My 2600 is only ever used to play a few games, like Solaris, in '85 I graduated to Atari computers and prefer all the A8 versions over 2600 versions, obviously (IMHO), though I do intend to one day by a couple of the newer home-brew 2600 games in the AA store. But I was impressed with the 8-bit version even in '85/86 time-frame. All my Atari 8-bit experiences, games old and new, started in the summer of '85 when I bought my 130XE. Pac-man 2600 came out, and then it was forgotten. The only home version I played was the 2600 version, which I knew was nothing like the arcade version really, but we still had fun playing it on the 2600, many hours were spent with it, until Ms.
In 1982 I only had a 2600 and a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (I think, that could have been '83). Either way, we were seeing what official Pac-Man looked like on a real Atari computer before the Atari 2600 version was released. As I posted above, if my mother and I didn't play it, it's highly possible that we saw a demo. I got an E-mail yesterday saying that it was impossible for for me and my mother to have played Atari computer Pac-Man before Atari 2600 Pac-Man was released in March/April of 1982 since Atari 400/800 wasn't released until around June.
Since I don't remember holding a joystick, there is a very good chance that we saw some kind of demo. Once we brought home the Atari 2600 abomination called Pac-Man in April, my mother and I talked about how shocked we were that it didn't even look close to the Atari computer version we saw at Woolco. I have a clear memory of seeing Atari 400/800 Pac-Man on a computer screen at Woolco and wondering if Atari 2600 Pac-Man would be as good. My memory is that my mother and I played official Atari 400/800 Pac-Man at Woolco department store (or at least saw a demo of it playing on an Atari computer) and assumed that Atari 2600 Pac-Man would look similar, so we pre-ordered Atari 2600 Pac-Man at that same Woolco. Understanding that I hit my head on the ice in 2011 and lost some memories and others got mangled, what I posted about Pac-Man before 2011 doesn't seem to have changed in my memory that much. If you were alive and old enough to keep track of such things, do you remember the month you got Atari 400/800 Pac-Man or the first time you remember seeing it in a store or the first time you saw a demo of it playing on an Atari computer in 1982?
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