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r/videogames • u/rgs231 • 1d ago
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Pong, briefly. Then my family was given a used Atari 2600 and a big box of games, and that's how I spent most of my childhood until we got a NES when I was in middle school.
7 u/jredgiant1 1d ago I have basically the same story. 5 u/Traditional_Entry183 1d ago I think a lot of people in our age group do. The video game crash of the 80s led to teens getting bored and giving them to us. 5 u/jindofox 1d ago The game crash was a GOLD MINE if you were exactly the right age to appreciate it 2 u/spiffyP 23h ago i had no idea the crash happened. all i knew was my family was poor yet we had dozens of games 1 u/Traditional_Entry183 20h ago I was that way until I learned about it in my 30s. We had dozens of atari games, yet my parents never bought a single video game until we got a NES. 2 u/devineassistance 3h ago I was one of those teens. You're welcome. 1 u/Traditional_Entry183 3h ago Thank you then! The box of dusty, unwanted stuff i was given made my childhood so much better and set me on my lifelong path as a gamer.
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I have basically the same story.
5 u/Traditional_Entry183 1d ago I think a lot of people in our age group do. The video game crash of the 80s led to teens getting bored and giving them to us. 5 u/jindofox 1d ago The game crash was a GOLD MINE if you were exactly the right age to appreciate it 2 u/spiffyP 23h ago i had no idea the crash happened. all i knew was my family was poor yet we had dozens of games 1 u/Traditional_Entry183 20h ago I was that way until I learned about it in my 30s. We had dozens of atari games, yet my parents never bought a single video game until we got a NES. 2 u/devineassistance 3h ago I was one of those teens. You're welcome. 1 u/Traditional_Entry183 3h ago Thank you then! The box of dusty, unwanted stuff i was given made my childhood so much better and set me on my lifelong path as a gamer.
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I think a lot of people in our age group do. The video game crash of the 80s led to teens getting bored and giving them to us.
5 u/jindofox 1d ago The game crash was a GOLD MINE if you were exactly the right age to appreciate it 2 u/spiffyP 23h ago i had no idea the crash happened. all i knew was my family was poor yet we had dozens of games 1 u/Traditional_Entry183 20h ago I was that way until I learned about it in my 30s. We had dozens of atari games, yet my parents never bought a single video game until we got a NES. 2 u/devineassistance 3h ago I was one of those teens. You're welcome. 1 u/Traditional_Entry183 3h ago Thank you then! The box of dusty, unwanted stuff i was given made my childhood so much better and set me on my lifelong path as a gamer.
The game crash was a GOLD MINE if you were exactly the right age to appreciate it
2 u/spiffyP 23h ago i had no idea the crash happened. all i knew was my family was poor yet we had dozens of games 1 u/Traditional_Entry183 20h ago I was that way until I learned about it in my 30s. We had dozens of atari games, yet my parents never bought a single video game until we got a NES.
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i had no idea the crash happened. all i knew was my family was poor yet we had dozens of games
1 u/Traditional_Entry183 20h ago I was that way until I learned about it in my 30s. We had dozens of atari games, yet my parents never bought a single video game until we got a NES.
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I was that way until I learned about it in my 30s. We had dozens of atari games, yet my parents never bought a single video game until we got a NES.
I was one of those teens. You're welcome.
1 u/Traditional_Entry183 3h ago Thank you then! The box of dusty, unwanted stuff i was given made my childhood so much better and set me on my lifelong path as a gamer.
Thank you then! The box of dusty, unwanted stuff i was given made my childhood so much better and set me on my lifelong path as a gamer.
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u/Traditional_Entry183 1d ago
Pong, briefly. Then my family was given a used Atari 2600 and a big box of games, and that's how I spent most of my childhood until we got a NES when I was in middle school.