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Posted June 01, 2015
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DennisLaursen89: However, maybe you could help me with some late 80's/early 90's DOS game developers? There are some PC games I want to recall too. I know Apogee/3D realms was a huge one, and I also get those game on Steam in the bundle. But there must be others, that made some game I played back then.
Psygnosis
Bullfrog
Bitmap Brothers
Ocean
Team17
DMA Design
Posted June 02, 2015
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DennisLaursen89: Then I was a child in the 90's (I'm born in 1989), I remember that we had a old gaming console, with a lot of fun games (I think back then). The console was connected to our TV, and we had both a joystick and a keyboard connected to the console. The games for the console was gigantic floppy disks. Slightly thinner than PC floppy disks, but the area was about four times bigger.

Someone knows the name of the console, based on my sparse description?
Could be the Atari 800

http://oldcomputers.net/atari800.html

Of course, that thing is a decade older than you - but then again: you say, you were born in 1989, and played on it "in the 90s".

So, you were still a small kid, when you used it, and it is possible, that an actually old system just seemed new to you.
Posted June 02, 2015
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DennisLaursen89: @Wishbone:
I know it wasn't a computer, it was a gaming console. The floppy disks you described however, sounds correct.
How are you defining the difference between 'computer' and 'console'? The fact that it plugged into your TV doesn't necessarily make it a console.

Because the bits you describe - 5.25" floppies and a keyboard - sounds like lots of '80s computers, a lot of which were usually plugged into the TV. I can't think of many actual consoles that had floppy drives and keyboards.
Posted June 02, 2015
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SirPrimalform: How are you defining the difference between 'computer' and 'console'? The fact that it plugged into your TV doesn't necessarily make it a console.

Because the bits you describe - 5.25" floppies and a keyboard - sounds like lots of '80s computers, a lot of which were usually plugged into the TV. I can't think of many actual consoles that had floppy drives and keyboards.
i can think of 1 and 1 only

the famicom

it had the famicom disk drive which took 3 inch floppies
and famicom basic which turned the famicom in a very basic home computer with a keyboard

if it was a console the OP could have meant a copy box which do take floppies
Posted June 02, 2015
Was it a PC Engine?
Posted June 02, 2015
http://www.mrwallpaper.com/wallpapers/evolution-of-gaming-consoles.jpg

is it any of them?

sounds like a computer and not a game console. and if the discs are four times as big, sounds like we're talking about the old IBM 8 inch floppies and not even the 5 inch kind.
Post edited June 02, 2015 by johnnygoging
Posted June 02, 2015
Maybe a long shot, but Japan's PC gaming industry was actually a thing in the 80's & 90's, and there are a few gaming-focused computer hardware systems that were released and had some small international dsitributions that might fit the bill:

NEC PC-8801

NEC PC-9801

MSX

Sharp X68000
Posted June 02, 2015
could it have been the atari XEGS ?
http://videogamecritic.com/xeinfo.htm

which is an atari 8 bit computer in a console shell but still takes all peripherals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_XEGS
and it came with a keyboard

( i dont really consider the xegs a console and usually forget all about it never was an atari home computer fan )
Post edited June 02, 2015 by snowkatt
Posted June 02, 2015
No shit, this is hands down the most educational thread I have ever seen here. I had NO CLUE there were this many consoles.
Posted June 02, 2015
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tinyE: No shit, this is hands down the most educational thread I have ever seen here. I had NO CLUE there were this many consoles.
should i introduce you to pong consoles then ?
there are hundreds of the damn things
Posted June 02, 2015
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tinyE: No shit, this is hands down the most educational thread I have ever seen here. I had NO CLUE there were this many consoles.
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snowkatt: should i introduce you to pong consoles then ?
there are hundreds of the damn things
Those were on the History Channel tonight. Modern Marvels "70's Tech".
Posted June 02, 2015
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tinyE: No shit, this is hands down the most educational thread I have ever seen here. I had NO CLUE there were this many consoles.
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snowkatt: should i introduce you to pong consoles then ?
there are hundreds of the damn things
This was my very first console as a kid:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/bentley_compuvision_box.jpg

Only had about four games, all of which were really just variations on Pong. Also, the graphics were only in black and white. Good times, good times.
Posted June 02, 2015
Any chance it was a Mattel Aquarius? That's an obscure piece of tech most people won't remember.
Posted June 02, 2015
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tinyE: Those were on the History Channel tonight. Modern Marvels "70's Tech".
...seriously ?
well you can read about 112 of the buggers here http://www.old-computers.com/museum/default.asp?st=3
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cogadh: This was my very first console as a kid:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/bentley_compuvision_box.jpg

Only had about four games, all of which were really just variations on Pong. Also, the graphics were only in black and white. Good times, good times.
it still blows my mind that there are so many variations on the same game produced in about 4 5 years before the 2600 coleco vision intellivision mark 1000 and famicom hit
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EBToriginal: Any chance it was a Mattel Aquarius? That's an obscure piece of tech most people won't remember.
...that piece of shit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel_Aquarius

could it have been an adam ? ....nah adams never used a floppy come to think of it ( and they sucked )
Post edited June 02, 2015 by snowkatt
Posted June 02, 2015
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EBToriginal: Any chance it was a Mattel Aquarius? That's an obscure piece of tech most people won't remember.
I don't think the Aquarius had a floppy either. Cartridges, and maybe had a cassette drive.
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