First an early Atari... every gam was the same , football 2 sticks going up and down with a blob moving across the screen, squash to sticks and a blob, tennis 2 sticks and a blob ...
Then those little individual game things... donkey kong and space invaders, a small screen, and buttons attached ( they must be in the old mans loft)
Then the Amstrad cpc464 turned up one Christmas morning... 20 mins to load any game in the built in tape player, whilst the computer made some crazy shit noises... then you were in, Blagger, manic miner, ikari warriors ( spelling),
I lost interest then TBH, but br