SD050/SD070/SD090 Consoles

[Lish]

About 30 years ago, TV games were king (as opposed to video/Computer Games).  These simple games systems competed against the all powerful 2600, mosty by price (being significantly lower than Atari's price).

And they where popular, even though there where only 7 game carts available.  PC-50 games as they were called, were standardised consoles long before Trip Hawkins tried to do the same with the 3DO. Consoles that could use these carts where manufactured by various companies including Hanimex and Grandstand.

If you don't remember these, then you must be either young, or spent years on an antartic expedition circa 1977 to 1984. They stopped manufacturing these carts around 1984 (My brother and I got a grandtand SD090 for Christmas in 1981).

I have taken the small cardboard box and created from it, covers for the UGC.  So far I have completed Car Race GP and Motorcycle.  Tommorow, I will do Submarine, Supersportic, and Shooting Gallery.

There are two games that I have yet to acquire: "Tank Battle" (Apparently it's rare) and "Wipeout".  Time to search ebay.

Anyway, samples of the two covers so far are included below. 

[Lish]

And the other one

[TheValeman]

I dont think I was born when these thing were around .......

[KaiserWAVE]

You liar! I bet you were already on your way to primary school

[tiktektak]

Maybe there should be a cover section just labeled old style games.... or something more clever....
Maybe oldschool gaming consoles.... or once upon a time.... in console land...? Just some crazy thoughts...

Regards Sebastian

[TheValeman]

How about "Prehistoric Gaming" as these things truly are .....

[KaiserWAVE]

We could have our own Jurassic Park

[Lish]

Hmmm.  I'm a little bit hurt.

Are we here as a group of game collectors, trying to give our old games a new or revitalised look.  To make those shelves look pretty and to add just that little something to our hobby, apart from trawling ebay, and share those with like minded people. Or are we here to just provide scans of the latest games to leechers who want covers for some potentially nefarious purpose.  Of course, there are the artists as well, showing and sharing their abilities.

Do real car collectors collect 2007 Ford Taurus's or do they collect 1967 Mustangs, and yes, even model T Fords.

So I've added Intellivision, Master System and 32X (for example) that wasn't here before.  Soon I'll add Colecovision, Atari 2600, 7800, XE, Amstrad GX4000; but only if thats what this site wants. Do we group these as Prehistoric (I'm 35 and don't feel quite ready to be stuffed and mounted in a museum yet, and nor should the games I played as a kid).

Maybe we should group Nintendo's together, or 8 bit systems, or 16 bit systems, or cartidge based systems, or disc based systems, or DVD playing systems, or NTSC systems, or DVD case systems, or CD case systems, or 5 year old systems, or 10 year old ... etc....

Or maybe I should just keep quiet and not rock the boat that I wasn't invited to step onto in the first place 

[TheValeman]

35? Man ..... talk about one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin 

Still ..... wshbrngr is positively ancient compared to you. He really is prehistoric.

[Lish]

Hey!!!  My wifes 27.  You know what they say, "Your only as young as the Woman you feel"

(I sure hope Renee Geyer doesn't visit this group... )

I'm old(er than some) but persistent.  Here's Submarine.

[The Warlock]

I personally think that we can probably group all the pre-NES systems in one group, but hey, it's not up to me.

[KaiserWAVE]

Hmmm.  I'm a little bit hurt.

Are we here as a group of game collectors, trying to give our old games a new or revitalised look.  To make those shelves look pretty and to add just that little something to our hobby, apart from trawling ebay, and share those with like minded people. Or are we here to just provide scans of the latest games to leechers who want covers for some potentially nefarious purpose.  Of course, there are the artists as well, showing and sharing their abilities.

Do real car collectors collect 2007 Ford Taurus's or do they collect 1967 Mustangs, and yes, even model T Fords.

So I've added Intellivision, Master System and 32X (for example) that wasn't here before.  Soon I'll add Colecovision, Atari 2600, 7800, XE, Amstrad GX4000; but only if thats what this site wants. Do we group these as Prehistoric (I'm 35 and don't feel quite ready to be stuffed and mounted in a museum yet, and nor should the games I played as a kid).

Maybe we should group Nintendo's together, or 8 bit systems, or 16 bit systems, or cartidge based systems, or disc based systems, or DVD playing systems, or NTSC systems, or DVD case systems, or CD case systems, or 5 year old systems, or 10 year old ... etc....

Or maybe I should just keep quiet and not rock the boat that I wasn't invited to step onto in the first place 

Nobody meant to make fun of you. I'm always excietd to see new or old consoles or games. I just thought it was funny because my first console was the NES when I was ten years old, that's how I started. So everything pre-NES is ancient to me  

[wshbrngr]

Well, I am siding with Lish on this one. The more systems the better as I see it.

However, that will not prevent me from cracking some jokes at the obscure systems.... sorry its just my nature.....

Prehistoric or not, I am not familiar with some of these systems. Lets face it, I didn't really know what the heck a Dreamcast was until a few months ago.

I had an Atari 2600 back in the day when they were new. The next game console I bought was the NES, and I did not pay attention to anything in-between, as I got into computers for gaming.

However, I still have a couple of Tandy Color Computers (2 & 3) laying around and a few game cartridges with instructions I can scan. They did not come in boxes, just clear plastic holders with the instuction book as the cover. I may have to dig one out and see if it will fit in the UGC.

Actually, now that I have a designated gaming area I was planning to hook up the old coco anyways.
I really enjoyed playing Oils Well & Megabug.

ETA: after reading KaiserWaves post, I really am ancient.... I bought my Atari 2600 when I was 19 and in the army. Took it to Germany and me and my buddies played the heck out of it.

Guess we were mesmerized by the little square blocks on the T.V. screen.

[TheValeman]

What's an Atari 2600?

I was only 3 when Star Wars came out .... I may have been too young for these things 

[Lish]

OK. Education Time.

Firstly for Warlock, there are very few consoles older than the NES, and most of those that are were still selling in 1984 when the NES was released (Although the video game crash of 83 put a dent in the market for the previous consoles).

The NES was only really big in Japan and the USA as far as I can remember, Europeans, South Africans, Australians and New Zealanders all prefered keyboards attached to their gaming machines (along with the 5 minute loading times of tapes).  Computers such as the Vic 20, C64, Amstrad CPC Series, and Sinclairs were the go, and later Amigas became popular (with the odd Atari ST thrown in for good measure).  Computers ruled in these countries after the console crash of 83.

Anyway, the following "old" consoles were actually released after the NES (ie. the NES is more prehistoric than): Atari 7800, Atari XE, Amstrad GX4000, Amiga cd32, and Sega Master System. Even the Atari 2600 Mark II was released after the NES (2yrs later in fact)!

My Collection of consoles consists of:
Grandstand SD090 (Sadly no longer working) http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~pinwhiz/weird.htm
Hanimex TG090 [2 of] (Takes the Carts of my Grandstand...Yippee)
Atari 2600 Jr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600
Atari 7800 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800
Atari XE Game System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_XE
NES
SNES
N64
Gamecube
Wii
PS1
PS2
Colecovision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colecovision
Intellivision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision
Sega Master System II [2 of] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Master_System_2
Sega Mega Drive 1
Sega Mega Drive 2 [2 of]
EDIT: Oops Left off the SEGA CD
Sega Saturn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Saturn
Sega 32X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_32x
Sega Dreamcast [3 of]
Xbox
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
Nintendo DS [2 of]
3DO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer
Amstrad GX4000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_GX4000

Then there are the Games Computers:
Amstrad CPC464 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC
Amstrad CPC6128
Commodore 64
Amiga A500 [2 of]
 
I hope the links help to educate some of the younger folk.  Man, I can't believe at 35 that I could feel old.  Then I remembered that when I graduated high school (actually, even after four years at Uni) Windows wasn't even heard of.  Sigh. Tired of young kids who are wizzes at VB and SQL asking me how to set up a partition in DOS (What do they teach them these days....IT graduates asking and Engineer about basic IT!!!). And Valeman, I was 6 when Star Wars came out so you'd better watch out for my 3 year old banana peels, they might still be slippery when you get to them    hmm, we need a tongue in cheek smiley.

Now I need an Amiga CD32, Neo Geo, and Atari Jaguar...If I ebay them, they will come.