Pong Console

[Drybonz]

Anybody else have one of these back in the day? lol

[DOS76]

Before my time.

[Drybonz]

DOS76 said Before my time.

They were still around in the Atari 2600 days... I remember we had both at the same time. The Pong didn't get as much love, of course. It's tough to compete with Yar's Revenge. :P

[DOS76]

I used to play my cousins 2600 in the early 80s but I don't remember ever seeing one of those and they are hideously unforgettable looking.

[Lordmonkus]

Nice find there, lovely shade of 70s brown. I used to play Pong on an old Coleco Telstar way back when I was like 3 or 4 years old.

[Drybonz]

Haha... yeah, totally retro ugly. I found this picture online and it reminded me of the console. The two little paddles lift out of the console and are connected by a wire that you had to stuff back up inside there to get the paddles back in place.

[CADScott]

I actually think I had something similar, but I remember it being much less 70's brown, more an off white. Classic, but having played pong recently, I can't believe how much time I spent playing it when I was a kid, that game gets boring pretty quickly now. I guess we are pretty spoiled for great games now, amazing to think how far we have come in such a short time Pong was released in 1972, just before I was born, and in my lifetime we have gone from that to games like Fallout 4!

[Drybonz]

And they are rolling out virtual reality now. Won't be long until people are plugged into a VR machine full time and fed intravenously so they can play virtual reality MMO's full time.

[sadesh]

Yeah, I had one of this, but now it has completely gone to the garage.

[Drybonz]

sadesh said Yeah, I had one of this, but now it has completely gone to the garage.

Hah... I heard that. It's probably not one you want to break out that often. I was thinking about it, though... if my parents had that thing for a while before I started playing it, during the 2600 era, that would have been my earliest experience with retro-gaming. :)

[Antropus]

I had this one, my very first videogame console ever, back in Brazil... around 1981-82 or so :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIHrqiIOcMc -Kris

[Drybonz]

Antropus said I had this one, my very first videogame console ever, back in Brazil... around 1981-82 or so :)

Haha... classic.

[CADScott]

This was my first handheld game machine, the glorious Galaxy Invader 1000!

[Jason Carr]

Wow, I'm jealous guys. My time really only goes back to the Atari 2600. But I've always sort of wished I was around since the beginning.

[CADScott]

I also had these at about the same time, I can't believe how much time I spent playing on Donkey Kong. I didn't realise these were made by Nintendo until I just looked them up.

[Jason Carr]

This has been posted before, but if anyone hasn't seen this series yet, you're in for a treat (and a lot of wasted time). ;) It's Retroware's "The Video Game Years" and covers 1977-1989. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N3ZvG3JUTg&list=PLC2468FB35ED2DAC2

[CadetStimpy]

I never owned a Pong Console, but I did play one. I don't remember if this was the exact type, but it looked more like this, than the one in the first Post. I've never owned a hand-held type. I don't even have a Smartphone, just a flip-phone (which are getting increasingly more difficult to find).