Atari 2600
Press to Begin
All gamers know you
Button that starts and pauses
Our lives owe you much
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Where Many of Us Began
Blinking lights and noise
Where tickets flow like water
We whetted our thumbs
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Tools of Our Trade
From joystick to pad
You are known by many forms
All have been thrown hard
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The Toy That Stole My Heart
Running home from school
And rushing through my homework
Magic box I own
Legends of Windemere 
Excellent! Will there be another 19 posts with the other 96?
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Yup. Slowly, but surely.
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I was never a video game fan. But I do remember playing some of them… I don’t even remember their names. Ha! 🙂
Fun haiku! 🙂 I hope you don’t mind but I must inform you that the plural of haiku is haiku only.
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That explains the spell checker being mad.
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Yes it does 🙂
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The spell checker gets angry at me so many times that I barely pay attention to it these days.
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Know what you mean…but sometimes it’s right…not often, but sometime.
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Tools of Our Trade was my favorite. And the Atari picture brought back memories 🙂
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That was one of my first systems. I vaguely remember a pong machine though.
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80s kid as well? My parents got annoyed at all the time (and money) I was spending in arcades and thought the Atari would cut down on my arcade time. Silly parents 😉
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Born 1980. Got all my friends’ Atari games when they upgraded to NES. So stuck with that system for a long time.
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I remember when that Atari came out. It seemed so incredibly exciting back then and kept me busy for years… I really liked Yar’s Revenge and Circus. My neighbor had Intellivision. 🙂
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I played a lot of Dig Dug and Defender. I don’t remember any of the Atari games having an ending. I never got to play Yar’s Revenge.
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My games ended quite frequently. Glad I didn’t have to keep putting quarters in. 🙂
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That was always a beautiful thing. There was one arcade by me where you paid for a certain amount of time and you just played the games. No tokens or quarters. At least that was how I think it worked. I was 10 and I remember not needing quarters there.
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one word… Pong… l *
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Yup. I think there’s a pong poem in the set somewhere. Unless we weren’t sure of the rights.
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Ha! This brought back memories of my first Atari and Packman 🙂 love it!
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Loved Pacman.
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Geez, I spelled it wrong…grrr! That’s about how well I played it too!! Lol I stink at video games
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Hmmm…so you did this with a machine? yeech!
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Yup. Typed it up on the computer. 🙂
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My first TRS 80 had a program that wrote stories or poetry…once you typed in the program. 😉
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I heard about those kinds of computers. A few years before my time though.
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Can imagine. It was back in 78 when we bought it.
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I don’t remember the first computer. I remember an Atari 2600 when I was in elementary school. That’s really it.
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Never went through the Atari etc. stage. Just computers..from the Trs to an Osbourne then Apple then from then on I built my own until my present two…an HP an my netbook.
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I never focused much on computers beyond writing and gaming.
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