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Yes! You got it, RP.
Was there a better tool for learning the names of the planets in our solar system?

Konami -- such a classic!

Gyruss!

You got it! I was expecting to trick someone, but you are all too clever!

I had forgotten about those dedicated desktop chess machines.  Those were cool, and I'll bet they're pretty collectible now.  Probably pretty hard to find, though.

Me too! At the time Video Chess was released there were dedicated computers just for playing Chess.
 I had the Fidelity Chess Challenger 7 which ran a 4K program which was equally amazing.
I like the way Video Chess strobes different colors while the computer thinks and that I can play in color or black and white.
The Chess Challenger showed animated eyes in the low res red LED move display while the computer was thinking.
 

Space Invaders Part II

Taito 

Ya Got It!

Is this another Frontline one?

Ikari Warriors is probably my favorite AVGN episode. I love it so much. Especially the bloopers. (Relatively mature content warning)
 

Taito (in the US at least)

That is a great episode!  You can tell they're ad libbing a lot. 
 

Ikari Warriors is probably my favorite AVGN episode. I love it so much. Especially the bloopers. (Relatively mature content warning)
 

Ikari Warriors is probably my favorite AVGN episode. I love it so much. Especially the bloopers. (Relatively mature content warning)
 

Ikari Warriors?

Affirmative.
 

Since this is a real friendly place to hang out, my hope was to make a portion of it an oasis for friendly TI'ers.  Well, as the old saying goes,  "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink".  With the lack of participation, it's obvious I've failed in my task.  Sorry, I tried, but it's time for me to give up.

BINGO! I actually loved Blasteroids. Doesn't get mentioned much these days. 

Despite being only a single channel, the Moon Patrol song is such an unkillable ear worm that it has to make the list.  

I’ve always been interested in 2600 Backgammon. It looks like it would be fun if you knew what you were doing. However, I DON’T know what I’m doing, so I’ll have to check out the manual!
I don’t know how they did it, either. I think the crazy part, though, is how they even managed to make the computer think AT ALL with the 128 *bytes* of RAM the 2600 had! Even showing all the pieces on the chess board is a feat in itself!

Your comment reminded me that I like to listen to modern Italian music just to keep my language skills from going dormant.  I think listening to foreign music and watching foreign TV is a great way to pick up on languages. 
 

I never owned any of the board game adaptations or card games on any console growing up. My parents were actually heavy backgammon players and played a few games nearly each night when I was kid. But getting it for the 2600 was never a thought or blip on the scope of things. It was the same way with checkers. My friends and I would just use an actual checkers board an play. 
I own these games now but it was strictly for adding to the collection and never for actual play. 
But, in the early 90s I did own the first release of Hoyle's book of games that Sierra released and my mom especially really got into playing several games of Hearts on it nearly every night. Now, she mainly plays Mahjong games on her computer. But that is because it is so much easier to just click a few buttons to start a new tile set vs what the real deal would have required LOL.