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 History of video games in Malaysia?, for history's sake

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post Dec 29 2015, 04:52 PM

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QUOTE(elgan @ Dec 23 2015, 03:06 PM)
The Atari 2600 console and original cartridges were available in Malaysia in the late 70's. At that time our CRT TV system was PAL only, so our imported cartridges would be from a PAL-compatible country (US was NTSC).

Defender was a stand-out game for the 2600.

I also have vague memory of seeing a Pong machine in KL before the Atari 2600 came out.
We had shops selling fake Apple ]['s and IBM PCs. One of these Apple shops, Pineapple Computers, is still around today.

Almost all games/software were pirated. One would go to the computer shop and choose the games from a catalogue, then wait for them to be copied to 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.

The popular games were Choplifter, Castle Wolfensten, Zork, Wizardry and a few others I have probably forgotten.
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i remember Pineapple Computers...but Dune II mana? The father of all RTS!

 

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