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.

http://www.puritanboard.com/arcade.php

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Okinawa, Japan
Deacon, Central Baptist Church, SBC

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Church: Church of England, UK

Good games!

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Lakeside Church -Wales, WI (PCA)
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Hey; I remember Pong!

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Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
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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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Brad
Member of Redeemer Church

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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R.Vic Bottomly
Providence Reformed Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA

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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JC
URCNA
PA

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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Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
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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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Kevin Rogers
Mount Zion ARP
Moncton NB

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

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Brian Bosse
Faith Community Church
Tucson, Arizona
Scientiam Dei

Well, they are, you know.

That wheel was a mouse? Wow!

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Meg
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Member, Intown Presbyterian Church,PCA, Portland, OR

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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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Vaughan
BTh Student, Sydney Missionary Bible College
Naremburn Cammeray Anglican Church
Sydney, Australia
The Ransomed

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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Dave Hall
Elgin, Texas
Ruling Elder
Providence Presbyterian Church, OPC (near Austin, TX)

"A Jedi's strength flows from the Java." - Yoda (paraphrased)

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

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