Thread 11964974

Is there any real modern interest in the first generation of videogames?

>>11964974 (OP)
No. Miss me with that ancient dusty shit grandpa lmao

100% gameplay
Scoring based game
Charming visual

>>11964974 (OP)
There is no "real" interest in retro gaming as a whole, as far as the unwashed masses are concerned.

>>11964982
Tetris surpassed pong
Gen 3 wins again baby

>>11964974 (OP)
>first generation of videogames
>Pong, Pong clones, and the Magnavox Odyssey.
People are not even interested in programming these games, since AI can easily develop them. I made a youtube video about Pong if you're interested.

>>11964974 (OP)
I do not touch anything pre-1985 unless its an arcade

>>11964974 (OP)
>game 3 was for fags
>game 2 chads rise up

any game 2ers out there?

>>11964974 (OP)
Shit I have little interest in anything before the 16-bit / 4th generation systems even though I started gaming with the Atari 2600 in the early 80's.

>>11964974 (OP)
Sorry but buttons are the bare minimum for me to have interest in a game console

>>11964974 (OP)
no, pinball machines -> atari -> nintendo is really all that will be remembered in the evolution

>>11964974 (OP)
Not beyond curiosity, really.

How come the only actual game for the Magnavox was Pong and pong derivatives? Why couldn't they program anything else with a moving square(s)?

1st generation video games was more about being amazed that you could make the things on the television move around, that doesn't have a lot of novelty in current era

>>11965187
>program
That's your first mistake. These were analog games. The best you got were some switches that changed a few parameters at the circuitry level. Those "cartridges" didn't contain memory, they were just switches in card form.

>>11965137
No, it's pinball machines -> Pong/Odyssey -> Pong clones -> Atari/Commodore -> Nintendo -> NEC/Sega (depending on the market) -> Back to Nintendo but Sega now has Sonic now -> Sony -> Microsoft because Sony over charged the PS3 and had to scrap it's original market just to stay afloat (still Sony in Japan) -> Sony because Microsoft fucked up badly with the Xbox One -> Nintendo because Sony stopped making games and only makes interactive movies that last 120 hours with only 1 hour of game play while Microsoft stopped caring as Xbox is just MMOs, Halo, COD and Forza now of days.

Meanwhile Nintendo just stood in the background doing what it does best, sometimes outselling the other companies but was irrelevant once the Wii was released and stood irrelevant until the Switch came out for reason explained above.

>>11964974 (OP)
Many pong clones I've seen increased in a value a fair bit recently, I think its more interest in the hardware and the unique shells rather than playing the actual game. I even threw one away a few years ago because I didn't consider it a real video game but actually they look cool once deep cleaned instead of sitting in a pile of junk.

>>11965037
but breakout surpasses both

>>11964974 (OP)
I enjoy them. 70s and golden era video games are fun and I'm tired of pretending they're not.
>t. Zoomer

>>11965245
Magnavox Odyssey was 100% digital. It being analog is a bullshit claim Nolan Bushnell made up when Magnavox sued Atari for patent infringement.

>>11965759
Odyssey was nothing but TTL logic, it's analog.

>>11965768
1) TTL is still digital
2) Odyssey is not TTL, it's DTL (diode-transistor logic)

>>11964974 (OP)
You have the 1st generation of arcade videogames, but those are even less talked about. Probably because MEME is an extra filter for most to begin with and Pong and Tank games are found on anything.

I should still get to it. I enjoyed my autistic romp through gen 2 era arcade.

>>11964974 (OP)
I love 8 bit games particularly text adventures but also pong machines, sea wolf, computers etc

It's nintendo I don't like much

>>11965782
Other way around, you also stole that from Reddit.

Yes, there just isn't anyone willing to take the properties and present them in a marketable way. The mobile game market was and is perfect for them but nobody does it.

look at all these faggots that dont realize spacewar was a better game than what we got for literal decades afterwards
look at all these faggots that dont understand how fucking awesome vector gfx look irl

why are you here?
useless eaters
i wish we could chop off all your hands so you could never post again
the first actual vidya boom was from the 70s to the early 80s. it was in the arcade, not at home. youre not even looking in the right place you dense faggots

no way unc doesn't have matchmaking dlc or cheevs fr ong

>>11965864
true, to this day tens of thousands play Spacewar on steam

>>11964974 (OP)
sadly no
unless they are 3-6 yrs of age they will have 'outgrown' the technology and 'games' involved with the simple pong machines
even the odyssey with all its extra items (which are great) is a fleeting curiosity at best

iphone\ipad\android tablet generation
expect the nursing homes to be brutal anon they will have zero empathy

>>11964974 (OP)
There was a very limited number of game concepts and all home games were adaptations of Pong or Breakout. Interest in that stuff waned by the time Atari 2600 and other cartridge based systems came out and the entire market crashed, only resuscitated by the famous Space Invaders port in 1980.
I don't think anyone was ever that nostalgic for Home Pong, Gen Xers who played them as children, when they grew up in the early 90s had better things to do that sit on the usenet and talk about ancient garbage. Unlike their younger peers who kickstarted the whole retro gaming craze in the late 90s. Remember "Stella at 20"?

>>11965759
>Odyssey does not use a computer running a software to produce the games. Odyssey uses several circuits which communicate between themselves with digital signals. Some circuits were not relevant in the development of the emulator because they only concerned the generation of the video signals. Some others were necessary to produce the games, and those ones were emulated. The emulator reproduces the operation of those parts, thus giving the impression of playing with a real Odyssey on a PC.
there are no magnavox odyssey "programs", deal with it, whatever you're talking about it some minor internal implementation detail

>>11964974 (OP)
Correct. "real modern interest" isn't a thing that exist outside your otherwise empty head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anbHlpvnBHU

More work today, chuds.

>>11964974 (OP)
Not much, no. I know some old men (legit boomers) that still get excited about pong clones and Gen 2 stuff, but they are literally a dying breed. It never took off like collecting for Gen 3+ did, but some of that old Gen 1 and 2 stuff was pretty sought after in the early 2000s. it was pretty much dead though by the early 2010s.

Well the Odyssey relied on slapping overlays onto your TV to make sense of the random dots that you could move around the screen. That has absolutely zero value as an entertainment product in any era that came after being able to create computer programs as interactive entertainment.

yeah there's porn games on atari and you can store a beer in a 5200 like in angry nintendo nerd video