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re: Which controller did you start with?
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:04 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:04 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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The grandkids (all 20+ years old now) still occasionally ask to have us drag it out for them to play space invaders or Frogger when the family gets together.
I suspect we will have a great grandchild soon, since all but one of them are married. I'm saving my Atari for the next generation to have something for entertainment when they come over for July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Edited to add. Now I have to go pull the box of games out of the attic to see the names of the 40 or so games we have.
The grandkids (all 20+ years old now) still occasionally ask to have us drag it out for them to play space invaders or Frogger when the family gets together.
I suspect we will have a great grandchild soon, since all but one of them are married. I'm saving my Atari for the next generation to have something for entertainment when they come over for July 4th, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Edited to add. Now I have to go pull the box of games out of the attic to see the names of the 40 or so games we have.
This post was edited on 5/18/24 at 3:07 pm
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Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:05 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:09 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Playing - 2
Owning - 4
Owning - 4
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:09 pm to DarthRebel
Numba 1 and we were glad to have it. 
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:16 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
2 NES
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:17 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Guess I am not as old as I thought as I had never seen those before
Pong came out in the early 70's it and its variations (both Sears and Radio Shack had versions) predated the Atari 2600 by about 5 years. IIRC Atari came out in '77. Star Wars and Atari came out within a few months of each other. A glorious time to be a kid.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:18 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
We had an Atari, but we also had a NES at the same time.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:19 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
#1. I was pure murder at Combat and Yar’s Revenge.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:20 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Man, the names they had for games back then
Tank
Combat
Boxing
Adventure
Pong
Man, the names they had for games back then
Tank
Combat
Boxing
Adventure
Pong
This post was edited on 5/18/24 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:22 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
#4. Still remember firing up Super Mario World and being blow away. Now that my son’s a little older I’m getting to revisit some of the SNES classics.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:22 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:24 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
I had a '70s childhood. We were playing 8 ball at the bowling alley at 12.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:28 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
If we want to be technical (and analog) this was my first game console:
With the full set of these:
I killed a lot of rainy days with the slalom ski and Indy car overlays.
With the full set of these:
I killed a lot of rainy days with the slalom ski and Indy car overlays.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:30 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
I had Intellivision and my best friend had Atari. Next Gen he had NES and the next one I got was Sega. I think the only thing over the years up to now that neither one of us ever had was Coleco. We also had Commodore 128s, Dr. J vs Larry Bird for the win. So many hours playing Zork at sleepovers.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:33 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:34 pm to Naked Bootleg
Posted on 5/18/24 at 3:36 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
The Radio Shack knockoff of Pong also came with a corded pistol for a shooting at moving target game.
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