Last night I was having a discussion with my mother about gaming and how it was from her point of view when I was a kid and one interesting thing came up that I didn't really recalled. Most of my childhood gaming memories are filled with the NES. But yet I have fragments about older consoles and games that I played but can't really name them myself. Well that's where she filled the blank. The first "console" or platform I played game on was a CoCo2, also called the Tandy computer system or TRS-80, which was sold by radio shack from 1983 to about 1986 when it got replaced by the CoCo3



The CoCo2 ran on a Z80 based processor (think graphical calculator, original gameboy) and had BASIC for what you might call an OS. Games came under the form of expansion cartridge or cassette tapes.



I almost have no recollection about this system, however I was told that I played a game called "cashman" and that there was also a Sesame street tape. Also I had to learn some BASIC commands in order to load the games myself and operate the typing software. We sold the CoCo2 when I was about 10 years old (1992) and replaced it a year or two later by a Macintosh LC-475.

Here's some screen shot and also I would like for people to write in the comments about their personnal experience with similar systems.