I also find it sad that they won't have album sized album art available . It too just gets smaller & smaller .

im with you all the way on this....except for the sansabelts

I should send you one of my Atari 2600s, or my Intellivisions with the voice module. I'm pretty sure he'll wonder why it was the most amazing thing in our childhood.

Wow, you just made a connection.

There are few things I find as hilarious as showing little kids Atari 2600. The faces they make are so wonderful. It's as if they're trying to decide if you're being purposefully mean to them in some weird, sarcastic way.

Although I got one son of a friend of mine pretty hooked on "Adventure."

When my kids were little, they loved my 2600 more than the Sega Genesis, because the old 8-bit games were simpler and engaged their imaginations more than the 16-bit games that were state of the art in 1999.

My dad still has a reel to reel player. I also remember my first stereo that had both a record player and an 8-track built into it...I thought it was the coolest lol.

I still have my atari 2600, and wish I still had my pong machine.

I'm still like that with a lot of games. Some games just move to fast or are too busy or too complicated or whatnot for a casual gamer like me. My interest in Mario Kart is pretty much inversely proportional to the generation of its system.

I still remember the days of scouring the junk stores for an 8-track adapter for a cassette tape, cause my my first car, errr truck a 79 Silverado had an 8 track player. Or how cool it was when I got one of the first cassettes that were clear instead of the standard white or beige. I think it was Girls Girls Girls.

Good times.

I can sorta remember those good old days. My Atari 2600 is rotting in a box out in my storage shed I think. I tried to sell it at a pawn store a few years back, but they didn't want to give me very much for it, said they were too common. I should've come back and said something like, show me how many you have in stock, or some such like that. I remember being excited about this Superman game for the Atari, but I never could get the controls to work. The game would play just fine, but I couldn't control it. Too bad. I play modern ports of Pac-Man and Space Invaders these days and I'm saddened by my lack of coordination to play them. I've grown to used to the more modern video games with their ultra-amazing graphics and sound. Oh well, at least I have the memories... for now, who knows I may come down with Alzheimers some day and lose those too...

My wife recently got me a Pong Paddle Keychain. It comes with RF cables to hook up the TV and play Pong to my hearts content.

my wife!

I put an Atari 2600 emulator on my PSP. I showed it to a buddy at work and his reply was, "What's an Atari 2600."

I swear, part of my soul died.

My six year old is doing a school report on Lobsters.

After we visited various web sites to gather information, I made sure we pulled out the Encylopaedia Britinnica, both Micropaedea and Macropaedia, and showed him how to use these things his old dad used to use called "books".

The old ways are an important skill to pass on....

Records are great. I stopped buying cd's a few months ago and only purchase stuff on vinyl now. I love the sound of my portable school house style record player.

I also have a zune pass which lets me download almost anything I want onto my computer and portable device so it's not like I'm completely moving backwards.


Wil, your Dungeons and Dragons 4e podcast is up!

I'm only 20 and I feel the same way when talking with my cousin or even my friend's girlfriend. I was telling my cousin that Battletoads was my favorite NES game (no honestly it was and still is) and he asked me if an NES was like an N64 or a Wii. Childred nowadays will only experience the games we did on emulators that are crammed onto their mobile devices.