Pokemon red.

Catt although Posted:

Was going to say Space Invaders, but I think before that I played Atari Football (if anyone remembers, it had the black and white X’s and O’s that you controlled with a big trackball)

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This game was actually really awesome. I’d forgotten about that crazy skin burning track ball.

Amphitrite Posted:

YuYu Hakusho: Bakutō Ankoku Bujutsue

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Shame on you, it’s Famicom

Pong. On my TV set (actually my parents’ set, I was too young to own one). Which only got about 13 channels, and didn’t have a remote. You had to stand up and turn dials to change stations or volume.

MC Banhammer Posted:

Pong. On my TV set (actually my parents’ set, I was too young to own one). Which only got about 13 channels, and didn’t have a remote. You had to stand up and turn dials to change stations or volume.

That’s nothing Banhammer, I had the same except with only 3 channels – and 1 of those was French!

scully Posted:

4 channel highfive!

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Three channels, the TV was black & white (for the kiddies that means even colour programs were displayed in monochrome, and not just those art films) We were late adopter when it came this new fangled colour television thing.

The first game I played was Space Invaders on a friends Atari 2600. In the arcade, it was Scramble. Tunnel navigation was very scary.

This was the first game I owned

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Through video games I became less confused with telling left from right.

Catt although Posted:

Okay, how about this, if you wanted to watch a cartoon (I don’t think we knew the word “animation”­), you had to wait till Saturday morning. Oh also, if you wanted to send someone far away a message, you had to buy something called a “stamp”, and it would take like a week to get a reply.

We used to dial our phones. Do kids these days even know why the term is “dial”?

The were on cords, too. You couldn’t walk far from them and continue talking to someone. And if you called and they were busy, there was no such thing as “call waiting”. You could also prank call people because they had no idea who was calling them — no caller ID.

We’re way off topic now, though. If we want to continue this discussion of our younger years, let’s move it to Ayn Rands. (How I wish the forum had a “split thread” function!)

Adapt Posted:

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Everything sucked then.