1982

This was my very first gaming system, the Commodore 64 released in '82 (we got ours about a year later). Mmm, so beige. Beige was the color of technology in the 80's. It had a big 5 1/4 inch floppy drive, back when floppy disks litteraly were floppy. Like a hooker's tit floppy. From what I remember, the C-64 had little to no copywrite protection (you could physically put a piece of tape over a little notch in the disk to make it copy-able) so we had a shit-ton of games for this thing. My brother and his friends all swapped disks and many of them were unlabeled so half the fun was figuring out what was on them and then loading them up and seeing what they were. There were a few standouts that sucked many hours of my youth, like Impossible Mission (with a scary sampled voices "Another visitor... stay a while... stay forever!", and a blood curdling "aaaaaAAAAH!" when you get zapped by a robot or fall into a pit). Our disk drive eventually died and the C-64 went into a closet and was never seen or heard from again.