Oldest (Functional) System in your Possession

[stinow]

Thank you so much for this. A home built pong from the 70's i persume. Thats more cool than elvis in an armani suit. Awesome.

That's right, shame I didn't know Elvis though..

[crustyasp46]

Coleco Total Control 4 (1981, LED, 2 9 Volts, Model# 2125, Cartridge add-on pack Model# 2129)
U. S. Patent #s 4,386,776 and 4,391,444
Invented by: Eric Bromley (according to the patents)


This is a fairly simple cartridge based sports game system. It was sold with the football cartridge (which is the entire orange area in the picture). Three other sports games were available: Basketball, Hockey and Soccer. They were all sold together as an add-on pack for the game. Interesting note: The cartridges aren't really cartridges at all, basically just game overlays and a switch to tell the system which game to play. The only thing in the cartidges is a little circuit board that connects certain contacts together (see pic of inside of the Football cartridge).

My latest acquisition, unfortunately not boxed, but with all four cartridges. Works well, just add batteries. Needs some cosmetic work ( Retrobrite) to make it look new again.

Pic below is the board inside the Football cartridge. No actual circuitry, just a switch basically. Taking a wild guess, I bet the first one does nothing, the second two act as power (turning the game on with no cartridge does nothing, these two are probably the reason), and then depending on which of the remaining 5 are connected, you get one of the four games.

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[Hot Trout]

That is a nice find, I would love one of those for the collection. Very jealous.

[daffy2]

Wow, that 70's homemade pong game looks cool!

The oldest system that I have is the Magnavox Odyssey. I think it still works, but I haven't played it in a number of years.

[Kherr]

The oldest thing in my possession will shortly be a complete Windows 95 era IBM machine. Soon as I give the guy 25 bucks that is. :3

[hbgmobile]

I have an original atari 2600. I even have the box somewhere.

[GozmitJosh]

Mine would be by NES. With the original boxes/manuals controllers and zapper gun. All in working condition with games..etc..etc

Only fault is the zapper gun wire is a little frayed :S

[stinow]

Wow, that 70's homemade pong game looks cool!

The oldest system that I have is the Magnavox Odyssey. I think it still works, but I haven't played it in a number of years.

Thanks Daffy D!

[stinow]

The oldest thing in my possession will shortly be a complete Windows 95 era IBM machine. Soon as I give the guy 25 bucks that is. :3

Silently awaiting the pics..

[Dragon Mech]

my oldest system is the NES(Nintendo Entertainmet System) i have two of them. i did have a Magnavox Odyssey 2 for a few days but it shorted out.