Let's face it: Video games have always been a huge part of my life. You kids these days with your Playstations 3s and your Wii Soccer don't know what it was like growing up with the real thing! Imagine the first person who discovered you could take all the guts of an 8-foot-tall arcade game and slap it into a cartridge that is no bigger than the palm of your hand.
I know. Everyone out there has a great story about how they had X video game system that was older and more archaic than your video game system.
"I had a Commodore 64!"
"Oh yeah well I had a Commodore 61!"
You're old. We get it.
The fact of the matter is that my first game system that was entirely my own was the greatest thing ever, far better than your laughable Atari Master systems and your Turbo Grafx 16. Here are some of my most memorable Christmas video game bits from my childhood.
Thank you video games. You made school so much easier by distracting me from it.
The Atari XE
With an extra big XE, so you know it was awesome.
This game system was just like the regular Atari except for two major differences.
1. There ...