.robohara.com/pix/junk/commodork.jpg
scottw182
03-10-2010, 02:18 PM
Sadly, I don't think I have any pictures of me playing games as a kid. The only video game pictures I remember ever being taken were after I beat a game my dad would take pics of the ending screens. Wish I had some of me actually playing :(
Daveald
03-11-2010, 06:31 AM
Cool pics...DAMN TurboGenesis had these setups in 1992. SNES...Genesis and and.. TurboGrafx16 with the CD player wow...
BetaWolf47
03-11-2010, 12:36 PM
Xmas 1991:
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/78/l_f91e1e34fdea4b28b7b209e2b3fa0dcd.jpg
That robot looks like Pepperauchau.
http://image4.play-asia.com/350/PA.49181.001.jpg
emceelokey
03-11-2010, 09:55 PM
Still looking for a gaming pic, but here's one for now in my old room around 1981. Recognize any toys?
http://a530.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/1/l_e13a5b91c22db1c2a5903894666984a1.jpg
Dude, that turntable is awesome!
gumbyandpals
03-11-2010, 10:19 PM
Flack, I love the outfit and the look on your face. Straight up badass.
emceelokey
03-11-2010, 10:52 PM
You can't see what I'm playing but if you're an old school expert, you'll notice the ear plugs that came with the original GameBoy.
Pantechnicon
03-11-2010, 11:20 PM
The best I can do for now is a picture of me in my Marine Corps days playing one of those newfangled Nintendo Game Boys (approximately March 1990).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/pzcortez/pzc_usmc_gb_1989.jpg
I can probably find something older than this but I'll have to dig through my parents' scrapbooks.
UnpluggedClone
03-19-2010, 07:33 PM
No Way DIGI!
Damaramu
03-19-2010, 07:41 PM
^^ That's a great pic. Looks like something out of a catalog....
1983 Not sure what game it is.
http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac104/Alpinex2/kid.jpg
I'm extremely curious. It's shaped like Tron but the color is different. Is that yellow thing on the floor a Speak-And-Spell?
UnpluggedClone
03-20-2010, 04:43 AM
Google 4 Gaga
UnpluggedClone
03-20-2010, 04:53 AM
No Way DIGI!
UnpluggedClone
03-20-2010, 05:02 AM
No Way DIGI!
Thrillo
03-20-2010, 06:06 AM
Hey is my close friend Tony and my cousin Michael, they are playing Super Nintendo, notice what is on top of it though? Ahem, let's just say my freind Tony is looking through a box of Supernes titles lol!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/3031751232_850d6e64e1_o.jpg
Two years too late, but I'm pretty sure that's a Super UFO Pro 7...dirty lil' pirate ;)
I know what it is since I have one too; a pretty feature-filled and solid copier...
Ryaan1234
03-20-2010, 11:37 AM
I'm extremely curious. It's shaped like Tron but the color is different. Is that yellow thing on the floor a Speak-And-Spell?
Yes it is, i still have my talking teacher and my fisher-price tape player.
(wrong answer buzzer sound)
Ooooh, I'm sorry. The correct answer is "Speak & Read" (http://datamath.org/Speech/SpeaknRead.htm), basically the Speak & Spell's little brother.
Don't feel bad. It's hard to differentiate the two, just remember that the Speak & Spell is orange, the Speak & Read is yellow, and the Speak & Math is grey. They're all awesome toys nontheless.
As for your tabletop game, I've been trying to figure out what it is. I can tell that it's a VFD tabletop game, with a 2 word title. If you want to try to find out what it is for yourself I'd suggest looking here (http://www.handheldmuseum.com/). I'd say just from the style of the game it could be Tandy, Entex, Epoch, Tomy, or perhaps Bandai. I'm not saying that it isn't made by another company, but it's most likely by one of the ones I've suggested.
baraka
03-20-2010, 12:03 PM
Damn, I remember having a photo of me and a friend in front of the TV where we had just beaten Sonic 2 on the MegaDrive. We were so proud and my mom had to take a picture of us! Been searching through bunches of old pictures, loose ones as well as ones in books but cant find the damn picture anywhere :(
Slate
03-20-2010, 04:01 PM
Well I'm not sure just how many pictures I have of playing games as a kid, I know there's a few of me opening my Gameboy Advance in 2002 though. Oh and these are some great pictures, The one from 1976 is great. And Overbite, That pic screams 80s and looks like its from Bill And Ted's Adventure or something. I agree, That picture is good enough to have been in Nintendo Power.
shertz
03-20-2010, 04:04 PM
oops... double post. please delete.
bacteria
03-20-2010, 06:05 PM
I have a pic somewhere, taken c. 1981/2 I think it was when I got a high score in AstroSmash on the Intellivision, not sure where the pic is now!
UnpluggedClone
03-20-2010, 07:43 PM
Google 4 Gaga
UnpluggedClone
03-20-2010, 08:13 PM
No Way DIGI!
ReTrO-pLaYeR
03-20-2010, 08:31 PM
I have lots of old, blurry videos of me playing PSX games as a kid but there's one from Chuck E Cheese's in St.Charles when I opened my PSX for my fifth birthday party there. I'll find it and upload it onto youtube when I can. I was born in 1996 so I don't have any from the more classical systems like NES, so this is the best I could do. T.T
Leo_A
03-20-2010, 08:54 PM
1983 Not sure what game it is.
http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac104/Alpinex2/kid.jpg
I had something that looked just like what you were playing with. Seemed like it was some Space Invaders style game and I have no clue what happened to it or exactly what it was (I'd love to acquire one).
1983 Not sure what game it is.
http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac104/Alpinex2/kid.jpg
As for your tabletop game, I've been trying to figure out what it is. I can tell that it's a VFD tabletop game, with a 2 word title. If you want to try to find out what it is for yourself I'd suggest looking here (http://www.handheldmuseum.com/). I'd say just from the style of the game it could be Tandy, Entex, Epoch, Tomy, or perhaps Bandai. I'm not saying that it isn't made by another company, but it's most likely by one of the ones I've suggested.
Yep, it's Astro Thunder (http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tandy/AstroThunder.htm) by Tandy! Could be a different variation, but it's the same game.
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tandy/Tandy-AstroThunder.jpg
SamuraiSmurfette
03-24-2010, 10:14 PM
I don't think my parents ever took pics of me playing videogames. They were never that excited that it interested me.
But I do have THIS lovely piece of technology, from 1983
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/SamuraiSmurfette/004-1.jpg
it fits much better now!
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/SamuraiSmurfette/headset.jpg
Well I don't have a picture, but here is a video of what is perhaps my first exposure to video games.
http://vimeo.com/10053676
The year was 1989, I was 3 years old and ready to embrace gaming full on. Just look at how mesmerized I am watching my cousin play Nintendo!
Why does your family have no furniture?
SamuraiSmurfette
11-14-2010, 02:37 PM
Update: OH MY GOD
Today, I went over to my parents' place when they weren't home to sneak through their photo albums in order to make them a calendar for christmas.
I wasn't prepared to find this.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/SamuraiSmurfette/0012.jpg
Me, in January of 1996, playing X-Men on the Genny. LMFAO
aaron7
11-14-2010, 03:13 PM
oh man that's great! and i hope you still have that shirt!! haha
rgw825
11-14-2010, 10:51 PM
I would have no idea if there any pics of me actually playing a system. My Mother has all the pictures up in Michigan and i'm in Tennessee. But i was lucky enough for her to send me these two pics.
First one is Christmas of 83, Second is Christmas of 84
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4064/img0002yo.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/3251/imgpa.jpg
videogames4trade.com
11-15-2010, 02:12 AM
Pete, from that picture, I can tell you are a badass...
Is that a fisher stereo?
ShinobiMan
11-15-2010, 11:16 AM
Well I don't have a picture, but here is a video of what is perhaps my first exposure to video games.
http://vimeo.com/10053676
The year was 1989, I was 3 years old and ready to embrace gaming full on. Just look at how mesmerized I am watching my cousin play Nintendo!
Why does your family have no furniture?
You know, I never really thought about it. That was my Aunt's house and my memory of it is fuzzy. If I remember correctly, that room was designated "The Game Room", so it was an "anything goes" scenario.
If anybody hasn't seen the video it's pretty cool. 80's haircuts and Nintendo. Ghosts & Goblins and Super Mario. Can't go wrong.
http://vimeo.com/10053676
buzz_n64
11-15-2010, 11:43 AM
I don't have any pictures of me actually playing video games as a kid, but I do have one where I received the NES for Christmas. I think it was 1989.
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/150/l_a0fd28d65b5947b78c245ea6642b7541.jpg
diskoboy
11-15-2010, 02:32 PM
My 7th bithday party at a local arcade in November of 1981 playing a factory fresh Pac-Man machine. The girl standing next to me is my sisters friend. My mom is playing the Lightning pinball machine in the back.
I have alot more from this party, I just need to scan them.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs277.ash1/20480_1216426336354_1399726699_30613516_8377924_n. jpg
Looking at this photo is kinda funny - back then, I could barely reach the contol panel. Nowadays, I'm about an inch taller than an actual machine!
diskoboy
11-16-2010, 01:11 AM
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4064/img0002yo.jpg
Dude! That's A Farrel's Ice Cream Parlor Hat!!!
God dammit, I miss the 80's. At least you California folks still have one - lucky bastards...
KingCobra
11-16-2010, 01:25 AM
Very cool thread, good times :)
I see if I dig up an old pic of me playing pong in a Star wars T-shirt back in 77' 78ish. If it's still around?
rgw825
11-16-2010, 08:04 AM
Dude! That's A Farrel's Ice Cream Parlor Hat!!!
God dammit, I miss the 80's. At least you California folks still have one - lucky bastards...
Oh yes Farrel's. We went there a few times for my birthday when i was a kid. I remember they would come out banging this giant drum and sing happy birthday to you. A very unique experience. As i recall they also had a couple arcade games off to the side. Just a couple.
I have this fond memory of getting my first Kazoo there. lol (just a cheap 2 cent plastic kazoo they sold in the gift shop), but i thought it was so cool. I guess it didn't take much to entertain me. ROFL
Too bad they shut it down.
diskoboy
11-16-2010, 02:56 PM
Oh yes Farrel's. We went there a few times for my birthday when i was a kid. I remember they would come out banging this giant drum and sing happy birthday to you. A very unique experience. As i recall they also had a couple arcade games off to the side. Just a couple.
I have this fond memory of getting my first Kazoo there. lol (just a cheap 2 cent plastic kazoo they sold in the gift shop), but i thought it was so cool. I guess it didn't take much to entertain me. ROFL
Too bad they shut it down.
I have very fond memories of going to the one in Birmingham, AL. before it closed in 1983. One time we went, our family split one of those buckets of ice cream they had (the trough? I forgot the names...But it was HUGE!!), I played Pac-Man or Centipede when I wasn't browsing through the candy store. Then we all went to see The Cannonball Run. As a kid, I loved when someone had a birthday and they would all come out singing, ringing bells, and beating that giant drum - then trailing behind them was a giant tub of Ice Cream with sparklers as candles. The kids loved it! The adults, on the other hand....
They need to hurry up and open a new store on the east coast, where they are dearly missed! :)
Collector_Gaming
11-16-2010, 03:23 PM
awww man you guys had the best experiences :(
all i had was twistee treat ice cream in fort myers florida when i was a kid. which was a ice cream shop in the shape of a giant ice cream!
on a side note about the kazoo. I too was easily amused by simple cheap toys and stuff too. When i was a kid when i went to go get my hair cut. If i was good at the end i could take my hair and they had this machine where you toss in a lil bit of hair it would dispense candy or a toy or something! it was crazy :o
oh and i sadly don't have a photo of me playing games when i was little :(
rimsky82
11-17-2010, 11:11 PM
We have a Twistee Treat in Clyde OH to this day. And it's a small brown ice cream cone shaped building. I had no clue it was a chain.
My oldest brother received an Atari 2600 for Christmas, and his grades went down, so my parents threw it out. Thus began a long dry spell of no video games for many years until I finally got a gameboy for Christmas when I was 10 or so, in '92 or '93. I was obsessed with games, but couldn't get my hands on them unless I went to a friends or neighbors.
Thus, I don't remember having any pics of myself playing games, but it's also why I'm such a big collector now. My kids have video games everywhere. Amazing what happens when you suppress a kid's interests.
Casati
11-21-2010, 02:37 AM
Hmm. I was 15 when we got an Atari 2600, but my parents didn't take any photos of it. And I was 24 when I got the NES and Genesis but no photos taken then either. There may possibly be a photo somewhere of me playing Pong at age 12.
Collector_Gaming
04-23-2011, 11:01 PM
i don't have a photo of me playing video games (i am looking through old family photos)
But.... i did find a photo of the atari my uncle had when he in his teens
and wouldn't you know he had a Vader Atari
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd158/car_show_fan/carshows2/VaderAtari2600.jpg
i would say this photo was 1985
Still have that TV set (from JC Penny bitches! :ass:)
and ironically... i have a wood grain atari hooked up to it right now
OldSchoolGamer
04-24-2011, 06:13 PM
i don't have a photo of me playing video games (i am looking through old family photos)
But.... i did find a photo of the atari my uncle had when he in his teens
and wouldn't you know he had a Vader Atari
i would say this photo was 1985
Still have that TV set (from JC Penny bitches! :ass:)
and ironically... i have a wood grain atari hooked up to it right now
HA nice to hear great traditions continue!