Ah, my first computer! I was gifted this for my sixth birthday back in NZ in a plastic bag full of games and old magazines and it set me on a lifetime of comput

Ah, my first computer! I was gifted this for my sixth birthday back in NZ in a plastic bag full of games and old magazines and it set me on a lifetime of computer obsession. The pictured Star Jacker game was amazing for the time. Amongst the memories: * Finishing every level in Lode Runner bar one (and somehow discovering a cheat allowing you to change to any level) * spending hours typing out hundreds of lines of code from a magazine to make a basic dynamic curve "screensaver" * trying to hack into a bank (from a non-connected device, hey I was 7) after discovering the mem command * Coveting the better games my cousin had, like Sindbad and Yamato, on the SC-1000 * I feel like I finished Flicky at level 40. I can't remember the specifics but from the lens of a near-40 year old, the feeling on that run was the closest to perfect "flow" I could imagine at that age * So much blowing on the cartridge and other cargo cult behaviour on timings of off-on switches and first actions to not have things break * having the recorder (Sr-1000?) That never worked meaning everything was a sudden death knockout event. Stakes was high back then!