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

[Thrillo]

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!

Two years too late, but I'm pretty sure that's a Super UFO Pro 7...dirty lil' pirate

I know what it is since I have one too; a pretty feature-filled and solid copier...

[Ryaan1234]

I'm extremely curious. It's shaped like Tron but the color is different. Is that yellow thing on the floor a Speak-And-Spell?

Yes it is, i still have my talking teacher and my fisher-price tape player.

(wrong answer buzzer sound)

Ooooh, I'm sorry. The correct answer is "Speak & Read", basically the Speak & Spell's little brother.

Don't feel bad. It's hard to differentiate the two, just remember that the Speak & Spell is orange, the Speak & Read is yellow, and the Speak & Math is grey. They're all awesome toys nontheless.

As for your tabletop game, I've been trying to figure out what it is. I can tell that it's a VFD tabletop game, with a 2 word title. If you want to try to find out what it is for yourself I'd suggest looking here. I'd say just from the style of the game it could be Tandy, Entex, Epoch, Tomy, or perhaps Bandai. I'm not saying that it isn't made by another company, but it's most likely by one of the ones I've suggested.

[baraka]

Damn, I remember having a photo of me and a friend in front of the TV where we had just beaten Sonic 2 on the MegaDrive. We were so proud and my mom had to take a picture of us! Been searching through bunches of old pictures, loose ones as well as ones in books but cant find the damn picture anywhere

[Slate]

Well I'm not sure just how many pictures I have of playing games as a kid, I know there's a few of me opening my Gameboy Advance in 2002 though. Oh and these are some great pictures, The one from 1976 is great. And Overbite, That pic screams 80s and looks like its from Bill And Ted's Adventure or something. I agree, That picture is good enough to have been in Nintendo Power.

[shertz]

oops... double post. please delete.

[bacteria]

I have a pic somewhere, taken c. 1981/2 I think it was when I got a high score in AstroSmash on the Intellivision, not sure where the pic is now!

[UnpluggedClone]

Google 4 Gaga

[UnpluggedClone]

No Way DIGI!

[ReTrO-pLaYeR]

I have lots of old, blurry videos of me playing PSX games as a kid but there's one from Chuck E Cheese's in St.Charles when I opened my PSX for my fifth birthday party there. I'll find it and upload it onto youtube when I can. I was born in 1996 so I don't have any from the more classical systems like NES, so this is the best I could do. T.T

[Leo_A]

1983 Not sure what game it is.

I had something that looked just like what you were playing with. Seemed like it was some Space Invaders style game and I have no clue what happened to it or exactly what it was (I'd love to acquire one).

[Zap!]

1983 Not sure what game it is.

As for your tabletop game, I've been trying to figure out what it is. I can tell that it's a VFD tabletop game, with a 2 word title. If you want to try to find out what it is for yourself I'd suggest looking here. I'd say just from the style of the game it could be Tandy, Entex, Epoch, Tomy, or perhaps Bandai. I'm not saying that it isn't made by another company, but it's most likely by one of the ones I've suggested.

Yep, it's Astro Thunder by Tandy! Could be a different variation, but it's the same game.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

I don't think my parents ever took pics of me playing videogames. They were never that excited that it interested me.

But I do have THIS lovely piece of technology, from 1983



it fits much better now!

[Zing]

Well I don't have a picture, but here is a video of what is perhaps my first exposure to video games.

http://vimeo.com/10053676

The year was 1989, I was 3 years old and ready to embrace gaming full on. Just look at how mesmerized I am watching my cousin play Nintendo!

Why does your family have no furniture?

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Update: OH MY GOD
Today, I went over to my parents' place when they weren't home to sneak through their photo albums in order to make them a calendar for christmas.
I wasn't prepared to find this.



Me, in January of 1996, playing X-Men on the Genny. LMFAO

[aaron7]

oh man that's great! and i hope you still have that shirt!! haha

[rgw825]

I would have no idea if there any pics of me actually playing a system. My Mother has all the pictures up in Michigan and i'm in Tennessee. But i was lucky enough for her to send me these two pics.

First one is Christmas of 83, Second is Christmas of 84

[videogames4trade.com]

Pete, from that picture, I can tell you are a badass...

Is that a fisher stereo?

[ShinobiMan]

Well I don't have a picture, but here is a video of what is perhaps my first exposure to video games.

http://vimeo.com/10053676

The year was 1989, I was 3 years old and ready to embrace gaming full on. Just look at how mesmerized I am watching my cousin play Nintendo!

Why does your family have no furniture?

You know, I never really thought about it. That was my Aunt's house and my memory of it is fuzzy. If I remember correctly, that room was designated "The Game Room", so it was an "anything goes" scenario.

If anybody hasn't seen the video it's pretty cool. 80's haircuts and Nintendo. Ghosts & Goblins and Super Mario. Can't go wrong.

http://vimeo.com/10053676

[buzz_n64]

I don't have any pictures of me actually playing video games as a kid, but I do have one where I received the NES for Christmas. I think it was 1989.

[diskoboy]

My 7th bithday party at a local arcade in November of 1981 playing a factory fresh Pac-Man machine. The girl standing next to me is my sisters friend. My mom is playing the Lightning pinball machine in the back.

I have alot more from this party, I just need to scan them.



Looking at this photo is kinda funny - back then, I could barely reach the contol panel. Nowadays, I'm about an inch taller than an actual machine!