what games $20

[mark]

What games did you own when the 2600 came out? You know when games were commanding $20+ dollars in stores? Do you still own those games?

[sku_u]

Off the top of my head:

 

Night Driver

Combat

Circus Atari

Surround

Bowling

Air Sea Battle

Breakout

Space war

 

My mind's a little fuzzy as that was nearly 26 years ago, but I'm pretty sure that those were the first titles I owned. Some may have come to me later than 1977-78.

[cvga]

The first games I owned were:

 

Combat

Breakout

Basketball

StreetRacer

SpaceWar

[Krytol]

Combat

Space Invaders

Adventure

Tennis

Pitfall

Air Sea Battle

Asteroids

Pac-Man

Missile Command

Barnstorming

Sky Diver

?

 

No, I don't have the original carts now, but I have since replaced them.

[Godzilla]

I still own almost all my original 2600 games. I traded off a complete kid vid and super cobra and maybe one other back in the day, but i also replaced them back in the day (except for the kid vid, i didnt want to replace cause i didnt like the gameplay,).

 

The list would be too large, probably at least 100 games.

[+Nathan Strum]

The first games I bought for my 2600 were:

 

Tank Plus (Combat)

Target Fun (Air-Sea Battle)

Missile Command

Asteroids

Laser Blast

Space Invaders

 

Actually, all of my games were bought new, and I still have them all. I paid upwards of $40 for some games, like Gyruss, although I picked up a bunch of cheap ones after the crash, too. I haven't purchased any since Midnight Magic and Solaris came out, which I think were the last two I bought. My complete list is here.

[gulag picture radio]

When I got mine, it was in a local contest. It was right around when Atari was bundling Pac-Man in with the system (I even phoned them after I won the unit asking if they could possibly send me Pac-Man since I only had Combat... they did!). At that point a lot of games were sub $10. Sucky games, of course, but the only ones that I could swing.

 

I think that around that time the national chain store Zayre had a lot of older titles for quite cheap - some were even down to .88. The first ten games I had were Combat, Pac-Man, Riddle of the Sphinx, Airlock, Video Pinball, Video Olympics, Warlords, Astrosmash, Star Raiders (got that one for .88) probably a few more. I had them in their original boxes, and my whole collection fit into a shoebox. Man, that was a while ago.

 

Of course frequent borrowing helped extend one's collection, and a friend of mine just gave me all his old games in '88 when we were in high school. That was pretty cool. I'd pick 'em up when I saw 'em in thrifts, so you could say that I never actually stopped playing Atari - I still have those original games (though I got rid of the boxes years ago - probably for the better).