Cheerful Ghost
I'm going to do something different this week for Retro Tuesday. This week I want to hear everyones stories about your very first video game experience. I'll start off the discussion.
Although it's entirely possible I had played games earlier, my first real memory of playing video games was when I was around 4 years old and my parents bought us a NES, complete with Duck Hunt, Gyromite, and ROB the robot (pictured above). :)
Even by 1987 standards ROB was pretty lame, but to 4 year old me it was "OMG A ROBOT IN MY LIVING ROOM!!!" I was pretty hooked. I think there were only two games that worked with ROB, and as it was I only ever had Gyromite. When you were playing Gyromite you would need ROB to press buttons on the controller to open and close gates for you so you could advance around the stage and avoid enemies. You'd pause the screen (which made the screen turn blue) and then the next button you pushed ROB would mimic the action about 5 minutes later. :P But, still, OMG ROBOT!
Then my parents bought Legend of Zelda, and it was all over for me. :)
Although it's entirely possible I had played games earlier, my first real memory of playing video games was when I was around 4 years old and my parents bought us a NES, complete with Duck Hunt, Gyromite, and ROB the robot (pictured above). :)
Even by 1987 standards ROB was pretty lame, but to 4 year old me it was "OMG A ROBOT IN MY LIVING ROOM!!!" I was pretty hooked. I think there were only two games that worked with ROB, and as it was I only ever had Gyromite. When you were playing Gyromite you would need ROB to press buttons on the controller to open and close gates for you so you could advance around the stage and avoid enemies. You'd pause the screen (which made the screen turn blue) and then the next button you pushed ROB would mimic the action about 5 minutes later. :P But, still, OMG ROBOT!
Then my parents bought Legend of Zelda, and it was all over for me. :)
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