Talking about Atari, in '84 when I was living in Madrid, Spain, I had an Atari 16 (16K memory!!) which also took cartridges but those were expensive though I loved my Donkey Kong and Defender games....

So, I bought the Atari tape player for loading games in. Remember those? Before the times of floppies. Would sit there and make fax machine noises for an hour to load in a game (and you could see the welcome screen forming line by line) and if something went wrong half way, you had to start all over!!!

Oh, and I later bought a memory UPGRADE to 64K, so now I had the biggest, baddest Atari on the block...

HaHa, I also remember our Sony beta VCR with a corded remote....what a pain in the ass!

I think my parents still have my old Atari. My fave was Ghost Manor. Those pixelled ghosts and skeletons were effing scary.

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we had Pong.

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PONG can get one into trouble...2 guys who lived on my floor in university decided not to go out for a fire alarm because they refused to leave there intense game of pong. the firemen broke into their room as their really was a small smoke fire on our floor...and slapped them with a huge fine for not leaving. poor bastards.

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Originally posted by tatgirl we had Pong.

ditto. yay for being old. LOL @ Ghost Manor and Jumpman on C64 too.

I remeber being in an elementary school computer class filled with PETs and CBMs...there was ONE Commodore 64 and everyone had to take turns using it

Even worse...I remember being *really* little and being in my friends' basement fooling around with their parents' CB Radio

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Originally posted by Form&Funktion Boney M.

Jeezus, I thought that group was a shame that I had to keep to myself.


I still love "Rasputin" and "Night Flight to Venus"

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Originally posted by Wurm Jeezus, I thought that group was a shame that I had to keep to myself. I still love "Rasputin" and "Night Flight to Venus"

.. Rasputin is one of my faves... so is "Brown Girl In The Ring"

Isn't it 'Brown Girl in the Rain'?

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Originally posted by Pixiechick Soooooooooo freakin' true... and I remember watching cartoons from like 8:00 a.m. to noon on those Saturday mornings and I would feel so spaced out and grumpy afterwards because I had to do my chores. And does anyone remember Jumpman on the Commodore 64?

OMg!!

I LOVE Jumpman!!!
Best game EvAAAR!!!!!

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Originally posted by Wurm Isn't it 'Brown Girl in the Rain'?

Nope.. pretty sure it's Ring...

search google

You are so right Max.

Dammit. For over 2 decades I have been singing Brown Girl in the Rain. Not quite as bad as when my sister thought the Who song "I Can't Explain" was actually "Dennis Quaid"...I let he sing that one about town for many months before pointing out her mistake.

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Originally posted by angelgirl You are so right Max. Dammit. For over 2 decades I have been singing Brown Girl in the Rain. Not quite as bad as when my sister thought the Who song "I Can't Explain" was actually "Dennis Quaid"...I let he sing that one about town for many months before pointing out her mistake.

LOL. It sucks when you think you're ABSOLUTELY sure about a song's lyrics, only to be proved wrong. I know I've done that before a few times and although it's such a small thing, doesn't it feel like part of your 'world' has come crumbling down?

(Forgive me, it's the morning and I have yet to wake up fully )

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