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LennonNZ

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#302886 1-Jan-2023 10:01

Ever wondered how people played games 30-45 years ago in NZ? Just a small number of games in my collection. (I have a lot more)

Fountain Games..

Wizzard and Funvisions Games/Computer

Orbit Electronics Gimini

David Reid Vidplay One

I'm still looking for more to add to my collection.

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#3015700 1-Jan-2023 10:45

That's an impressive lineup!

And it's awesome that you're still using these systems too. A lot of people would put them on a shelf as ornamental displays only.

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#3015726 1-Jan-2023 12:03

Nice. I picked up a Grandstand last year and a 4 switch Atari 2600 with a bunch of cartridges.

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#3015739 1-Jan-2023 12:54

I've still got my atari 2600 and my acorn electron from 1984... Was going to buy an expansion card for the later which is compatible with SD cards. 360k discs to 4gb sd is bit of jump.( and 32k ram to 128k!!)

Last card sold last week on ebay but m going to email to see if there are more on way.

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#3015890 1-Jan-2023 19:42

afe66: I've still got my atari 2600 and my acorn electron from 1984... Was going to buy an expansion card for the later which is compatible with SD cards. 360k discs to 4gb sd is bit of jump.( and 32k ram to 128k!!)

Last card sold last week on ebay but m going to email to see if there are more on way.

I have a rather large collection of Atari 2600 consoles

Heavy Sixer
Light Sixer
Four Switcher
Vader
Jr Long Rainbow
Jr Short Rainbow
Arcade System II

I'm still missing a few...

I have an ELK :-)

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#3016155 2-Jan-2023 15:08

My elk has a plus3 and slogger expansion board with wtape2disc copy rom and my data tape recorder....

Need to get a monitor though as the Amber screen unit I got from dse in 1987-88 disappeared during a parental hose move.

Still have my copy of elite in its original box, and various game tapes.

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#3016162 2-Jan-2023 15:18

Would you know of a game that was around 30+ years ago. I want to say it was on Amstrad, or Acorn or something similar.

It involved a flying witch or wizard. I vaguely recall you had to go and sit on a cauldron. I want to say the game was called wizard something, or cauldron something.

It's really bugging me.

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#3016176 2-Jan-2023 16:57

We used to have stacks of C64 tapes when I was a kid, but as far as I know they all vanished at some point. Dad reckons they're still around somewhere, but I haven't seen them in 25+ years...

The oldest game I personally still have is probably my 1994 copy of "Relentless" for DOS.

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#3016228 2-Jan-2023 17:48

networkn:
Would you know of a game that was around 30+ years ago. I want to say it was on Amstrad, or Acorn or something similar.

It involved a flying witch or wizard. I vaguely recall you had to go and sit on a cauldron. I want to say the game was called wizard something, or cauldron something.

It's really bugging me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauldron_(video_game) ??