My dad bought us kids the original Atari 2600, my first game console. I preferred the planes over the tanks. Gen-X all the way. It is customary to reply to a thread such as this.
My first console was an Atari 5200. I already had a TRS-80 Model I, but I got an Atari 800 after learning that the 5200 was basically a re-packaged Atari 400. I promptly started writing games for it. On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:34 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
My dad bought us kids the original Atari 2600, my first game console. I preferred the planes over the tanks. Gen-X all the way. It is customary to reply to a thread such as this.
Customary or required? In my own childhood development stunting order: 2600 Missile Command, Defender, PacMan Apple II Lemon-aid Stand, Oregon Trail C=64 thumb-numbing Summer Games NES Zelda, SMBros, Metroid Tandy 1000 various Sierra Game adventure series Later PC Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, TW2002 These millennials have it easy with their gaming addictions. They can just latch on to the latest MMORPG and suckle the tit for a decade. I had to work for my bleeding thumbs... On 2017-06-02 12:34, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
My dad bought us kids the original Atari 2600, my first game console. I preferred the planes over the tanks. Gen-X all the way. It is customary to reply to a thread such as this.
On Jun 2, 2017, at 12:34 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
My dad bought us kids the original Atari 2600, my first game console. I preferred the planes over the tanks. Gen-X all the way. It is customary to reply to a thread such as this.
Original Pong was my first "console" in the mid 70s followed by Atari 2600 and intellivision (5 kids in the family so one console didn't cut it!) Apple II in 1978 and it was more Apple II gaming than anything till the early 80s when highschool and girls took precedence! BBS/AE line took over the Apple II for years so it was mostly consoles for gaming and still is to this day. Tony
On 06/02/2017 02:12 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
My dad bought us kids the original Atari 2600, my first game console. I preferred the planes over the tanks. Gen-X all the way. It is customary to reply to a thread such as this.
Original Pong was my first "console" in the mid 70s followed by Atari 2600 and intellivision (5 kids in the family so one console didn't cut it!) Apple II in 1978 and it was more Apple II gaming than anything till the early 80s when highschool and girls took precedence!
BBS/AE line took over the Apple II for years so it was mostly consoles for gaming and still is to this day.
My first game console was an Atari 2600. I bought it in 2013. I haven't powered it up yet. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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