You Know You Are Old When

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Ah yes, Atari combat.
 
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I pulled out the old 1979 Atari 2600 around Christmas, got a new adapter that works better than the old antenna/game switch, some new joysticks, and set it up on the 45" flat screen in the basement rec room. My 15 year old son loves it, most notably Pong, Combat, Pitfall and Space Invaders. He has less interest in Pac Man and Astroids.

We must have about 40 games, but a lot of them are just stupid regurgiations of others, with slightly different graphics, which was a big problem for Atari game makers back then.

It was fun to play Space Invaders and Pac Man again. I never really was great at Pitfall.
 
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Pong was the first and last video game I played. Wasn't there two speeds to it?
I googled Pong and there was no code to it, it was a hardware based game. Interesting, but understandable for the time.
 
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Pong was the first and last video game I played. Wasn't there two speeds to it?
It's possible there were multiple versions/improvements over the years.

The way I remember it, there were two different levels for difficulty, which just controlled the size of your on-screen "paddle". So if a better player was playing against a weaker player, you could set the better player's paddle size to small, and the weaker player's paddle size to large.

You could not control speed, but in some versions of the game, the speed would increase with each round.
 

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