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In reply to the discussion: What Was Your Favorite X-mas Present as a Kid? [View all]targetpractice
(4,919 posts)41. I do remember Shamus, Battle on the Eastern Front, etc...
I never dove into assembly or machine language... I did do a bunch of things with Atari Basic using "peek" and "poke" functions to create glacially slow sprite based games with collision detection... The book "De Re Atari" was my bible.
I worked at a computer store in a mall in NJ the summer before college, and was fiercely trying to sell the "superior architecture" of the Atari XL machines over the Commodore 64. But, everyone wanted the Commodore 64 that year.
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My blue and white JC Higgins bicycle. It opened up a whole new world for me. n/t
monmouth4
Dec 2018
#1
The Atari computer designers moved on to Commodore to create the Amiga...
targetpractice
Dec 2018
#40
Circa 1956(?). My brother and I got these cool machine guns on tripods, battery operated and also
dameatball
Dec 2018
#20
Video games...couldn't wait for everybody to leave so I could hole up. nt
UniteFightBack
Dec 2018
#28
A game called NFL Strategy. My friends and I spent countless hours playing this game!
Va Lefty
Dec 2018
#32
My favorite Christmas present ever was not a toy and not the favorite at the time.
PufPuf23
Dec 2018
#39
I had one of those!!! I made just about every project and created some of my own.
LakeSuperiorView
Dec 2018
#82
"My brother promptly walked him up to a cherry pie on the table, and nose-dived him into it."
ProudLib72
Dec 2018
#80