Even though I was grew up well into the Nintendo dominated era of video games (NES,SNES) my first video game experience was playing on my parents Atari 2600 and

Even though I was grew up well into the Nintendo dominated era of video games (NES,SNES) my first video game experience was playing on my parents Atari 2600 and both Adventure and Pitfall where common go to games for me. Reading the beginning of the article gave me real food for thought about how the manual of Adventure needed to specifically explain to the user about the concept of multiple rooms. Even with my limited exposure to more modern video games at the time I instinctively knew that going to the very edge of the screen was how you got to the next screen so the idea that this was something so new in Adventure it needed to be explained just blows my mind.