Found These The Other Day
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I've never played video games but I am trying to think what might be an equivalent for me - in my teens before the Personal Computer!
I can recall the early video machines in places like one of my local fish-and-chip shops, that ran a game called 'Pac-Man'. The eponymous "hero" the player drove, looked like an orange cartoon representation of an antibody swallowing "germs", though I think these odd-shaped bundles of visible pixels were meant to be invading spacecraft.
Having said I've never played video games, I can recall playing occasionally one of the earliest predecessors, a very simple "bat-and-ball" game requiring the device itself to be plugged into the aerial socket of a television-set.
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"Found" them? Where, in your car? I wonder if my car's door-pockets and glove-compartment hide forgotten treasure!
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One interesting development of the video-games as a whole is the sound-track. The early games had to be limited to squeaks and squawks. Modern computers are so powerful the games writers now have room for sound-tracks including proper, high-quality, specially-composed orchestral music as in films. So much so that I think one of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts this year was a performance of games symphonies.
I can recall the early video machines in places like one of my local fish-and-chip shops, that ran a game called 'Pac-Man'. The eponymous "hero" the player drove, looked like an orange cartoon representation of an antibody swallowing "germs", though I think these odd-shaped bundles of visible pixels were meant to be invading spacecraft.
Having said I've never played video games, I can recall playing occasionally one of the earliest predecessors, a very simple "bat-and-ball" game requiring the device itself to be plugged into the aerial socket of a television-set.
.
"Found" them? Where, in your car? I wonder if my car's door-pockets and glove-compartment hide forgotten treasure!
.
One interesting development of the video-games as a whole is the sound-track. The early games had to be limited to squeaks and squawks. Modern computers are so powerful the games writers now have room for sound-tracks including proper, high-quality, specially-composed orchestral music as in films. So much so that I think one of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts this year was a performance of games symphonies.
Rickichickie · 56-60, F
@ArishMell this bat-and-ball I can't remember but we played this game as kids. https://youtu.be/D-THUXZ1aE4
Later I had a Sega Mega Drive, a Nintendo 64 and a Nintendo Gamecube.
I remember that the little friend of my son once watched me in aw and said that his mom was 't playing that much and I told him that it isn't admirable and that his mom does right.
Later I had a Sega Mega Drive, a Nintendo 64 and a Nintendo Gamecube.
I remember that the little friend of my son once watched me in aw and said that his mom was 't playing that much and I told him that it isn't admirable and that his mom does right.