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Posted February 27, 2015
Show off your (old) gear, win shiny new (ROCCAT) gear!

As you know, the GOG.com catalog spans many titles dating back as far as 1980 (, we're looking at you!), in times when computers kind of looked like modern-day [url=http://prepare.icttrends.com/images/2012/06/IBM_PC.jpg]microwaves sat on top of a console, and the first portable computer, the Osborne I, was put on the market in all the glory of its 24 pounds of weight and a steep $1,795 price tag.

We don't expect you to have gear that's quite as old, but we are curious as to what treasures you might be keeping in a box stored away in the basement or deep in an attic drawer. So show us your oldest gear and be greatly rewarded with the some of the newest on the market, courtesy of gaming gear creator and producer ROCCAT!

THE RULES:

- Your entry should consist of 1 or 2 pictures of your old gear and a description of up to 100 words telling us what it is, where you got it, what you used it for or any other fond memories you have with it. Maybe it was your first joystick? Maybe an old Atari controller you kept as a memento? We want to hear about it!
- You can only post one entry per person. If you post more, only the first one will be counted.
- You may not edit your post.
- Use your own photos of your own gear - we do know how to do a reverse image search!

Post your entry in the comments below before the deadline - you have a week, until March 6th, at 1:59 PM GMT. We aim to judge your entries and pick winners by Thursday, March 12th - we'll announce them in the contest forum thread and via PM to the winners themselves.

THE PRIZES:

1st place prize: a ROCCAT Isku, gaming keyboard with blue-tinted illumination, secondary programmable Shift function, and Thumbster Macro Keys below the spacebar to maximise gaming effectiveness

2nd place prize: a ROCCAT Savu, mid-size hybrid gaming mouse with an adjustable, 400-4000 DPI optical sensor, secondary programmable function, customizable illumination, and a powerful driver suite

3rd place prize: a ROCCAT Sense, mousepad with friction-reducing microcrystalline coating for greater mouse speed and precision

All winners will also get GOG.com gift codes to use on games of their choice to test out their new gear!

Honorable mentions: We expect there to be many great-quality entries, so we're reserving the right to give out honorable mentions to all those we find did a brilliant job, but didn't quite make the podium cut. They'll get GOG.com gift codes to use on titles available in our catalog.

Should you be one of our top three winners, we will need some mailing data (name, address, phone number) to ship your prize to you. If the ROCCAT Marketing Team ends up sending the prizes directly to you, we will need to share your mailing information with them. We will not share it with anyone that doesn't need it!

Please note that this contest is also being held on the French and German GOG.com forum - winners will be chosen, regardless of language, from across all three contest topics. :)
Posted February 28, 2015
I have no means of photographing my good old stuff because it's all in my parents' attic overseas so I'm not joining but I guess what I would show here would be my Amiga 500. That was our first computer and my introduction to computer gaming at an innocent age of three. I had played on an Atari 2600 before that but playing games like Turrican, Treasure Island Dizzy and North & South on the Amiga 500 is what basically made me a gamer so early in my life.
Posted February 28, 2015
Do monitors count? They're gear! Right?

This is my old Dell 1504FP 15" UltraSharp LCD monitor (1024x768 baby!). When I was in my teens, I used it to play games like Neverwinter Nights and Rage of Mages (1 & 2). It got put into storage, then when I moved out, I brought it with me to the new house. Now, I use it when streaming, doing work, or other activities. It's the best.
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Posted February 28, 2015
This is my old Asus V9520 video card. It was my first video card to have a fan on it. Though it no longer functions, it will hold a special place in my heart because it came bundled with a free copy of TES: Morrowind.
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Posted February 28, 2015
Like many people here, I loved my C64. Not only was it a thing of beauty, but the endless hours of pure elation and entertainment it provided still haven't been matched by any other system, at least in my opinion. ;)

Even as adults, we obviously don't want those feeling to fade. Which is why so many of us still care for their equipment today as if it were new. There will always be very important memories attached to all of these "things". For me that also extends to other systems, like the classic T-99 and Intellivision II, the original gold box games, the Ultima series, and even some old magazines.

It's great to see so many other people out there like me who still cherish this stuff. I hope you enjoy some of the pieces I put together because I've certainly enjoyed looking at everyone else's.
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Post edited February 28, 2015 by Catfish55
Posted February 28, 2015
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shmargin: This is my original 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. [ ... ]
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ewhac: WINNAR!!!

It looks like you've taken excellent care of it.
Thanks, I've tried to take care of it, but it spent some rough years in storage when I first moved from my parents house. It was a toss up for me whether or not to use my Odyssey or my GCE branded Vectrex. The Vectrex is awesome, I found it for $5 at a yard sale, but no box, and the joystick is missing the ball on the top, and only one game. But still, a video game console that has its own custom screen is pretty cool.

This is a cool contest, and seeing people with their old computer systems is awesome. So many people with the C64 is making me jelous though. Thats one system I always wanted and never had.

I wish I still had my old DOS 286, that was the first "real" computer my family owned and it was great. I remember still watching my dad type the DOS commands, and memorizing them almost instantly because I wanted to play Wings of Fury on it so bad. Good times.
Posted February 28, 2015
Heres my awesome set up. Buried in my 2 daughters stuff is my little laptop, its about 5 years old and every hour and a half it makes a POP noise and shuts off. Lovingly decorated by my oldest daughter and a Mac sticker over the Acer logo just because.
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Posted February 28, 2015
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Catfish55: Like many people here, I loved my C64. Not only was it a thing of beauty, but the endless hours of pure elation and entertainment it provided still haven't been matched by any other system, at least in my opinion. ;)
That's a not-gold-box Buck Rogers on the shelf.

Whoa.

I'm impressed.
Posted February 28, 2015
I invented it.
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Post edited February 28, 2015 by tokisto
Posted February 28, 2015
You see these two gems right here? This was the first console I owned with the first game I played on it. When I was 5, my parents gave me this for Christmas, which was the day that made me who I am today... a gamer. If I could go back into the future, I would do it all again, because that console was worth every cent, every minute, and every memory.
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Posted February 28, 2015
This is my 1995 gaming box. Back in the day I purchased it with the intention of playing Wing Commander 3 and 4 but ended up playing a lot more Xcom and Daggerfall.

I got nostalgic and revived it a couple years ago. Today it serves me whenever I need the chirp of a real PC speaker to rattle my teeth. ;)
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Posted February 28, 2015
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radhplay: Hello. Even if this computer was not meant for playing games, it is a beautiful piece of old HP engineering. Holding an LCD screen, a Software-drawer filled with a nice DOS from 1985 and a RAM-drawer, 1 MB! in size, this machine could be used as a text editor (with dedicated external serial printer and dedicated external floppy drive), as a scheduler and calendar and as a LOTUS123 machine. It is a sturdy laptop, 8 lbs of weight! Although I have 'played' my way in gaming changing many machines since 1988, I simply couldn't throw this non gaming one away. A good friend of mine gave it to me many years ago and it was love at first sight.
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temia: Ha, no updates back then :-) ;-)
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Iain: I got my Commodore 64 back off my mother 2013, what you are seeing there is my original breadbin model from November 1985, I had to transfer it to a dead C64E case as the keyboard wasn't working and the case was cracked as my brother stood on it late 80's playing football inside the house.

You will also see my Spectrum +2A which I decided to get April 2013 which is sitting alongside my C64, tyhere is also my original VIC 1541 5" floppy disk drive.

Shelves holding all my original C64 and Spectrum cassettes (even more now)
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temia: Oh man, such a clean attic around this beautiful stuff!
Thanks,

That is only the left side, right side I have my 2 Amigas (600 & 1200) & Megadrive with MegaCD Mk1. You see the Megadrive games on my 2nd pic there, I am missing quite a lot which my mum is currently looking for in her flat.

I have an Atari 520 STe upgraded to 4Mb ram and an Ultra Satan Disc external SD drive, have an additional external floppy drive for it also, I have a SNES and PS2 setup on the same TV as the the STe in the main bedroom much to my wife's dislike!!

All my stuff has been photo'd and pictures uploaded to Colexions into relevant categories if you are interested checking out what I have :

http://colexions.com/?p=mypage&u=iaingrimm
Posted February 28, 2015
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DrakeFox: I present to you, my Commodore 128. Since childhood when my father bought this I've held onto it and still play on it when nostalgia takes me.
I taught myself basic on this computer before even learning english.
Among the games pictured Ultima V holds a special place for me. I spent countless hours on it, and when I learned English I found the game actually had music if you booted in C128 mode. Sadly my disks corrupted.
And yes, Sega re-released collections back then too. Shinobi, crackdown, Golden Axe, Eswat and Monaco GP.
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Maxvorstadt: A Commodore 128 and real joysticks! Wanna marry me? :-)
Well...I do have two joysticks and multiplayer is fun. But I must admit. Even before engagement I'm having an affair with my Amiga in the other room. Reason I chose the C128 for exhibition was we've had it from childhood. Played it till we could finally afford a 486 2nd hand. The Amiga I bought in 2000 when I finally made enough money for it, but it's still lots of fun.

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DrakeFox: I present to you, my Commodore 128. Since childhood when my father bought this I've held onto it and still play on it when nostalgia takes me.
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CrowTRobo: I like your taste in furniture. I have the exact same piece your Commodore is sitting on. Only mine just has a TV on it, no Commodore.

I wish this contest was held prior to October. My parents moved out of the house I grew up in. I had to finally get rid of some of my stuff. But I wouldn't have won the main prizes anyway, the oldest item was a NES. Might take a few photos of something else though and enter just for the hell of it.
IKEA's a good way to get something to keep your precious off the floor ;-) Also I got the impression this contest is not so much about age, as it is about something that means a lot to you and some words describing why so you could still enter with no problem.

It's turned a bit into a retro binge so far because...well the target demographic of Gog is people who were likely around in the olden days, and nostalgia is a great factor for making things better, even if they aren't that that great any more.

I've been considering laying out all my PC games in groups of "Also have on gog." "Haven't got on Gog yet" and "These games ought to be on gog" and starting a thread to inspire people to share their collections and show off games they held on to hoping for a more compatible Gog release. But it's not really gear per-se so didn't go here.

Still boggles my mind, how much fun you could squeeze out of that little ~1mhz machine with 128k of ram. And now a days our computers are several thousands times faster but not necessarily more fun. Maybe it's to do with growing old and jaded. Or maybe it's because making a game now is a huge undertaking, where back then games were small enough to experiment with.


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Klingenlaeufer: I'm going to show not the oldest of my gear, but the one I love most: SX-64 from 1984 - this is the machine I learned to program on. It is the first mobile device with inbuild color CRT (5") and has a floppy drive. Here to see running Wizard of War and Ghost & Goblins. Still using it today. SN: 8088. Competes with my Arcade Cabinet (Wonderboy in Monsterland) for the first place in my heart. Normaly it is used on a 1084 CRT as the screen is a little tiny.
Commodore forever!

wtf? I rotated the pics before saving them so they had the right orientation and now they still stand heads down? MS-PAINT, I hate you :/
Wow, that screen is so tiny. I first thought you had managed to hook up an oscilloscope to your system. Very nifty.
Posted February 28, 2015
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JMich: And speaking of 8" floppies, did anyone else use flippies, or know what they are? I want to believe they were more widespread than I've encountered.
LOL Back in highschool, freshman year, I brought in my summer project saved on a floppy disk. When the teacher asked me to hand in the assignment, I told her that I needed to print it out first. She gave me access to her computer, but there was no drive for my floppy. Teacher said that the school hasn't been using floppies for years now. After going on a 2 hour scavenger hunt with the custodian, we finally uncovered a dinosaur desktop. This thing had an inch of dust on it. LOL was late to my next 3 classes but it was all worth it. Just felt like sharing. Ha ha
Post edited February 28, 2015 by TheOnlyGamingArc
Posted February 28, 2015
This is an old hard drive platter. Its diameter is 14" and weighs 800g(regular 3.5" HDD as comparison). It's not an IBM product. It's actually a Soviet era copy from Bulgaria. I don't know what was the specific machine model that used it. I only know it was used in an array with 4 or 6 other platters. It could store about 80MB of data. The capacity was dependant on the precision of the read heads. With slower and more precise read head they could pack more data on it. They were used in Estonia in the 80s.
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Posted February 28, 2015
Hello everyone from Alex :)
I am from Russia.
In 1984, the Soviet Union began to produce electronic game: Well, wait!
Based on a Soviet cartoons about the wolf and the hare :)
Prefix called Elektronika IM-02 (game microprocessor)
it was every child's dream :)
Is an unofficial clone of Nintendo EG-26 Egg in a series of Nintendo Game & Watch..
I do not remember how it came to me, but most likely I am received it in my birthday. It was a great gift :)

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Sorry, I just remove one picture from the cartoon, I think that it is not what a need
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