September 1982

[sandmountainslim]

My birthday is September 18, on that date in '82 my stepmother (who died in '85) bought me a Vader model 2600 and a couple games as a gift.

At the age of twelve I thought the machine was THE greatest present that I had ever recieved, better than the BB gun from when I was 8 and all the bicycles etc. put together

Almost 24 years later I still feel the same way, the machine is still working daily and is the only birthday present that I recieved as a child which I still use as well as one of very few which I still have.

Hats off to the Atari and also to my stepmother. R.I.P.

WP

[Inky]

My birthday is also in September. Damned if I remember what I got for my b-day in 1982.

[sandmountainslim]

My birthday is also in September. Damned if I remember what I got for my b-day in 1982.

If you had gotten yer VCS that year you would remember it

[graywest]

My birthday is September 18, on that date in '82 my stepmother (who died in '85) bought me a Vader model 2600 and a couple games as a gift.

At the age of twelve I thought the machine was THE greatest present that I had ever recieved, better than the BB gun from when I was 8 and all the bicycles etc. put together

Almost 24 years later I still feel the same way, the machine is still working daily and is the only birthday present that I recieved as a child which I still use as well as one of very few which I still have.

Hats off to the Atari and also to my stepmother. R.I.P.

WP

 

Hey, my birthday is September 18th also. However, I got my 2600 for Christmas in 1983. Born in '78, so I was 5 at the time. I can still remember the day...

[+atari2600land]

I was born in November of 1982, so I didn't get an Atari 2600 for Christmas that year or the next year.

Edited August 16, 2006 by atari2600land

[+remowilliams]

Almost 24 years later I still feel the same way, the machine is still working daily and is the only birthday present that I recieved as a child which I still use as well as one of very few which I still have.

I was also 12 in '82 and coincidentally also born in September. And I still have my original 2600. Now it has s-video though!

[yuppicide]

Sorry to hear she died. My Dad bought the 2600 soon as it came out. A short time later I remember us going to a store to buy Space Invaders and Indy 500.

 

When Pac-Man we picked up it up at a store around the corner from my Father's apartment. I remember he repaired Atari's and had some sort of test unit in there. I don't remember being disappointed though by how bad it is.

 

I didn't actually get my own Atari 2600 until maybe Christmas or the following Christmas. Like the year after it was out. I had Stampede, Freeway, and a few others. The whole family took turns. On my birthday I got two copies of Superman. My friend Adam got Adventure. I wanted that.

 

Remember when Toys R Us had their games in one looooooong aisle the length of the store?! I liked it that way better. Looked so cool.

 

This one place in an indoor fleamarket had a booth there and all they sold was Atari games. That guy had the most games I ever saw in such a small area. You look forward and just see a wall of boxes. I wanted Journey and my Dad bought Deadly Duck. I hated that game.

[Lord Helmet]

My parents made my brother and I save our allowances to get our 2600. Pretty sure we got it in 82. I remember Defender was fairly new, and the guy behind the counter at the elecronics store wnated me to buy Berzerk (it had just released). We bought a 4 switch woody that day.

 

My best x-mas gift was probably the c-64 we got a few years later. Sadly it was also the day my 2600 started collecting dust.

[Shawn]

I got my first ATARI in 83 for Christmas. My Birthday is December the 4th so I was pretty lucky that my parents didn't do the "two birds, one stone" trick that I hear alot of holiday season births get. I got a new baseball glove and an Oakland A's jersay for my birthday and boy did I think my parents where cheap cause Santa got me an ATARI

[Atari Charles]

I too got an Atari 2600 from my parents for Christmas with the games Combat and Asteroids back in 1982. Very cool gift. My friend got an Intellivision(poor guy). My parents knew I wanted one for sometime. Back in the summer of '82, I bought a Pong Game System at a garage sale. No matter how much I tried to make the thing work, it didn't(It was broken). I think by my parents seeing my interest in video games, they went ahead and bought me the Atari. Those were the days.

Edited August 16, 2006 by Atari Charles

[ATARIPITBULL]

My birthday is September 18, on that date in '82 my stepmother (who died in '85) bought me a Vader model 2600 and a couple games as a gift.

At the age of twelve I thought the machine was THE greatest present that I had ever recieved, better than the BB gun from when I was 8 and all the bicycles etc. put together

Almost 24 years later I still feel the same way, the machine is still working daily and is the only birthday present that I recieved as a child which I still use as well as one of very few which I still have.

Hats off to the Atari and also to my stepmother. R.I.P.

WP

 

I turned 11 in December of 82 and that was the year my mother bought me my Atari woody, it was a good year.

 

[2600lover]

My parents made my brother and I save our allowances to get our 2600. Pretty sure we got it in 82. I remember Defender was fairly new, and the guy behind the counter at the elecronics store wnated me to buy Berzerk (it had just released). We bought a 4 switch woody that day.

 

My best x-mas gift was probably the c-64 we got a few years later. Sadly it was also the day my 2600 started collecting dust.

 

SHAME ON YOU!! lol

[+remowilliams]

Remember when Toys R Us had their games in one looooooong aisle the length of the store?! I liked it that way better. Looked so cool.

Hell yeah, that isle was one big wishlist back then! All those glass cases and systems and games, and those tickets you took to the security booth to get your games.

 

 

Good stuff

[Vic George 2K3]

September 1982 was when I got moved from Cottage 3 to Cottage 1 at St. Vincent's Home. It brought me closer to the school building, but it also brought me near another bunch of name-calling losers. It was also around that time that I lost my TV-sound radio.

 

Nothing really happened Atari-wise until October 1982, when I got Donkey Kong for the 2600 for my birthday, which I spent an afternoon with my brother trying to get past the first screen.

[Godzilla]

i think toys r us had em behind plastic like that and in their cages to protect the games from MY DROOL! I got my atari for xmas when I turned 10, in 1980, and I still have that 2600 to this day and aside from a on-off switch that has been fried so much it has trouble staying on, the system still works to this day :-)

[+atari2600land]

Has anyone seen the Simpsons episode where Bart shoplifts the Bonestorm game? The clerk just walked off forgetting to lock the cases back up. Dummy.

[2600lover]

Has anyone seen the Simpsons episode where Bart shoplifts the Bonestorm game? The clerk just walked off forgetting to lock the cases back up. Dummy.

 

I wish, only with Atari games, ROWS AND ROWS AND ROWS of them, and you could just go and get what you wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR FREE!!!!!!!!!!!! But only AA members were allowed. If anyone else tryed to get in, the big fella named Bruno, out front would take care of um. And we could throw E.T. carts at him!!! LMAO!! Sorry to anyone who likes E.T. (I didnt mean to offend anyone in anyway)

Edited August 18, 2006 by 2600lover