10 of the best console games you'll probably never get to play (gallery)

The next time you grumble about bad ports and too many consoles to buy, be thankful you don’t live in 1977.

The years 1977 through 1987 were a decade of now dusty old consoles: the Atari 2600, the Vectrex, and the ColecoVision are just a few. If you haven’t heard of them, chances are you’ve also never played some of the classic games that populated arcades and homes around the time of the big video game market crashes.