I played Pong at a friend’s house when I was in 3rd grade, I think. Then there was the year the Atari 2600 came out and I wanted it for Christmas. My father said there was no way he was going to buy something that encouraged us to spend MORE time in front of the TV. Christmas morning came and, as expected, there was no console under the tree. But after most of the gifts were opened and I had honestly forgotten about it, I noticed an unwrapped, uninteresting box off to the side away from the action, and it said Atari on it. I literally fell over, giggling like a crazy person. My father is a good actor and a sneak. He probably regretted the purchase later on when I made it my life’s mission to score 1,000,000 point in Missile Command. Anyway, that started the electronic gaming addiction that is still with me today. Atari let to computers, PC games, PC builds, a programming career and eventually a return to consoles in 2003 when I built a home theater and hooked an Xbox to it.
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