GREBZ'S SITE - VIDEO GAMES

Atari VCS 2600

ATARI VCS 2600
The original myth
Commodore 64

COMMODORE 64
Star of the 8-bit micro-computers
Commodore Amiga

COMMODORE AMIGA
Star of the 16/32-bit micro-computers
PC

PC - PERSONAL COMPUTER
Jack of all trades machine

ENCOUNTER OF THE VIRTUAL KIND

I first met video games by chance, at a time when this term was still far from being widely spread. It was in Summer 1982, during the holidays. I was visiting some friend of my mother's and started reading a toy catalogue. I then hit on a page where some new kind of game machine was presented: a game console. It was of course a very basic black and white console, with 10 integrated games, all variants from Pong with portentous names such as 'Tennis', 'Ping Pong' or 'Badminton'...

No matter how primitive that system might have looked, it has been a revelation: "that's what I want for Christmas!". I was only 11 years old, and could not afford to buy the machine right away. But Christmas was still a long time away, would I still want this thing by then, or was my revelation just a flash in the pan?

Time passes, school is on again, and my new passion is still burning. I want a game console for Christmas. My father tells me there are other, more evolved consoles, and he shows me several advertising with strange-named consoles; Philips Videopac, Atari VCS, and some others that never became known.

The Atari caught my attention. Apparently, this one offered lots of different games, and you could switch games by inserting different cartridges, unlike the other basic consoles that only offered a limited number of integrated games. And by comparison, it had great colored graphic capabilities.

Christmas time is near. At the foot of the Christmas tree, I know the big parcel is for me. On December 25, 1982, I begin my travel into the video game world.
It is now 2010, video games still exist. They were not a shooting star as some had believed. Video game has been accused of evil things, like Rock music and Role-Playing games, it has been heavily, and still is criticized, but it has finally reached a very wide audience.

It did not compel me to become a murderer, a child eater or a sorcerer, it did not make me (or my friends) a social misfit, a retarded man or a lunatic. Video games are merely a leisure activity, like the cinema, music, reading, and contrary to simpy watching stupid television shows, playing video games makes you active in front of the screen.

In the last 28 years, I played hundreds, maybe thousands of games on very different consoles and computers. My goal is not to recount the history of video games (many other sites are doing that), but to tell you about my personal gaming experience.

History of a veteran gamer, volume 1...

PERSONAL ANTHOLOGY OF VIDEO GAMING

These are the games that stroke me the most for various reasons, sorted by platform. This is not a complete list, but rather representative of my experience.

Atari VCS 2600 -- CBS Colecovision -- Commodore 64 -- Commodore Amiga -- Nintendo NES -- Nintendo Super NES -- Nintendo Gameboy -- Nintendo DS -- PC -- Sega Dreamcast -- Sony Playstation

ATARI VCS 2600

Atari VCS

ASTERIX ASTEROIDS
Astérix Atari VCS Asteroids Atari VCS
BATTLEZONE BEAMRIDER
Battlezone Atari VCS Beamrider Atari VCS
DECATHLON ENDURO
Decathlon Atari VCS Enduro Atari VCS
MOON PATROL OBELIX
Moon Patrol Atari VCS Obélix Atari VCS
PAC-MAN PITFALL!
Pac-Man Atari VCS Pitfall Atari VCS
PITFALL II: THE LOST CAVERNS RIVER RAID
Pitfall 2 Atari VCS River Raid Atari VCS
SPACE INVADERS
Space Invaders Atari VCS

Atari VCS 2600 game videos

CBS COLECOVISION

CBS Colecovision DONKEY KONG
Donkey Kong CBS DONKEY KONG JR
Donkey Kong Jr CBS MOUSE TRAP
Mouse Trap CBS LES SCHTROUMPFS
Les Schtroumpfs CBS TURBO

Turbo CBS


COMMODORE 64

Commodore 64

ARKANOID
Arkanoid C64

BARBARIAN
Barbarian C64

CAULDRON
Cauldron C64

CAULDRON 2
Cauldron 2 C64

COMMANDO
Commando C64

COMIC BAKERY
Comic Bakery C64

ELITE
Elite C64

GHOSTS'N GOBLINS
Ghosts'n Goblins C64

LIGHTFORCE
Lightforce C64

SPY VS SPY
Spy vs Spy C64

SUMMER GAMES 1 & 2
Summer Games C64 Summer Games 2 C64

THE HOBBIT
Hobbit C64

THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Lord of the Rings C4

THE WAY OF THE EXPLODING FIST
Exploding Fist C64

WINTER GAMES
Winter Games C64

Vidéos de jeux Commodore 64


COMMODORE AMIGA

Amiga 500

BATTLE SQUADRON
Battle Squadron Amiga

DEFENDER OF THE CROWN
Defender of the Crown Amiga

GREAT GIANA SISTERS
Great Giana Sisters Amiga

SILKWORM
Silkworm Amiga

SUPER FROG
Super Frog Amiga


NINTENDO NES

SUPER MARIO BROS 3
Super Mario 3 NES



NINTENDO SUPER NES

SUPER GHOULS'N GHOSTS
Super Ghouls'n Ghosts Super NES

SUPER MARIO KART
Super Mario Kart Super NES

SUPER MARIO WORLD
Super Mario World Super NES


NINTENDO GAMEBOY

SUPER MARIO LAND
Super Mario Land Gameboy

TETRIS
Tetris Gameboy



NINTENDO DS

Nintendo DS

MARIO KART
Mario Kart DS


PC

DOOM
Doom PC

DUNE 2
Dune 2 PC

FAR CRY
Far Cry PC

LANDS OF LORE
Lands of Lore PC

WOLFENSTEIN 3D
Wolfenstein 3D PC


SEGA DREAMCAST

Sega Dreamcast

VIRTUA TENNIS 1 & 2
Virtua Tennis 1 Dreamcast Virtua Tennis 2 Dreamcast



SONY PLAYSTATION

Sony Playstation

DESTRUCTION DERBY 2
Destruction Derby 2 Playstation

TOMB RAIDER
Tomb Raider Playstation




MY CONSOLES AND MICRO-COMPUTERS

Consoles and micro-computers that I had the opportunity to use since 1982.

These are the consoles and micro-computers I've owned

Atari VCS 2600
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga
Microsoft Xbox
Nintendo Super NES
Nintendo 64
Nintendo Game Cube
Nintendo GameBoy
Nintendo GameBoy Advance
Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP
Nintendo DS
PC (no-brand, assembled by myself)
Sega Dreamcast
Sony Playstation
Sony Playstation 2


Here are the consoles and micro-computers I had the opportunity to use but never owned myself

Amstrad CPC 464
Amstrad CPC 6128
Amstrad PC1512
Apple II/e
Apple II/c
Apple Macintoch
Atari ST
CBS Colecovision
Mattel Intellivision
Microsoft Xbox360
Nintendo NES
Philips Videopac
Sega Master System
Sega Megadrive
Sinclair Spectrum ZX81
Sony Playstation 3
Thomson TO7/70
Thomson TO9


MESSAGES

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commodorehdcovers, le 05/11/2011 à 20h18

Salut Grebz !

Super ton site, plein de souvenirs rien qu'en lisant tes tests ! J'ai trouvé sur YouTube ton excellent test de The Way of the Exploding Fist, j'ai adoré, moi aussi j'ai plein de bons souvenirs avec ce jeu !
Je t'envoie mes respects commodoristiques !

Et si tu as quelques minutes à perdre, tu peux toujours venir faire un petit tour sur mon site www.commodorehdcovers.com (il y a aussi un forum).

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Merci de ta visite ! À bientôt sur ton site.

Grebz



Dge Be, le 30/03/2011 à 09h37

Et en plus tu joues !
Et oui, c'est encore moi, perso je suis sur PS3 maintenant et principalement des jeux de sport (golf, fifa, gran turismo, nhl, nfl, baseball...).
J'en ai eu assez de devoir sans arrêt updater mon PC (comme pour la musique d'ailleurs) alors les consoles m'ont paru plus utiles.
Merci pour ton site complet, on se sent moins isolé, même en pleine Cévennes.

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Mais tu es partout :-) ! Ravi de voir que mon site t'a plu et que tu y as trouvé des choses qui t'intéressent.

Grebz



kromagnon1664, le 27/01/2011 à 14h06

merci pr ta page, que de souvenirs... :)



Palermo183, le 17/01/2011 à 17h24

Franchement excellent et que de souvenirs me reviennent en memoire. Combien de joysticks explosés, de crises de nerfs et de délires entre potes.
C'était pas toujours du gâteau de terminer les niveaux.



Punkito, le 07/01/2011 à 07h22

Au clavier, Punkito, un des graphistes du groupe Yankees. Le C64 a été une révélation pour moi. Ce site me rappelle d'énormes et très bons souvenirs, toutes mes félicitations à son créateur ! Il manque juste Cybernoïd :D et notre démo 45.2 Light Years (yks) :D

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Merci !
Oui, il manque plein de jeux, parce que je manque de temps pour m'en occuper. Alors j'ai mis en priorité ceux qui m'ont laissé le souvenir le plus vif... Et encore, ils n'y sont pas tous. J'ai passé du temps sur les jeux Epyx (summer games, winter games, etc...), il faut absolument que je prenne le temps de me replonger dedans ! Un jour prochain !

Grebz



Cedricsf, le 22/11/2010 à 10h14

Merci, bravo.

Que de beaux souvenirs.



Arrakis, le 31/10/2010 à 21h38

Bravo !



Neant33, le 06/10/2010 à 19h38

Merci pour cette merveille de site !
J'ai malgré tout un petit problème... Je viens d'acheter deux Amiga 500 et je n'y connais pas grand chose (j'y jouais quand j'étais petit)... N'y aurait-il pas moyen d'avoir des sortes de tuto ou manuel en ligne pour ceci ?

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Je suis sûr qu'on doit pouvoir trouver ça sur le Net (allez hop ! Google...).
En anglais facilement, en français, je ne sais pas mais il reste suffisamment de fans de l'Amiga pour trouver des sites qui lui sont consacrés.
Pour ma part, je ne fais plus guère que de l'émulation, ça fait un moment que mon Amiga n'est pas sorti de son placard...

Grebz



C64User, le 13/07/2010 à 21h11

Thank you. Merci pour le C64.



Poox, le 08/07/2010 à 17h16

Ah nostalgie, quand tu nous tiens !

Merci pour ces bons souvenirs à jouer des heures sur un commodore 128D.^^

Lode Runner, Dig Dug, Pitstop, Moon Patrol, Zaxxon, Forbidden Forest qui me faisait peur avec son ambiance, sa musique ; Arkanoid qui m'a rendu dingue etc... etc...

Encore merci !

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Grebz : de rien :-)

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