The first computer game I was ever exposed to was a Pong console that someone in my family owned and I got to play when I was about 7.
I remember playing it but it did not grab my attention more than Legos or GI Joe toys.
Then my older cousin got an Atari 2600.
Just looking at that image brings back hordes of memories. They got me along with the computer itself a "Programming Basic for the Vic 20". It had program listing for a simple asteroid like game that I spent two hours typing in one day, hitting "RUN STOP" to see if fail, check every line of code, find the mistake, and make it run, play it for 15 minutes, and then have to lose all the work because I had no way to save it.
I was in heaven.
Later on I would get some cartridge games and a cassette drive and have many adventures in loading games from a cassette that took 30 minutes to load or more. Hell, I spent hours using the weird symbols on the side of the keys to make digital scribbles! I loved that machine to death.
Eventually, I would upgrade to a Commodore 64 and get a slew of pirated games that were better and more fun, but my love of programming and gaming and computers started on that rectangular beige keyboard. Rest in Peace, Vic.
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I owned a casio PB-100 (iirc) programmable calculator and a Sinclair ZX-81 with half a K onboard memory expandable to 1k! But even then it kind of topped out after about 10 lines of code. The earliest real computer I can remember was the TRS 80. Tape drives.... (shudder)....
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My family's 1st "IBM Compatible" computer we bought in 1986 had a monochrome green screen with 80 column display. We'd really splurged and got 1 full MB of RAM, and a 20 MB hard drive. Standard at the time was 256KB RAM and a 5 MB hard drive. Maybe 10 if you needed a bit more space. -- but we got 20! Everyone told us we were nuts..... We actually did use about 12 MB before it crashed 2 years later. . . . . Thexder was my favorite game on that computer, IIRC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thexder
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