too....many...big....words. need....coffee.

Kidding. Great imagery!

you first saw pong at a kiosk in union station?  where were we going? how long until we got it at home? (oh, we were soooo cool!)

We were doing some sort of coastliner deal to Northern California, I think… At first I thought it was our southwest trip, but that was in the yellow station wagon, wasn’t it?  And it must have been around ‘72 or maybe ‘73 at the latest.  We were cool enough to get pong at home no earlier than 1980, at which point it was the tech equivalent of a nehru jacket.

All I can say is WOW, fab imagery there. I once tried to explain pong to my 19 year old son...first he just stared in disbelief then after actually drawing him a picture of the screen he laughed until he cried. My childhood has officially flashed before my eyes for the first time. Dear God I feel old now, thank you soooo much for throwing a mortality pie in my kisser. I’m going to storage to dig out my Bay City Rollers t-shirt and toe socks while I listen to David Cassidy and Leif Garrett and drink a Petite Syrah. Oh wait, I dont own an actual turntable any more. Now I’m really depressed. SIGH.

Jo, my 13-year old neice was wearing toe socks at Christmas. She thought they were retro-cool. I felt unbelievably ancient.

When we were moving, I discovered that my husband still has his Atari computer - yes, computer, not game system. He tried to sell it at our yard sale, but the neighborhood kids couldn’t scrape together his asking price. They thought it was the coolest relic going.