Neil Cerutti
1/13/2012 6:15:00 PM
On 2012-01-13, IYM <"S u nrisr"@optonline.net> wrote:
> heh..I hear you....Intellivision was the one game system I
> never had. I had (and still have) a working full size Atari
> 2600, Colecovision (with expansion module), Sega Genesis,
> original Nintendo (NES) and a Super NES (at least they were all
> working the last time I set any of them up, as those are all
> still in the attic)
>
> I stopped game consoles after that and switched to an Apple IIe
> (of which still is over my parents house somewhere), then a
> 286, 386 486....Played Warcraft 1 & 2 on my Pentium II, the
> switched back to game consoles with a playstation 1 & 2, then
> back to PC's. Now the kids have a Wii.... Sheesh...listing
> them out like that makes me realize I spent way too much time
> on games.... But still managed to play outside building
> go-carts, forts in the woods, etc, all day as a kid...Man I was
> busy..Guess I never stopped back then... :)
My true gaming confession:
My first computer was a TI99/4A. I learned to program simple
Basic scripts on it, and felt like a genius. The only game of
note on it was Parsec, a 2D horizontal scrolling space-shooter
with the only innovation being that you had to navigate a
progressively more angular tunnel in order to gas up.
There was a voice recognition module for this computer, and you
could use it to play the baseball game. I never did, but had a
friend who named his players things like "schmuck." You'd call
out, "Throw to Schmuck!"
My 2nd was an Aquarius. It had an interesting game called Utopia,
a neat precursor to what became the Civilization series.
I finally got a Commodore 64 in 1983, and still have it, plus an
extra. I played most of the great 8-bit games on it, and a lot of
the garbage, too.
This was upgraded to an Amiga 500 in 1989, and I used it until
graduating from college in 1994. I didn't buy my first PC until
1996. The Amiga had a unique look to its games, and probably the
best ones written for it were by Cinemaware. Some of the first
best-selling PC games were ported to it eventually, but you
needed rare addons like a hard drive.
My role playing game history started with The Treasure of Tarmin
on the Intellivision. I'm now happily stuck with WoW, and should
stay a long time as this stuff has a lot of staying power with
me. ;)
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Neil Cerutti