My parent's friends had more money than we did, and so their kids got Pong and played it on a large color TV. Pong was too expensive, but I had a paper route and the Montgomery Ward catalog had a generic pong knock-off for $80.00 and I persuaded my father to let me spend my paper route money on it. Played it on our black and white TV set. It wasn't the same, but I got bored quickly in the healthiest way possible. Good thing I didn't waste money on actual Pong, because as it turns out, the stupid game was very boring.After the internet came out and became popular, I took a trip down memory lane and went looking for my old generic Pong knock-off game. There was a used one for sale on eBay, but I didn't even think about buying that piece of s**t. No nostalgia here, at all. My younger brother got Atari with the cartridges and that was much more interesting, but the Atari joysticks wore out quickly and then it was a piece of s**t. A sign of things to come Expensive "NEW" electronics, built cheap as f**k, over-priced, you get bored almost as fast as they break. Years later my younger brother also had an Amiga computer, AND a Commodore 64 and there were a couple of games on both of those that I liked. 1988 or so. I played Tradewars on a dial-up BBS in the late 90's. I'm really glad I never developed a full-blown gaming habit. I see so many of these so-called "men" so deep into it that it disgusts me. That, and anime. They should just jack off to porn like REAL men, and then go find something productive to do.
Ohhh, a rite of passage! Personally, my first game was probably Gran Turismo 3--on the PS2, a silver one if I remember correctly. PC game? I think, Kerbal Space Program was the first I sent out for.
Do you guys have any favorite "emulators"? As a side hobby, I've been experimenting with MAME and VICE (a Commodore 64 emulator). But I have ZERO prior or historical reference point, I only know that I've not played any games since the 80s and so I was hunting down methods to play some of the old 80s games.
Dungeon Hack (old school first person dungeon explorer) and Commander Keen (old school side scroller)