The first time I ever saw a videogame was pacman way back in 1982.
The first videogame system I actually got to play was pacman and pitfall on an atari 2600 back in June 1988.
I didn't get my own video game system until x-mas 1990. It was an NES with mario bros/duck hunt.
The original mario bros. took me seven months to beat. When I got mario 3 a year later for christmas that took me seven months to beat also.
Both those games when I beat them for the first time, I was playing 2 player mode with my dad and I was luigi.
EDIT: Speaking of pacman, I know for fact that there is on the internet an MS-DOS CGA version of the game floating around that's from 1983.
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