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pbj:

--- Quote from: deadmoney5 on May 08, 2014, 10:13:04 am ---you guys were the rich kids with the Atari 800 ;D

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Beat me to it.  We weren't all bourgie in the 80s.

GeoMan:

--- Quote from: deadmoney5 on May 08, 2014, 10:13:04 am ---you guys were the rich kids with the Atari 800 ;D

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As a teenager i had to work all summer at a factory producing plastic pipes and then sell books from door to door for another 4 months, to earn the money to buy my Atari800...

pbj:

--- Quote from: GeoMan on May 08, 2014, 10:40:47 am ---
--- Quote from: deadmoney5 on May 08, 2014, 10:13:04 am ---you guys were the rich kids with the Atari 800 ;D

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As a teenager i had to work all summer at a factory producing plastic pipes and then sell books from door to door for another 4 months, to earn the money to buy my Atari800...

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Did you wear an onion on your belt?
wp34:

--- Quote from: deadmoney5 on May 08, 2014, 10:13:04 am ---you guys were the rich kids with the Atari 800 ;D

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Believe me it was a big expense for my family.  I still have the receipt because I can't believe my dad spent that kind of money.  I taught myself to program on it and turned programming into a career.
unkpinball:
Boy just hearing those names brings back waves of nostalgia, played virtually all of them. My first computer was a Rat Shack Color Computer, but within a month or so the 800 came out and watching the Star Raiders screen sold me. Can't believe they cost so much back then. And then even more with the upgrades and hard disk drive.

Loading Scott Adams adventures for the first few weeks on the tape drive, pure bliss. Then bought the first advertised machine language game on disk, can't remember the name of it but you tried to fly up through an asteroid field, completely shallow but so cool. I think I bought every game that came out for a good while, read every magazine hoping for an Atari article and tidbit. Being older and employed helped a bunch.

Sure was fun for a while, kept going Atari through the Mega ST, then finally succumbed to the PC when Castle Wolfenstien and Doom came out. End of an era.

Guess I need to investigate one of those emulators and see if some of these games can be played again.
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