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My grandfather’s 800XL was my first computing experience, I have a soft spot for them.

• rbanffy 3y ago
  I was a grown up when I got my XEGS. I love it.
• xp84 3y ago
  That was a fun computer. I got to play around with them at school which was actually my first computer experience. The 2600 though, I just could never be excited by. I feel it could only be truly appreciated by someone in the actual late 70s, before anything better had ever been experienced. Once that ship sailed, with the NES especially, it could never really go back. But I'm sure people with fond memories of those days would disagree with me! (And youths these days will probably call NES and SNES barbaric and no fun!)
  • ahefner 3y ago
    Oddly, I grew up (in the 80s!) feeling the way you describe about the 2600, that it was just too crude to revisit.. but when i finally bought one some years back, paired with an authentic CRT, I was really enchanted by the elemental simplicity of the games, the instant snap response with no input or display lag, sharpened further by the pixel-perfect (and intuitively predictable) collision detection being done within the video chip. My console sweet spot previously had been the NES and some early 16-bit machines, but for the raw fundamentals of a lot of shooter-type games, the 2600 felt so much better - and to a lesser degree its successor in the 8-bit home computers, but with their expanded capabilities those machines gave developers more rope to hang themselves. Yar's Revenge, Demon Attack, Berzerk - there's real magic there, just you versus the circuitry.