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Sega and a Turbo Graphic. Sega being my favorite, but the Turbo Graphic was pretty awesome.

Yeah, I had an Atari 130XE computer. A friend showed me how to do it....used a hole punch.

Before I had a c64, i had an 800xl and it was much the same. Power supply died on it, and I convinced my parents to get me a c64 due to "wider variety of educational software titles available" (read: it had more games).

For whatever reason, atari computers were just not all that successful in the US, although apparently much more so in europe.

Sears Arcade (atari 2600 clone)

Did anyone play the board game Hero Quest back in... oh, I guess it was the early 90's? I was part of a group of people that played that during college. It was so much fun.

I went looking for it not too long ago... thought my kids might like to play it, and wow, is it ever hard to find these days. :\

Edit... omg, searched for it on Amazon and it's $392.00! Good grief!

Atari 2600 fist system. Favorite game River Raid, and yes we had the tape games with the tape recorder and adapter you plugged into the 5200. Love the Fireball juggling game.

About the only console I have never owned is Coleco and Intellivision.

I was born in 1957. I grew up with real games like Stratego, Risk, Chess and Checkers, various card games, etc.

Just after I graduated high school, Atari came out with "Pong" and things just havent' been the same since.

The younger set just don't have proper appreciation for what they have.

Christmas 1981. Atari 2600.

Texas Instruments programmable calculator, "lunar lander". You started at random elevation over moon and it counted down your elevation. You "burnt" so many "pounds of fuel" at intervals to reduce velocity. if you burnt too much, you ended up rising instead of falling and had to wait for gravity to pull you back. You had a fuel limit, and when it ran out gravity accelerated you until you impacted the surface. Velocity of less than 5 feet per second on impact was considered successful landing. if you hit 0 exactly, there was a bug...it did not end...and you could stay at zero as long as you burnt tiny amounts of fuel, but the first time you didn't burn you accelerated and impacted at 3 feet per second or so. Kindof amusing.

After that pong, atari 2600, atari 800 with cassette and later disk drive (Elephant 5 1/4 single sided floppies you used a hole punch to create a fake write enable notch on the opposite side of the floppy as the real notch to "double side" by using the "unpolished side" by putting the floppy in upside down), atari 800xl with Translator autoboot floppy to remap os to behave like a real 800 because xl version sucked so bad and wasn't compatible with anything in existance, then on to intel cpu starting with 386 on up. Been a long road.

Atari 2600. My cousins had coleco.

It took 3D enviroments to get me interested in video games, that and multiplayer. Quake. Grabbing quad and health packs are first time memories I'll never be able to recapture but always wish I could.

Atari 7800 then my first gaming computer (a few years later) ran Windows 3.1.

Atari (something) ... on which we played Pac-Man on a console TV with no remote. Yes, I am very old.

/walks away with branches creaking

04/24/2012 08:10 PMPosted by Metrosexual

I said all that to say this, what are some of your early gaming memories as a kid? Where they xmas presents or did you chunk papers to get them etc? first gaming system, favorite game?

• In the late 70s-early 80s my Dad bought me an Atari 2600. Eventually he got rid of it because he was tired of me playing it. Standard issue "You need to get out more" type stuff.

• I often got kicked out of arcades, convenience stores, and bowling alleys for loitering. One arcade in particular took pity on me and put about $10 in credits in a Gauntlet II game, just to keep me occupied. :\

• Remember how people used to line up those quarters below the game screen to reserve their spot? I used to steal those on occasion. I'm not proud........Well, If my Dad hadn't have gotten rid of my Atari,......

Atari (something) ... on which we played Pac-Man on a console TV with no remote. Yes, I am very old.

/walks away with branches creaking

HAHA, I remember the UHF Dial to tune with. When we got our first cable box it was like heaven in our house no remote though had to walk up and punch in the channel.

First time I saw a Beta (sort of like VHS) was at a friends house I was in awe as he put a tape in and a movie played, always went to the theater for a movie. His dad was rich and had all the fancy stuff.

Yeah, I had an Atari 130XE computer. A friend showed me how to do it....used a hole punch.

Before I had a c64, i had an 800xl and it was much the same. Power supply died on it, and I convinced my parents to get me a c64 due to "wider variety of educational software titles available" (read: it had more games).

For whatever reason, atari computers were just not all that successful in the US, although apparently much more so in europe.

my friend had an Apple IIe. What a step up! I recall going over to his house and playing a game called "Aztec" (I think). It was a 2D side scroller that was loosely based on Indiana Jones. I loved playing that game.

Yes! Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_(video_game)

Then he got a game called Ultima II. That's when I had to save up and buy a computer of my own...the Atari. I remember making "roads" out of unopened chests so that i could walk from city to city without having to fight any monsters. Good times.