This was my first gaming system. Outside of the hours and hours of fun it provided (which everyone can relate to their first gaming system), I can blame it for

This was my first gaming system. Outside of the hours and hours of fun it provided (which everyone can relate to their first gaming system), I can blame it for introducing one thing: Piracy. Buying games never crossed my mind. You copied them from friends, and that was normal and accepted. My parents didn't understand that it was, technically, stealing. They actively promoted it. I had 5 or 6 friends who also had C64s, and I don't remember anyone buying any games...ever. One of my friend's fathers had thousands of games, in dozens of "disk boxes", with every title printed out in a 2 inch binder so you could locate it. Pretty bad, in hindsight. And yet, the software industry survived. Who knew?