![]() Some of the common ones were made by Texas Instruments, Radio Shack (under the Tandy brand name) and Commodore. For many, it was much easier to justify buying something that you could do other things on besides play games (like BASIC computer coding your own programs, and such). So if gaming consoles with faux wood grain weren’t your thing back then (or wood-paneled living rooms for that matter), then what were your options? Well, early home computing systems started coming onto the scene around that time as well. If the game Pong was a Nerdly, it would kind of look like this rendition by Anthony SÉJOURNÉ below. The winner was declared once a player reached the required number of points or their opponent quit out of boredom ( “I quit. (And hey Gwyneth – Quy Chau has also faithfully built a Moog Synthesizer that you can include in your next piano round-up).Īs for the game of Pong itself, it was a fairly basic version of table tennis (aka ping-pong) Just hitting a ball back and forth with a paddle, and trying to get it past your opponent. Quy Chau built this tribute to the Home Pong console back in 2013. Home Pong’s reception gave an early indication of how much demand there would be for home video game consoles in the years to come. Although the console was pretty much designed to play just one game, their “any TV can play it” marketing was certainly a step in the right direction (the Magnavox Odyssey could be played on any TV too, but its “only available at Magnavox stores” marketing gave a different perception). Soon after that “supposed” Odyssey was released came the home version of Atari's game "Pong". We thought we’d take a nostalgic look back at some of these old video game consoles and their MOC tributes. There are many who have built LEGO replicas of these now dusty 1st-gen and 2nd-gen relics (which are about as Mundane as it gets… hint, hint.). If there was only a way to bring those video games home with us so that we could play them every day after school… Fortunately, we didn’t have to wait too much longer for an answer, as the age of home video game consoles had arrived. The big problem with gaming arcades as a kid is that you needed someone with a car to take you there - unless you were lucky enough to live within the range of one by using more independent modes of transportation (skateboards, bicycles, walking…). It was all “Ready, Player One?”, the count-down to start, and then full-on “ LEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINSSSSS!!!!!” mode! ![]() There was no careful MMO multi-player raid strategy planning way back then. We’d plop down a stack of quarters to ward off others wanting to play while we tried to keep the dream alive of entering our initials atop those high score lists. After waxing nostalgic about “ The Karate Kid” in my last article, it had me thinking back to the “old school” video game arcades of my youth in the 1980s.īack then it was all about “ Pac Man Fever” and who could mash those buttons the quickest in player-vs-player games.
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