prOk Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) Saw another post of a pic from someone getting something atari for christmas so I dug this one out of me on Xmas day 1977 with dogs playing basketball jammies and all Edited March 15, 2017 by prOk 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperboy Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Awesome pic man, thanks for sharing! Sent from my non beer holding hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 That is a cool pic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I bet I know what you did for the rest of the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Collector Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Cool. Looks like Santa didn't just go to Sears for my presents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 video chess??? That woulda sucked as a kid.. Ya think your Mom and Dad got that one thinking they were going to give the computer a try? I got space attack, moon patrol, dig dug for Christmas. Played dig dug till my eyes could no longer focus on the old zenith.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Ohh no. I was thrilled to get chess on the VCS. Anything to make the console smarter. The fat lady next door had just got done teaching me the ins and outs of the game and I was anxious to use my newfound skill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Cool. I had the exact same haircut. Those were the days. Memories. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I think most of us did. And the boxes looked bigger and brighter and more colorful in those days, didn't they? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 The bowl cut I called it. My friends whole family had that. Laughed about it in the 90s when we all had mullets...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I did not think either of those two games were available in 1977. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I did not think either of those two games were available in 1977. I think you are right. It must have been a later Christmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 video chess??? That woulda sucked as a kid.. Ya think your Mom and Dad got that one thinking they were going to give the computer a try? I got space attack, moon patrol, dig dug for Christmas. Played dig dug till my eyes could no longer focus on the old zenith.. lol says you.. I ASKED for Video Chess as a kid choosing from all the games in the Sears/JCPenny catalog. Loved that game. The only bad thing about it was the time it took for moves on the higher levels. Re: Moon Patrol & Dig Dug, those came out in my mind much later than the time it looks like this pic was taken. Back then it felt like a different era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Yeah, Video Pinball/Arcade Pinball wasn't out until at least 1981. Video Chess first made a catalog appearance in '79. Neat pic anyway, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I think we ALL had that haircut. I didn't realize Video Pinball was out that early... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 I didn't realize Video Pinball was out that early... It wasn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 That's totally awesome. I love the "bassetball" jammies, and I can guess what you look like today. Different hair, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prOk Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 heh. the photo has 1977 written on it, but I think it was really xmas 79. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Perhaps your basset hound basketball PJs are from 1977. Quickly, to the Sears Catalog!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Spriggy Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Nice pic prOk ! .... Ahhh. The days of diamond pattern wallpaper On a side note, been a few years since I've seen this name. Hope things are well. Spriggy .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Yeah, I think I remember Pinball came around 1980... I know I had Space Invaders before it came out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixMoonPatrol Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 (edited) Nice nostalgic picture! Very golden era! Man if we had phones back in the day eh? Then again maybe its a good thing we didn't. I would have been like a crazy dork and filmed rushing to the super market buying Secret Wars comics and playing Atari systems all the time. LOL Good times. I remember getting DigDug and Joust on Christmas day in ...'82 or '83? God that was so bad ass. Spent Christmas vacation just playing those two with friends with RC cola bottles all over our bedroom. Slobs. Edited March 19, 2017 by PhoenixMoonPatrol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Man if we had phones back in the day eh? Then again maybe its a good thing we didn't. You did. Only back then they were actually used as telephones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Cool picture, although I personally would have been bummed at getting video chess at that time. I believe we had Checkers and I played it like once. Who wants to play a board game when you can defend the planet from aliens!? Oh yeah Video Pinball was awesome, that's probably why you are smiling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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