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I went to the Computerspielemuseum (computer game museum) in Berlin. I got to play Pacman with a giant super sized Atari 2600 controller \ud83d\ude42 Pacman on the Atari 2600 was the first console video game I ever played. In fact, I don’t even think I knew what a video game console was until my mum showed me how it worked :\/<\/p>\n

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They also have an Apple II signed by Steve Wozniak. This was the first desktop computer I ever used, way back in 1988. My school had two of them which we occasionally got to use.
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