I had it for years. It was a fantastic system. Nothing ever worked.
I enjoyed my commordore 64 instead.
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I remember asking my Mom for Pac Man for my birthday and being told it was too expensive and then asked my Dad for it as well, he bought it from me without a second thought.(Dad and Mom did not live together).

My mom took this opportunity to teach me a lesson and took the game from me and hid it. I was so upset and in the next few days. I was spoken to repeatedly about the lessons I should learn and would learn about this behind her back scheme and how it would effect my choices and decisions in the future.

I have no idea what those lessons were to this day.

I found where she hid the game, stole it back and continued to play it when she was not home. I never got caught and she never confronted me again on the subject so either she never knew I had stolen it or just did not want ask me about it.

I still to this day have no idea what I really should have learned from this but if anyone could help out please feel free to do so.

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Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_%28Atari_2600%29

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I played pac-man and donkey kong so long my hands literally ached. We used to use padded ski gloves to soften the joystick.

Man, I miss those days... I remember when frogger was all the rage and centipede was like soooo cool graphics.

thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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The system was also my first video game system I ever played. I had a lot of games for Atari 2600. I remember having ET, Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Spider-Man, Asteroids and many more. My family bought a majority of the games at garage sales for cheap. It was a pretty fun system, but the joystick wore out quickly! I remember having to buy several of them.
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