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Interesting. I distinctly remember a BIG gap in home video game systems between the death of Atari 2600 in the early 80’a and market acceptance of the NES in t
by chriselles 8y ago
Interesting.
I distinctly remember a BIG gap in home video game systems between the death of Atari 2600 in the early 80’a and market acceptance of the NES in the mid-late 80’s.
Ice hockey was a game we played religiously.
- vidarh 8y agoFor most kids I knew the C64 was the dominant 'video games system' of that era. Consoles seemed dumb and limited. First time anyone I knew got a console was when the Nintendo64 came out. In retrospect it seems these things were very regional and driven by network effects - a lot of my friends bought computers based on having friends they could copy or borrow from.
- mieseratte 8y ago> Ice hockey was a game we played religiously. Reminds me I have / had a small graveyard of Ice Hockey cartridges. I got my start programming in the mid 00's doing homebrew NES dev, and Ice Hockey was a readily available, cheap cartridge with the NROM PCB layout I still feel a little guilt for taking all those poor cartridges out of the world, and keep an old Ice Hockey PCB sans CHR and PRG ROMs on my desk as a totem / reminder.