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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

[kissycat1000.livejournal.com]

We also had one of those, in fact it may well still be in the house somewhere. It got relegated when we got the Atari (yay for joysticks and paddles) which in turn got 'given' to us kids when Dad got himself a 'proper' compuetr (the C64).

OMG, I'm so old. :/

[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.