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  1. 04-26-2011, 12:20 PM #1
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    Default Calling samm!

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  2. 04-26-2011, 12:26 PM #2
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    I'm so old, that's after my time. My nephews had one though!
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    I had one, Breakout rocked! But the paddle controls wore out in no time.
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    I never had an Atari, but I did have one of these...

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    Quote Originally Posted by sammm View Post
    I'm so old, that's after my time. My nephews had one though!
    Right!.....I ordered a dual interface to hook two Atari Joysticks to my TRS-80 Model 1!!
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  6. 04-26-2011, 01:04 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by altiain View Post
    I never had an Atari, but I did have one of these...
    I did have one of those! It was fairly advanced for the day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wrx74 View Post
    Right!.....I ordered a dual interface to hook two Atari Joysticks to my TRS-80 Model 1!!
    The old 'Trash 80'...I remember those too.
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  8. 04-26-2011, 01:28 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by sammm View Post
    I'm so old, that's after my time.
    Here is Sammm's first game console!
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  9. 04-26-2011, 01:37 PM #9
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    ^Big screen TV FTW!

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    POS still has that TV at his house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sammm View Post
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    POS still has that TV at his house.
    It still works!
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    I even had a Vic 20 and of course the super technology replacement-the Commodore 64.
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    I grew up with a Commodore 64. It had a tape drive. I remember typing "run" and then going to get a snack and coming back in ten minutes when the program had finished loading.
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    We had both the Timex Sinclair and the TI994A!

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    I had one of these:

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    This is all I had growing up....
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    Quote Originally Posted by slowchildmiata View Post
    This is all I had growing up....
    That hoop would have been faster if you had put a Big Ol Carbon-fiber Wing on it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by POS Racing View Post
    That hoop would have been faster if you had put a Big Ol Carbon-fiber Wing on it!
    I am trying not to laugh at that... but I am failing.
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    I had the starter kit...never got the hoop, just the stick. We made fire when two of us got together.
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    Quote Originally Posted by onething View Post
    I had the starter kit...never got the hoop, just the stick. We made fire when two of us got together.
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    "The hoop, the hoop, the hoop is on fire...
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