Commodore 64 and modern day kids!

Oh, wow...

I remember when the little private school I attended through fifth grade got an Apple 2e, and oh how we would fight over who was allowed to play on it! Games I remember are Sherwood Forest, Escape from Rungistan, Lode Runner (woo!)...

Sixth grade meant transfer to a public school and the Commodore 64... not nearly as much fun for me, because I was way fixated by then on my Atari 2600. I am STILL the only person I know who can haul a** through Tunnel Runner at maximum speeds and not get sick. Oh, the hours and hours and hours I spent playing on that thing. *sighs, then grins* Which is why I own one now.

My brother scrimped and saved to buy himself a Vectrex when they first came out, and I learned how to do the most rudimentary animations and drawings on it. And Spike! Who remembers playing that? ("Eek! Spike!" "MOLLY!")

Next up, the NES, the Sega Master System, and then the Sega Genesis (there, my heart belongs to the Phantasy Star series, thank you very much).

Back to computers, we had a PC by the time I was in junior high or high school, and I was a wizard on DOS. My brother ran one of the first BBSes in NJ, and I became an ace at Yankee Trader. I resisted Windows until I got to college, and FINALLY caved and put Windows 3.1 on my first computer (as in, not sharing one with brother).

Freshman year of college: Hello, Civilization... goodbye, social life.
Sophomore year of college: Hello, D&D Unlimited Adventures... goodbye, free time.
Junior year of college: Hello, Master of Orion 2... goodbye, insecure male friends who hated being outsmarted by a woman.
Senior year of college: What's this thing called IRC...?

It went downhill from there. I joke that I remember when Yahoo was a text only search engine (the big three were Yahoo, AltaVista, and Lycos).

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Am I the only one who finds it hilariously ironic that with all the graphics and processor improvements we've made over the last 30 years, what's one of the first things people love to do? Put a mod on their computer or phone or whatever that lets them play games like Adventure, Pong, Warlords...

Ah, nostalgia.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

The Amiga was amazing - nothing else out there was even close to that machine's capabilities, at least to consumers.

I still own a Vectrex. It's been a few years since I turned it on, but as of relatively recently, it still worked.

As far as game systems go, I never had an Intellivision. I had an Atari 2600, Coleco Vision, NES, a Genesis with the Master System adapter, and then once I had to start paying for my own games and systems everything slowed down quite a bit (the next - and really, first - system I bought was a Playstation; the others were ones I convinced my parents I just absolutely had to have).

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My first PC was a Commodore 64 ... all told I think I wound up owning two or three of the beasts and that was what I wrote most of my college papers on. (Ah, Word Writer 3, I remember how awesome I thought you were.)

I got a used Amiga 500 in Grad School and I got my first Windows Machine right out of training for my first job. Widows 3.11. I eventually upgraded and gave that PC to my folks. It eventually died, but not after putting in about 15 years as a Solitaire machine for my mother.

I remember when I started this job back in 94 the For Sale column of the local paper was filled with people selling their old C64s ...

Eh. My first computer was my college's required purchase of the DEC Professional 350. There weren't many games for it. The only thing I had was Pac Man clone called DEC-Man and (I guess) a port of the game Empire.

I loved Empire. I was an addict and Empire was my drug. Truly, I don't know how I graduated. I played it well after I got out of school. What finally broke me away from Empire was Civilization on my 286 PC. Yeah, Civ was an even harder drug. I learned how long I could hold off without peeing.