Great Games Machines at The Corner Café

Welcome to the world of early games machines!  We probably have all had one or more of the ones below. I know I have.  They were the next best thing to sliced bread in their day, and even today they are still for sale with the original games, which tells you something.  The graphics weren't good but the games were so so playable and addictive.  Much better than the modern games, although obviously they have better graphics. But I personally would rather have a playable addictive game with poor graphics than a lot of the games nowadays.

This machine was introduced in 1982.

This machine was one of the earliest and introduced in North America in 1977.

Again this came out at the same time as the Spectrum computer in 1982.

The games for the Atari were carts. and included great games like Breakout, Packman, Space Invaders, Centipede and Phoenix. Both the Commodore and Spectrum had cassettes and could be slow and a pain to load but you could get a disc drive for the C64 which was slightly better !! The games for those included Bubble Bobble, Outrun, California Games, and two of the most playable games I think - Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.

Now, probably the biggest debate ever, Sonic or Mario, and depending on what your answer was, which machine you bought.

This was a hand held games machine and is still available today with a lot of the original games It was first launched in 1991

This in its day was a great machine, launched in 1989

This was the earlier of the Sega systems introduced in 1985

The much loved Blue Hedgehog is still as popular today as when it first arrived on our games machines.

This was the better of the Nintendo machines and was launched in 1992 at a cost of £150.00

And this was the Game Boy, their hand held machine launched in 1989 and best known for Tetris.

This first Nintendo was introduced in 1983

Since those days, machines have progressed to Playstation, Wii, Xbox, and now tablets. I personally don’t think they are as good. Yes, the graphics are better and they are faster but I am still nostalgic about the old machines. They were fun.

Ok, let us have your thoughts on games machines, what you had and what games you liked.

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