By Christine Jackson

Relax. You're not getting a flashback. Retro video game systems have made a substantial resurgence in recent years, most likely because of the truth that several kids in no way grow up.

There seems to be a real affection among the techno-geeks out there for the original gaming systems. A cursory search of the internet will deliver hundreds of results for websites devoted to retro gaming. These systems were all the rage back in the day, and it seems that their time has arrived once again.

When I was a young boy, these gaming systems were like a present from the heavens. The only way I was able to play video games was to go downtown to the arcade. This presented a significant difficulty, as my mother and father were not too willing on the idea of letting me go downtown on my own. Furthermore, the nearby arcade tended to attract several shady characters. I missed school one afternoon and went down to play Ms. Pac-Man, but I got busted by a truant officer. After that incident, my parents were only too willing to buy me the new Atari.

Wow, I treasured that system. The Atari 2600 had all of the greatest video games. Asteroids was, by far, my favorite game. Dude, I could play that game forever. Roughly it seemed. What about Pitfall? I loved that video game, too. Then, Kung-Fu Master arrived! I do not believe I left my bedroom for a month. During the time, I swore I would not sleep until I rescued the fair Princess Victoria. Damn those knife throwers! To this day, my parents still blame that game for the decline in my grades that semester.

By the time the home video game market bottomed out in 1984, I had amassed an extremely big collection of games. I sort of lost desire in video games around that time. I wound up passing along my Atari and all of the games to my kid brother. I didn't play it a lot anymore, and I was too busy attempting to get a girlfriend. In retrospect, I wish I had kept that system. I would love to spend an evening playing Space Invaders! Maybe I'll see if that arcade is still open. I wonder if girls actually go there......

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