CORBIE'S GAME BLOG

My mother was really big into garage sales back during my childhood, and it's safe to say that I was dragged to many a danky garage from birth to about age 12. But one day back in 1977, I got a bit lucky at one particular garage sale. Actually, it was a patio sale that a friend of my mother's was having across town. My mother always found some way to bribe my sister and I into behaving while we were at these things, and this time she had promised to buy us something from the patio sale. Yippee! I was rumaging through the items in this box of toys they had for sale when I came across this Odyssey 400 Pong game system. At the time, I didn't know much about it, but I had seen Pong being played at the local Pizza Hut a few times, although I had never had the guts to go over and give it a go myself. They wanted $60 for it, but she let my mother have it for $25. I hooked that thing up to the family TV and I was hooked. My sister and I would sit there and play that thing for hours upon hours. I was going through my game stuff in storage and came across the original Odyssey 400 Pong system that I got at that patio sale this morning so I snapped a pic of it. It's hard to believe that it's been 30 years since I started playing video games. It's been a damn fun ride though, and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Here's to another 30.