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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: Scoobum on December 23 2025, 10:11:34 AM

Title: Christmas 1981
Post by: Scoobum on December 23 2025, 10:11:34 AM

I need a time machine to take me back there  :)

Title: Re: Christmas 1981
Post by: Scoobum on December 23 2025, 10:53:08 AM

What Christmas use to be  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG1gu8SgmAk&list=RDaG1gu8SgmAk&start_radio=1

Title: Re: Christmas 1981
Post by: Steve Wood on December 23 2025, 10:06:07 PM

Atari and Space Invaders!  Life was good !

Amazing how much fun we had with 8 bit graphics and arcade type games.

Title: Re: Christmas 1981
Post by: ULYCYC on December 24 2025, 08:06:52 AM

I remember maybe 1970 my parents getting my two younger brothers  a Magnavox pong game console for the only TV in the house.  That was WW3 after a few weeks, back in the box sent to the basement.

Title: Re: Christmas 1981
Post by: Steve Wood on December 24 2025, 09:09:56 AM

Pong did not have much shelf life, thankfully.

It did not take long for things to heat up, though.

A bunch of consoles and Apples soon came out and we soon had get together on the week end to play.  Life was simple. I used to get really frustrated playing Zork.  Those damn word games drove me crazy.

Title: Re: Christmas 1981
Post by: Be4u on December 25 2025, 03:52:31 AM

Wow Atari was expensive!

Title: Re: Christmas 1981
Post by: Top Speed on December 27 2025, 09:40:13 AM

I had a friend whose parents would get him all of those latest game consoles starting with Atari, etc.  My parents wouldn't pay for it.