i wish i had a better memory, seriously you add such detail to your experiences.
but now you need to realize you are grown up, a grown man. like me, we are adults. and every generation is going to be differerent. which im okay with
i thought i was a game master in the day too, i had 50+ nes games and i thought they were gold (later to realize they are worth less than a couple bucks if that)
Many of the exact same experinces happened to me, alot. Someone would be playing mario 1, and just loosing. I would wip through it in no time. I even remember telling someone 'if you jump down that hole you go to a secret area' and they would die, lol
Friends would come over to play video games and i would own them all. Being the envy on the block. I think what really has changed everything is the internet. But i love where it has gone, and its only going to get better.
I had the sega channel. For the sega genesis, it was a little box on top of a cartridge that connected to a cable wire. You could play maybe 40 games, and they had sections of video that you could get cheats off of. But it wasnt like online stuff now it was very primitive.
But right now im talking junior high. Before that, ya i had a nintendo. I never had a commodor 64 or atari, infact back then i hated them because I went to arcades with my big brother.
Most games in arcades were better then consoles. (Pinball, projecter games, hey had more to work with in big machines) Not until nintendo came out i ownd a console. My sister had an atari and i destroyed it. She was always a meanie, and i was like
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Nintendo was released in Released in 1985, i know i didnt get it right when it came out. Because i was only 4. I think i got it at 6-7
I found an interesting history site.
http://www.thegameconsole.com/They didnt consider the commodor 64 a console LOL, it was just a keyboard computer! lol
WIKI
"The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August, 1982, at a price of US$595. "
"During the Commodore 64's lifetime, sales totaled 30 million units, making it the best-selling single personal computer model of all time."
"For a substantial period of time (1983-1985), the Commodore 64 dominated the market with approximately 40% share and 2 million units sold per year,[3] outselling the IBM PC clones, Apple computers, and Atari computers. "
I was unaware of the commodore until about 7th grade. Which was many many years after its decline. Around the time of the commodor 64 release, i was more worried about how i was going to get a nintendo!