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life · @gric · (edited)
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Space Invaders!
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I got myself this *Space Invaders* T-Shirt and I love it! I'm posing here with my first computer, the [Atari 800XL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family) I got from my parents in 1984! :-)

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@winstonalden ·
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I had the same computer! Always felt a little cheated because my friends all had Commodore 64s but I guess the Atari was on sale at Sears that Christmas. Is that a tape cassette drive with it? I remember my grandfather got me a French language course that would play from the tapes and then load a program to administer an exam. I think I was 8 years old.

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@gric · 
What you see on the photos is the floppy disk drive, however, I started with a tape recorder and it was a pain! I was also about to get the C64 first but the Atari could display up to 256 colors, the C64 had only 16.
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@donnadavisart · 
I didn't know that about the colours! Of course I wasn't doing 'digital art' back then, just programming for fun. I think my first game on it was Jupiter Landing.
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@reinhard-schmid ·
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Hahaha... awesome! Remember getting really excited playing Space Invaders on a friend's Atari 😍🛸
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@leoplaw · 
We used to stop off at the local fish and chip shop on the way home and spend our coins (20c) on the likes of Space Invaders, Galaga and I forget the rest.

Some years later, I got an old Commodore Vic 20, but soon upgraded to a C64.
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@leoplaw · 
Here's some music for you to listen while you play space invaders. =)

Mi Sex - Computer Games 1979

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@gric · 
Listening to this makes the whole experience even worse! :-)
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@verifyme · 
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@thermoplastic · (edited)
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wow, that is so funny - I remember those games. Back then, we played them in the bars.  Even earlier, there were those [Pong games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong). There was one game console I owned that went belly-up, I cannot remember the name anymore. It had great graphics, but then the wanted to expand it with a computer module, and that caused them to fail big time and go bankrupt.
EDIT UPDATE:
found it - it was [ColecoVision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColecoVision)
and on it, aside from [Donkey Kong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game)), I was playing [Zaxxon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon)
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@kind7 · 
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