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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_library ✓] | |style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_library ✓] | ||
| − | |style="text-align:center;"| | + | |style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/Atari2600VcsRomCollectionromHunterV11 ROM Hunter v11 Collection] |
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Atari 5200 emulators|Atari 5200]] | |style="text-align:center;"|[[Atari 5200 emulators|Atari 5200]] | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Bally Astrocade|Bally Astrocade]] | |style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Bally Astrocade|Bally Astrocade]] | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/bally_astrocade_library ✓] | |style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/bally_astrocade_library ✓] | ||
| − | |style="text-align:center;"| | + | |style="text-align:center;"|[https://ia801700.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/17/items/Bally_Professional_Arcade_and_Astrocade_TOSEC_2012_04_23/Bally_Professional_Arcade_and_Astrocade_TOSEC_2012_04_23.zip TOSEC] |
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|style="text-align:center;"|Bandai Super Vision 8000 | |style="text-align:center;"|Bandai Super Vision 8000 | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/sv8000_library ✓] | |style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/sv8000_library ✓] | ||
| − | |style="text-align:center;"|Only 7 games. | + | |style="text-align:center;"|Only 7 games. |
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[ColecoVision emulators|ColecoVision]] | |style="text-align:center;"|[[ColecoVision emulators|ColecoVision]] | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/coleco_colecovision_library ✓] | |style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/coleco_colecovision_library ✓] | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Emerson Arcadia 2001|Emerson Arcadia 2001]]* | |style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Emerson Arcadia 2001|Emerson Arcadia 2001]]* | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/emerson_arcadia_library ✓] | |style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/emerson_arcadia_library ✓] | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Entex_Adventure_Vision|Entex Adventure Vision]] | |style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Entex_Adventure_Vision|Entex Adventure Vision]] | ||
|style="text-align:center;"|Decent | |style="text-align:center;"|Decent | ||
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| − | |style="text-align:center;"|Like the Vectrex, this console had it's own screen and operated like a miniature arcade cabinet. Only four games were released for it. | + | |style="text-align:center;"|Like the Vectrex, this console had it's own screen and operated like a miniature arcade cabinet. Only four games were released for it. [https://archive.org/details/Entex_Adventure_Vision_TOSEC_2012_04_23 TOSEC] |
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|style="text-align:center;"|Epoch Cassette Vision | |style="text-align:center;"|Epoch Cassette Vision | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/channelf_library ✓] | |style="text-align:center;"|[https://archive.org/details/channelf_library ✓] | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Fairchild_Channel_F|Fairchild Channel F II]] | |style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Fairchild_Channel_F|Fairchild Channel F II]] | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Intellivision#Intellivision_II|Intellivision II]] | |style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Intellivision#Intellivision_II|Intellivision II]] | ||
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:RCA_Studio_II|RCA Studio II]] | |style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:RCA_Studio_II|RCA Studio II]] | ||
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| − | |style="text-align:center;"|1984 successor to the original Cassette Vision. Much easier to emulate as the hardware is similar to some other obscure systems. The graphical quality is some where between the ColecoVision and NES. Was actually fairly successful in Japan until the Famicom came along and kicked it's ass. Then [http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/11/117006/1757950-ladycassettevision.jpg this] happened. | + | |style="text-align:center;"|1984 successor to the original Cassette Vision. Much easier to emulate as the hardware is similar to some other obscure systems. The graphical quality is some where between the ColecoVision and NES. Was actually fairly successful in Japan until the Famicom came along and kicked it's ass. Then [http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/11/117006/1757950-ladycassettevision.jpg this] happened. [https://archive.org/details/Epoch_Super_Cassette_Vision_TOSEC_2012_04_23 TOSEC] |
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Interton_VC_4000|VC 4000]]** | |style="text-align:center;"|[[gametech:Interton_VC_4000|VC 4000]]** | ||
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Revision as of 21:30, 19 March 2017
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the video game market experienced an explosion of products hoping to capitalize on the success of the Odyssey and Atari. From the nigh-infinite Pong clones, to the suspiciously similar consoles, consumers had far more options than they do today. This is a list of those first and second generation machines. Not all of them can be emulated. See also Strange Console emulators, a similar page for 90s and 2000s.
First Generation (Pong Consoles)
It's Pong. You can play it anywhere. Emulating first generation systems like these can be tricky, as the games were heavily tied to their hardware, and most were just variations of Pong.
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*Coleco Telstar Arcade: Only 4 cartridges were released for this triangular abomination, but the console's design means that they can't be dumped and "emulated." They're more like activation discs for data already in the console. No known emulators.
Second Generation (Cartridge Consoles)
Best-selling game consoles: Atari 2600, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey², ColecoVision.
| Name | MESS support | No-intro collection | Internet Archive | Description |
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| APF Imagination Machine/MP1000 | Good | ✗ | ✓ | A PC with a game console mounted on top of it 32X-style (take that, master race!) Only 15 games were released, one being built-in. ROMs are here. |
| Atari 2600 | Good | ✗ | ✓ | ROM Hunter v11 Collection |
| Atari 5200 | Good | ✓ | ✓ | No-intro |
| Bally Astrocade | Good | ✗ | ✓ | TOSEC |
| Bandai Super Vision 8000 | Good | ✗ | ✓ | Only 7 games. |
| ColecoVision | Good | ✓ | ✓ | No-intro |
| Emerson Arcadia 2001* | Decent | ✓ | ✓ | TOSEC |
| Entex Adventure Vision | Decent | ✓ | ✓ | Like the Vectrex, this console had it's own screen and operated like a miniature arcade cabinet. Only four games were released for it. TOSEC |
| Epoch Cassette Vision | None | ✗ | Only 11 games exist for this console, and none have been dumped because of the cartridge design. Apparently the BIOS for the console is inside each cart. It's on MESS's to-do list. | |
| Fairchild Channel F | Good | ✓ | ✓ | No-intro |
| Fairchild Channel F II | Good | NA | An update to the Channel F, with no exclusive games. | |
| Intellivision | Good | ✗ | TOSEC | |
| Intellivision II | Good | NA | An update to the Intellivision, with no exclusive games. | |
| Magnavox Odyssey²/Videopac | Good | ✓ | ✓ | No-intro |
| RCA Studio II | Decent | ✓ | TOSEC | |
| Super Cassette Vision | Decent | ✓ | ✓ | 1984 successor to the original Cassette Vision. Much easier to emulate as the hardware is similar to some other obscure systems. The graphical quality is some where between the ColecoVision and NES. Was actually fairly successful in Japan until the Famicom came along and kicked it's ass. Then this happened. TOSEC |
| VC 4000** | Decent | ✗ | Has 40 games. ROMs are here | |
| Vectrex | Good | ✓ | No-intro | |
| VTech CreatiVision | Good | ✓ | ✓ | TOSEC |
* Clones: Advision Home Arcade, Arcadia, Cosmos, Dynavision, Ekusera, Hanimex MPT-03, HMG-2650, Home Arcade Centre, Intelligent Game MPT-03, Intercord XL 2000 System, Intervision 2001, ITMC MPT-03, Leisure-Vision, Leonardo, Ormatu 2001, Palladium Video-Computer-Game, Polybrain Video Computer Game, Poppy MPT-03 Tele Computer Spiel, Prestige Video Computer Game MPT-03, Robdajet MPT-03, Rowtron 2000, Schmid TVG-2000, Sheen Home Video Centre 2001, Soundic MPT-03, Tele Brain, Tele-Fever, Tempest MPT-03,Tobby MPT-03, Trakton Computer Video Game, Tryom Video Game Center, Tunix Home Arcade, UVI Compu-Game, Video Master
** Clones: 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System, Jeu Video TV, Super Play Computer 4000, etc.
Handhelds
| Name | MESS support | No intro collection | Description |
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| Game & Watch | None | ✗ | Many of the 60 Game and Watch games can be played in the various Game and Watch collections. Just emulate those. If you do not mind playing online, many Game and Watch games, including some not found in the collections, can be played here. Another option would be running simulators through the gw-libretro core in Libretro. |
| Milton Bradley MicroVision | Preliminary | ✗ | 12 games were made. They're dumped, but uploads are not available. |
