When Rob O'Hara needs a serious video game fix, he unwinds a black rubber joystick and plays a few rounds of "Space Invaders" on his Atari 2600, vintage 1982. The 30-year-old networking engineer owns newer Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube consoles, but for a true gaming geek like O'Hara, nothing tops the blocky graphics and simple sound effects of retro video games. "Playing games was a big part of my childhood," says the Yukon, Okla. man. "Back then, it seems like games were more family-oriented, and as a result, families ended up playing a lot of games together."
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