Video World of Sports

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An open message to all children of the 1990s, this is what we had and we liked it dammit! Sure, Super Mario was cool but did his console have a wood grain finish? I didn't think so...

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[HardyGirl]

All hail mighty PONG!! I still have my Telstar Alpha from when I was a kid. It no longer works that well, (and only b/c my previous students loved it so much they broke it!), but it will remain a treasured part of my childhood.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Montgomery Wards must have thought the "World" only played Tennis They forgot all of the other sports.

Actually, I used to beg my mother almost daily for something like this. She had heard a report that they left "burn-in" marks on the TV screen and refused to ever get one. In fact the day I bought my own Nintendo in the 90's she told me not to leave it on too long because it would ruin my TV screen.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Actually, I used to beg my mother almost daily for something like this. She had heard a report that they left "burn-in" marks on the TV screen and refused to ever get one. In fact the day I bought my own Nintendo in the 90's she told me not to leave it on too long because it would ruin my TV screen.

I have a similar story: My family got an Atari 2600 one Christmas, but my mom read a similar report, and wouldn't let us hook it up to the color TV. So we had to use the 13" B&W model in my sister's room. To this day, I still don't know what most Atari games looked like in color.

By the time NES rolled around, I successfully lobbied to use the big TV, and won that time.

Chris

[toys2cool]

what a rip, but looks like fun

[Karen-bionic-fan]

We have the technology lmfao

[nvmbrsdoom5]

People love to rip on how primitive and lame the old games like this are, but I still have fun playing them to this day.

[jwyblejr]

I don't get that little bit they have under the price. "You've seen them advertised. You know." Know what?

[HardyGirl]

I don't get that little bit they have under the price. "You've seen them advertised. You know." Know what?

Probably that they were cheaper than the known name brands.

[DocDrako]

Atari 2600 was awesome back then. I loved the Activision games, especially Pitfall & River Raid, but there were alot of fun games. I bought an Activision CDRom for my computer, but using the keyboard or a joypad just isn't the same. With some games, you gotta use a joystick. If they made an Atari joystick for the computer, I'd rock that CDRom for all it's worth.