Most of today's Xboxers, wii-meisters, Playstation players and portable video game junkies flip on their consoles and handhelds with little knowledge of the gaming legacy that came before them. This month marks the 40th anniversary of the day Ralph Baer, a German-born inventor who fled to America from fascist Germany, built and played the first home-video game. While I didn't know much about Baer's "Brown Box" before reading Magazine's retrospective, Console Portraits: A 40-Year Pictorial History of Gaming, I can't help but get a little nostalgic for the days of Atari, Nintendo and even Gameboy.
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1We always had a ton of old cool things at my cottage up until a couple years ago. There was an Atari, and 8-track player, and some shag carpet! The carpet and 8-track are since gone, but I'm still hoping the Atari is hiding somewhere!
2I gave my Atari away, but gonna try and get it back. lol I only have a Gameboy but no consoles.
3Lol.
4I still have our old Atari (the boys play it sometimes) and my mom has our old Nintendo with a million games. It still works too.
XBOX 360s & PS3 have awesome graphics, but they don't seem as much fun as the regular old
Nintendos and stuff.
5Hubby would disagree with me though - he loooves his 360.
6No not at all.
7I gave my Sega Genesis and NES to my cousin and my SNES to my sister. But I still have my Intellivision! I have over 30 games, and all but one still have the packaging.
I still get upset when I think that my mom got rid of our Odyssey.
8Wow we sure did come far!!
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