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[bengraven]

I remember the battery life being horrible.. but I loved the concept of taking my actual Genesis games on the road.

I would love to get one and mod it with a modern day rechargeable battery pack.

 

[Sulla1980]

It was just a simple game where pressing the button would push the rings up via the release of air pressure into the water, and you'd try to tilt it or whatever to get them on the sticks. I definitely had and played with a few back when I was around 5 or 6 (just over 20 years ago...). I've seen some similar games (both with and without water) fairly recently in dollar stores occasionally.

Ha ha, yup, I remember jamming on that button now. I think I was too young to really care about getting the rings on the sticks.

 

[PalaceBrother]

Well just holy crap. I had completely forgotten about this!!

 

[Lyte Edge]

Our first computer was an Apple IIgs. Loved so many games for it and the Apple II. My father sold it off in a garage sale in 1992- we had a Mac at the time so it was no longer needed, but as a kid I thought it so dumb that he was ditching a color monitor machine with a bunch of a games for a dinky little black and white computer with barely anything available for it. After he sold it we got a Super Nintendo, though, so it wasn't all bad!

The best time killer in school !

LOL, this thing came in so handy during boring classes when nobody was allowed to talk.

I remember the battery life being horrible.. but I loved the concept of taking my actual Genesis games on the road.

Got a Nomad when they first came out and ended up spending way more time playing it than I did my Playstation, lol.

 

[Clydefrog]

this thread is killing me.

 

[blame space]

did anyone else have a game.com

 

[endre]

I saw that the first time only recently here.

Ooooh oooh oooh does this count?

WOW, just WOW

And the rest of you:

Commodore C2N cassette deck. Cough within 200 yards and it stops loading.

<3

HAT tip.

The only things I can remember now are the calculator Casio memory A1 my mother still uses:

And this:

 

[FINE-LINE]

Every time we have threads like this someone will post something my mind had completely wiped out. This brought back a ton of memories, thanks.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Still use these at work... hell, ours don't even have two line displays!

Spoiler

And I think I have PTSD from the sound of my pager going off.

Wait, beepers still exist?

 

[richiek]

Remember Zip drives?

 

[megashock5]

Our first computer was an Apple IIgs. Loved so many games for it and the Apple II. My father sold it off in a garage sale in 1992- we had a Mac at the time so it was no longer needed, but as a kid I thought it so dumb that he was ditching a color monitor machine with a bunch of a games for a dinky little black and white computer with barely anything available for it. After he sold it we got a Super Nintendo, though, so it wasn't all bad!

Our first as well (other than the TI-994A I got at a garage sale and hooked up to a b&w tv).

I used this until I bought my first Mac in college. I'm still Apple only to this day.

 

[John Rabbit]

Geo Safari. Made the first few years of grade school that much cooler.

OH MY GOD I HAD THIS AND TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT IT.

mine laid flat on a floor though.

 

[MisterHero]

 

[lunchtoast]

 

[Boss Doggie]

Oh god I just remember this

It took fucking 8 C batteries to run too!

 

[Natetan]

"20 D batteries"

 

[snesfreak]

Remember Zip drives?

Yes!
Very useful when you have a computer with a 640 MB hard drive.

 

[GraveRobberX]

I'll just leave this here,

TIME TO NOSTALGIA THE FUCK OUT!

 

[88random]

Holy shit, I remember that thing. looool

 

[ThatCrazyGuy]

Commodore C2N cassette deck. Cough within 200 yards and it stops loading.

Does anybody else see the face in this?!?! Haha.

Man. I remember pagers and zip drives fondly.

I remember finally getting a Walkman back in the day was a great thing as well.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I'll just leave this here,

http://i.imgur.com/gFWBo.jpg

TIME TO NOSTALGIA THE FUCK OUT!

We have that one except they're seals for some odd reason!

 

[Shin Kojima]

Starbird!

WOW.
I had totally forgotten about that thing. Was fucking awesome. Thanks for posting.

 

[Fritz]

I'll just leave this here,

http://i.imgur.com/gFWBo.jpg

TIME TO NOSTALGIA THE FUCK OUT!

YIKES! I used to be mesmerized by that think at the local toy store

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Probably the only one that had one of these...but does anyone remember the Cybiko?

Had one of these my freshmen year of high school in 2000. Weird to imagine an era where most teenagers didn't have cellphones, and those that did weren't avid texters. But yeah, basically you could use this thing to text chat and download and play games wirelessly. Me and my two buddies all got one, and it was cool to be able to send messages from a handheld device. Lol

Fad only lasted less than a year with us. I got my cellphone that same school year, but still had the Cybiko in my backpack just to mess around with, since it had games. But of course, the cellphone eventually took my full attention.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Makes you wonder how many variations of that "four small figures climb up and slide ad nauseum" exist.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Oh wow I remember having one of these!

 

[Monty Mole]

 

[Javaman]

Starbird!

Omg yes. It would change pitch whenever you angled it up or down. My Mom's house is a treasure trove of toys I grew up with decades ago. There's still moving boxes from 25 years ago that have been sitting in storage not opened yet. Two that I fondly remember is MB's dark castle and a Tomy big loader set.

 

[Brera]

So simple, yet so awesome.

I still use this in my Audi TT.

 

[Arjen]

Loved these things, i remember you could play the music twice as fast if you pushed the play button only half way trough.
/edit
On the older models that is, couldn't find a decent pic of those.

 

[DonMigs85]

 

[nel e nel]

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

<3 the sound these old things put out

As a kid, I used to always mess with the knobs. Must have driven my dad crazy. But they were so cool. The big one was looser, and would spin easily.

 

[dluu13]

Some computer I have sitting in my room with a flippy switch and a turbo button. And a fake floppy drive faceplate.

 

[RiverBed]

I think I got too good of a laugh out of that one.

No way that's the price in US dollars, right? RIGHT?!

 

[Boss Doggie]

Probably the only one that had one of these...but does anyone remember the Cybiko?

Had one of these my freshmen year of high school in 2000. Weird to imagine an era where most teenagers didn't have cellphones, and those that did weren't avid texters. But yeah, basically you could use this thing to text chat and download and play games wirelessly. Me and my two buddies all got one, and it was cool to be able to send messages from a handheld device. Lol

Fad only lasted less than a year with us. I got my cellphone that same school year, but still had the Cybiko in my backpack just to mess around with, since it had games. But of course, the cellphone eventually took my full attention.

Is that an electronic diary? I have one but it's based on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

 

[Android18a]

Atari 2600, my first games console

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Atari 2600, my first games console

This is the 2600 I had.

 

[Boss Doggie]

On a related note, how come tech before had a fetish for having a wood finish? We had an old "cabinet tv" with the same style.

Makes you wonder if consoles up to now have them.

 

[smuldegspaj]

nostalgia overload.

 

[Wallach]

I drank some water out of these things a few times. No idea why, I guess I was pretty fuckin' stupid as a kid. That's pretty much all I remember since the actual thing it was made to do was really dumb.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I drank some water out of these things a few times. No idea why, I guess I was pretty fuckin' stupid as a kid. That's pretty much all I remember since the actual thing it was made to do was really dumb.

I actually thought the water in that is toxic before.

 

[outunderthestars]

I remember in the mid 90's when everyone was convinced that these were going to be the future:

 

[ChuyMasta]

I used to like beta =(

 

[outunderthestars]

I used to love taping shows with portable DAT recorders and trading them online via DATHeads.

 

[blame space]

if betamax won the format war, everything would be different.

 

[Loofy]

These were awesome. Actually they were lame.. but oh well.

 

[Boss Doggie]

What happened to betamax anyway? It should've taken off.

 

[outunderthestars]

When this arrived from Japan I thought I was living in the damn future. Minidiscs were just so damn cool.

 

[ctrayne]

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