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qingcharles 66 days ago | parent

My 2600 experience is the second oldest memory I can recall. That's how big an effect it had on me! I can remember literally every detail of my first time playing video games. My neighbor had the 2600 with Pac-Man and Missile Command. The fact he had Pac-Man means it must have been 1982, which means I was coming up on 5 years old.

ddingus 62 days ago
Is that not a potent experience? For me, it was a single chip, analog circuit PONG game. But I was entranced. A few years later, I saw BREAKOUT on a VCS and it was amazing!
The sound, colors, way the paddle moved... it was intense!
Same for me. I can recall everything about that moment. Where I was, who, what the game looked and sounded like...
- qingcharles 59 days ago
  There were so many of those little one-chip TV games around in the early 80s. Every "car boot sale" (as us Brits call them) you went to you could pick up a dozen of them for almost nothing. I bet a ton of them are super rare nowadays.