Post a pic of you as a kid playing a retro system!

[Zap!]

Still looking for a gaming pic, but here's one for now in my old room around 1981. Recognize any toys?

[evil_genius]

Good thread idea. I gotta pic of me playing Mega Man 3 I will post soon.

[Jumpman Jr.]

This is the best I can do:

I'm in the one on the right. Check the shirt:

[CelticJobber]

From my Mario-themed Birthday party in 1989:



From circa 1991, with my Nintendo setup:

[Pete Rittwage]

1984-85 Commodore 64 rig....

[Pete Rittwage]

Me and my Atari 1200XL, circa 1990. Check out the tv hooked up to it--now that's retro.

Can anybody guess the game I'm playing?

I have that same television on my C64 rig- just posted!

[Tempest]

Ok here's one of me when I was only 3 or 4 (I think this was Christmas 1980). I'm the red headed one watching my brother play Frogger on the Atari 400 (that's my dad and grandma in the background). What's really odd is that I don't remember ever owning Frogger on tape (that's the Sierravision version not the PB one).



The scary thing is that giant Christmas cactus in the background there is STILL alive!

Tempest

[boatofcar]

I have that same television on my C64 rig- just posted!

Haha, I was just thinking that!

I love your cassette player with detachable speakers

[Push Upstairs]

From circa 1991, with my Nintendo setup:

Mega Man 2 or 3?

[megasdkirby]

I'm guessing Mega Man 3, because I can see Snakeman's outline on the top middle of the screen.

[Cornelius]

Here's a pic of me and some friends playing NES (I'm the one in the white shirt), also in 1990. Anyone care to guess which game we were playing?

Blades of Steel?

[XYXZYZ]

1984-85 Commodore 64 rig....

Awesome, you look like you were about to hack into the Pentagon or contact the KGB spies over shortwave.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Here's my older brother giving me the Coleco tabletop Zaxxon, circa 1983, and I'm guessing by the shorts and tank top that this isn't Christmastime, so probably my 11th birthday.

That's the same Zaxxon that's in my display-case-o'-tabletops today, too.

Man, birthdays used to rock back then.

[Xian042]

You look like Davids little brother, Jeff, from Flight of the Navigator!

[CelticJobber]

Here's a pic of me and some friends playing NES (I'm the one in the white shirt), also in 1990. Anyone care to guess which game we were playing?

Blades of Steel?

Actually, I think it's the pause screen from Super Mario Bros. 2. And I'm pretty sure that the other game in the pic of me from 1991 is Mega Man 3.

[Aussie2B]

You know, I don't think there ever was a photo of me taken as a kid in which I was playing games, and that kinda stinks now that I think about it. Actually, I think there might be a picture of me playing my Game Boy Color right after I first got it, but I was in my late teens then so it barely counts.

I guess I'm left with just reposting my junior high yearbook photo of me in my Donkey Kong Country 2 shirt. :P Not as awesomely retro as the '80s photos, but oh well.

[OldSchoolGamer]

Here is my best one, yes digg the pajamas lol! We were not the richest but I was pretty damned happy this Christmas..........

[OldSchoolGamer]

Hey is my close friend Tony and my cousin Michael, they are playing Super Nintendo, notice what is on top of it though? Ahem, let's just say my freind Tony is looking through a box of Supernes titles lol!

[OldSchoolGamer]

OK last one, I am now a teen here (Still 20 years ago lol!) I am playing Marble Madness..........

[boatofcar]

Here's my older brother giving me the Coleco tabletop Zaxxon, circa 1983, and I'm guessing by the shorts and tank top that this isn't Christmastime, so probably my 11th birthday.

That's the same Zaxxon that's in my display-case-o'-tabletops today, too.

Man, birthdays used to rock back then.

You look like Davids little brother, Jeff, from Flight of the Navigator!

Holy crap, he's right!

Unfortunately, I can't find any pics of Albie Whitaker