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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkeye" data-source="post: 532022" data-attributes="member: 9200">Atari memoryThe Atari mention reminded me of something.Back a few years ago, when my oldest neice was about 6 or so, she asked me to play Nintendo with her.&nbsp; I grew up on the Atari 2600, still have it, and other console games.&nbsp; I agreed.&nbsp; She proceeded to whip me at one of the Mario games and then taunting me stating that I didn't know how to play and that she could beat me at any video game.&nbsp; I took her up on that challenge and got the Atari 2600 out of the cloest and hooked it up.&nbsp; I placed Asteroids in the game and fired it up.&nbsp; I let her go first and she died in just a few minutes.&nbsp; Then it was my turn.&nbsp; 25 minutes later on my first ship, my niece got bored watching me tear up floating space rocks and flying saucers and went and found something else to do.&nbsp; She never again challenged me to play her at any video game.&nbsp; To this day she contends that I must have been using some sort of cheat code.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Hawkeye</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hawkeye, post: 532022, member: 9200"] [b]Atari memory[/b] The Atari mention reminded me of something. Back a few years ago, when my oldest neice was about 6 or so, she asked me to play Nintendo with her. I grew up on the Atari 2600, still have it, and other console games. I agreed. She proceeded to whip me at one of the Mario games and then taunting me stating that I didn't know how to play and that she could beat me at any video game. I took her up on that challenge and got the Atari 2600 out of the cloest and hooked it up. I placed Asteroids in the game and fired it up. I let her go first and she died in just a few minutes. Then it was my turn. 25 minutes later on my first ship, my niece got bored watching me tear up floating space rocks and flying saucers and went and found something else to do. She never again challenged me to play her at any video game. To this day she contends that I must have been using some sort of cheat code. :p Hawkeye [/QUOTE]

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