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[denny]

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And from IRC:

denny> How Geek Are You?
denny> Question 14 of 22
denny> When did you start playing video games?
denny> 1. 1980-1985
denny> 2. 1986-1990
denny> 3. 1990-1995
denny> 4. 1996-2000
denny> 5. 2000+
denny> 6. I don't really play video games
denny> where's the pre-80 option?
locutus> denny: if you where playing CCA on a pdp-10, you dont need that test
denny> I had an Atari console before 1980
denny> the 2600 or whatever it was called
denny> pretty sure I had that before the ZX81 anyway.
locutus> oh yes, those are from 77 to :)
denny> definitely had the paddle pong console before that
locutus> old bastard
denny> aye

In other news, just had breakfast. My stomach is doing slow rolls now. *sits very still*

Comments

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

Not at all. :)

I forgot I had the old Atari 2600 console (hooray for battlezone and zaxxon!! \o/) inbetween the grandstand and the ZX81. My dad and I have kept all the above, though the grandstand definitely doesn't work anymore as a capacitor blew and took half the board with it. :(

The Atari is still working though AFAIK, and we gave the ZX81 to my grandfather to play with so he could feel all 'modern' and stuff, bless. ;)

[deerfold.livejournal.com]

If your 2600 was old enough, it would have been called a VCS, like mine (I don't think they'd considered they might make any others). My wood-effect VCS is dead, but I now have a shiny black 7800. I have a grandstand multi-game pong thing somewhere. So far as I know, it still works. My sister still uses my original Atari paddles on her C64.