Day 15: #25DaysOfGiveaways – Win PlayPad Bluetooth Gaming Controller

by Antonio Wells Dec 15, 2012 3:22 PM – 72 Comments

Tell us about your first computer and win!

Day 15 in our #25DaysOfGiveaways we’re giving away the Nyko PlayPad Bluetooth gaming controller for Android phones and tablets (it comes with cool hard case, stand & charging dongle). Winning is simple, just tell us about your first computer. Was it a desktop or laptop, Windows or Mac, was it as large as a refrigerator or as tiny as an ultra-book, could it have been the classic Commodore 64?!?

Winner will be chosen by tomorrow morning and contacted via the email used to comment (so use an accurate email!) Follow us on social media as some giveaways don’t hit the site. Come back tomorrow as we get mysterious again… P.S. don’t forget to check out our new Holiday Gift Buying Guide and enter to win either iPad Mini or Nexus 7!

Win Nyko PlayPad Bluetooth Gaming Controller!

Check out the past giveaways & winners

Day 14 we wanted to know your worse regift for our regifted (sort of) 4G Hotspot & $25 Google Play gift card.

Day 13 we gave away cool iSafe Backpacks with personal security alarm for telling us your fav security/antivirus app.

Day 12 we doubled-down on the $25 Google Play gift cards and asked the unfair question of Android or iPhone!

Day 11 we gave away a $25 Google Play gift card for the battle of the lowest on the totem pole.

Day 10 we gave away the Xbox 360 version of highly anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops II (for PlayStation 3) along with collector’s dog tag for telling us you fav Android game (mystery topic located in our new Holiday Gift Gift).

Day 9 we gave away gadgets for the car, the Soundfly View Bluetooth FM Transmitter & RingO car/wall mount for iPad, for telling us about your first car.

Day 8 we gave away highly anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops II (for PlayStation 3) along with collector’s dog tag for telling us about your first cellphone.

Day 7 we gave away anticipated Halo 4 Xbox game and Nyko PlayPad Pro Bluetooth gaming controller for watching a video for the secret phrase.

Day 6 we gave away the awesome Roku HD media streaming player for telling us about your cable provider’s service.

Day 5 we gave away the Gametel Bluetooth smartphone gaming controller, RingO car/wall mount, and $15 Google Play gift card for telling us the cool tech gadget you hope to receive this year.

Day 4 was retro day as we gave away an 8-bitty game controller, iSkin case for SGS3, and $20 bucks to shop our store for telling us about your 1st video game.

Day 3 $25 Google Play gift card for telling us about your carrier’s service.

Day 2 $15 Google Play gift card for coolest homescreen on Instagram.

Day 1 $15 free app shopping on AndroidTapp Store.

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Kudos to Nyko for the gaming controller!.

Tags: 25DaysOfGiveaways, Bluetooth Wireless Gaming Controller, Freebies, Holiday Gift Guide, Holiday Gift Guide 2012, Nyko PlayPad

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72 Comments

By bender23 on December 15, 2012 at 3:26 pm:

Count me in!

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By Tzaar0723 on December 15, 2012 at 3:33 pm:

My first PC was a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. Yes, I’m that old, LOL.

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By sgtkwol on December 15, 2012 at 3:41 pm:

MDG, can only remember it was over 1 ghz. It was the first and last prebuilt computer I bought.

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By caleb on December 15, 2012 at 3:42 pm:

My first computer was a big @$$ desktop and could hardly do anything…times have changed

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By Mike Meyer on December 15, 2012 at 3:48 pm:

A TRS 80 model 1, complete with a cassette tape drive for Macs storage.

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By thadunno on December 15, 2012 at 3:53 pm:

Amstrad CPC-464 here lol

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- By Antonio Wells on December 17, 2012 at 1:32 pm:
  
  @thadunno Check your email as we’ve pulled your name out of the box as the winner!
  
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By john wood on December 15, 2012 at 3:58 pm:

Well I can’t remember exactly but 1 GHZ was just awsome and hyper high end!

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By Fatimah Ahmed on December 15, 2012 at 3:59 pm:

My First PC..I remember it’s so slow .. the screen crt and mouse that come with ball ..
hehehe yes it’s old

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By Zay ay on December 15, 2012 at 4:08 pm:

Wow… My 1st pc was back in the early 90s, 91 or 92. Windows was the big thing, we were learning it in school and everyone was getting desktops for their homes. Unfortunately my family was poor at the time so when my best friend’s family got a windows pc, he talked his father into selling me their old a** Commodore 64…lol. I bought for like 60 dollars of. Hard earned. Allowance money that I had to save up. I was around 12 at the time.

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By Antonio Iacobone on December 15, 2012 at 4:13 pm:

My first personal computer with the classic Commodore 64, with Datasette cassette player and a green monitor with electronic (?!) audio ! I broke a lot of joystick…until I found a steel joystick that has never broken! Unfortunately many years later thiefs stole me it with my full collection of tapes lol…I cried!

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By Richard van Nieuwenhuizen on December 15, 2012 at 4:21 pm:

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 Spectrum. Running at 3.25Mhz.

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By Cb on December 15, 2012 at 4:22 pm:

First first personal computer was a company laptop. It weighted a ton and was slow and well eventually fell apart.

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By mikedez on December 15, 2012 at 4:22 pm:

Mine was an ibm pcjr. Look it up, it’s so sad now but was amazing when I was a kid.

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By pizzadough on December 15, 2012 at 4:25 pm:

Our first family PC was a 386 desktop running dos that my father setup with a basic menu so you would simply punch a letter that matched the item you wanted and it would launch that program. Many happy hours were spent on Zork, Kingdom of Kroz, and the stunning graphics of the King’s Quest series. My how times have changed as I write this from my Nexus 7.

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By Danny Park on December 15, 2012 at 4:25 pm:

Wow. I remember my first computer was an IBM personal 2 something… It used those 5″ floppy disk and used MS Windows 3.1. I learned a lot from using MS-DOS to help repair Windows 95 & 98.

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By kitt morris on December 15, 2012 at 4:32 pm:

Commadore Vic 20. 5k of ram goodness. 3 hours coding games only to get syntext error on launch. Get on.

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By tyler on December 15, 2012 at 4:35 pm:

My first computer was a satellite A-135. Great computer and it still gets used. But I’m upgrading to a Apple macbook pro with retina display here soon.

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By Marcel muniz on December 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm:

My first computer was a dell

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By Dennis Andersson on December 15, 2012 at 4:58 pm:

Hehe my first was a Amiga .. I had a car game i loved, cant remember the name, but you drove a stunt car around a track.. It was 3D! Epic..

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By Thomas Biard on December 15, 2012 at 5:09 pm:

My fist computer was an old Macintosh SE. I remember playing “Where in the World is Camen San Diego” and “Crab Munchers Typing”. It has a 48Mb hard drive haha. After that we upgraded to the Pentium II 266Mhz with 64Mb of RAM. My parents kept that about 10 years until it finally wouldn’t start. I had formatted that hard drive about 7 times to keep it working through the years.

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By Puya Mirkarimi on December 15, 2012 at 5:23 pm:

I was too young to remember anything but I looked at some photos we have with it in the background and it was a MASSIVE white box that apparently was one of the high end PCs of its time.

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By BenRogersWPG on December 15, 2012 at 5:30 pm:

Pentium 1 I believe!

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By Emery Barnes on December 15, 2012 at 5:32 pm:

My first computer was a web tv … yes you heard right A WEB TV , I was only a kid when I first got it but even then I was all aware of its limitations, none the less it started me on this journey of computer geekery and for that I will be forever grateful.

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By Faiz on December 15, 2012 at 5:53 pm:

The first computer in the family.. I was about the age of 7. All I remembered was the white yellow-ish colour.. Always thought the floppy disc was cool. Played plenty of King’s Quest. Didn’t even knew computers had many brands at that time

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By kaden martinsen on December 15, 2012 at 5:54 pm:

My first computer was a dell inspiron mini and it was to small to really do anything on it

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By Michael M on December 15, 2012 at 5:59 pm:

I don’t remember the model but it was an IBM computer that ran DOS. I think I was the only 10 year old in the neighborhood that knew how to enter command lines to get it do anything.

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By luis on December 15, 2012 at 6:14 pm:

I had a mac pc. It was big slow but good

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By jason brooks on December 15, 2012 at 6:43 pm:

My first computer was the 128k sinclair spectrum +2 with the built in tape deck. I had saved up my pocket money for months to buy it. I can still remember the patient waiting I had to endure for a game to load.it seemed to take forever, listening to the high pitched squeels and blips that it made while loading a game. Absolute joy. I still have it boxed and every now and then I decide to turn back time and play a game or two of jet set willy,bomb jack or chucky egg. True history right there! The start of what has now become.

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By James Houghton on December 15, 2012 at 7:02 pm:

My first computer was a Commadore VIC 20 in 1980. It had 32,000 bits of information. The VIC modem resembled something similar to today’s fax machine. It took about 45 minutes to write commands just to see the colors that the machine was capable of. The floppy drive accepted an 8″ floppy disk and the only game I had was a command driven adventure game where my character was always getting bitten by chiggers and the bites would get infected and kill me unless I found mud to wipe on them! Ha! Oh the tech memories.

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By Ken Cunningham on December 15, 2012 at 7:10 pm:

My first computer was a Commodore 64. I had the 1548 disk drive, data tape player, and monitor. We purchased it from Montgomery Wards for $1200.00. I had a few games, I had sub logic flight simulator 2, Dino Madness and dig-dug. Oh and the printer? An okidata of course…

I was about 10 years old and it was my life.

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By www.atcomsystems.ca on December 15, 2012 at 7:13 pm:

A Commodore VIC20 with cassette drive! Typed many a program into it via Basic…

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By Kate on December 15, 2012 at 7:29 pm:

Generic pc. Something like 386 with windows 3.1i think and it ran Word star and connected to an Epson dot matrix printer. I think I got it sometime in the late 90s as a high school graduation gift from my mom. It was the most awesome thing ever.

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By Rob on December 15, 2012 at 7:37 pm:

My first computer was a desktop that ran windows 3.1…

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By Alvin G on December 15, 2012 at 7:40 pm:

My first computer is Dell. It was big during that time but it contributed awesomely to our family.

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By shannon M on December 15, 2012 at 8:20 pm:

My first computer was some old Compaq. Family computer I used to play Tonka games on.

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By Andrew on December 15, 2012 at 8:51 pm:

Our family’s first computer was an IBM pc in the 80s. I think it was a 286 and the OS was DOS. I don’t believe it got used much other than us kids playing Freddy’s Rescue Round-up or my dad connecting to the ridiculously slow Prodigy dial up service to check stock quotes.

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By Devlin on December 15, 2012 at 9:20 pm:

My first computer that I personally owned… It was a Compaq Persario I believe. Thing ran on Windows ME. It was a piece of junk, but it kept chugging along.

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By Brian on December 15, 2012 at 9:25 pm:

My first computer was an 80s model mac with 5in floppy disks. I used to play Jeopardy and Oregon trail on that wonderful black and green screen.

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By Denise on December 15, 2012 at 9:34 pm:

My first computer was an IBM PS/2 model 30 I bought in 1989. It cost around $2500 (lol), had a whopping 20 Mb hard drive, and it was the first computer bought through our company loan program for home computers. I actually loved it and used it until 1991. I wish I hadn’t sold it.

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By Alexandre Alves de Araujo on December 15, 2012 at 9:35 pm:

My first was a Pc, Windows Xp, Celeron 1Ghz, 128MB Ram, 60 GB HD and was very slow!

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By Dorothy H on December 15, 2012 at 9:51 pm:

A Commodore VIC20. Yeah… it was considered to be a computer at the time.

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By Joshua Barta on December 15, 2012 at 9:59 pm:

Machine from around 1985 running DOS, though I can’t recall what version.

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By Marc Edward Dalmacio on December 15, 2012 at 10:03 pm:

My first PC was a Pentium III 800mhz desktop computer. It was so heavy. I bought it to play DOTA at home.

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By Michael on December 15, 2012 at 10:26 pm:

My first computer was given to me from a family member. I can remember the huge mouse that came with it still to this day. It was a ATARI 520ST computer. Its still in the box in my grandmothers house now. Lol the duke of hazards called..they want their computer back. Them good old days

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By matt on December 15, 2012 at 10:53 pm:

Pentium 133 with a sound blaster sound card, 8mb video card. That’s all I can rememver

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By Jason Jongeling on December 15, 2012 at 10:58 pm:

Atari 400. I learned to program basic on it. The pressure sensitive keyboard was a real joy ! The greatest part, it hooked right up to a normal TV. Moved to an 800xl and the to the Almighty Amiga 500.

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By Scott Herzog on December 15, 2012 at 11:07 pm:

Amiga Commodore 64

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By Adil Farooq on December 15, 2012 at 11:27 pm:

My first computer was Compaq P III having windows XP on it.

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By David on December 15, 2012 at 11:29 pm:

Apple IIC… Way back in the day

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By Jennie Tran on December 15, 2012 at 11:41 pm:

Dude, I got a Dell back when that was actually a commercial…

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