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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 04, 2015
This is the first computer my family owned when my Dad and Uncle were going to school for engineering. I found/inherited it when we were moving out and I found it in the basement. It has a couple of really old games on cassette tapes that still work, but the TV I use it with is loaned to a friend right now.
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Posted March 04, 2015
Say hello to my 1993 Gateway Colorbook 2000. The 2000 was the price, not the year it was made. The old girl doesn't power up anymore but I used to play Bow and Arrow, WinRisk, Chip's Challenge, and (my favorite) Rodent's Revenge as a kid. Windows 3.1, 170mb hard drive and 4mb of RAM. And there was something about that pop-out mouse that I just LOVED. Oh, and peeking out from behind my Macbook is the one of the old Sound Force 505 speakers that we had hooked up to our desktop 3.1 computer. I still use those.
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Posted March 05, 2015
Here are some of my oldest gaming peripherals, a Gravis joystick, A Gravis gamepad (I remember watching my dad play Commander Keen for hours with this one), and last but not least, the Logitech Cyberman !

This thing could be twisted in about every way you could imagine, pull up, push down, turn, roll, pitch… and even had a vibration function. I think it was designed mostly with FPS games in mind, but I bought it solely for one… single… game… DESCENT ! I spent ages playing that one with this “mouse” and flying around the levels felt just fantastic.
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Posted March 05, 2015
Dear GOGers, I present you my piece of gaming gear:
It’s an Logitech Wingman Light 2-Axis, 2-Button Joystick with a MIDI/Gameport-Interface.
My dad bought it along with those two gems in 1997: Rebel Assault I+II
It was also great with flightsims since it got two trim wheels.
I will never forget those unique and unequal sounds of both buttons latching: the upper going “cling” and the trigger going “cla-clong”.
Till now I only used Logitech Joysticks for my flight- and spacesim needs thanks to this old bud.
Hope you appreciate my wingman ;)
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Posted March 05, 2015
Pic 1 Odyssey 2 1982 and Intellivision II 1984. The only console systems I ever owned. Great fun with the kids. We also enjoyed our C64 for a lot of years but when the kids discovered Nintendo, I moved on to PC games.

Pic 2 Dark Tower 1981 board game and Dungeons and Dragons 1982 hand held. Even though the DT electronics really just simulated a dice roll and supplemented it with sounds and illuminated pictures, still a lot of family fun. The D&D game was pretty simplistic but had its charm.
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Posted March 05, 2015
Sure know exactly why I still own that thing. Even if resurrecting the kind of memory attached is already making me regret this post, here is my Atari Lynx II, running Shadow of the Beast.

You wanted a story, right? Sometime early '90s my then girlfriend called me to get downtown, where she'd practically held the owner of a small electronics store hostage. A wrong shipment he wanted to return, had no pricing for it. Suze, with her wrist tattoo of a lucky 13 had this way of leaning forward in arguments, as if about to charge.
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Posted March 05, 2015
Remember when IBM published Microsoft's games? No?

It was originally called Colossal Cave, and was written in FORTRAN. I had played it on a mainframe in the murky past. Microsoft wrote a version of the game as a launch title for the original IBM PC, so it was literally the first PC game. It required 32k RAM (1/5th the size of this picture!)

My wife got these as promos when it came out, and two are still in the shrink-wrap. None of my computers now even have 3.5" floppy drives, let alone 5.25" :)

XYZZY!
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Posted March 05, 2015
Now I could tell you, perhaps make you see
What's the appearance of working machine
That used to be labeled Atari ST,
But these just feel closer, I'll say what I mean:

The mouse turns now ten, the keyboard - eighteen.

I smashed those keys over a Virtua Fighter 2,
I learned how to type without looking down,
These pieces went with me when I left my town
To where I studied music and met my wife, too.
And those gizmos won me master's degree,
And stuff. So there's history, you'll surely agree.

POST-EDIT ADDENDUM:
Edited the post to erase a number,
I'm disqualified, now I'll get some slumber.
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Posted March 05, 2015
This is the mouse of my dad's old computer. That computer was the one in which I played video games for the first time in my life. And this mouse is all we have left of it. Looking for it brought me back memories of those days when my sister and I played "The Lost Vikings" for hours.
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Posted March 05, 2015
Retro gear with a twist. The original Nintendo Entertainment System was my favourite game console while I was growing up, I have many fond memories of it but sadly I no longer have the console itself. However all is not lost! I still have a controller I barely used - so I cleaned it up, and paired it with this USB adaptor. It's perfect for playing modern platformers on my PC!

The perfect mix of fresh and seasoned ;)
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Posted March 05, 2015
My old Mac that I used to have fond memories when I was a child learning basic programming and other fun cli that I thought was a game to me and everything was powered up and the memories came rushing by oh the floppy disks that I went through making various small programs
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Posted March 05, 2015
Pics taken today :) Commodore VIC-20 was my first PC, bought when I was 2 years old so I could learn how to use a computer, for $400. It still works, lovingly refurbished. Has 20k of RAM, 16K free. Programmed using BASIC. My uncle taught me to code games on it.

Radar rat race on paddles or joystick. Cartridges and games on TAPES. Fast forward the tape to 033 and press play while typing LOAD, where my uncle wrote me a Zork clone called WAMPUS. Avenger and Omega Race are still my favorites. They don’t make them like this anymore.
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Posted March 05, 2015
My first working Computer. A 4k Basic Ohio Scientific computer kit with a blindingly fast switchable interface for a 110-baud teletype (too big to fit in the picture!) or 300-baud RS-232. Based on a 6502 processor, with no independent means of storing programs, you had to input them via the paper tape reader on the TTY or type them in over and over by hand. The top card is the processor, the middle card is the memory card, and the back card was for the I/O. We've come a long way baby!
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Posted March 05, 2015
Well, GOG, as your contest winds to a close, and you begin to read through the entries, I hope you'll take note of one thing: We love our Good Old Games, but we also love our Good Old Gear. It isn't old junk to us; the GOGers who posted here told their stories like they were reminiscing about old friends. Nobody said, "I just want the prizes, so here are some pics". It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one who held on to his old hardware, and kept it running, while those around me looked at it askance, lost as to the wonder of how this little box, with only a few mere kilobytes of memory and a 1 megahertz CPU, could do all of the things -- hell any of the things -- that it could do. There were actually others out there just like me -- who knew?

We kept our Osbornes, our Sinclairs, our Kaypros and Spectrums, even my little PET 4032, because we loved the way it felt to be somehow connected to our little machines. A program wasn't just somebody else's work you clicked on and consumed. It was something you made. It was you. It was the machine. It was both of you, and that made it somehow feel more real. A feeling that, no matter how many cores they cram in to the next CPU, no matter how many more polygons they squeeze out of the next CryEngine release, they will never again be able to re-create.

I'd like to suggest that "Good Old Gear" become a permanent thing. A section under the Community page, where GOGers can post some pictures and tell some more stories. Or post some BASIC programs listings so other can type them in and experience programming the way we did; I know my little PETster is starved for some new things to try. I'd even be willing to post my PET program listings to get things rolling.

There are a lot of us out there, maybe thousands, with quaint, unique, beloved little systems that we'd love to share and discover with others who are just like us. And GOG.com is just the kind of global presence that could give us a well-known easy-to-find nexus where we could all reach one another. Keep Good Old Gear alive. C'mon, GOG; what do you say?
Posted March 05, 2015
I bought this Amiga 1200 on a school trip to London (burnt most of my life saving back then), I am now living in Japan and she followed me there. She is now sitting in my desk/game room among my collection and I still fire her up once or twice a week for a good old moonstone, chaos engine or elite. Plugged on a framemeister XRGB she works like a charm :)
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