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[Chris from Washington]

grey game boys?

How about the first systems I used when I grew up - hardly handhelds!

Ever heard of the Odyssey? We had also a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a -with a speech synthesizer! That was mind blowing stuff..
The Commodore 64 came out around that time too, I believe (so named because it had 64 bytes of memory - not 64 meg - 64 bytes. For the whole computer.
Our first real "IBM clone PC" (as they were called back then), was a system using an 8088 processor, and rather than the greenscreen, we had a 16 color CGA video card - that was hot.

Or later on, when systems like the Activision, and original Atari came out, those were the big "gaming systems". The Odyssey wasn't quite as popular - but IMO had better games.

Then Atari came out with the "Atari 2600".

Man... How many years later was it that Nintendo came out, with the original cartrige-based console (that always wore out, and games became impossible to start? )?

And how many years later was it that Nintendo came out with the portable, the Game Boy?

Man, if you remember back to the beginning of this time line like it was yesterday (like me) - now scroll back up to what I quoted up here at the top of my post.

that's so funny you mentioned the Odyssey, my parents were just cleaning out their attic this weekend, and wanted me to come over and get the Odyssey and the 2600. So it's sitting up in my attic now. UFO on the Odyssey was the greatest!

[geolemon]

From what I hear, there's quite a cult following for those systems... they were a bit better than other gaming systems, IMO.
My favorite game on that one though was Breakout.
I don't even know if it was an Odyssey original... it existed on other game systems too, but that was the favorite I owned... or rather, my grandparents owned.

[Chris from Washington]

I keep checking ebay hoping that they will be going for 11 million dollars, but so far they are only going for around 24.00

[Chris from Washington]

anyone here have one of these?



found mine up in the attic, in the box too.