Wow, It's ColecoVision

I found this while checking out Ning again - where you can create your own social network app from templates created by others. I've been filling out some content and exploring some of the features and tools on Ning for a LA restaurant review app that will serve as a companion to my blog. I got a great url for it: boltoflight.ning.com. My tagline (cheesy) is Where Good Food Strikes. I'll work on that, I promise. Once I get some content uploaded to it, I'll add a permanent link onto the site. Now that I'm a Wii and a Xbox 360 owner, it's funny to see how far the industry has come since its inception.

My father bought be the original PONG game back when we had a black and white Sony television, which if I'm not mistaken was multi-band because we originally bought it in Germany, but there was a switch on it so it would work in the US. I could be making that up, but that's my recollection - that and when you turned it off the electron beam made a really cool pattern on the screen and then dissolved into a bright dot. I never had an Atari, but I did have one of the early Texas Instruments personal computers, which had a terrible button keyboard. I used to spend hours typing in BASIC programs from BYTE magazine, which you can now buy on eBay.