But I had Pong. I played it by inserting a cassette into a tape recorder that was attached to a Texas Instruments computer. If it couldn't be purchased at Radio Shack we did not own it. If I wanted to play on an Atari I had to do it at a friend's house.
1. What was your favorite Atari game (if any)?
Mine: Frogger
2. What is your favorite video game (any system) of all time?
Mine: Super Mario 64
Hope Pong was good, but Atari was definitely better, so sorry to hear. I'm pretty sure we had an Atari 2600, loved that thing.
1. I remember being obsessed with a game called Venture and also one called Mouse Trap, couldn't pick between those two.
2. Very much into JRPGs, my favourite is either Tales of Symphonia or Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, both I believe may be on Nintendo Switch now but I originally played them on the Nintendo Gamecube
I wonder if your Mouse Trap video game was based on The Mouse Trap board game I used to have, or vice versa. 🤔 It was loads of fun but it took a while to set up.
shareI'll never forget watching my brother play on his Atari. It was almost as entertaining as watching TV when I was little :) I saw him play "Frogger," "Burger Time," the early Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong, "Atlantis," that one game with the two islands, etc. It was very interesting seeing the pixelated hurricanes hitting the islands in that one game (was it called "Utopia?")
My older brother also played a game on his Atari where you ran around shooting things with arrows, and his avatar was a little black pixelated man. I even remember the "whee-tchoo!" noise the arrows made, hehehe. I think it was called "Dungeons and Dragons," but I'm not sure. He had to travel into many different pixelated mountains with tunnels, caves, and dungeons, full of bats, rats, blobs, snakes, and dragons. At the end of the game, he put a crown together and there was special music to show that he'd beaten the game.
I don't think I ever played Frogger.
I did have an Atari, but I actually had an NES first; we bought an Atari with like 100 games for about $5 at a thrift store just as a novelty of sorts.
My favorite game of all time is a tie between the following:
Castlevania I - NES
Street Fighter II - Arcade
Secret of Monkey Island - MS-DOS
Ocarina of Time - N64/Gamecube
Did you play the new Monkey Island? Me the wife and the kid love those games and played them all. Castlevania is so punishing.
Signed, million man.
I haven't, and I've been meaning to play it since it dropped. Ron Gilbert's writing and comedy style on Monkey Island 1 & 2 had a big influence on my sense of humor and just who I am as a person, so it was really cool to find out he came back to finish the series. I want to play it I just haven't had a chance.
At one point I used to be able to beat Castlevania on 1 game. I probably couldn't do that now. The last time I tried, I made it to the twin mummies and died.