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1980. The Place D'Orleans Shopping Center, just out side Ottawa, Ontario. The game: Space Invaders with a monochrome monitor. I was barely tall enough to see the screen, so I pushed the fire button while my dad worked the controller.
And that was more than a year before getting my first console, a Mattel Intellivision, for XMas.