Video Games

[GeorgeG]

Somehow the subject of video games came up during shift change and I had to chuckle while listening to some younger guys talk about Atari being their first video game and how far these things have come since "way back then."

I guess I'm showing my age a bit, but I've never really gotten into video games. Nonetheless, we did have "video games" when I was little. I got a few strange looks when I described my first "video game."

You placed a piece of cellophane over the TV screen to draw the next piece of the picture on Winky Dink!

What do you think, Dan, a vintage video game?

 

[calypso*a*go-go]

Anybody up for a game of "Pong"?

 

[mommytotwo]

We used to have a Nintendo and had Tetris, Wheel of Fortune, and The Three Stooges.

 

[N.Bailey]

I've bought manyy systems since, but I started with the Atari when I was about 12 or 13? I can't say I ever heard of any system with the cellophane that you described.

 

[Jungle Skipper]

My family was unable to afford most of the video game systems. We had an atari and a Texas Instruments Console when everyone else has Nintendo....then once Sega and super nintendo came out I had a used Nintendo.

When I was 14 and had my first job, I saved up and bought a used super nintendo...I was never any good at video games, but played a bit during college with friends....then for my birthday last year, I bought myseld a playstation 2 to entertain myself (I had to play Kingdom Hearts and MVP Baseball!)...its fun, but im still partial to the simpler things like atari or my favorite PONG!!!!!!

Jungle Josh

 

[mommytotwo]

My husband is such a kid at heart that I had gotten him a Dreamcast which he wanted, and then he had gotten a PS2 with all kinds of games, and enjoys playing it with his son.
He remembers Atari, but I have never seen one of those.

 

[2BigKIdz]

Atari was great in it's day. We bought the Activision classics for our PS awhile back, graphics sure have changed, but the games are still fun. Recently got Namco Museum for the x-box, really enjoying Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga! We have had all of the major systems, including gameboy and gb advance, with the exception of gamecube. Games are fun.

 

[GeorgeG]

N.Bailey,

The Winky Dink cellophane drawing was not an actual "system" as we know it today.

Winky Dink was a cartoon character starring in "Winky Dink and You."

You simply placed a piece of cellophane on the TV screen (always black and white back then) and when the next line appeared as a clue to the complete picture, you used a crayon to trace it to add to all the previous lines. Eventually, what the picture was became obvious and I think there may have been some sort of prize for guessing it first.

There was a commercial cellophane and crayons available, but we just used household cellophane and our own crayons. I seem to remember my brother drew right on the TV screen once or twice. I probably got blamed for it, though.

In those days I suppose you could have called that "high tech."

And yes, we had to get up and go to the TV to change channels, but there were only a handful so it wasn't too strenuous.

 

[powellrj]

Originally posted by GeorgeG
N.Bailey,

The Winky Dink cellophane drawing was not an actual "system" as we know it today.

Winky Dink was a cartoon character starring in "Winky Dink and You."

You simply placed a piece of cellophane on the TV screen (always black and white back then) and when the next line appeared as a clue to the complete picture, you used a crayon to trace it to add to all the previous lines. Eventually, what the picture was became obvious and I think there may have been some sort of prize for guessing it first.

There was a commercial cellophane and crayons available, but we just used household cellophane and our own crayons. I seem to remember my brother drew right on the TV screen once or twice. I probably got blamed for it, though.

In those days I suppose you could have called that "high tech."

And yes, we had to get up and go to the TV to change channels, but there were only a handful so it wasn't too strenuous.

we didn't have one of those, but we did have a screen you put in front of your B&W TV to make it a color one. and no it didn't work any better than it sounds like it would!! When we first got married, other couples were putting pong on their gift list.

 

[Indyman]

My first video game system was an Etch-a-Sketch.

 

[jrydberg]

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