iPad Games Junkie! (part 1-the start)

It is 12:24am on Tuesday Feb 7. I should be in bed asleep right now since I do have to get up and go to work this morning and I had problems getting up Monday morning after going to bed at a reasonable time Sunday night...at least I thought it was reasonable for me...probably after 11 pm. I have always loved playing games on a video games machine or on the computer for as long as I can remember...well, that is a stupid thing to say since I am over the "60+" identity they like to use in demographics and they weren't available back in recorded history! The first time I saw a game system was in a store in a mall in Canada back around 1980 or 1981, probably an Atari of some type. The sales guy was trying to talk Arthur and I into purchasing one of these machines by letting us play a game on it. It was called "Necromancer" and was magic, wizards but very simple PAC Man graphics. I was hooked. If we had had the money there would have been no question about it we would have taken one home but at that time you set it up with your tv. Our b&w tv was from 1969 and had been to germany and back with the US Army. (I think that is the tv we had then but it could have been a hand me down from my mother too) and we had to change the channels with pliers as the knob as bit the dust. We just didn't have the money to buy either another tv or an Atari. Right now, ready to retire, it is funny to look back on how little money we had considering Arthur's engineering degrees and good jobs with engineering firms. I was the stay at home mom with 3 kids from 1 to 9 yrs...going to dance lessons and gymnastics but I digress. The Crosses next door had a new Apple computer (before the II GS). It cost and arm and two legs but he was a sales person for a tv station in Toronto so could afford it. He showed it off to us proudly. Probably within the next year or so I think we ended up with a commodore computer type system that you could play games on with your (even our old) tv. I only remember we had a game where you moved back and forth and shot down aliens that looked like hamburgers. Arthur played that game all the time trying to reach an elusive score of 1 million. When he finally got it he took a photograph of it for posterity. It was the last time he really did anything with video games until my father gave us an Amiga in maybe 1985 or 86 and we were back in the usa in Los Alamos. But I digress again. I finally had it with the aging b&w tv and said I am taking the income tax refund to sears And buying a color tv! I digress again but to understand this part of the story you need to know that up to that point Arthur had always made the decisions on what tech type equipment we would buy (cameras, tv's, stereo, cars, etc etc) and he would do research and mull things ov and over until 2 or 3 years would go by and/or that equipment would become redundant and he would have to start over again. I love my husband but enough is enough! It took me about 30 minutes to pick one out and bring it home. Next memory I have was of probabl Leslie or Ian sick in bed playing PacMan on that tv/commodore. Enough for now more continues next time.