Originally posted at LiveJournal on Dec 29, 2011 I'm watching a Modern Marvels episode on 70's technology, and the segment on video games reminds me of my very first TV video game: SOCRATES! My older cousin handed it down to my brother and me when I was nine or ten, and it was the coolest. thing. ever. Check out this amazing boot-up sequence! I remember playing a dress-up-doll-type game where you created an outfit for a little girl and then chose an environment for her to stand in (or was it the other way around?) - downtown, out in the country, in a TV studio... Oh! Oh! And my first hand-held video game - the Tiger LCD Little Mermaid game I begged my mom to buy from Toys 'R Us. I used to bring it to school to play at recess. It looked something like this: image from Etsy Except it was purple, and the game had to do with finding those mer-babies from that one TV episode. And sometimes the bad-guy would trap Ariel in a bubble...