My first memory of playing a video game was at someone's house that I was taken to. We visited only a couple of times, but while I was there I played Pong and of special interest was shooting gallery.

I barely remember the experience at all, I was only maybe 5 years old. But I remember the screen, and the bouncing square moving across the screen.

I don't know if that is truly where my obsession began, but it's a good guess that it may well be. It wasn't but a couple of years later my sister got a home Sears Telegames Pong console,and they got me my first electronic games that ran on 9-volt batteries, then the arcade machine of Space Invaders sealed my fate.