Atari thumb

I still remember when we got our first 2600 system.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/07/stick.hall.fame.ap/index.html

Still have mine in the attic. Also have an original Pong console stored with it and the first model Nintendo.

I, too suffered from Atari Thumb during the summer of Space Invaders, Asteroids, Missle Command, Yars Revenge and Pitfall (featuring the deadly Cobra-rattler). I remember wearing holes through the thumbs of batting gloves.

My Atari game (six switch console) predated the "2600" nomenclature. I think it was just called Atari back then.

I had a Sears-branded 6-switcher. My dad worked in an electronics lab, so a lot of my games were bootlegs on a ROM breadboard. We would have to literally remove it from the cartridge slot, flip little levers on the side of the chip connectors, and swap a handful of chips in order to change games.

Star Raiders. Remember the keypad it sold with? Shields Up. Switch to the other laser....ready for combat!

We had intelivision. Instead of joysticks keypad and a dial, what fun

ha, I am from the age of SNES....

I have one of these beauties down in my basement. Atari Battlezone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)

I, too, have fond 2600 memories. That and the NES with the original Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda. Aside from GT3 for the PS2, video games have been downhill ever since.

/oldfart

I was a little young for the Atari but my parents bought a shiny new Commodore 64 when I was just 1 year old. According to my Mum I could type my name before I could write it. When I was growing up we had a "software library" nearby where you could rent games and programs, and at the same time rent the latest apps for defeating copy protection. Gee, we don't encourage piracy, no-sir-ee. (Back then people would write actual, commercial software dedicated to breaking copy protection schemes, and then sell it in a box, on the shelf next to the games and buisness apps. Can you imagine if someone tried that now??)

I think my favourite game of all time was Ultimate Wizard and its built-in level editor. I must have logged so much time on that one it isn't funny. In fact I was just playing it two days ago. How's that for longevity?

I still have two or three functional Commodore 64s and a bunch of accessories, albiet in storage back in Canada. These days I play most of my old favourites via emulator.

Incidently I credit growing into a functional adult to my early days of video gaming. When I was a tot, apparently I had a serious disorder developing hand-eye coordination, and doctors told my parents that I would be handicapped for life. HAH. I always like to counter those dim-tards who go on about how video games are destroying the minds of children with that little story.

I think I'm going to go off and play some Ultimate Wizard right now. Or maybe Impossible Mission, or Lazy Jones, or...

Colecovision FTW!

Datsun, did you get the robot with your NES? I vaguely remember something about a Nintendo robot. Pictures?

ROB in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08VrKFl6vJ8

I never had a 2600, but my cousins did. I was so jealous. Another cousin had a minibike. Augh!

We got a VIC-20 when I was a kid. I programmed a multimedia presentation on it for a Grade 6 project - I came across the data tape the last time I was at my parents place.

I have a cousin that had a 5200, so I've got some serious time in on one, but my family never had one. I don't think he has it any more.

I had an odyssey game system... thought it was the coolest thing, and supposedly there was going to be an add on that made it into a "real " computer, and speech synth module, neither of which i never saw ..but i did mange to get a few games for it by mowing lawns.. Odyssey Video game pic I later moved on to a radioshack TRS-80 and wrote my own games in basic, saved to cassette tapes..allot more fun that the odyssey... took allot of lawns and raking to get it though...

If we're talking about old school PCs, anyone remember the Commodore PET? We had them in grade school--monochromatic screen, tape drive. Out first computer at home was a PC Junior.

my highschool had TRS80s until my senior year when we got PCs with Windows 3.1.

And while I had an Atari 2600, I never got Atari Thumb, but I did get Nintendo Thumb playing Ikari Warriors and Contra.

I learned to program on a PET, actually. We looked at the PC Junior (remember all the Charlie Chaplin ads?) before buying the VIC-20.

David S. Wallens wrote: If we're talking about old school PCs, anyone remember the Commodore PET? We had them in grade school--monochromatic screen, tape drive. Out first computer at home was a PC Junior.

We had one TRS-80 in our eighth grade math class. Around the same time, my father bought a Sinclair ZX81.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sinclair_ZX81.jpg

My grandmother gave me an old Atari (I don't remember the number) when I was in middle school, as well as a box of about 50 game cartridges for it. I played it more often then my Sega Genesis for a few years until I got a PS1. The Atari got moved to the attic. Sometime during sophomore year, I felt like going on a nostalgia trip and tried looking for the Atari. I searched for five hours before my parents told me they threw it away!

My first system was an NES.

I did get some solid time in on the 2600, Colecovision, and Intelivision over the years through relatives though.

My first system was a hand me down 2600. My first new system was a Sega Genesis, while all my friends still had the NES. Also the fact that the Genesis got hooked up to our big screen TV meant basically all my friends came to my place to game after that.

i have a 6 switch 2600 - woodgrain on video game system = best ever.

i need to hook it up to my new 42" TV

My family had the not quite as popular, but WAY more awesomer, Atari 400. All the games looked pretty much exactly like the arcade version. We also had the optional cassette drive with Zaxxon! SOOOOO Bad Ass!

16vCorey wrote: My family had the not quite as popular, but WAY more awesomer, Atari 400. All the games looked pretty much exactly like the arcade version. We also had the optional cassette drive with Zaxxon! SOOOOO Bad Ass!

We had the Atari 800 and all associated accesories (casette drive, floppy drive, printer). It was indeed awesome.

billy3esq wrote: I, too, have fond 2600 memories. That and the NES with the original Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda. Aside from GT3 for the PS2, video games have been downhill ever since. /oldfart

I felt the same way before getting a Nintendo Wii. If you haven't tried one, you should check it out.