[Coco] speaking of Atari...

[Steve Ostrom]

Neil Morrison wrote:

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>From: "Roger Taylor" <rtaylor at bayou.com>
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>>I just dug out of my storage building, an original Atari game machine,
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>>joysticks.  I have Pac-Man, Football, and Donkey Kong, all working
>>great.  Talk about a walk down memory lane.  Seeing my 4 year old boy try
>>to figure it all out kinda makes me feel very, very old.  :)
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>Have you seen the all in one joystick games? It's a battery operated
>joystick which connects to the TV and has 10 or so games in it. They're made
>by Jakks and Namco.
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>Neil
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Yep.  Bought two different ones for my son for Christmas.  (Shhhhh!)  
He's into retro stuff, probably because of involving him in my Coco 
habit.  After helping him with his math homework Monday night, I told 
him I used to use a slide rule in school.  He was amazed that a sliding 
stick could do math, so I pulled one out of storage.  I even remembered 
how to multiply and divide after all these years.  He brought my stick 
into school (9th grade) and attracted the attention of most of the math 
teachers.  Cool!!

-- Steve --