Thus I never had a 2600 or any other game consoles but did have a tricked out Atari 800 (in 1980, $17K plus bonuses was a lot of money for an 18 yr old, especially one that hadn’t had much money at all until then). I grew up without comics and video games, until I got my first real job in late 1979, selling computers like the Atari 800, Cromemco, C-64, TI994a and the like. But I didn’t have many quarters of my own and most of what I did have went towards books. In the early 70’s, my dad got a new job and started making more money and we got a car and things were looking up… until he died suddenly (massive MI) in Feb 1975 when I was 11 and we were even more poor than we had been (though I didn’t really know at the time, so kudos to my mother!!). I really miss good old quarter arcades.Īnd when I went looking for a video of the go kart track… I found out that they finally closed. There are a few Dave & Buster restaurant arcades if I want to drive an hour. The golf courses are totally unkempt… And even though the go karts are still there… You can tell no one gives a shit about taking care of the place. They’ve torn down the old arcade building… The newer building is mostly ticket dispensing shit still and a few new games like Fruit Ninja. Street fighter, galaga, Area 51… The other building was newer stuff that dispensed tickets, and then three big mini golf courses. The one by the track was all old school stuff like pinball machines and normal arcade games. There used to be an awesome place called Grand Prix that had a mile and a half go kart track and two huge buildings of arcade games. Genesis I had all the sonic games, including sonic spinball which apparently no one seemed to like, but I had a lot of fun with it.
SNES was all about super Mario world where I could ride Yoshi around… And mortal kombat. I played Mega Man 3 for a while, but I only really enjoyed it while we borrowed one of those joystick controllers that had the special button where you could just hold fire and it would continuously shoot three pellets out. On The NES we played a lot of duck hunt and super Mario of course. I just recently got a laptop after not having a computer for 4+ years (long shitty story) so now I finally feel like I’m getting back to normal, haha. I lost my internet for a long time and then I just stopped playing completely. Then I got a Game Boy, PS1, Xbox, Xbox 360 and PS3. My own personal first console was the Genesis. I guess my first experience with “video games” was this toy (or something very similar) With that in mind let’s all try to be accepting. Generally I’d consider anything 2000 or earlier retro at this point but there going to be a lot of different ideas about that and rather than try to define an acceptable range of years or systems I think we should concern ourselves more with geeking out over our mutual hobby. Whether your first gaming experience was pushing quarter after quarter into coin-operated arcade machines, playing the original Pong console in the comfort of your living room, fighting with your siblings over whose turn it was to play Space Invaders on your Atari 2600, blasting ducks out of the sky on the NES, rolling through the Emerald Hill Zone on your Sega Genesis, collecting bananas on your Super NES, developing a painful headache on your Virtual Boy, exploring rich 3D environments on your Nintendo 64 or Playstation, catching 'em all on your Game Boy, or playing any of the myriad of other systems I didn’t provide examples for this thread is for you. I spent most of my day (and a considerable number of dollars) at a retro video games store and it occurred to me that we have a large population of pre Millennials and geeky nerdy types here who might be into Retro Gaming and like to talk to other like-minded individuals.
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