Gaming Corner

[Jasonovich]

Interesting thread.

Nice bit of nostalgia...

I've been exposed to computers as long as I can remember.

When I was about 3 we had a BBC micro system with a cassette deck. I remember some kind of side on flying game and we had a game called JCB Digger where you had to dig holes and shove aliens into the holes without getting hijacked. Probably made a lot of sense if you were on acid...

After that an Amstrad which I think had a 20MB hard disc and used 5 1/4 inch floppy. Only game I remember from that was Lombard RAC Rally.

Following on it was a Comodore Amiga 500. Ours was the bizz as we upgraded to a whole megabyte of RAM and had a 2nd floppy disc drive. Geoff Crammind's Grand Prix and The Scret of Monkey Island were faves on that.

PCs after that starting with a Pentium 90 (ahead of the curve as most were on 486 DX2s still.

Now I've handed the batton over to our 7 and 10 year old. Forza Horizon 4 is a regular and, for those of you who have Steam accounts, Derail Valley which is a lot of fun. Worth a punt! It's not free but think we paid buttons for it. Sometimes dad is asked to do a load of runs after their bed time to get some cash in the coffers for them. The chores one has to do to help their children...

Kids also have a Switch (1st version. ) I've always been a PC guy and never had a console. It's good fun for what it is but I'm definitely more of a desktop kind of guy.

I see parallels with your PC journey and mine.
Sinclair enticed me with his pregnant calculator, the pixel challenged graphics and the little bleeper, the ginger maestro passed off as the audio.
It was magical, loved Tolkien, loved all those platform games.
A friend came round laughed his ar3e off, let's go over to my place and play on my Commodore 64.
I think this may have been the catalyst that started me off my PC journey.

I have been building PCs since the early 90s. I recall those ugly vanilla desktops, IDE architecture, you had to adjust the jumpers on the pins to configure the motherboard , internet wasn't very well developed and floppy disks 💾

How thinks have changed! 😊