toxicatom5

Just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying my time here, great group of people! Areala, the 2600 is a machine I spent some time with growing up as well. We didn't have a ton of games for it, but I was always a fan of Missile Command, Pitfall, and Zaxxon. Have you ever played Galahad and the Holy Grail on that machine? I was never able to finish that game which haunts me to this day, haha!

That's right, you could shoot as many Bison as you needed on the trail. Buying food in advance was for suckers.

haha, oh yes! Many of those games are available to play online for free now. Glad the kids today can still experience dysentery like we did.

Hello All! I just happened upon this site today, and was ecstatic to find a community that has been built around this topic. Immediately felt at home. I'm a passionate collector of all things video games -- addicted really -- with collections spanning the Atari 800 through the current consoles. That makes it sound far more compete than it actually is! My gaming background is a little bit wonky, because, growing up, my parents weren't too keen on gaming. Some games were deemed acceptable (Donkey Kong, Pitfall, Missle Command), but that was the extent of my parent's comfort level. When I was allowed get a new game, it was usually of the educational variety. Don't get me wrong, I actually enjoyed the many, many hours of Carmen Sandiego that I played, but when games like Doom came out, haha, well let's just say that was an unwinnable argument. It's a little strange, but now I'm actually happy to have missed out on many of those experiences as a kid, because it gives me a different perspective from my friends, and that makes for fun conversations -- I'm experiencing them for the very first time, while they have memories from decades ago. Where I'm at now is that I'm basically trying to fill-in all those gaps in my gaming history and that retrospective is what brought me here! Looking forward to getting into the conversations!