Decided to install this for members to blow off some steam after a hard theological debate. Some of you 20 somethings don't realize that some of these games used to be the state of the art.

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Good games!

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Hey; I remember Pong!

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Yeah, me too Chris. I remember seeing that for the first time around 1975 or 1976 and I thought it was amazing! We had an original Atari game console as well.

Must... resist... Tetris...

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I spent many a quarter on Asteroids (the barmaid at the local bar/restaurant called it "Hemorrhoids") and Space Invaders. That and pool. Those were the last video games I ever played. Having flashbacks. . . .

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okay, I was (just) born when some of those games were created (Pong)...but I did have an Atari up until I was about 12yrs old (about the time of the Nintendo debut). I also had Frogger on my Z100.

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I was never one of the chosen ones that had the Atari. My family had the knock-off Intellivision.

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My grandfather had an electronics store and so you bet I had the first Atari Pong game. It was awesome. Here is a picture of an earlier "pong" version; my parents didn't love me enough to buy it for me though. Tsk.

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Yeah right...

Impressive, but what are the steering wheels for?

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I've seen that before. In fact, I had a poster of it. The home computer of 2004!





The steering wheel controlled the tension of the data wheels--a precursor to the modern mouse:

Just a bit of "information", when that first computer was built that still used vaccuum tubes for memory, the cost of memory was approximately $1/byte of information.

My home computer and its external storage would cost about $700 billion in terms of the memory I have to store information.

I just had a flashback to all of those dispy "the anti-christ-is-coming-and-science-predicts-that-by-the-year-2000-the-name-and-phone-number-of-every-person-on-earth-will-be-stored-on-a-single-computer!!!" sermons from the 70's & 80's.

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The arcade section is "ub da' Debil!" I just waisted about an hour. I need to go repent.

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Faith Community Church
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Well, they are, you know.

That wheel was a mouse? Wow!

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There's something wrong with your medulla oblongata.

So is this an Online Posting Forum version of a megachurch? When do we get Mickey D's and Starbucks?

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I'm just here for the cool powerpoint, the awesome true-to-life skits and the 7-11 choruses!

Uh... I don't care what the stats say... I haven't played 441 games. My Simon highscore was my first go!

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This can be real dangerous.
I still have a working Atari 800 XL with the PacMan cartridge, etc. Circa 1982.
The kids enjoy the retro thing.

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We had the old Atari 2600 with probably 50+ games. I think it may still be at my parents house.

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Where is Centipede??

I did very poorly in Tetris this morning. I need more coffee apparently.

. 2004? Ah, yes. 3 years ago. My how time flies.

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Showing your age Chris . Actually, I remember when Sonic the Hedgehog first hit the stage (I was about 10 at the time); indeed there was even fierce contests between Sega and Nintendo fans about who was more cool - Sonic or Super Mario. Needless to say that the hedgehog beat the fat Italian plumber hands down.

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I remember Pong also. I think my father was stationed in Ramstein, Germany at the time and we were overawed by it. I think it was about 1974 when I first played it.

It is hard to imagine anyone being "overawed by pong". Mind you, I am overawed by these new smiles, they're great:

But we were.

The other amazing thing is that most of us had to put a quarter into the machine to play it. Adjusted for inflation, that would be like paying more than $1 per game now. What obsessed weirdos we were!

$1 a game!!! How gullible you must have been in those days.

This has been a fun thread to read.

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