Remember then?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

🤗

[kimbutgar]

1. I remember playing this on my first computer that i brought before the internet became a thing!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. 🤗

[underpants]

3. Cutting edge technology

The control knobs didn’t even have extension cords. You had to sit shoulder to shoulder. I think that was a big innovation for Atari systems.

I was never big on video games. My brother and I used to get the square and “paddles” (I guess) set right at the net so the square just bounced between them. We’d run out and play for a couple hours to come home and hear the noise and congratulate each other.

Sorry Earth and Mom’s check book.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. 😁

[MiHale]

4. It was the thing to do when bored...problem was...

Game was totally, beyond repair, gruesomely, unequivocally, super BORING. Put me off video games forever.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. 😢

[rsdsharp]

5. There was a bar in the town where I went to college that had Pong.

It was revolutionary!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. 🤗

[SheltieLover]

9. Yup! My folks bought my kids an Atari & they loved it!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. 🤗

[LudwigPastorius]

10. I remember the nail-biting excitement of downhill slalom on Intellivision.

?t=4

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 😬

[catbyte]

11. They had one of those at Pizza Hut when there was still a salad bar and in-house dining.

Those were the days, lol.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. ☺️

[justaprogressive]

12. I remember before then! SpaceWar! from MIT 1st real video game

Played til late at night 5 nights a week On a DEC PDP-11

You can play online L ship is WESD for shooting being cloaked and rocket R side probably OPKL area..

https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. 🤯

[LogDog75]

17. I had a Pong game when it first came out

I was living in an AF dorm room as a junior enlisted. I bought the Pong game, hooked it up to my B&W TV, and we'd play it at night. Other guys in the dorm would come over and ask to play it. Back then, it was "state of the art" in video games. Nowadays, even they youngest kids wouldn't play with it. As the 80s, 90s, and 2000s progressed the systems have improved to an unbelievable level in terms of graphics, sound, and action.

Remember when 3D headsets first came out in the late 80s and early 90s. Back then, the shapes were line drawings, with no details, of objects. I remember trying one in an arcade and it was a tank battle. The tanks were all outlined and today they remind me of the Cybertruck. Not surprising that the image of the truck looks like a stick figure drawing in a very old video game.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. 😃

[Doc_Technical]

19. It was an archade game

It was made by a company called Syzygy (later Atari} at
a Togo's sandwich shop on Campbell Ave. across the street
from The Pruneyard shopping center, if my addled brain
correctly recalls.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. 🤗

[TommieMommy]

20. I had so much fun with this game.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. 😃