Well, a lot of us expected to be nuclear dust by 1985, and video games were just things you played for a little while and that was it .. and they were considered to be "for kids", which meant that they'd always kind of be junky, I guess. They were kind of dumb, they were something you couldn't "win", and they were just there to eat quarters and kill some time on a dull Saturday afternoon with your friends at the arcade.
If I could bring two pieces of media back in time to the 1980s (or better yet, the 1970s), just for to see that-time audience reaction to them, it'd be Skyrim and Happy!.
Yeah, but not everyone would have had access to those, and most people wouldn't have, at least until the C-64 started to become popular/affordable. Maybe if you were a university student with specific reason to access the school's mainframe, maybe you could play Mines of Moria, but the rest of us were lucky to have an Atari 2600 with 2 or three games.
And from what I can gather, the schools used to charge computer access per minute.
Well, a lot of us expected to be nuclear dust by 1985, and video games were just things you played for a little while and that was it .. and they were considered to be "for kids", which meant that they'd always kind of be junky, I guess. They were kind of dumb, they were something you couldn't "win", and they were just there to eat quarters and kill some time on a dull Saturday afternoon with your friends at the arcade.
If I could bring two pieces of media back in time to the 1980s (or better yet, the 1970s), just for to see that-time audience reaction to them, it'd be Skyrim and Happy!.
There have been ("micro")computer proper games since the 1970s.
Yeah, but not everyone would have had access to those, and most people wouldn't have, at least until the C-64 started to become popular/affordable. Maybe if you were a university student with specific reason to access the school's mainframe, maybe you could play Mines of Moria, but the rest of us were lucky to have an Atari 2600 with 2 or three games.
And from what I can gather, the schools used to charge computer access per minute.
I mean, the "microcomputers". Ever since likes of the Apple I. The Atari 800 was launched already in 1979.