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What's your first gaming memory? (feddit.uk)
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I'm 6-7. I'm at my grandparents house. He's got one of those old-timey Pong consoles that you plug into the TV; it had like 5-6 different 'sport' modes (Tennis, Squash etc etc), but ultimately it was still a few pixels moving up and down or maybe left and right.

And it was amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Seeing an Atari 2600, the original woodgrain model, at my cousin's house and playing Space Invaders, Adventure and the one with cowboys.

I was convinced the cartridges contained reels of film, but I couldn't figure out how to make that work with all the different possibilities. I was only 4 or 5 at the time.

My cousin opened up a cartridge and I was amazing to see the circuit board with a couple of chips on inside. Blew my mind.