Posted on Aug 8, 2014
What was your favorite video game and game console growing up?
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May be showing my age a bit, but my first was Pong (home version), then ATARI with all the game cartridges...that was heaven! Even as intense and realistic as today's games are...in a lot of ways, I think I liked the old ones better. Oh and my favorite game on Atari was asteroids.
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MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca
believe it or not all you young whipper-snappers out there this below was once state-of-the-art computer graphics - my kids can't believe it either.
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MSG Wade Huffman
MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca , and COLOR! Don't forget what a huge deal that was, all 16, yes, count them, SIXTEEN colors on a single monitor at the same time! !!! Technology was really amazing back then!
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I had similar console for basketball with 2 player option. It was so noisy and annoying!
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SrA Jeff Campbell
WOW!!!! There are probably youngsters on this site that have no idea what that is!!!!!!!!!!!! Cannot tell you how many hours I spent wasting it on that game!!
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SrA Jeff Campbell, did you say waste?? You might want to consider your words carefully. Wasteful productivity is a better term!
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I've never been a console fan. I played Asteroids and Defender in the arcades, but the home console never appealed to me. The PC, however, changed my opinion after I played Wolfenstein and Wing Commander.
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Did you know that Wolfenstein was banned in Germany for a while because it gave Germans bad name?
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MSG Wade Huffman
I loved the original Wolfenstein! Never really got into the sequels and add ons though.
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SSG John Bacon
Hey just a Heads up Wing Commander III Heart of the Tiger is free on Origin's on the house program. https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/?utm_campaign=US_O_Brand_Origin&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_term=origin%20pc&sourceid=US_O_Brand_Origin
I loved Wing Commander Series and played them all. PC Games are always better you just need to upgrade sometimes.
I loved Wing Commander Series and played them all. PC Games are always better you just need to upgrade sometimes.
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Thanks SSG John Bacon Chris Roberts is doing another space combat sim now, called Star Citizen. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/
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My favorite was SNES. It had a HUGE catalogue of games and most of them were good. IMO someof the best games ever released were on that console. Chrono Trigger, FF 2&3, F-Zero, Act Raiser 1&2, ROTK 2&3, Uncharted Waters... I could go on for days.
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Oh those days... When SNES replaced original NES. Me and the boys were going at it for days! A reason to leave the house and hang out with the pack unlike modern times where everything's done remotely
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Sgt (Join to see) , I'm jealous. I wish we had one of those in our crew room in A-stan. Would've been much better than Top Gun, Days of Thunder or Pacific Rim on loop... but then again... none of our aircraft would've been fixed...
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Loved that game.. was pretty upset when i couldn't take it with me when we moved to the states...
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My first taste of combat - Air Sea Battle on the Atari 2600 when I was 13
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I think we ought to do a Rallypoint convention just covering classic game consoles, battling each other on all 2-player games. Can you help us substantiate it, LTC Yinon Weiss?
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Coleco with the Donkey Kong pack and Mattel’s Intellivison were my consoles. Plus I played lots of games on my Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer back then.
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PONG which was just before I left for the Army. Otherwise the video game I played was seeing the Saturday Matinee Movie series.
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