Old School Odyssey 1979

July 11, 2008 | Ocala, Florida | Vetting explained

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It doesn't get much more old school than this - my best friend Mike (left) and I (right) playing my brand new Odyssey 2 game system at 12 years old in 1979.

It wasn't so much that the Odyssey was all that great, in fact in retrospect it was pretty lame, but my grandfather worked for a store that sold lots of Magnavox products so I wound up with the Odyssey 2 and a bunch of cartridges. And it was a big step up from my Radioshack TV Scoreboard (Pong game).

If nothing else, that old gaming system got me interested in computers, very interested. In 1980 I took my first computer course at school on a TRS-80 Model I and it was love at first sight. I took to programming instantly and soon was being paid to write custom programs. I worked as a programmer through 1990.

Today, both Mike and I have careers in the computer field and we are still friends. It's amazing how something as simple as playing some almost laughable games almost 30 years ago could have led us down the path to where we are today.

Jonathan S., Florida

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