Comments on: The Perfect Holiday Gift

By: gamegeek

gamegeek — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:04:39 +0000

I had a flashback this Christmas as I tried to quickly set up the new Wii my wife and I bought for our children…clearly remember as I waited for what seemed like forever while my father struggled to hook the Atari up to the bunny ears on the back our our set. My children kept saying “come on Dad, hurry up” and I remember saying the same thing. Once it was finally hooked up they had a blast. We bought the playground game you have running on the Wii in the musuem. Fun to play but not so fun to set up, for me or my father. Cheers

By: gamemaster

gamemaster — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:55:44 +0000

I never had an intellivision or an atari but I played hours of donkey kong on the coleco that i got as a kid. Then i got a nintendo system and played mario and duck hunt til the cart stopped working. Have had pretty much all the game systems since then and have a wii and a play station 3 now. My kids love to play with the wii and have a bunch of wii games on there christmas list for this year. Cool screens on the post esp the one of the civ game that i hadnt seen before.

By: traubie

traubie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:20:11 +0000

Oh Atari…I miss you. I spent a ton of time working through Q*Bert and Dig Dug.

I think one of the most interesting things is that on of my favorite games growing up was Legend of Zelda and just last night I found myself working through the newest installation of the series…on my Wii.

But, this year, I’m hoping for Rock Band 2 or WiiFit to work off the holiday pounds!

By: Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:45:19 +0000

Oh yeah, the Atari 2600 was always humming.

While we used it to type in endless loops that would flash your name in colors, I remember playing games on the Commodore 64. Anyone remember “Hunt the Wumpus”?

I shouldn’t be amazed, but we found one of those consoles-in-a-joystick that contained about a dozen Intellivision games that my wife remembers playing. At least back then, we couldn’t walk off and misplace the wiimote.

By: meteorite77

meteorite77 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:22:02 +0000

My earliest memories of electronic gaming involve the Apple II in my elementary-school classroom in the late 1980s. It was such a treat to slide in the floppy disk and boot up Odell Lake or The Oregon Trail, even if I accidentally flooded the wagon while fording the river.