@7AnimalMother wrote:
@ELF014 wrote:To be honest I have no idea what @yusd25 is talking about, and I'm as old as dirt.
Haha. Im sure there are lots of us who have played video games for looong periods of time. That said, I just don’t like discrediting someone’s opinion based on how long or not they have been playing games!
That said, I was playing MUDs back in the early 90s before graphics in online games were even a thing!
It’s what taught me typing!
If we are going to reminisce, I can remember my first time with computer games... and it was playing Star Trek with a stack of cards being fed to a computer. We were at least advanced enough that we filled out boxes with graphic over using punch cards. And the output device was a dot matrix printer. It was pretty exciting waiting for the result of your last tactical move as the printer rattled off the the new position of the enemy.
Talking about looking into the way back machine.
But I agree with you... opinions have little to do with experience. Opinions are just that... we all have them and we are all entitled to them. I try to understand where people are coming from when they try to make a point. But there times I am just not following the point they are trying to make. Maybe my brain just isn't what it once was....
@yusd25 wrote:
@ELF014
My first game was block tennis on Commodore 64 the ghostbusters on Amstrad, then Sega changed the world as we knew it but originally it was a handheld yellow Galaga game in the early 80's shooting 5 rows of alien ships in b&w.
My first console game was Magnavox Pong game. Around the same time I was playing a Mattel Handheld Football game with 3 levels of LED's. It is amazing how much fun it was considering how little was being provided to the user.
Expectations were so little back then.
@ELF014 wrote:
@yusd25 wrote:
@ELF014
My first game was block tennis on Commodore 64 the ghostbusters on Amstrad, then Sega changed the world as we knew it but originally it was a handheld yellow Galaga game in the early 80's shooting 5 rows of alien ships in b&w.My first console game was Magnavox Pong game. Around the same time I was playing a Mattel Handheld Football game with 3 levels of LED's. It is amazing how much fun it was considering how little was being provided to the user.
Expectations were so little back then.
I also had pong as my first gaming system. Followed by colecovisiion and an early Atari computer that was mostly used for games and some light word processing. Neighbors had the C64. Not sure why my parents chose the Atari over that….
@7AnimalMother wrote:I also had pong as my first gaming system. Followed by colecovisiion and an early Atari computer that was mostly used for games and some light word processing. Neighbors had the C64. Not sure why my parents chose the Atari over that….
I might be just a smidge older than you... I had my own money back then.
My first console was an Atari 2600 when Space Invaders was king, followed by Mattel Intellivison and then the Coleco. After that a cross between Nintendo and Sega devices. But that was another lifetime ago... and my memory is a bit foggy. Good times tough.
My first computer was what we referred to as a trash 80, a computer made by Radio Shack. Followed by a Mac Plus (big mistake)... after which I built my own PC's moving forward.
Fond memories for sure!
@ELF014 wrote:
@7AnimalMother wrote:I also had pong as my first gaming system. Followed by colecovisiion and an early Atari computer that was mostly used for games and some light word processing. Neighbors had the C64. Not sure why my parents chose the Atari over that….
I might be just a smidge older than you... I had my own money back then.
My first console was an Atari 2600 when Space Invaders was king, followed by Mattel Intellivison and then the Coleco. After that a cross between Nintendo and Sega devices. But that was another lifetime ago... and my memory is a bit foggy. Good times tough.
My first computer was what we referred to as a trash 80, a computer made by Radio Shack. Followed by a Mac Plus (big mistake)... after which I built my own PC's moving forward.
Fond memories for sure!
Haha! Well I had allowance. ‘92 HS ‘96 Uni grad…
