Most people remember Pong, or the Atari 2600 and even the original Nintendo Entertainment System. There are plenty more systems and variations of systems that hit store shelves over the last three decades and more.

I uncovered The Game Console website while I was trying to remember the name of a home game system we had when I was a child. I couldn’t remember if it was before of after the Pong system we had in the house.

It’s quite the trip down the retail history memory lane. How many of these devices did you have growing up? How many do you still have in your possession?

If I remember correctly, we had:

• Atari Pong
• Atari 2600
• Colecovision
• Nintendo Entertainment System (still own)
• Sega Genesis
• Sony PlayStation (still own)
• Nintendo 64 (still own)
• Sega Dreamcast (still own)
• Sony PlayStation 2
• Microsoft X-Box (still own)
• Microsoft X-Box 360 (still own)
• Nintendo Wii (still own)

Being entertained at home looks to have been pretty important for me growing up. Many of the systems we had I got used from someone else, but still enjoyed many hours of fun. I remember numerous marathon gaming efforts with my two older brothers playing Asteroids on the Atari 2600 for 9 hours straight. I think we flipped the scoreboard counter around a dozen times before we final quit or lost our lives.

Reminisce with your own gaming history at www.thegameconsole.com

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The vNES website (Virtual Nintendo Entertainment System) could very well be the largest time-suck I’ve ever written about on Uncover the Internet. Hopefully you’ve taken my warning seriously and if you’re still reading, I assume you understand the consequences of continuing further.

The vNES website has taken your favorite Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games and built a virtual console for use on the web. I’ve already played a game of Contra and have got to tell you it was a blast from the past! The only problem I have is I want a USB equipped, old-school NES game control pad so everything feels normal.

If you have other favorites, they’re here too! Super Mario Brothers (1,2,3), TECMO Bowl, Excitebike, Kung Fu, Life Force, Double Dribble, all my favorites were here!

The graphics, although I thought they were amazing at the time, are now so out of date it’s almost funny, but the game play is still loads of fun.

Get your memories back of wasting all that time in your room as a kid and relax a little bit with the vNES website.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you though!

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Here’s another funny video where a vocal group interprets some video game pop culture.

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