Ah yes, I forgot about the Atari! Long before my time, I must admit, lol...
Yeah, the graphics in these doodle games are, uhh, inauthentic at best, but I think the general idea is to show what it sort of led to (in the sense, as you say, of cartridge games and consoles), rather than what he was actually designing...
But yeh, I grew up a couple of decades later, so we had "school computers", initially, and then shared laptops (early Macbooks), and then, later, our own laptops for class, plus graphics calculators... But this was at a private school, so... (Too) Well-resourced, obviously, by comparison to public school. Like, they had money to burn, so they could afford shit like that.
Kind of sad, really. When I was in primary school, they really put effort into teaching handwriting and long arithmetic and stuff... By the time I was in high school, they sort of just... Gave up, sadly. So I get what you're saying, there, even if it was much more ubiquitous by my time...
Earliest computer I had was a Windows 95. That was a fun, utilitarian thing. Never got to have a console of my own (was allowed to borrow my cousins PS1, for brief periods) - my parents were so restrictive they even took away the handheld consoles given to me by others (a Gameboy Color, and later an "Advance") - some of that stuff I still haven't found, more than a decade later, as an adult, sadly...
So yeah, I didn't have that much experience of "gaming", growing up. Less so than others around me, at least!
I don't think I turned out any better, or happier, or really anything, for being deprived of that, though, lol. Realistically probably all it achieved was to make me resent them more, later on, heh.
Ah yes, I forgot about the Atari! Long before my time, I must admit, lol...
Yeah, the graphics in these doodle games are, uhh, inauthentic at best, but I think the general idea is to show what it sort of led to (in the sense, as you say, of cartridge games and consoles), rather than what he was actually designing...
But yeh, I grew up a couple of decades later, so we had "school computers", initially, and then shared laptops (early Macbooks), and then, later, our own laptops for class, plus graphics calculators... But this was at a private school, so... (Too) Well-resourced, obviously, by comparison to public school. Like, they had money to burn, so they could afford shit like that.
Kind of sad, really. When I was in primary school, they really put effort into teaching handwriting and long arithmetic and stuff... By the time I was in high school, they sort of just... Gave up, sadly. So I get what you're saying, there, even if it was much more ubiquitous by my time...
Earliest computer I had was a Windows 95. That was a fun, utilitarian thing. Never got to have a console of my own (was allowed to borrow my cousins PS1, for brief periods) - my parents were so restrictive they even took away the handheld consoles given to me by others (a Gameboy Color, and later an "Advance") - some of that stuff I still haven't found, more than a decade later, as an adult, sadly...
So yeah, I didn't have that much experience of "gaming", growing up. Less so than others around me, at least!
I don't think I turned out any better, or happier, or really anything, for being deprived of that, though, lol. Realistically probably all it achieved was to make me resent them more, later on, heh.