Quote Originally Posted by Captain Wrong
Quote Originally Posted by Sylentwulf
I was around 7 years old, and remember thinking "wow! My mother is buying me like FIVE ATARI GAMES AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!! what the hell is going on?! This is the greatest day of my life!"

That's about it.
Me too.

Of course I quickly discovered the world of Apple ][ game trading...cough, cough, cough.
I was 9 (Sylenwulf, how the hell are you younger than I am?! ). I remember my mother being dead set against video games from about the beginning. I had an Atari and a few games but playing it more than a couple hours a week got me in trouble. We had very little money anyway, so whenever I would ask for a new game the usual reason was "we don't have the money". Well, when the games came down to like $3 each and my mother STILL wouldn't buy me any I knew something was fishy. My mother hated videogames and still rolls her eyes and says "oh those damn things" when they're mentioned.

So, blah, yeah, I remember the crash and noticing that all of the game prices had dropped catastrophically. Didn't make any difference in my house, though, unless you count the birthday when 4 people all gave me nice shrinkwrapped copies of E.T. because it was $0.75 at the local dept store.