Collecting Videogames For The First Time

Next year is 2010. Which reminded me of the movie 2010 which is a sequel to 2001. The 2010 movie spawned a game 2010 for Colecovision. It was the first used game I bought... ever! The year would have been 1988. My mom would take my sister and I to an open air swapmeet here in Las Vegas called Broadacres.

Back then Nintendo was popular and me, being a poor kid, could easily afford used Colecovision games because no one played them. To this day I remember buying the game. The vendor had two rows of games. $5 each. I bought it and... well... the game kinda sucked.

Fixing circuits before crashing into the sun is boring. Though trying a new game... that wasn't boring. That was priceless. There was a challenge all to its own... trying to figure a game as obtuse as 2010 without a manual.

Many used Colecovision games would follow: Popeye. Ladybug. Frontline. Carnival. Each were a conquered quest of ownership all to its own. When ownership of my first Nintendo finally game on December 9th 1990 my Coleco and her games were silently put out to pasture.