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| gummo:
--- Quote from: oldgamerz on March 14, 2021, 05:55:56 am ---the major downside for me would be that you needed to sit by the game console itself and keep hitting the reset switch every single time you lost the game. --- End quote --- At the time that was all that was really necessary considering that the average TV screen in the late 70's was 19"-25" you were going to be sitting on the floor right next to the TV/game system anyways . Also some Atari games used the fire button as the start/reset button . |
| mastodon:
I promise you younger guys the Atari 2600 and 5600 were the shit in the early 80s. Arcades cost money. Parents thought it was a waste of quarters. So to be able to game at home was great fun. Remember there was basically nothing else. Only Caleco and Intellivision. No internet, no computers (basically). Everyone had a 2600. It had Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Nintendo's Donkey Kong, ect ect. The included game Combat had around 20 games on it. Real Sports Football was like Madden back then. Yeah its rough now, but wait 40 years from today and look at PS5 vs PS10. Which I'm sure the PS10 will just download directly to your brain by then. |
| sworddude:
While there was nothing else Gaming wise. Other hobbies exists, boardgames and reading books was a hell lot more popular back in the day. Let alone playing outside just to name some examples. Rc cars, model trains figurines building kits. allot of hobby's where allot more popular back than (allot of those examples are nearly extinct nowadays) because gaming didn't fil that void as much with how limited it was back than. Those things mentioned above are pretty much of the same quality back than as it is nowadays. so you could say those hobby's where at their peak while gaming was at it's infancy. it's only natural for allot of people to pick up something else since you only had atari, coleco and pong consoles. Not to mention The Nintendo nes saved them consoles because people got bored of Atari. Even back than the atari being almost nothing had an impact While ever since we had the nes and future generation consoles stuff kept growing instead. we didn't experience a videogame crash ever since. That gaming got bigger after each year is mainly because games became more fun when time passed by in wich people dropped those other hobby's. That's just my speculation anyway. Obviously plenty that enjoyed the new atari tech back in the day. Sure atari and some other lesser known brands where all you had back in the day, but don't forget allot of other hobby's existed aswell that where way more popular back in the day that weren't held back by limitations and where at their peak (Not much improved nowadays). |
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