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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 March 01, 2015
Here's my old PC Fighter 6 game pad. I remember getting it along with the PC version of Mega Man X, which wasn't a very good port, but the game pad was pretty decent. It came out back in '95, and I had a Gravis Gamepad before that, but it's been lost to time. I think I've read the same game pad came with the PC port of Street Fighter II, which was even worse, but it was never sold on its own. More importantly, I played through all of the old Commander Keen games with it. Good times!
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Posted March 01, 2015
Proper post's supposed to have photos of the original device. Ain't so simple with this one. Now here's a photo of my Nostromo N52 keypad that can make and store all kinds of twisted macros, currently stranded on a mess of work related papers.

Long story short, it's a keypad that you can reprogram through use of an accompanying profile manager. Each key can be programmed to act as a different key or as a customized macro, down to the fraction of a second. In addition, the device can alter between 4 different states. Basically, you can also reprogram up to 3 of the keys to cause the keypad to switch over to a new set of programmed functions, quadrupling the amount of commands it can be programmed with. Kind of handy for games that rely on numberpads while playing on a laptop that doesn't have a numpad (which pretty much describes every laptop I can recall owning up to today), with older games that don't let you customize their controls in the game itself (very much looking forward to trying it with UU, to give you an idea), or for just streamlining controls for games in a variety of ways.

Tl;dr: it's neat, useful, and I love it :)

My N52 and I go way back… kind of. I first picked one up back when I was in high school, and relied on it heavily when I was into online gaming. Freelancer in particular was a source of great fun, particularly for the community on the server I played on. I met a lot of good people there who I regret not keeping in touch with over the years.

Sadly, my original N52 got thrown out at one point when I was staying at home after the first year of college. I had brought my personal trash can back, and had used it to carry a bunch of stuff that just wouldn't fit anywhere else without risking damage. So, naturally, someone took this to mean that everything in the can, including the relatively brand spanking new and expensive looking keypad needed to take a trip to the landfill.

Thankfully, I managed to find a replacement shortly after that online (the one in the photos attached). It was a used unit with a mouse wheel I never could get to work properly, but it served me well through college. I fell out of online gaming in law school, but looked forward to getting back into it at some point and taking the Nostromo out for a spin again. Sadly, my HDD crapped out in my final year at school, taking out my stored macro profiles for I don't want to know how many different games. Nowadays, I 've taken to trying to set up some macros for games that I like, starting with Bastion; well, it was a touching reunion.
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Posted March 01, 2015
Here is perhaps my biggest treasure, first computer I have owned – Commodore 64 II, received in 1992 as a gift from my parents. Along with it all the peripherals I still have for it (some were added later on), and most fondly remembered titles displayed out of floppy case. All is in working condition except for the Datasette which would require a drive belt transplant. This system sparked my interest in computers in general, which continues to this day, and though I do not fire it up anymore, I keep it as a reminder of how it all started...
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Posted March 01, 2015
Around 2004 my brother bought his own PC and gear and I got his old one for myself. From time to time I replaced the tower, the mouse and the monitors, but I always kept the keyboard. It's an old Cherry keyboard, I don't even know which model.
One time I replaced the keyboard (because it didn't fit the colors of my monitors and mouse) and then realized that I was no longer able to type or race as good as I could with my beloved Cherry. So I put it back in place where it now is. :)
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Posted March 01, 2015
@GOG team - I read and re-read the rules and couldn't decide if it's 2 pics of the same thing or if the pics could be from different stuff, and if it's 100 words total or 100 words for each picture, so I chose what suits me best :)

1st pic: After we move, I searched for my 10-years-old Atari only to discover my parents had dumped it plus ALL my cartridges because I was a kid no more. Indeed I wasn't, but I cried as a little baby. Actually, I cried way more than a little baby - it was despair in its true form :). I even had E.T…Anyways, trying to apologize, they got me the Mega Drive: they couldn't find an Atari, so they bought what they thought it resembled it the most. Dudes, I love my parents XD

2nd pic: my oldest boxed game and my oldest gaming magazine. I bought a gaming magazine which came with an Omikron demo CD. It was true love. My decision: I NEEDED that game. My problem: buy the genuine version of a not known game in a country in which piracy was the standard. It took me 4-5 months of hard work (in which I involved both my parents) but I finally manage to find a copy - the last and only one, hidden in the back of the store
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Posted March 01, 2015
In 1980 Father Christmas delivered an Atari CX2600 and changed my life.
Being a complete hoarder here is the full system complete with games, both controller types, the original packaging and one very confused son.
Had hoped to show it working but think the transformer has finally gone.
35 years later and still a retro gamer at heart, I am the proud owner of 1156 computer games from the Atari, Spectrum, Mega Drive, PC and Xbox family, all still owned and stored safely away. [413 from GOG]
Pure escapism has saved my life many times in the past.
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Posted March 01, 2015
This is my baby. I have altered, cared, tweaked, refined, and outright overhauled this thing over the years. It started as the throttle from my beloved Saitek X45 HOTAS. As parts failed or as my input requirements evolved, I have (with patience, dremel, and solder) rebuilt and adapted it to suit my needs. As a rabid fan of MechWarrior and various space combat sims, I found this rig handy to use in my left hand, and wield either mouse or joystick in the right. In the "Explained" picture, I break down where many parts from other 'Old Gear' are incorporated into this monstrosity. Some parts are newer than others, with some additional hobbyist parts from various online outlets.

-Mahalito
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Posted March 01, 2015
This is my GF Lisa. We hook up together when I was in Uni in 1985. Including ProFile, a 5MB hard drive, she costs me an arm and a leg at that time (around $12K). I loved her from the first sight; She's very delicate, easily crush under pressure, but she help me to get my degree. When I graduate, I had the dilemma to break up with her or to find a way to bring her with me. Eventually, I sell a kindey too.

Today she's still in perfect condition. Profile passed away 10 years ago. I've setup a step down power converter to feed her with 110V... and we still playing Alice, like the old days.
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Posted March 01, 2015
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Questarjazz: In 1980 Father Christmas delivered an Atari CX2600 and changed my life.
Being a complete hoarder here is the full system complete with games, both controller types, the original packaging and one very confused son.
Had hoped to show it working but think the transformer has finally gone.
35 years later and still a retro gamer at heart, I am the proud owner of 1156 computer games from the Atari, Spectrum, Mega Drive, PC and Xbox family, all still owned and stored safely away. [413 from GOG]
Pure escapism has saved my life many times in the past.
This is the original Atari console, my uncle still owns one. He also had a trackball for this console, so there were not two but three controller types: joystick, paddles (I think they were called paddles) and trackball. I used to play Decathlon with the trackball, it was much easier than to play this game with a joystick, espiacially the 1500-meter race was a lot easier with it.
Posted March 01, 2015
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Back in 1968 my parents got me a r-evolutionary 20-bit processor. Took me a while to learn the best way to use it, but it ultimately has served me well over the years.

In 1991 I obtained a 2nd processor, and then linked them with two proprietary gold interconnects to make a rudimentary dual-core unit. The modified unit works fairly well, with a couple caveats: it now takes an extra 15 minutes to boot up, and it really sucks at financial math. Oh, and the Logic Processor on the second core has never really worked correctly.
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Posted March 01, 2015
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HereForTheBeer: Back in 1968 my parents got me a r-evolutionary 20-bit processor. Took me a while to learn the best way to use it, but it ultimately has served me well over the years.

In 1991 I obtained a 2nd processor, and then linked them with two proprietary gold interconnects to make a rudimentary dual-core unit. The modified unit works fairly well, with a couple caveats: it now takes an extra 15 minutes to boot up, and it really sucks at financial math. Oh, and the Logic Processor on the second core has never really worked correctly.
ROFL!!! You made my day!
Posted March 01, 2015
Hi everybody,

my gear isn't as old as some are that I've seen in posts already. But they are pretty old.

At first I got my Keyboard as you can see on the picture. I'm using it for years now. It has been fine with a good response of the keys but it has seen better days. I've done a view lan parties with it and had success :)
But I need a new Keyboard and I love the Roccat products.

As you can see of the other picure I already got a Roccat Kone XTD and I love it. It's so precise and my aiming got a lot better since I'm the owner of this one.
But also I got this gaming mouse pad that you can see there. It's old...older than my Keyboard...
The frame were glowing blue in the past but sadly it's defect now. Also the surface is used a lot as you can see. So I could need a new one with a higher precision.

Best regards,
DerAbberad
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Posted March 01, 2015
I still own my Sega Genesis. I think it's the pride of my collection just because it somehow still works even though I have never did much upkeep (I probably should, but I don't want to break it at this point). I originally got it for my 16th birthday. I remember always being behind everybody else on what consoles they had (My dad had an original Atari 2600 for like 20 years past it's original release). This Genesis, the discerning eye will notice, is the series 2 model. In my opinion it was the best release version of the Genesis.
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Posted March 01, 2015
There's nothing quite as significant as your very first computer, so I had to choose my Atari 520ST... :) It's where my love of computer gaming first began, plus it also introduced me to programming and computer graphics when I was a kid – and that changed my entire life. Fondest memories of the ST include summer nights trying to beat Psygnosis' KGS (many Dragon joysticks died on that quest – only the old Wico Command Control survived... that thing is indestructible!) Still enjoy the KGS whenever nostalgia strikes, but have only ever made as far as level 9. :)
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Posted March 01, 2015
I present to you my Macintosh Classic. Fully functional 68K Macintosh with 9-inch monochrome CRT display (512 × 342), 40MB hard drive, 4MB of RAM and built in SuperDrive (3.5 inch floppy drive.) Manufactured in March of 1991 and still going strong after 24 years of use.

Pulled it out of the cold storage, booted it up and found some old games from it's drive. Pictures are taken while playing Macman 3.0

Looking through the thread I saw mostly PC and Commodore hardware so I thought that it would be nice to share some old Apple hardware and games too.
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