poprock wrote:One of my earliest memories is of my Dad bringing home an Atari 2600 (I think). I can clearly recall helping him lift it out of the car boot and taking it inside. As is the nature of really early memories though, much of it is fuzzy.
I can’t clearly remember which version of the console it might have been. It was wood veneer, definitely. I don’t recall joysticks, but I do remember the paddle controllers. And I only remember actually playing Pong, or a variant thereof.
Console plugged into the telly, and sat on the carpet. Me and my Dad sat on the floor with a paddle controller each, and Pong in black and white on the TV screen.
Now, I know from historical stuff on the web that the original consoles all came bundled with joysticks, and that there wasn’t actually a version of Pong for the early machines. So what exactly we had is a bit of a mystery to me. Most likely it was a bit later in the console’s lifecycle. Maybe it was second-hand? I dunno. But I remember being entranced. I was immediately hooked on the magic of actually controlling something on the TV screen. Lifechanging stuff.
Olimite wrote:Do you not remember these then?
cindemon wrote:2600 was the 2nd console I owned as a kid. Personal faves was Yar's Revenge & Joust.
TheBoyRoberts wrote:cindemon wrote:2600 was the 2nd console I owned as a kid. Personal faves was Yar's Revenge & Joust.
There's a documentary available for free on xBox Live which covers the "ET in the desert" story - major part of the doc focus on Howard Scott Warshaw who wrote ET and Yar's - can't recommend enough if you're a big Yar's fan.
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