Week 2 - My Early History of Games
Now to get on with my earliest history of games..................
Back in the early 90's (my god, seems like yesterday...........Its amazing how old you feel when you are 18 and you look back at your childhood!!!), I first played on a computer called a 'Dragon 32' its from the 80's. And on it I played: the King (usually called Donkey Kong), frogger and Pac-Man. The games were stored on audio cassettes and a tape deck was needed to load them. It took ages for the games to be loaded. The dragon-32 itself had: a Motorola 6809E at 0.89MHz processor, 32KB memory and a Microsoft Extended Basic operating system. It was like using MS-DOS. You can find out more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32
I also played on another computer called an 'Amstrad CPC 464'. Again this was released in the 80's, the games were stored on audio cassettes and it was also like using MS-DOS. Games were more advanced and therefore they sometimes took hours to load. There were more branded games including the original Golden-axe. It came with a simple joystick with two buttons on the base. You could also use it to program simple games. You can find out more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC_464
Above: The Amstrad CPC 464
[Credit to Cc-by-2.5 (from wikipedia) for this image].
Both of these computers (they were not consoles) started getting me hooked on games. I was only about 5 when I started playing on them. I was DOOOOOOMED from the start!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back in the early 90's (my god, seems like yesterday...........Its amazing how old you feel when you are 18 and you look back at your childhood!!!), I first played on a computer called a 'Dragon 32' its from the 80's. And on it I played: the King (usually called Donkey Kong), frogger and Pac-Man. The games were stored on audio cassettes and a tape deck was needed to load them. It took ages for the games to be loaded. The dragon-32 itself had: a Motorola 6809E at 0.89MHz processor, 32KB memory and a Microsoft Extended Basic operating system. It was like using MS-DOS. You can find out more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32
I also played on another computer called an 'Amstrad CPC 464'. Again this was released in the 80's, the games were stored on audio cassettes and it was also like using MS-DOS. Games were more advanced and therefore they sometimes took hours to load. There were more branded games including the original Golden-axe. It came with a simple joystick with two buttons on the base. You could also use it to program simple games. You can find out more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC_464
Above: The Amstrad CPC 464
[Credit to Cc-by-2.5 (from wikipedia) for this image].
Both of these computers (they were not consoles) started getting me hooked on games. I was only about 5 when I started playing on them. I was DOOOOOOMED from the start!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by Krshna at 1:40 PM
1 Comments:
Oh boy, cassette loading.... remember how, if you were rubbish at the game, it took longer to load than to play. I had an early flight so, where you had to bomb oil wells in Libya only whenever you actually saw an oil well you immediately got shot down by a SAM missile.
Time to load +10 minutes
Time to play -3 minutes
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