My two oldest grandson's came out yesterday to help me begin cleaning my garage. It was/is a mess... loaded from ceiling to floor so badly you can barely walk through it. My garage is where my kids store stuff when they move, then never come back to get. Last year, or two, been a lot of 'moving'.
So we're going through stuff when suddenly I hear a HUGE commotion coming from my grandson's. Going through an old bin they found their first PS2... one of them, they both had one so the 'commotion' was them fighting about whose it was.
You would have thought they had found a 100lb gold nugget. Their excitement was so great that I got little work out of them after the 'find'. I'm quite sure that today, as I type this message, they have set it up at home and they are at this moment playing all their old PS2 games.
I was never a big video gamer.. but I 'got' it, their excitement that is. Some years ago I posted about finding a long lost coal car from my first electric train. I think that experience is much the same as my grandson's finding their old PS2.
My first video game, and I'm sure it's the same one you had, was "Pong".. the first one. We still have it, somewhere.. it would take a month of searching to locate however. But I wasn't that 'connected' with Pong.. not like my electric train.
My last, and only, real video gaming was the adventure game "Kings Quest" series from Sierra Games. This was 1980 so some of you weren't even born yet. Since then I have dabbled... but only once since then getting somewhat addicted when I bought a 'racing' system from Ram23 a few years ago.
Today I have no real interest. Also... watching the screen when my grandkids play all the new games, (all shoot em' up game), I find myself getting 'sea sick' watching the TV Screen. Really, I'm not kidding. After a couple of minutes I get nauseated.
Ok, hold the phone... I just remembered another obsession.. Mario Bros. I was the king of that one and could 'pedal to the medal' get through every level... and this through Mario III.
I once tried 'online' gaming... playing a game of chess with some stranger. I think I lost in less than 15 moves. - JamesJM
