![]() I didn't discover Tunnel Runner until later. One of my favorite 2600 games growing up, along with Pac-Man, Adventure, Space Invaders, Pitfall II, and Keystone Kapers. Now that I have older systems in my room, I have no intentions of getting a newer TV. I have put another 12-inch downstairs to play those Zapper games in my main gameroom. I used to have my Wii up here, then switched to Wii U, then added NES (for zapper games) and finally replaced it with my 2600 when I got it. I have always preferred CRTs to modern displays. All of my friends teased me for having a "stone age" TV in my room and for getting it so late, but I never minded. It took two years after we stopped getting analog TV through coax and needed digital adapters in order to watch TV. It took until I was fourteen to finally get it through to my parents that I wasn't going to use it to watch TV on it. I couldn't get it through to my parents that all I wanted to use it for were my old video game systems. He said if it was there I would never leave my room and just stay there and watch TV all day. He convinced my parents to not let me have a television in my room. He was a good doctor from a parent perspective, but he was so boring and overexplained everything and made each appointment about twelve times longer than it had to be. I had this really strict doctor that I hated. I had been begging my parents to let me put up this crappy twelve-inch Hitachi CRT in my room since I was 8 years old. I used that karaoke machine as a psudo-television in my room. Sometimes I'd sneak that bulky thing in my room and play some Atari games on it. In retrospect, I'm shocked that they were still making tiny CRTs for karaoke machines in the early 2010s, much less monochrome ones. You know how some of those old computer monitors had green phosphor to make it easier to see text? This one had a blue color palate going on. The machine had maybe a five or six inch monochrome screen. We had this CD+G karaoke machine that we got in around 2011 or so for Christmas that happened to have some composite ports on the back of it. ![]() Like I said, I mostly played it on the Joystick Plug 'N' Play. That's part of the reason I love physical cartridges. When I have less games availiable to me, I often enjoy the games I have access to more and appreciate them more for what they are. Whenever I'm exposed to an emulator or something and I have a folder with hundreds of abbreviated ROMs, I often just play the same two or three games over and over again until I get bored. Sometimes when you have less games to choose from it helps you appreciate the ones you have more. Asteroids was a game I had played before on my Wii 2600 emulator, but I didn't really start enjoying it until I got my Jakks Pacific 2600 Joystick Plug 'N' Play.
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