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Happened to
pick up a pile of Finnish "Printti" computer magazines from a
flea and to my surprise they had a 6 part article series called
"History of Video Games". It's in Finnish of course, but
I've translated some interesting details here and there.
Copyrights belong to Printti/Jari Hennilä/Tuomo Sajaniemi.
A
kid in the middle of some 80ies computers.
baby1.jpg [49 Kb] Sharp
MZ-731, Grundy NewBrain (didn't know we had these in Finland), Sega
SC-3000, Sord M5 and Norsk Data Nord-? (never seen either of these
either)
baby2.jpg [51 Kb] Sord M5
and Norsk Data Nord-?
Thanks to Kevin for some recognizing help. |
Smoking
smoking.jpg [20 Kb] This guy
had a meat smoking factory that was controlled by a bunch of
Spectravideo computers. |
Spectrum
Plus
specplus.jpg [18 Kb] Caption
says "You don't need to pay many hundreds (FIM) for a Spectrum
plus" |
Tandy
1000
tandy1000.jpg [22 Kb] In 1987, Tandy 1000 was one of the
computers the Finnish National Board of Education recommended for
schools. Still, we've never seen one in Finland. Where did they go? |
Video
game history part 1 page 1
VPH1_1.jpg [120 Kb] Telling a
little about Finnish coin operated game history, pinballs, Nolan
Bushnell making a game called 'Bong' and starting Atari, space
shooting games. |
Video
game history part 1 page 2
VPH1_2.jpg [144 Kb] More
arcade history, Zaxxon, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man. |
Video
game history part 2 page 1
VPH2_1.jpg [91 Kb] Driving
games, Sprint 2, Pole Position |
Video
game history part 2 page 2
VPH2_2.jpg [136 Kb] More
about Pole Position and it's success, Hang-On, Out Run ("you
can shoot at the obstacles and other cars") - obviously
they never played the game, Laser Disc games. |
Video
game history part 3 page 1
VPH3_1.jpg [109 Kb] The most
interesting part : machines at home. Starting from Pongs
("Tennis, Hockey..."), picture of Salora Playmaster - a
Finnish TV with a built-in Pong, electronic games, Atari 2600
Basketball.. |
Video
game history part 3 page 2
VPH3_2.jpg [135 Kb] Telling
about home video games, pictures of rally world champion Timo Mäkinen
playing with Coleco Turbo, various handhelds, a room with handhelds
hanging from the ceiling and other video games on the background
(where was this and why wasn't I there?) |
Video
game history part 3 page 3
VPH3_3.jpg [120 Kb] More
about home video games, Vectrex cost 1950;- FIM, Videopac G7000
790;- FIM, Videopac G7400 (never seen these in Finland either) 990;-
FIM, they also mention Intervision 2001, pictures of many machines;
Atari 2600 with Romscanner, Intellivision, Colecovision,
Colecovision add-ons (Atari expansion - "purpose
unknown"), Philips Videopac and Vectrex ("Equipped with
its own display, Vectrex scared off the buyers with its high price.
It didn't have any colors but something could be done by attaching a
plastic cell in front of the screen. As a whole it was handy and
neat. Graphics were unique, fast and precise.") |
Video
game history part 4 page 1
VPH4_1.jpg [112 Kb] About
computer games, shoot-em-ups, simulations, sports games and such.. |
Video
game history part 4 page 2
VPH4_2.jpg [123 Kb] More of
computer games, strategy, arcade conversions, MSX, platform games... |
Video
game history part 4 page 3
VPH4_3.jpg [132 Kb] Sports
games, beat-em-ups, RPGs, how games affect players.. |
Video
game history part 5 page 1
VPH5_1.jpg [134 Kb] Computer
game copy protections, carts, tapes, disks, Atari joystick
standard.. |
Video
game history part 5 page 2
VPH5_2.jpg [131 Kb] More
about different types of copy protections, different kinds of
joysticks.. |
Video
game history part 6 page 1
VPH6_1.jpg [140 Kb] A
reviewers point of view to games, good games and not-so-good ones. |
Video
game history part 6 page 2
VPH6_2.jpg [122 Kb] More of
the same. |
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