Computer Space

Yeah.

Like, someone might say, "No, Computer Space, that was...

You had to go out to a..."

[laughs]

Sounds good.

Now, Tim, another story that's gotten a lot of traction is Computer Space.

And this one in particular, Tim, this is a very special rare two-player Computer Space arcade machine, and it is up for auction, Tim.

So this is a rare, fully functional two-player Computer Space cabinet from 1973, and it's being offered by Earthworm Jim creator David Perry.

Tim, this comes out of his personal collection, okay?

Nice.

The machine is especially notable because Computer Space is widely recognized as the first video arcade game.

Of course, all you guys do know that.

And I, I, I, I do enjoy having that, but I think I, I think I wanna do something a bit more almost museum-like.

And, uh, I was over at System Source the other month, you know, talking with them about their computer space.

I kinda looked at how they did things, and, uh, I guess the real inspiration kinda came to me when I was looking at the, uh, 50 Years of Atari game that's on my PlayStation.

And there was this beautiful laid out, uh, timeline that showed the, the screenshots of the games and sort of the, the box art or the promo flyer.

Like, you know, cut out, like, a, uh, arcade cab, you know, T-molded, the whole nine yards.

Have it playable, you know? Put, you know, obviously, like, a LCD and then a Pi, and, you know, so, like, literally you can walk up to it and play it.

But then do, like, the Flynn's Arcade thing where it swings open, and that is the door into the arcade, right? So you walk in, and then starting on the right, Computer Space, 1971.

First commercially produced coin-op arcade game, right? And then you go past Computer Space, and then maybe, like, kind of staggered on the other side, oh, there's Pong, right? You go past Pong, and then you got Gun Fight and so forth.

Oh, that crazy bastard.

Yeah, is selling off a computer space arcade machine.

This is one of the original arcade machines.

games it's like a little space combat thing it did not take off i bet it was very large pong was really the the first one but this was one of the first ones uh it's an old school thing yeah the thing is that the the plastic housing on this thing makes it look like it's from fucking like uh thx 1138 or something yeah it's like an