There's a thread over on Bluesky asking about the first video game you remember playing. I can't help but think the answers would be more interesting here
Mine was _Tank_, a sit-down two-player cabinet game made by Atari. Our family used to go skiing about an hour north of Montreal every year and we stayed in Le Chantecler Hotel. There was a Tank in the hotel lobby
It was 1974 so I was 7. (I had a LOT of pinball under my belt by then.) Between me and my brothers, we probably dumped $50 into that game even though we only had a window of ~4 hours every day to play, and it was in strong competition with the indoor pool. Plus we needed to talk my dad out of parting with $5 for each of us every night. I think we lied and said we needed it for the jukebox in the bar/disco that we were somehow allowed to hang out in at night
So... what was yours?
#firstvideogame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OsBUzYBJgU
Kim Scheinberg
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