Probably 1982. It was the year of ColecoVision, Vectrex, and the Atari 5200, not to mention some REALLY great arcade games. Also, the music, television, and movies were great, too.
"Whoa, check out Ladybug!"
"TEMPEST!"
Probably 1982. It was the year of ColecoVision, Vectrex, and the Atari 5200, not to mention some REALLY great arcade games. Also, the music, television, and movies were great, too.
"Whoa, check out Ladybug!"
"TEMPEST!"
I dont if its the best but 1979 was awsome. They sold aprox. 400,000 2600 units. It started what ended in teh crash of 84 to.
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I remember getting a NES a few years after it came out. My parents got it through Fingerhut. The system came with a R.O.B. and Super Mario Bros 2. I remember calling my Mom at work to tell her I finally beat the boss of level 1.1.
I also enjoyed the launch of the N64. My parent swore up and down that they couldn't get one. On Christmas I didn't want to open what was the present for all of my brothers and I .
" Why?, it isn't an N64." I said.
It was. With Mario 64 and Wave Race 64. I still don't know how my parents pulled that off! They were almost last in line on a waiting list at Wal-mart and they paid $250 for it!
Fun times, fun times!
From my point of view it was 1983, when video games had their first hey days here in Europe and I was playing them like crazy
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Early to mid 80`s here in UK
Discovering coin-op videogames for the first time,also i have fond memories of the atari 2600 (Raiders of the lost ark & Riddle of the sphinx carts were fav`s of mine).there were a lot of computers here like BBC model B & Dragon32 & Oric here too.
Also the Rivalry between kids with differant computers at high school
(1982 - 87 for me) who used to insult each other was quite amusing.
Spectrum 48k owners Vs. Commadore 64 owners usually.
But the lone kid with the Aquarius computer got insulted by everybody!
I wonder if it still happens at schools today? XBOX Vs GC Vs PS2 insults
1983
If you lived through it you know why.
If you didn't you'll never understand why.
Enough said...
1972, Magnavox Odyssey!!!!
Although I had to wait until 1998 to get my hands on one.....
As for Oobgarm's statement about the NES and technology. The NES was a step backward in those terms.
Also, the NES was of no importance in Europe (who already advanced onto STs and Amigas), unless you count that it gave 'Ultimate Play The Game' a break (although if it wasn't for the NES, they would have coded for 16bit machines instead).
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