I definitely started playing home video games - I remember when a friend got the original Binatone pong game (probably around 1977) and was instantly hooked - seems strange now that moving a white line up and down to "hit" a little white square was so interesting!
We then got the Atari home video game (the 2600) and over a few years built up a collection of cartridges with my 2 brothers. Favourites on that included Space Invaders, Adventure, Pitfall, Star Raiders, and funnily enough the very basic Combat which came with the console. I guess the fun with that was playing against my brothers and friends. We then traded that in and got a BBC Micro and spent many hours playing Frak, Chuckie Egg and Elite.
Didn't really play games in arcades - I guess we thought why put money in a machine when you can play "for free" at home, although had the odd game of "Super Bug" driving game at the local swimming baths, then later the occasional game of Sega Rally.
My first experience with pinball that I remember was at uni when I spent a LOT of time on BK2000 and Banzai Run around 1989/90. After uni, I didn't play at all, until February/March this year when I discovered that pinball was still alive and visited FlipOut in Croydon. Shortly after, I bought TNA, and more recently BKSoR. I had said that as we didn't have any more room, I'd stop with 2 pins, but as we have been looking at getting a log cabin for the garden, I've already got agreement from my wife to go for a larger one than initially intended so there will be room for a couple more pins!
We then got the Atari home video game (the 2600) and over a few years built up a collection of cartridges with my 2 brothers. Favourites on that included Space Invaders, Adventure, Pitfall, Star Raiders, and funnily enough the very basic Combat which came with the console. I guess the fun with that was playing against my brothers and friends. We then traded that in and got a BBC Micro and spent many hours playing Frak, Chuckie Egg and Elite.
Didn't really play games in arcades - I guess we thought why put money in a machine when you can play "for free" at home, although had the odd game of "Super Bug" driving game at the local swimming baths, then later the occasional game of Sega Rally.
My first experience with pinball that I remember was at uni when I spent a LOT of time on BK2000 and Banzai Run around 1989/90. After uni, I didn't play at all, until February/March this year when I discovered that pinball was still alive and visited FlipOut in Croydon. Shortly after, I bought TNA, and more recently BKSoR. I had said that as we didn't have any more room, I'd stop with 2 pins, but as we have been looking at getting a log cabin for the garden, I've already got agreement from my wife to go for a larger one than initially intended so there will be room for a couple more pins!
