Intellivision - Football (my buddy had one and we spent hours playing football! Yes, it was "Football")
What say you all?Ītari 2600 - Megamania (gotta shoot the falling hamburgers, bow ties and irons!)Ītari 5200 - Congo Bongo (anyone else remember this one? Actually, did anyone else have a 5200?)Ĭolecovision - Donkey Kong (just like the arcade - at least in my memory!) what about your memories? What elicits that emotional feeling in you when you think about a games system and what you played on it? Just like music can bring you back to a certain moment in your life, so can games. So, I made a list of each console that I have ever played a game on (and even threw in some arcade and computer memories) and then wrote down the first thing that came to mind in regard to what I remembered playing - Not always my favorite games from those systems, but the ones that elicited that emotional feeling and popped into my head first. Some are, but as I thought about it, most are not. The funny thing is that my memories of certain consoles are not necessarily of playing the "BIG" games or the most "RECOGNIZABLE" games or even my "FAVORITE" games that you see on most lists. I have either owned or had access to most of the major gaming consoles over the years. the 12-year old version of me could never have envisioned what this would become as I played Atari "Real Sports" Baseball on my 2600" And, every year, as video games continue to evolve, I think to myself, how can it get any better?! Going from text-based games to the graphical powerhouses today, I am constantly floored. I look at MLB: The Show on PS4 and I think, "wow. So, anyway, as I was talking to my brother, I came to the conclusion that the reason that I still play games is that I love the technology. I am a litigation attorney and a partner at a big Florida law firm and I work pretty darn hard all day. I am 49 years old still play games almost every day (usually late night after the wife and kids are asleep).
I grew up spending hundreds of hours in the arcade during the "golden age" in the 1980s and then moved onto consoles and some PC gaming sprinkled in for good measure.
I remember seeing Donkey Kong for the first time in an arcade and I thought to myself, "Holy crap! That looks like a cartoon!". I have been playing video games since the 70s and my first home console was actually a Tandy knockoff of the Odyssey (for you young ones, it was tennis, soccer and squash, all in one - Basically PONG).
So, I was recently talking to my younger brother about how much video games have changed over the years.
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