Photos of people playing home video games from way back

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby matmico399 » June 6th, 2017, 6:22 pm

I luv this thread! It is so enjoyable. Scotland we need more pics! Esp of the Christmas variety...

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby Sut » June 7th, 2017, 2:22 am

lynchie137 wrote:Was there ever an A.L.F game for the NES back in the day?


Nah ALF had better tastes he was a Sega fan:

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby lynchie137 » June 8th, 2017, 4:45 am

Sut wrote:
lynchie137 wrote:Was there ever an A.L.F game for the NES back in the day?


Nah ALF had better tastes he was a Sega fan:

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It's too bad that game on the Master System was kind of terrible. And that's really a shame when you think about it. A good A.L.F game made by a great company like Capcom or Konami and on the NES would have more than likely done very well imho, given how wildly popular the sitcom was back in the day.

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby scotland » June 26th, 2017, 10:59 am

Okay, here is one that is kind of funny:

This is Donkey Kong on the Colecovision - See DK?
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Here is DK on the rather shoddy Intellivision port. Its so bad, even DK is feeling a bit green with nausea.
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And here is a fellow playing an Intellivision ... notice his T-shirt!
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Given the T-shirt, I suspect this is a modern photo, but I also see a small CRT in the background - so, is this a modern photo of a retrogamer, or an old photo with a clever T-shirt from back in the day? Live or Memorex? You make the call.

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby matmico399 » June 27th, 2017, 12:08 pm

That's def a modern pic. The "serial killer" look is acceptable nowadays. Back in the 70's or 80's he would have terrified peeps!

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby scotland » June 27th, 2017, 5:38 pm

Here is a real oldie:

1977 - the introduction of the Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 model one at the Boston Personal Computing Faire

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And from the movie 1984 Firestarter, a young Drew Barrymore playing a Colecovision

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Suddenly I feel like a cup of boiling hot cocoa in a Nestle Quik bunny mug...

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby scotland » July 17th, 2017, 8:09 am

Here is a photo of The Darling Brothers, who programmed the Mastertronic Commodore C64 game, Chiller (inspired by the Micheal Jackson video, Thriller)

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Kids playing an unidentified Apple II game



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and this looks like an advertisement of what the Intellivision hoped to be:
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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby lynchie137 » July 17th, 2017, 8:29 pm

scotland wrote:Here is a photo of The Darling Brothers, who programmed the Mastertronic Commodore C64 game, Chiller (inspired by the Micheal Jackson video, Thriller


How old were they in that pic? They look like they're barely in their teens!

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby scotland » December 25th, 2022, 11:00 am

Merry Christmas 2022 Everyone

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Re: Photos of people playing home video games from way back

Postby Buttermancan » January 10th, 2023, 2:29 am

This is my first time reading this thread and it's really heart warming. A lot of love and fun in these pics.


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