How did it all start?

Well i have to thank my parents for my addiction to video games. I'm a little fuzzy on the year but im pretty sure it was like 83 maybe 84, thats when i got my tiny little hands on the Atari 2600. It was primative yes, but back then we didn't know any better. It was the start of a beautiful and Very expensive habit. I won't get too specific about the games but lets just say that i had around 50 or 60, most of them were great, but some, whoooo boy. There was Pac Man, Pitfall, SpaceInvaders, Combat (more on that later). Those were the great ones. Then there was ET, Elevator, and the KoolAid game. Piss poor.

Never the less its what started it all. Combat i think was what really got me hooked. It was the only game at the time that you could litteraly play about 20 different games on the same cartridge. You could be tanks or planes, single or multiple, regular bullets or ricochet. Hours and Hours of fun. Honestly if i could find that game again on a handheld system or something like that i would probably become a hermit.

Lemme know people, if your addicted, what started it?