I don’t remember much about the crash myself, but I wonder if that was the reason why we had a lot of game consoles to play with by ’84 that made me suspicious that my parents didn’t just buy them on discount or at garage sales! I guess on a personal level, you really didn’t noticing too many changes since it still seemed pretty common where I lived to have still had food marts with games in them or at a pizza parlor.
I too remember the Q-bert cartoon, along with a few other video game guys that were lumped into a hour-long thing called “Saturday Supercade” on CBS. Pac-Man though had a cartoon on another channel, and a cartoon based on Dragon’s Lair also showed up (though I don’t think I had ever watched that one). We certainly grew up at the right time and place for these things to happen. It’s hard explaining what that meant to us, but it certainly had it’s own euphoria and distinction that may never be duplicated again.
Do you also remember the video game crash?
No I don’t. What was it like?
I don’t remember much about the crash myself, but I wonder if that was the reason why we had a lot of game consoles to play with by ’84 that made me suspicious that my parents didn’t just buy them on discount or at garage sales! I guess on a personal level, you really didn’t noticing too many changes since it still seemed pretty common where I lived to have still had food marts with games in them or at a pizza parlor.
I too remember the Q-bert cartoon, along with a few other video game guys that were lumped into a hour-long thing called “Saturday Supercade” on CBS. Pac-Man though had a cartoon on another channel, and a cartoon based on Dragon’s Lair also showed up (though I don’t think I had ever watched that one). We certainly grew up at the right time and place for these things to happen. It’s hard explaining what that meant to us, but it certainly had it’s own euphoria and distinction that may never be duplicated again.
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Done and done.
One of my friends had an old Atari 2600 still in the box, but his mom threw it away. It was really disappointing.
AAAH! Oh no! When will Mom’s ever learn?! Geeze!