Intelevision had Bump n Jump and B-17 Bomber. Your arguments against it are moot.
Intelevision had Bump n Jump and B-17 Bomber. Your arguments against it are moot.
In reply to Appleseed:
I always liked Bump and Jump. For obvious reasons. 
Appleseed wrote: Intelevision had B-17 Bomber.
My wife and I still talk like the guy in B-17 Bomber occasionally.
Knurled said: I liked how certain games came with a little film that you could slip into the controller's number pad to tell you what each button did.
The only game I had that came with those was Mousetrap. Which was an AWESOME game.
Appleseed said: Bump N Jump
Another wave of nostalgia! I had Bump N Jump on NES and it was pretty sweet. I had completely forgotton about it until I saw this post.
In reply to WilD:
Mouse Trap was a GREAT game! That was one of my favorites as a young kid because I liked turning into the dog and eating the cats. The "woof woof" sound effect is forever cemented into my brain. 
I found an old pic of my ColecoVision piled in a box with a ton of games:
Some of my personal faves were Zaxxon, Mr.Do!, Carnival, Lady Bug, Cosmic Avenger, Space Panic, Space Fury and the Smurfs game. I've gotten a few more games since I took this pic. That one that's tough to see from the glare is actually a Chuck Norris game! 
I actually need to do some repairs to the old beast. The controller inputs are controlled by dedicated chips on the motherboard which get finicky with age. The solution is to remove them and install a socket and new chip. I really need to get around to doing that. The weird thing is that when the controllers stop working, the console will start playing weird, creepy carnival music. When it happened the first time, I thought it was possessed.
I remember drooling over the clearance Coleco Adam machines in catalogs as a kid. I was a weird kid, but the Adam was a cool looking computer!
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I've had a lot of video games and machines over the years. Nowadays I just have a modern console but I've had an awful lot of consoles, computers, and arcade machines. My favorite arcade machine I had was an original Asteroids. I was going to keep that forever but someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse in a moment of weakness - I was in the midst of moving a warehouse worth of stuff and he offered me triple what I paid for it. I couldn't say no.
If you like arcade machines you owe it to yourself to make it to the Galloping Ghost in Chicago some day. They have over 550 original arcade machines. It's insane. $20 to get in gets you unlimited plays until 2am. They have common machines, obscure machines, and even a couple that were never released - or at least never released in the US. My favorite "new" machine (one I hadn't played before) was Black Widow, a color vector game from 1982. It was cool. I also played Lunar Lander a good bit. I'd never seen one in person. Cool control scheme with just one single axis stick for throttle and some buttons for turning:
In reply to dculberson:
Galloping Ghost is pretty cool, and if I ever find myself in Chicago, it's high on the list for places to check out.
In New England, we have Funspot, home of the American Classic Arcade Museum in Weirs Beach, NH.
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
I've been going here since I was a kid and it RULES. If you've ever seen the movie King of Kong, a good chunk of it was filmed here. That reminds me, I need to make a "pilgrimage" soon. It's been a few years since I've gone up there. They have a TON of vector games, including a sit-down Red Baron, the "captain's chair" Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator, and more. And yes, they have Lunar Lander! That thrust controller is so cool.
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