subject: Logitech Harmony 890 Remote - A Flashback From Way Back [print this page] Relax. You're not having a flashback. Retro video game systems have created a massive resurgence in current years, most likely because of the truth that some kids never mature.
There seems to be a real affection among the techno-geeks around for the original gaming systems. A cursory search of the internet will yield hundreds of results for web sites devoted to retro gaming. These systems had been all the rage back in the day, and it appears that their time has arrived again.
Back when I was a young boy, these gaming systems had been similar to a gift from the heavens. The single way I was in a position to play video games was to go downtown to the arcade. This posed a substantial problem, as my mother and father were not too willing on the thought of letting me go downtown on my own. Furthermore, the local arcade tended to entice some shady characters. I skipped school one afternoon and gone down to play Ms. Pac-Man, but I got busted by a truant officer. Following that event, my parents were only too eager to purchase me the new Atari.
Man, I loved that system. The Atari 2600 had all of the greatest games. Asteroids was, by far, my favorite game. Dude, I could play that game forever. Roughly it seemed. What about Pitfall? I enjoyed that video game, as well. Then, Kung-Fu Master came out! I don't believe I got out of my bedroom for a month. During the time, I swore I wouldn't sleep till I rescued the fair Princess Victoria. Damn those knife throwers! To this day, my parents still blame that game for the decline in my grades that semester.
By the time the home video game market bottomed out in 1984, I had amassed a rather big collection of games. I sort of lost desire in video games about that time. I ended up passing along my Atari and all of the games to my kid brother. I didn't play it much any longer, and I was too busy trying to get a girlfriend. In retrospect, I wish I had kept that system. I would love to spend an evening playing Space Invaders! Maybe I'll see if that arcade is still open. I wonder if girls ever go there......
