OT: Any One Remember

[Artaud]

Makinus said:
My first computer was a 286 with 20mb HD, 640kb Ram and a CGA (4 colors) monitor...

Same here. Four colors! It was maybe in 1989 that my wife and I bought our first computer. It cost us $1,500. Before that I had a Magnavox word processor, because I'm a writer and I thought I never would have any use for a home computer.

One of my first computer games was Sim City. I had a friend who thought sitting at a computer and playing games was the most idiotic thing a person could do.

Then he and his wife came by for dinner and he started playing Sim City and...he would not leave until midnight. It was a week night, a work night. And his wife was curled up on the floor half asleep saying "We need to get going," but he was utterly fascinated with his black-and-white cities. He would cause a nuclear meltdown and then sit there and laugh at the destruction.

Another of my early games was "Empire." God, that game gave me so many hours of fun.

Atrocities, I don't see any of my gaming time as a waste. In the 1980s I did the nightclub scene very heavily for several years. I had a great job and made lots of money, and spent lavishly. Me and my friend were living the Miami Vice lifestyle, except for the drugs. Well, except for the *quantity* of drugs.

Now I'm married to a great woman, and I'm content to stay home and do things like play computer games. I'm approaching middle age and I'm too tired to do the stuff I used to do. The streets are now filled with crackheads and violence, so I stay at home with my books and my sweet wife and my computer.

Lounging in my recliner, playing SEIV (and maybe SEV someday, when it gets patched, ha ha!), watching the late show with a bowl of popcorn and a six pack, talking to the wife and curling up with a good book are all a LOT cheaper and SAFER than the things I did 25 years ago.