/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2647581
You know nothing of pain, anon.

Similar age to >>682889
(although my odometer has already ticked over)

Anyways, earliest gaming memory is probably from when I was about 4 years old. My dad pulled an Atari 2600 out of the basement (I think he owned it before he and my mom got married) and he hooked it up in my parent's bedroom, because it was the only TV we had with the old-style screw inputs. We just had the joysticks, not the paddles. He had a pretty decent collection on it, games I remember for sure are Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Defender, Space Invaders, and Missile Command (my dad's favorite).

We also had the usual collection of generic games (Baseball, Bowling, and so forth) and one of the Breakouts (don't remember which one). Also this strange game called Human Cannonball, you had to shoot a guy out of a cannon and try to hit a water tank, or he'd smash on the ground.

Around that time we also got a computer, a Tandy (don't remember the model, it had the 5.25 diskettes) and I played some games on that thing too, definitely remember Kindercomp, Astro Grover, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. There was also a flight game, might've been F-something (like F-16) but I don't remember it that well.

pic related, it's the joystick we had on our computer.