Season 4 - The New HSC - Week 7 = Sky Skipper

[voodoo_chilly]

Finally ROLLAGE!

 

Edited March 8, 2015 by voodoo_chilly

[ReflectionAngle]

It's hard to stay focused during those first few levels. After 4 it's much more fun.

 

Score: 18,900

 

[adri_o]

Bonus story:

1980. My father bought a 2600 and the first games we played were Combat, Video Olympics, Casino (Black Jack) and Space War. Lots of fun for the family on Saturday nights.

I also remember Warlords (great for several players) and Dragster. Later Donkey Kong, Dark Cavern (my favourite) and Grand Prix. Great games and great memories!.

[classicgamer_27330]

6110

[+Zeptari]

4,680

 

I gave up on this one quickly.

not my cup of tea.

[Mister-VCS]

5,630

 

 

[ReflectionAngle]

My first Atari memory was Christmas morning circa 198X. Since getting back into Atari gaming a few years ago, I've often wondered what year it was. I suspect that it was sometime between 1982 and 1986 because my Atari 2600 was a hand-me-down unit from one of my older half-brothers. I suspect he had lost interest in Atari with the rest of the country during the big crash. For me, it was one of the most marvelous Christmas presents. Possibly second only to a red and chrome BMX bike (a few years later) and a train set (a few years earlier).

 

In addition to several quality used games (Berzerk, Asteroids, etc.), it came with brand new copies of Ms. Pac Man and Galaxian. These two quickly became my favorites. It's worth noting that I got Ms. Pac Man long before I ever saw Pac Man for the Atari. Needless to say, my mind exploded when I saw how bad it was compared to both the arcade and Ms. Pac Man.

[+Nathan Strum]

Not a big fan of this one. But it's pretty good for a batari Basic game.

 

What?

 

Parker Bros?

 

Really?

 

Wow. Okay.

 

14,280

 

[JacobZu7zu7]

15,070

[Wickeycolumbus]

5,600

 

 

Got my first 2600 at a garage sale around 2003. It did not come with an AC adapter or RF switch box. After weeks of waiting, I tracked them down and was very excited to try it out. I hooked everything up but there wasn't a picture. Tried out several different games, only getting snow on the screen. Then I realized I had the TV/Game switch in the wrong position. Switched it and it worked perfectly. First game I played was Jr. Pac Man.

[JacobZu7zu7]

Bonus: My Atari 2600 beginings,

Okay, first time ever seeing Atari 2600 was when my brother borrowed an Atari to play Pitfall, I remember it was probably 1984 - 86? I thought it was the coolest game, and most amazing graphics... I did play it, swining on the vine was a hoot, but I couldn't make more then one alligator jump, what a surprise... I was 5 years old.

 

The next memory was Asteroids, and E.T. at my cousins house a year or two later, and she owned Atari.. I thought it was pretty neat looking. I did like E.T. even if I was lost in a forest with no manual or idea that the game was a flop... I found the empty wells to be interesting and more so when something was in them. I like the graphics and sound effects I remember.

 

Asteroids didn't impress me a lot for whatever reason? I loved Missle Command and Frogger when I did eventually beg for a 2600, I got a Vader console from an add in the paper. I was 10 or 11 years old,... and to think that's when NES was at its peek! I still wanted retro even then before it was hip

[Spacey Invader]

Missed the deadline but have love these stories so here goes mine -- I was around when the 2600 was still in stores -- but I was busy doing better things, such as drooling and perfecting the art of surprise projectile vomit.

 

fast-forward to 1988 or 9, Weird Cousin James, as he was known, got a NES and found his 2600 unbearable, causing my parents to come home with it in a cardboard box and say "here's this. It's like Nintendo. Same thing." As far as I knew, Ninetendo was some weird piece of science fiction ungrounded in any reality that didn't involve hoverboards. I half expected an attack robot to come out of the box.

 

"Grab a cartridge," my Dad said. "What's a cartridge?"

 

What a weird question. So friends who'd moved on to NES would come over and relive the Atari days, 'cause they'd given theirs to some schmuck kid. Years later Nintendo entered the house, then Sega, but the revelation that the VCS really was better than any of them hit after my "video games are dumb" period, when a friend movedto Reno and dumped his on me. Playing a videogame in a few minutes and moving on with my day was pretty cool. If I hadn't backslid into buying it all back I guess I might have balance.

[S.BAZ]

What?

 

Parker Bros?

 

Really?

 

Wow. Okay.

 

that's what I thought too.

[CapitanClassic]

Not sure exactly when we got our first Atari 2600, but I know it was at least a year or two before the big crash of 1983. We went to Sears (back when they existed) and got the Telestar branded version. I seem to remember it coming with more than just Combat. I think it was a bundle with some paddle games (Warlords) as well as Indy 500. We had owned a Pong system, looked sort of like this German Multi Speil, that had 4 pong games and a couple of lightgun games.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Pong-Konsole-Multi-Spiel-2006-Light-Gun-70er-Jahre-TV-Game-Telespiel-/390721420962

 

We also had a video pinball game that had side flipped buttons and a really blocky playtable (I remember it being fun though). We eventually won another Atari 2600 in a fundraiser selling candybars for the school. When the crash hit, games hit rock bottom, and my parents bought well over 100 games.