I grew up the 70's and 80's.
In the 70's, my friends and I were outside a lot. We would play in the community park behind our house, ride our bikes, play hide-n-go-seek, have soccer games with all the kids in the neighborhood, etc.
Seldom was there an evening when we would be inside after supper.....unless it was to play Dungeons & Dragons of course. :P
But in 1982, my dad brought home something interesting.....an Intellivision!!!
WOW!!! My sister and I were blown away! A real video game system?! It was all of our dreams come true!
We had for a while been playing a little here and there on other friends' Atari systems, and thought they were amazing! Never did we think our dad would surprise us with an Intellivision!
Thus started my love of video games. We would play our Intellivision for hours in the evenings and on the weekends. My dad even got into the routine, and had a couple favorite games that he wasn't half bad at (Night Stalker was one I remember he particularly liked).
My progression through the video game system world did not progress as fast or as often as some of my other friends, however. Some would have a new system every 2 years (You could go from Atari, to Intellivision, to Colecovision, to Atari 2600, to Nintendo, to Sega Genesis etc.....all the way through the Playsation, Game Cube, and X-Box stages).
At some point it was computers which caught my eye, and remained my favorite over the game systems.
I do still own the original Intellivision we got back in 1982. I also have an original Atari system, and my Sega Genesis console which I bought 2nd hand in the mid-90's.
Today, I am pretty much a PC-Gamer. I bought a gaming laptop a few years ago, and it still stands up to the rigors of the new games coming out today.
If you would like to read about the history of game consoles, Wikipedia has a good page
HERE.
And as you head out, here's a blast from the past!
I love these graphics!!!
