Intresting link on early gaming new nintendos

[Franko]

Interesting read but I dunno if I agree with all that is said in it, WHAT video game crash in 83, back in 83 the C64 had just taken off and was well on it's way to being the all time top selling home computer...

Also the original Commodore (CBM) ads were way out in front when it came to TV ads at that point in time for both the VIC 20 & C64...

Commodore VIC 20 Ads

Commodore C64 Ads

Still, interesting read none the less...

[Franko]

The video game crash I think was more focused in the USA as apposed to Europe. Also it was very much related to Consoles like the Atari 2600 they were supposedly burying millions of units of unsold stock in the desert around New Mexico. Loads of ET cartridges which was possibly one of the worst games of all time! Its worth a play now as its so bad its quite funny!

:lol:

While I take that with a pinch of salt, it would be nice to think in a couple of hundred years time some archaeologists digging in the desert around New Mexico and finding all those old consoles and putting that together with Roswell and concluding that these consoles must have been some part of the fabled crashed spaceship...

Hmm... wonder if there's any truth in that though, might be worth going on a treasure hunt...

[Franko]

yes did cross my mind too i didnt think commodore c64 then i i didnt have intrest in computers back then more into my motrobikes

id thought was more slump than crash oh well how about posting on there saying
your wrong hehe

Nah... I'd better not go posting on there I might upset the locals (too busy doing that here anyway)...

[Franko]

@ Commodorejohn

Man... that's absurd... I take it Atari have never heard of recycling... :crazy:

Mind you back then there weren't the laws that cover manufacturers from just dumping stuff like that like we have these days, still one hell of a waste though even if they do claim some of the stuff was damaged or broken...

[Franko]

I could not care less about Atari hardware and cardridges, but I wonder what happened to all these Amiga accelerator boards sent to DCE for repair. Were they sent back or dumped, scraped and recycled?

Well...

I could not (just like you couldn't) care less about all these accelerator boards, what I want to know is what happened to Lord Lucan ...

PS:Im perfectly happy with my Phase5/DCE PPC and 060 boards cos I didn't send mine for repair...

[Franko]

If you bought your PPC boards recently, there is a great chance that you bought same of these boards. But why you should care... Hypocriticism at its best.

I bought mine about 6 years ago if I recall correctly and you're right why should I care, it's not a problem for me and if that's been a hypocrite then I'm a happy hypocrite with a fully working PPC board...

Kinda odd how you can say you couldn't care less about something then complain when someone else says the same, there's a word for that you know, Hmm... let me think... Oh yeah "Hypocrite" that's the word...

[Franko]

The millions of ET carts were indeed buried in a landfill and covered in tons of concrete. The console crash wiped out the market as people turned to computer disk/tape games for a 1/3 of the cost due to many over priced substandard arcade conversions. Probably the same reason Amiga sales dropped off and consoles came back in fashion in the 90s

NES is for dumb idiots mind, Zelda and Mario are just average too so in EU NES was a dead end. PC-Engine I could understand people wanting OTOH.....

Never owned a NES but do have a number of SNES consoles and I'm quite happy to admit when it comes to playing games I prefer my SNES RPG games to anything on the Amiga...

The Amiga for me is about doing useful & creative stuff GFX/Audio/DTP/Programming etc... the SNES is brilliant for it's RPG games...