Four Retro Consoles Torn Apart and Photographed

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]False_Dmitry_II[/nom]Compare what those look like to the bulldozer die shot.So much more simple...[/citation]

einstein said "the more you try to make things simple, the more complex they become"

 

[someguynamedmatt]

[citation][nom]ddragoonss[/nom]The simpler, the better. My Atari 2600 still working properly; while my brand new xbox360...[/citation]
Makes me look back on my Gateway2000 with a Pentium 1 processor and ~812MB Hard Drive. It's physically impossible to make that thing crash.

 

[Haserath]

[citation][nom]someguynamedmatt[/nom]Makes me look back on my Gateway2000 with a Pentium 1 processor and ~812MB Hard Drive. It's physically impossible to make that thing crash.[/citation]
You shouldn't say "physically" *cracks his knuckles* 😉

 

[COLGeek]

It is funny how we used to do so much (relatively speaking) with so little. Thanks for the memories! HOOAH!!!

 

[nightcrawl3r]

Huge difference between the hardware of now and then.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]someguynamedmatt[/nom]Makes me look back on my Gateway2000 with a Pentium 1 processor and ~812MB Hard Drive. It's physically impossible to make that thing crash.[/citation]
Give me a hammer and I will make it crash

 

[L0tus]

omg that Famicon rolls back the years. So many great childhood memories on that thing t.t

 

[thechief73]

Quote from Futurama, Season 1: Episode 9: "Hell Is Other Robots"

Fry: Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, Bender. So long as we're here why don't we take in some exotic dancing?
Leela: Hey, great idea!
Bender: But... those girls don't wear cases. You can see their bare circuits.

 

[scrumworks]

That's too retro. Even for me.

 

[mr_tuel]

I could fit all of that, including the RF output, onto something the size of a thumb drive.

 

[screechy]

Thanks toms now your site is gonna get banned from work for dirty pictures. Lol

 

[thillntn]

You should do an article on current consoles from m$ and $ony and the wii.Compare the old designs to the new, or would that freak $ony out and ban you in their next firmware?

 

[wotan31]

[citation][nom]hundredislandsboy[/nom]Amazing. Now you can take all the "CPUs" from these consoles, combine their processing power and AMD can put it on a die the size of the period at teh end of this sentence.[/citation]
I doubt it. My fonts are HUGE.

 

[wotan31]

[citation][nom]COLGeek[/nom]It is funny how we used to do so much (relatively speaking) with so little. Thanks for the memories! HOOAH!!![/citation]
Well yeah, now we have the Windows OS, which requires 2 cores and 4 GB of memory just to boot up. Software back then was actually written efficiently, and in the absolute minimum number of lines of code required.

 

[jhansonxi]

Almost every game system and 8 to 16-bit computer now has an emulator available. MAME and MESS handle most anything but there are other emulators that target specific platforms.

 

[someguynamedmatt]

[citation][nom]Haserath[/nom]You shouldn't say "physically" *cracks his knuckles*[/citation]
Heh, I just got it fired back up, and it's as solid as ever. Not exactly fast... well... your average smartphone is faster than it... but it's still ticking along happily. It's amazing how far graphics have progressed, though; it still had Flight Simulator '95 on it with its max resolution of 640x480 or something. Oh, the good old days.

 

[wotan31]

[citation][nom]scrumworks[/nom]That's too retro. Even for me.[/citation]
That's because you're a teenager living his parents basement playing WoW for 14 hours a day. You wouldn't know good hardware if someone hit you over the head with it. These classic consoles and all their simplicity required kids to actually use their imaginations. The rudimentary graphics forced game designers to actually build good games, ones that were enjoyable to play and kept your attention. These days they all use flashy 3D graphics and surround sound as a crutch, and as an excuse to sell ****** games. Look at Doom3 - Brilliant graphics and effects (for its time) but boring game play.

 

[cranium]

This is repulsive. These consoles are minors! Reported

 

[bystander]

The thing that caught my eye on the Atari 2600 was the huge waste of space in the box housing the guts. They could have made it half that size.

 

[swell9]

My Graphics card is bigger than the whole system shown here.

 

[theoutbound]

This really makes me want to take apart some of my old stuff. I think I have an old NES, Genesis and PS1 around here somewhere.

 

[liquidsnake718]

That famicomputer was one of my first consoles, I also had game and watch handheld dot matrix games before the gameboy.

 

[randomizer]

I was hoping to see an Intellivision. 🙁

 

[el_samky]

waooo jajaja I remember my atary 2600 with pac-man and E.T. )

 

[raiyus13]

lovely 8-bit consonsoles, loved the 4th one. My mobile phone is far better than those lol...