80's home gaming systems

[ThunderVamp9]

We had a COmmodore 64 that was used almost exclusively for games, and the games on it blew away most consoles at the time. We also had Colecovision with the Atari 2600 adapter, so we could play games from either system. I still have it, too. We graduated to the NES, and after I was married and the SNES was introduced, I got that.

[whistledog]

The first home video game system I had was the Commodore Vic-20 (circa 1982). As William Shatner used to say in those ads, "Why buy a video game system when you can expand their young minds with the Commodore Vic-20 Home Computer System"

Some of the games I had (and still do have) I never really understood how to play, such as "Visible Solar System" and "Speed Math/Bingo Math" LOL



In 1984, we upgraded to the Atari 7800, then around 1986/87 I got the original 8 Bit Nintendo. From there, I got a "Turbo Grafx-16" in 1991, and the last system I ever owned was the Sega Game Gear

[AL-B]

One of my mom's friends let me and my little brother borrow her son's Atari 2600 for a few months. (My favorite game was probably Yar's Revenge.) Those joysticks were murder on your wrists, and when the NES first came out their D-pad controllers were a revelation. All of today's video game controlllers can trace their basic design back to the NES.

We had an Atari 2600 and I played the hell outta it.
Then we got an Nintendo NES and again, I fell in love.

My aunt had an Intellivision and I LOVED visiting her (for that very reason in 1985). Bad me!

I think we got our first computer (a Commodore 64) for Christmas 1986, complete with a cassette tape player (of which I had no idea to work the damn thing really...) But a classmate had given me several disks full of games. I learned my first BASIC program on that thing. lol

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

So never having really known how to run the thing very well, we played the games on it for a couple months then mom sent it back to Fingerhut (a payment company popular with poor people lol)

Mom got rid of my Nintendo (about 15 years ago while I was away on a business trip - she didn't even ask if I wanted to take it with me to my apartment. Oh well...that is life I guess.) Funny thing is she kept the Atari which we had to get a UHF converter switch for (as I recall), I think she kept it 'cause those were the game SHE knew how to play. lol I'm not bitter (no.)

My hubby bought me a NES off of e-bay and also one of those joysticks with the games loaded onto it, and I play them occasionally, but not like back in the day where I got "Nintendo thumb"