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Name : Collin
Country : french Canada
Job : Navy

1. I hate my job ;)
2. I want to open a video game store
3. I can live on poutine and beer for 2 weeks
4. Beside gaming, biking is my #2 passion


Consoles I owned : NES, SNES, PS2, GC, GB, GBC, GBA, DS
Consoles I want to get : Dreamcast, PS3 and I'm feeling tempted into getting a 360

Games I like : too many to list, but mostly retro, 2D platformers, FPS with a story line (hate Halo), the odd RPG.

Games I don't like : Sports, most FPS.

Worthy accomplishments : finished Ninja gaiden 2, TMNT (NES) without game genie. Ikaruga, and discovered possibly everything in FFVI

Consoles I hate : anything Sega except Dreamcast, Xbox and Xbox 360 for crappy hardware and cause it's Microsoft.

Games I hate : Mario 64, Zelda games in 3D, all FF after VI, Halo (I miss the Marathon serie)
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Clyde | 6:39 PM on 04.12.2008 7 comments




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.





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Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/13/2008 00:56
Colette Bennett
TANDY!

Jesus this threw me back to age 5 fast. I was so fascinated with this thing.
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/13/2008 11:58
Knivy
I don't remember ever playing that, but looking at it I think one of my older friends had it.
demonelite's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/13/2008 15:16
demonelite

The Atari 65XE was my first gaming system all the way back in 1986.
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