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)
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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 which surprised us a lot, we thought the machine was pretty much unique (only found from Finland so far), 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. | | Back to articles |
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