The afternoons spent rediscovering the cartridges of your old consoles are much underestimated. Usually the magic starts by chance, legend has it that when a person finds himself inside the home for a long time, out of nowhere could trigger what scientists call the 'afternoon of memories'. Usually it happens like this: you have just found your very old mp3 player, you haven't seen it for years, and you are ready to gas yourself to the rhythm of that music you haven't heard since middle school ... but it would take the charger ... where you put it ?… Oh yes! It's in the drawer!
The drawer in question has not usually been opened for years and is full of all those gadgets and gadgets now aimed at the ignoble fate of disuse; so, while you rummage intent on finding the ancient charger to bring to safety, an avalanche of memories hits you like a shot: the tamagotchi by now starving, your old headphones, even the stickers of when you went to elementary school! 'Most likely I also have the album somewhere ... maybe it's in the box inside the closet' you think, as you head for it.
Here, from the moment you approach that box it will be impossible to go back, you will be like a ball going downhill, a speeding train with broken brakes, a swooping plane… from that moment you will have officially entered the tunnel, you will never stop and one memory will lead to another. Driven by the impetus of curiosity, you will decide to leave for an expedition, destination: the most remote areas of the house. No, you don't want to clean, or even tidy up… You simply want to see what surprises by now forgotten by memory are buried in the archaeological corners of your home, inspect those small spaces on which your gaze has not rested for years. And it is precisely in those spaces that they nestle treasures made even more precious by the time they spent resting, perhaps hidden in a drawer, or covered with old photo albums, or perhaps buried under an avalanche of documents. And while you, my little, dear domestic speleologists, are curled up on all fours trying to retrieve that box of comics that you were convinced you had given away to charity, here she appears, shining, beautiful, like new: that console now stored in the closet and with which you have not played for years. How did you forget about it? But yes, perfect! Let's see if it still works. The memories that resurface are something unparalleled, it is something that should be done more often. On the other hand, afternoons spent with old friends are always the best. So grab cables, adapters and be a kid again for a while: here are 10 consoles to brush up on with related video games.
Atari 2600 (1977)
Let's start from (almost) prehistory. A console that literally did the history of the videogame, in particular if you associate 2 games: Pac-Man e E.T. The Extraterrestrial. Now I'll explain: One of the 1000 moves that guaranteed the deserved success of theAtari, had been to convert arcade video games for his console. Driven by this idea that had already achieved great results, the company decided to produce Pac-Man, and the first print run would be 12 million copies (despite the consoles sold so far were only 10 million). The company was aiming for the success of the game, but unfortunately the video game was released it left over 5 million copies unsold due to its difficult playability. If you then add the strong negative criticism received from fans towards the other novelty: E.T. The Extraterrestrial (enough to be defined 'the ugliest game ever made'), Atari there was certainly a lot of unsold cartridges in stock. Over the years one urban legend was handed down from gamer to gamer: it was said that in September 83 AD Alamogordoin Texas, Atari had buried in the desert all unsold cartridges to avert a possible financial crisis. Over the years, people's curiosity became ever greater, so much so that in 2014 excavations began at the site where it was thought that Atari buried the offending titles ... well, believe it or not, the cartridges were really there, buried under a layer of earth. This event is detailed in the documentary Atari: Game Over di Zak Penn linked above.
Commodore 64 (1982)
'Mount all the cables please ... ok, take the cassettes ... damn, this one came out on the tape! Use the pen and put it back… well, let's insert the cassette… ok, I'll send it fast, we're almost there…. Cabbage! I forgot to reset the rev counter, I have to start over! '. No, it's not a propitiatory rite to make it rain, it was the way you used to get ready to play the mythical Commodore 64, a console that we highly recommend serving at room temperature with the game Impossible Mission (vintage 1984). The protagonist was a secret agent who, by means of acrobatic jumps and the search for pieces of passwords, had to foil the plans of the evil Professor Elvin Atombender. A game you had to have a dexterity with the joystick that not even Billy The Kid with guns. A video game that combined action (especially when avoiding the terrifying floating electric death balls) with complicated puzzles (such as assembling various pieces to get the password). And every time you fell into a ravine the protagonist emitted a very nice heartbreaking scream so out of place as to guarantee some therapy session to all the children who were lucky enough to try it.
Game Boy (1989)
This pearl has made the joy of a generation. A gray brick powered by 4 nuclear-powered torches (or were they 4 AA batteries ... Childhood memories are sometimes so clouded), ready to catapult you into a thousand imaginative worlds. First of these worlds, kindly offered by Nintendo, as a cartridge included inside the console box: Tertris (just name it that immediately starts his song in the head). An interlocking game of such subtle mathematical finesse that the player did not even realize it. The game, which despite simple appearances was able to suck your attention even for several hours, boasts the record of the second best-selling game in the history of video games (after Minecraft) with well 170 million copies purchased.
There would be a thousand cartridges to be cited for this marvel of consoles; a monolith of such fine workmanship that many have saved it from the fate that provided for its conservation in a lost box inside the warehouse of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', but they keep it in the place where it deserved to stay after years of impeccable service, that place where everyone always needs him: in the bathroom.
Old consoles, Game Gear (1990)
'Why, I just bought the Game Boy and the SEGA makes me surprise the Game Gear which, in addition to being in color, also has an illuminated screen and you can also play it in the dark?!?' In this precise historical moment that we are describing, a epic battle among the manufacturers, a cold war with portable consoles in which he would eventually be appointed the supreme emperor of video games. But the feud lasted very little, because the Game Boy, who already did the splendid with a wide range of titles, it cost less than its competitor and the batteries lasted longer, forcing the Game Gear to slow down its production which finally stopped in 1997 later 11 million consoles sold. But let's not despair, in its small way even this beautiful object has made its history, creating one of the most iconic characters in the history of video games: Sonic, the very fast anthropomorphic blue hedgehog.
SEGA Master System 2 (1990)
'Eh, but the SEGA Mega Drive was soooo cooler'. Well, the day you make your own ranking on older consoles you can enter it, now let's talk about the SEGA Master System 2. We decided to include this console for one of its peculiarities that crowned the childhood of many children: inside it was already installed a game, the legendary Alex Kidd in Miracle World! Alex Kidd was the official mascot of the SEGA for a few years before Sonic arrives, who subsequently took the official place. Without rescue systems, Alex Kidd in Miracle World it was the version SEGA of Super Mario, in which the protagonist, in addition to punching his opponents, had to challenge them to the Chinese morra. Yes, it is true, having said that you are not understanding anything, but I assure you that the game was much more fun and engaging than it may seem with this description.
Megadrive Mini saw
- The iconic console from SEGA, 55% smaller
- Includes 40 legendary games
- Includes two classic 3-button controllers
Old consoles, Play Station (1994)
No need to blow in cartridges to make them work! This goes to cd! The great debut of the Sony in the world of consoles opens with this gem, such a success that in a short time it managed to excel against historic companies in the sector such as Nintendo e SEGA. It is said that one of the most useful marketing moves was rend the console easily modifiable so that it read pirated video games without difficulty, to increase the purchase demand from consumers like wildfire. With a console like this you need a video game that has made history: Metal Gear Solid. The plot follows the events of Solid Snake, a secret agent who must infiltrate a remote nuclear weapons storage facility with the aim of neutralizing the terrorist threat posed by FOXHOUND. An action video game with a mainly top-down view, Metal Gear Solid It was highly acclaimed by critics for its success: an excellent game mode, a mature plot full of twists, and a remarkable quality both graphics and sound. True, we could have put other titles, like Silent Hill o Resident Evil 2, but we decided to enter Metal Gear Solid for one simple reason: the ranking is ours, so the same rule applies to the SEGA Mega Drive mentioned above.
Sony Playstation Classic - Console + 2 Controller
- Contains Console, 2 controllers and connection cables
- 20 classic titles will be pre-loaded into the console: Battle Arena Toshinden, Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, Final ...
- The mini console is about 45% smaller than the original PlayStation, of which it emulates the overall appearance, ...
Power player super joy
You can consider it as aadvertising break, but who remembers the mythical Roberto Artigiani and the teleshopping of the Power player super joy?! A console that had included a list of 76 thousand video game titles… which in reality were only the same 76 repeated 1000 times, but even 76 for a child is equivalent to a lifetime! Time to get your parents to buy you the Power player super joy… That the company had withdrawn all products on the market. Oh yes, because the manufacturing company found itself in a thousand legal disputes due to the intellectual property of the Nintendo and its licensors. So we poor children who grew up in the 90s have always had to be content with seeing Roberto Artigiani play.
Play Station 2 (2000)
Considered the skinny version of her big sister PlayStation 2 he slips and wins the record as the best-selling console of all time. A console that has remained in production for 12 years, boasting massive requests even in recent periods. And how not to present such a console with an equally successful video game? It may not have been the best-selling video game, sure, but GTA Vice City certainly enjoys a reputation like the console. How nice it was to be able to dabble in nice bank robberies, rogue massacres of innocent people and goliardic drug dealing, all surrounded by explosions, extortion, kidnappings, women, money and weapons. An emotion that Play Station 2 owners will be able to relive again.
Old consoles, Xbox 360 (2005)
Video game console produced by Microsoft, Xbox 360 introduced for the first time in the world Xbox live, a service that allowed you to play online in multiplayer mode with other people. A system that in those years led to the flips network gaming on consoles, acting as a source of inspiration for the subsequent Play Station Network and Nintendo Network. One of the first iconic games developed specifically for this console was Dead Rising. The plot is simple: you are a photographer stuck inside a shopping mall in the middle of a city overrun by zombies. The peculiarity of this wonder lay in the possibility of being able to interact with any object that came in front of you. The protagonist thus, in addition to having a wide range of clothes and fun costumes to wear, could use a series of absurd objects such as weapons (such as putting a mask on a zombie, or a toy lightsaber from Star Wars). It is good and right to remember how in the second chapter of this saga, the player could assemble different objects to create super ignorant weapons, such as, for example, assembling a wheelchair with a lawnmower created a mobile chair with rotating blades that mowed anything or creature stood in front of him. Ah, what memories!
Wii (2006)
Created by Nintendo, Wii is the best-selling console among those of the seventh generation and among those of the brand, as well as one of the most popular consoles in the world. Despite the initial skepticism and the fear of making a massacre with a wiimote, Wii represented the main competitor of both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. A console that is based on movement had to necessarily be associated with an equally valid video game, indeed ... in this type of video game based on the movements of the player, this is THE video game: Just Dance. The ritual usually begins when one of the participants says 'Nooo, I don't like Just Dance, let's play another game ...', only to be punctually in the middle of the game sweating like an ox and have fun like crazy. A game that begins punctually reluctantly and systematically you don't want it to end anymore. Convinced that it is your initial disinterest in the video game that speaks, and instead the truth is nestled in the bottom of your heart: you are afraid. Oh yes, why Just Dance is a game in which you have to leave aside dignity in all its nuances and bring out the Shakira that is in us… It always starts like this, there is a sort of dissent, assent and skepticism towards him, you start reluctantly and you no longer want to do anything else in life.
And you? which consoles have you found hidden in the crevices of your home? what is the video game that most of all has remained in your hearts?
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