This week at Flashbak, I recalled the dawn of the home video game age, and the arrival in my life (and the culture) of the Atari 2600 (or VCS).
Here's a snippet and the url (http://flashbak.com/games-fun-remembering-atari-vcs-46013/ )
"I officially entered the video game era on Christmas morning, 1978, when my parents -- or was it Santa Claus? --- gave me and my sister a remarkable and unforgettable gift: the Atari VCS (Video Computer System), which also goes by the designation of Atari 2600. I was nine years old.
We enthusiastically the unwrapped the huge, flat, rectangular box, but had no idea what an Atari was. My folks explained, simply, that it is a game you can “play on the television.”
That sounded….different.
My father hooked up the Atari to our family room TV set (a zenith, color model), and quickly unpacked the first game cartridges: Combat, Missile Command, and Space Invaders.
We played Space Invaders first. And from the first moment the strange aliens began their downward march on screen (to a military-sounding thump…), I was hooked."
Continue reading at Flashbak.
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