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Longgrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 08:56 PM Original message |
When Did Your Family First Get a Video Game System? |
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Cyndee_Lou_Who (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. Intellivision checking in - BUT we used to write games in BASIC on Vic 20 |
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MessiahRp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yep, Atari 2600 |
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Reverend_Smitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
3. Well my first video game system was a Nintendo... |
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newscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. I had a friend who got Pong in the 70s. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. Never, Unless You Count The Solitare That Comes On The Computer |
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kedrys (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
6. 'member Pong? |
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Lauri16 (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I was just gonna ask |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
8. Odyssey, then Atari 2600, then Apple 2, then Apple 2 GS, switchover |
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solinvictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
9. Pong, 1979... |
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Maestro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. The first system |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
11. 1982 Atari. Pong, Tank, PacMan. Baseball |
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Longgrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:15 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Pitfall was the best, I used to spend hours playing that one... |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
13. Anyone here have a Bally Astrocade/Astrovision? |
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Maestro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. OMG |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. LOL! It took me probably 10 hours to write... |
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Cyndee_Lou_Who (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Snake... that was my proudest accomplishment in BASIC on my Vic 20 |
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Maestro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. Here is my current gaming system. |
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ChoralScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
17. Atari 2600- |
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CanuckAmok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:44 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I noticed the other day: |
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Beware the Beast Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
18. Not until 1992. My mom got me a Super Nintendo System. |
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Hatalles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
21. 1990. The 8-Bit Nintendo Enterainment System. |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
22. The year was 1980, the Atari 2600 and it came with Space Invaders! |
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yvr girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
23. It hasn't happened yet |
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Hatalles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 11:03 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Oh, yes it has. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
25. None. |
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AlFrankenFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
26. 1997 - N64 n/t |
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Huckebein the Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
27. Around '82 or '83. It was a 2600 |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
28. Never had one. |
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tibbir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
29. 1989 - Nintendo for my then 5 year-old |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-30-05 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
30. Started with a Pong clone in the late 70s |
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