r/videogames • PlayStation • 12h ago

Discussion / Question what was the very first piece of hardware that started your gaming journey?

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u/canman7373 5h ago

pfft Texas instrument. Tunnel's of Doom, it had a full tape recorder that plugged into the TI and recorded you game using modem like sounds then you could load up the place you last saved with the tape. I wonder if that was the first savable game.

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u/wafflehousebattle 5h ago edited 5h ago

Didn't Neo Geo experiment with memory cards so you could load up a save from an arcade game on your home console?

Edit: Here. If they didn't cost a fucking fortune, this would have killed their competition.

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u/canman7373 5h ago

That looks many years later though, Tunnels of Doom came out in 1982. Looking up looks like not the first those were a few years earlier. And yeah Neo Geo was ground breaking when it came out but completely unafordable.