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[STFM]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marleyman @ Sep 13 2007, 10:00 PM) [snapback]310627[/snapback]</div>

My first game was on a Binatone 'thing' it had pong (tennis) and a light gun that was used to shoot a white square moving over the screen. If you know more about those two you are sad, like me. :P
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Haha I think my mate had one of those things, he was so popular! I remember for the pong game it had the paddles with the rotating dial on it

[Marleyman]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(STFM @ Sep 14 2007, 02:40 AM) [snapback]310806[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marleyman @ Sep 13 2007, 10:00 PM) [snapback]310627[/snapback]

My first game was on a Binatone 'thing' it had pong (tennis) and a light gun that was used to shoot a white square moving over the screen. If you know more about those two you are sad, like me. :P
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Haha I think my mate had one of those things, he was so popular! I remember for the pong game it had the paddles with the rotating dial on it [/b][/quote]



Yes, that it did. I was popular too but I think the poster of Debbie Harry in my bedroom was the cause for my instant popularity

[zafo999]

I think I was maybe 5 when my parents got me an educational game console called Socrates. I think it was made by V-Tech. This must have been 1990, maybe? Then I inherited a bored uncle's Atari 2600. Got a Tandy 1000 in 1991. So it must have been at least 16, maybe 17 years of gaming for me.

[tea3rd]

i would have to say ive been playing pc game for about 10 years the first one a ever played would have to be chips challenge it was a life changer or at least the start of my pc life

[Joshsux]

I'm almost 21, started when i was around 3, at 2 i would watch my dad play, so around 17 - 18 years.

[Beltona]

I remember playing something like a console, before the nintendo. I was 6 by that time. So i have been playing for 16 years. *sigh* Good times

[Vaccaro di Mezzanotte®]

Hi everyone, I'm new in here.

I began videogaming back in 1982. I was six and a friend of mine had a C64 for Christmas. I had to wait until 1987 to have a computer on my own, an Olivetti Prodest PC128 (an italian clone of the Thomson MO6). Then, in 1991, after that microcomputer and a Sega Master System, I had my very first PC, powered by an Intel 80286 running at the astonishing speed of 12Mhz, with a black and white Hercules video card, 1Mb RAM and 40Mb Seagate HDD. So precious!

[Japo]

Hi Midnight Cowboy!

My first PC was an Olivetti, almost exactly like your 286, or maybe exactly so. :wub:

[Vaccaro di Mezzanotte®]

Nice! I didn't know Olivetti exported its PC's in Spain! Many newborn gamers would probably not understand how we could play on those machines, whit a couple of sprites and a lot of imagination, but thanks to that experience, I can say that today I look at the very essence of a game, and not only at the fancy eye candies.

Those were the days....

[Japo]

Olivetti sold a lot of stuff in Spain. Our old mechanical typewriter was also an Olivetti whose case was made of cast iron and weighted a ton or so. LOL