Time travel to golden age of video games?

[Video_Invader]

If you found a time travel device, say, maybe a delorean or whatever, would you go back in time to somewhere like 77 and witness the launch of the 2600 again, or maybe 1982? How many of us would say, "to hell with this time were in, i'm going back to better times"?

Edited May 27, 2013 by Video_Invader

[Osgeld]

no I would go back to the 1960's and get in on the ground floor of integrated circuits and ride the wave into the miniaturization of computers, not just watch a toy launch and say thats neat

Edited May 27, 2013 by Osgeld

[Reaperman]

If I did, I'd go back with a notebook filled with sports history, lotto numbers, and stock tips.

I doubt I'd give half a rip about video games anymore. Not when I'm using my gigabucks to build a doom fortress in the south china sea.

 

And the 70's were godawful. No way would I go back just to watch video games evolve again.

Ride a dinosaur, replace Jesus, claim every piece of classic literature as your own, get super rich--*that's* what time machines are for.

Make the whole world tremble before the might of the time-master.

 

Why go into the past, anyway? I've seen time travel movies, and you'll just end up shacking up with your grandma. Go to the future, bring something back and sell it...and while you're there pick up a sports almanac.

 

Example 'doom fortress':

Edited May 27, 2013 by Reaperman

[fiddlepaddle]

If I found a Delorean with a flux capacitor but without a Mr Fusion device attached, the first thing I'd look for is a good mechanic and make him a really good offer to stick around. After that, I'd find out where Biff is and avoid him as much as possible. Next, I'd anonymously open-source publish the design of the flux capacitor and return the car to Doc Brown or Marty if I could find an instance of either one of them. Then in a short time, probably Toyota or Tesla or somebody would offer time-travel as an option and before you know it, the march of technology would get all mixed up and this question of which console belongs to which generation would REALLY seem irrelevant and probably never come up again.

[RickR]

Hoard some 1970's currency, go back in time, pick up an Apple I, a case of NES Stadium Events, a few Nintendo World Championships, several brand new heavy sixers, and mail a letter to the kid version of myself specifying not to throw away those original boxes. Come back to present and be nerd king of Atari Age.

[+bennybingo]

no I would go back to the 1960's and get in on the ground floor of integrated circuits and ride the wave into the miniaturization of computers, not just watch a toy launch and say thats neat

while you are there, you could also capitalize on the really potent acid and all the free love you can handle!!!

[Uzumaki]

Go back in time

 

Order Air Raid, lots of them. Also pick up Rubik and SQ:Water World (lots of them)

 

Write a time delayed letter to FBI and CIA to be opened in Summer 2001 warning about the attack. Include photo from the future as proof

 

Return to future

 

Sell a case of sealed Air Raid and other rare games, retire

 

Sell individual extra as needed

[WispFollower]

It's important to know which time travel theory is correct. Pick any of a number of easy money gathering techniques- gambling might be easiest, at least for a startup budget. Find a "home base" time - safe, good medical technology, fun culture and people - and build a fortress there to relax in and store all the collectibles and artifacts. Only spend limited time in dangerous times, and find a loyal companion to be your friend and bodyguard (a good way to find one is taking future tech to the past and using it to save someone's life, preferably someone with no friends or family to miss them). Consider the possibility you may not be the only time traveler. There may be rogue individuals, our even organizations bent on stopping you. Make sure your home base time is well secured and even think about setting up safe houses in other times to store survival gear, money, medicine, weapons, or especially significant artifacts.

 

Happy traveling.

[Reaperman]

You people are just wasting your time machines on atari...

 

Become a Mayan God and demand the sacrifice of 20 virgins a day.

Hell, just start eating people. Time travelers can freaking eat all the human they want and nothing bad happens to them!

Or pork a neanderthal. That sounds like great fun. Real bucket list stuff right there.

Could Martha Washington kill Margaret Thatcher in the ring of nude chainsaw combat? Find out.

 

Rules don't matter anymore when you have a time machine.

muhahaha

 

One thing's pretty clear. When I think 'time machine,' video games are pretty far from my mind. Video games are for dorks, not

REAPERMAN, MASTER OF TIME!

Edited May 27, 2013 by Reaperman

[Video_Invader]

All great ideas! I like it.

[Chuck D. Head]

You people are just wasting your time machines on atari...

 

Become a Mayan God and demand the sacrifice of 20 virgins a day.

Hell, just start eating people. Time travelers can freaking eat all the human they want and nothing bad happens to them!

Or pork a neanderthal. That sounds like great fun. Real bucket list stuff right there.

Could Martha Washington kill Margaret Thatcher in the ring of nude chainsaw combat? Find out.

 

Rules don't matter anymore when you have a time machine.

muhahaha

 

One thing's pretty clear. When I think 'time machine,' video games are pretty far from my mind. Video games are for dorks, not

REAPERMAN, MASTER OF TIME!

 

My goodness, what a RandomTerrain-esque post!! (that's a compliment, I think)

[+bennybingo]

...Could Martha Washington kill Margaret Thatcher in the ring of nude chainsaw combat? Find out.

 

:rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling:

 

That post was hilarious!!!

[0078265317]

I'd go back. Pick up a coupler hundred air raides t handle and all and resell those and be rich.

[The Usotsuki]

I'd prolly go back and forth between different time periods. =p

[VectorGamer]

If you found a time travel device, say, maybe a delorean or whatever, would you go back in time to somewhere like 77 and witness the launch of the 2600 again, or maybe 1982? How many of us would say, "to hell with this time were in, i'm going back to better times"?

 

I would go back to 1978 and play some Space Invaders.

[+RevEng]

Why would I leave this time? I already came back in time from the iron age of video games to this paradise.

 

In my time...

• the neural interface of the PS10 installs a rootkit in your brain. If it detects you watching unauthorized Sony content it shuts down your eyes. False detections occur, though it's only once or twice a day.
  
• The OuWii console was the end of Nintendouya a few generations back. Many blamed a lack of arm-hair detail on the game characters as the reason for its failure.
  
• The Xbox 7 requires rectal DNA sampling to ensure you're the rightful owner of the game you want to play, though the upside is the joystick made a comeback.
  

Also, sharp things are outlawed in my time, and you have really nice chainsaws in this era!

[otaku]

I like where this thread ended up lol.

 

Time travel would be great I'd at least go back to the 80s but yes ideally earlier so as to get in on things early and really make a difference in history on a grand scale but also for my life (money, power etc)

[xDragonWarrior]

I would get a Wiiu and go back in time and while everybody's playing the Odyssey i can make them jealous with the Wiiu .I'd also have Menavision make me a sh*tload of Air raid cartridges and sell them for a sh*tload of money to piss people off.bring the first man on earth to the future so he can see what it's like.Bring dinosaurs from the past to see if Man can kill all of them(I'd go crazy if this was possible).

[Hatta]

Despite what's happening with modern games, now is probably the best time to be a golden age gamer. Even better than the golden age itself. Hardware is cheap, you can fit entire libraries of software in your pocket, and we know what games are crap and what games are worth playing. Any gamer, from any time greater than 10 years in the past would be giddy if he had half the stuff I have in my basement.

[oldjd]

Adherring to the Star Trek rule of not doing anything to change history,I would love to be able to go and witness,Apple computers

being "born" or Bushnell and associates with Atari,or watch little Al grow up to being owner of Atari Age...

Of course and if possible,that sports diary from back to the future would answer all my dreams

[Uzumaki]

Speaking of Apple, I'd like to buy a few Apple 1 at $666 and sell them today. If opened and working Apple 1 goes for $666,000, imagine what sealed box would go for.

[jaybird3rd]

I'd rather travel into the future, which is more scientifically plausible anyway. But after I arrive, I'll probably discover that, after years of deterioration thanks to Twitter and leetspeak, the English language of the future consists entirely of consonants, numbers, and emoticons. I'll have to get some sort of cybernetic Google implant to talk to anyone, and when I return to the present, the implant won't be able to call home anymore and I'll instantly die. So maybe traveling to the future isn't such a good idea after all.

 

If it were possible to travel to the past, I could think of any number of interesting things to do besides seeing the history of computers and video games (although those would certainly be on my list). I wouldn't want to interfere with major historical events, so I'd mostly be observing and recording: scanning the lost works of the Library of Alexandria, recording moments like Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, taking pictures of the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge in their prime, etc. That would be enough to keep me busy for quite a while.

 

For computers and video games, I'd just like to go back and be a fly on the wall during certain key moments, such as Steve Jobs's visit to Xerox PARC on the day he first saw the mouse, or simply to observe a typical day at Atari, Apple, GCC, or Mattel Electronics. And yes, I'd also be sure to visit the arcades and computer stores of the early 80s, and to obtain specimens of historically important hardware and software: an Altair and an Apple I, Windows 1.0, VisiCalc and EasyWriter, an Apple Lisa and an early Mac, and of course a good collection of games.

[Cebus Capucinis]

I love how everyone and their mom will hoard Air Raid cartridges, thus inadvertently making them entirely worthless in the present. Enjoy your $.50 per cartridge since all the time travellers brought back millions of them.

[Uzumaki]

Ok forget golden era, I'd go back a little further back. Something like 15,000 years, pick up a few live saber toothed cats, bring em today, raise them for pets. They would make better anti-burglar than the meanest pit bull or doberman.

[+bennybingo]

I would go back in time and stop this thread from happening...thus stopping Skynet from becoming self aware and ultimately saving mankind from self destruction, brought by the invasion of terminators.