Quote:Mark Skarr wrote:Oh my god, yes. We got Pong when I was 12, years before I touched a computer. Wow, the memories that brings back. Ours plugged into a wall socket, so we didn't have to worry about batteries.
We'd had a pong tv game player (don't even remember what that was named). Ran off of four D-cells and lasted about 20 minutes with that.
When I got my C64, a Commodore user's magazine that I bought at the same time had a Basic version of Donkey Kong Junior. I didn't have a hard drive initially, and the tape deck loaded programs so slowly, that my brother and I typed that program in manually, all 220 lines, every time we wanted to play. That, specifically, was the reason I spent money on a hard drive.