My 6 and 7 year old girls are each getting an iPod touch from their grandmother that I just set up with their own email/iTunes accounts, home wireless access, an assortment of applications/music, and the handy dandy mobileme account info to play a loud beeping noise when they lose them.

When I was their age, I got to play on an Atari.
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I know what you mean. Just got back from my best friend's house. Between his three kids and to nieces, the place looked like Toys 'R Us. And that was just the gifts from the aunts/uncles and grandparents.
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We thought we were bad when we got an Atari for Christmas. :-)
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I never got an Atari for Christmas.

Hell, I never even got a secondhand Pong!!!
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Dude I would have kicked your butt in Pong..:-)
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Pong still Rules!!!

Just think, in 25 years their first car will be given to them when they are 10 and a house before they leave the nest!:-)
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And here it is, I thought I was old....you guys just showed your hands. Atari was the stuff back then, now you have ps3 with blue ray. Wow, how times have changed.
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Intellivision!



My Little One is still sleeping(8:43 MST).....???
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Gotta agree with this...kids today have all kinds of "distractions". :-)
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I didn't have the attari, but I know what you mean. The coolest thing on the market when I was a kid. Was..... the nintendo. Duck hunt. My son is about to be 1 and he got some smart puppy thing that has to be pluged in and it learns his name and what not. Its no ipod but its crazy what ever happened to put the batteries in and go? Kids these days.

O yeah I'm waiting tell my son gets to be about 10 or so to see what the next 500 dollar system is going to be.

Knip.
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Wow Nintendo. I had the one with the robot.
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I also remember coleko vision, that was the very first one I had.
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Isn't the pricing and technology relevant in equality to that of the Atari era?

My Rob the Robot didn't work?:-)
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B17 Bomber!
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when I was their age, there wasn't even an Atari. You had it so rough!









:-)
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I miss my stick.

That, and the invention of fire was all the rage, :-):-)
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When I was that age I watched TV in black and white and played with sharp edged and pointed erector sets!:-)
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As far as cost goes an Atari (I'm guessing you had a 2600?) sold for $100 in 1982. That would be about $229.00 in today's money. Coincidentally an 8 gb iPod Touch costs $229.99. :-)

So not much has really changed in that respect. :-)

As far as the technology goes I would say that the Atari was more of a technological "WOW!" and also more of a "Why the hell would that kid need that?".
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I loved my Erector set and my 150-In-1 Radio Shack electronics kit. Those were my favorite gifts ever!


MCS
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Remember when the Tonka trucks were real metal with sharp corners?
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