My Grandpa, River Raid Master.
As recently as fifteen years ago, video games were something that were for kids and that parents weren’t meant to understand. I never experienced the generation gap in video games. While my mother...
View ArticleThe Dawn of Time: Atari Twenty Six Hundred
Members of Generation X and even younger Baby Boomers would remember the Atari 2600. A simple machine by today’s standards of course, but it laid a foundation for the consoles of the future. There are...
View ArticleMore Atari! Inflation and freedom.
Image from Waylou I asked my parents about their thoughts on their first console. They worked out that they bought the 2600 before I was born, so at least as early as 1980. Apparently it cost about...
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