number six Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I got this copy of Berzerk from a Radio Shack in 1983. For some reason I got $50.. I think one of my parents got a raise or something. Anyway this was an insane amount of money to a 7 year old in 1983. I remember asking for it all in 1s. It didn't last long because I bought this and 2600 Empire Strikes Back on the same day which blew the entire $50. Obviously I had games before this (Combat, E.T., Space Invaders, etc) but over the years I've picked up some many of those and they've gotten mixed around so much I couldn't tell you if any were my 'original' or not. I only know this is my original copy of Berzerk because at some point in the late 80s the end label fell off and I replaced it with those stick-on letters you got with a blank VHS tape. Even those have fallen off but there's enough left to identify it. So what's the oldest game you've personally owned in your collection? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Asteroids, Defender, Frogger, Missile Command, Pac-Man, & Yar's Revenge. I got them all with my 2600 Jr. for X-Mas of '86. My sister wrote our names & phone number on them so I know they are the originals. Normally that would bug me nowadays, but I have many dupes of these games that are in better condition and it's nice to be able to tell which one's are my "Original 6". Plus it's written nice and neat in girl writing in a corner. In fact I'd say they are the only games I have that have something written legibly on them; why is it when I get or see carts with names written on them, they're written in big ol' black marker and look like the person wrote it while having a stroke? It's like some kind of correlation. If you like video games AND feel the need to write your name on them, you MUST have terrible penmanship. Same goes for highscores or passwords written in manuals... I have ONE manual with passwords that are written clear and legible, Dune: The Battle for Arrakis on Genesis. I used to always fill the "notes" sections of manuals with codes and whatnot that I got from game magazines, but always clean and legible with a nice-tipped pen. But I'm rambling now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 2600 Pitfall, Pac-Man, & Eggomania, all of which I got for Christmas 1982. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Probably my copy of Super Mario World for the SNES. I traded my NES games in when I didn't have an NES any more. But then I got another one. Nothing rare, but I bought back different copies of the same game once I got my new NES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX. Long story short, all of my games from before a serious falling out were left at my parents, given to my younger siblings, and ultimately, I think, sold or trashed. My Game Boy Color was the first thing I bought after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+madman Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 It would have to be some of the later Intellivision games that I picked up with the system was dead. I think maybe Lock N Chase was one of them, got it at TRU in one of their generic boxes because the original box was gone. Aside from that, it would have to be SMB and Duck Hunt carts since I got the basic NES system with a zapper early on. My parents were smart enough to see that ROB was a POS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I've still got the Combat cart that came with our 2600, Christmas '82 For a long time, I also had a version of Mattel's handheld football. It was the 2 player one with the pass button, but that has now been lost (and it might've been newer) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegadot Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Currently, Squish Game & Watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Either Dungeons of Daggorath or Color Baseball for the Tandy CoCo. Not sure which of those I got first, but it would've been in the 1984-1985 range, I think. I also had Spidercide and Downland but lost both somewhere along the way, so my current copies are replacements. I may have a couple Atari VCS games from the family stash that are older than that -- specifically, my Air Sea Battle and River Raid might be my childhood carts -- but I've generally acquired my own copies of those and left the "originals" with my folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) I guess my Telstar Colortron (which doesn't work) is my oldest "video game" thing proper. We had this before we ever even knew what an Atari was. For games it's probably Target Fun & Space Invaders (bought at the same time) since they were the first carts I ever owned with my Sears unit. Never got rid of them. Edited May 6, 2015 by NE146 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Text label of Combat and Space Invaders when my mom and dad bought the Light Sixer Atari back in 1981. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_c Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Probably Target Fun, Space Invaders, Breakout, and Circus Atari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Not sure if it was Donkey Kong for Colecovision or the first batch of Vectrex games (whatever was available at TRU). I got both of these systems about the same time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari the Jedi Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 It was atari 5200 circa 1984 we got it used at years sale got dig dug, popeye, and pacman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Torch Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Atari Super Pong system which my uncle gave to me in '76 I believe. Still have it in the original box with warranty card. First actual game cartridge would be Combat included with my Atari in '81. First game bought would be Night Driver from Zayre on sale for 19.99. My mom bought my next two games for me at the same time at Toys R US; Flag Capture for $9.99 and Bowling for $13.99. Next was the biggie...Space Invaders which was quite expensive at the time. A stereo store in the mall called PLAYBACK put it on sale for $26.99. Over the next 5 years I ended up with 72 games (I loved the crash) and oddly enough I can remember where most came from and how much they cost. Some notable ones were Popeye at Sears for 9.99 with a $10.00 rebate and MASH at Camelot Music for $2.50 packed with a free MASH T-Shirt and I got a $5.00 rebate...free game, free shirt and $2.50 profit. Anyone else remember PLAYBACK? That was one cool, very dark and mysterious high tech place. My brother-in-law bought his Odyssey 2 there. Edited May 6, 2015 by Turbo-Torch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 The one game I kept when selling my original Atari VCS collection, in hindsight I also should have kept Boing!, Condor Attack, Wing War and Hangman grey box version. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 SMB/Duck Hunt for NES, followed by Bases Loaded 3 and a few other carts from my original childhood collection. I had a ColecoVision and a few games first but it was given away by accident, shortly after I got my brand new NES back in late 80's.. I've replaced the CV stuff later on but Nintendo is the oldest/OG stuff I still thankfully own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awhite2600 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Intellivision - Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack and Triple Action that our family purchased in 1982. The master component itself no longer works but I keep it for parts. My oldest video game related item is either my original Mattel Football handheld or the APF TV Fun (pong clone) that my family purchased. I can't remember which is older. The football game I bought at Sears with my own money. So that is the oldest videogame item that I purchased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 First games were in 1977; the pack-in Target Fun and Speedway II. When I bought the system I wanted a game that would use the paddle controllers too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamemoose Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Like a couple others, I still have my Mattel handheld football game. My oldest console game would have to be Super Mario/Duck Hunt. I put it and its manual in a plastic clamshell case and slapped a label on the end with the title scrawled in not so grand hand writing. The oldest computer game I own predates the cartridge: The Interbank Incident for the Tandy Color Computer. Original disks, gray case and manual, all in one piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Intellivision Poker & Blackjack - the Inty was my family's first console, and that was the pack-in. That Christmas I think we also got Basketball, Baseball and Horse Racing... or something like that, but I'd still consider P&BJ the first since we opened the console first. No idea what the first game I personally owned was - probably something for the Inty, although back then my brother, sister and I would pool our money to buy carts so it's kind of "joint ownership." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giltygear Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Spider-Man - 2600 Had this since I "inherited" the 2600 from my dad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82-T/A Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 PAC MAN, since it was a pack-in for the Atari VCS (woodie / 4-button) that my mom bought back in 1978 before I was born. First and oldest computer game, would have to be Starflight by Binary Systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberArcade Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I don't recall the actual dates I got these but it would have to be either The Black Cauldron on Atari ST or Hang On/Astro Warrior on the Sega Master System. I owned Vic 20 games, MSX, and Atari 2600 games back then probably before these but I don't have them anymore. Everything I got as a kid after the Master System I still have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Torch Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 PAC MAN, since it was a pack-in for the Atari VCS (woodie / 4-button) that my mom bought back in 1978 before I was born. First and oldest computer game, would have to be Starflight by Binary Systems. Pac-Man and the 4 switcher didn't exist in '78 (not even the arcade game). It was a pack in but much later in the 2600's life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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