I'm on the survivor list.
Lots of people my vintage here -1970- and I think we were in a sweet spot for all the mayhem.
Pong clone at the house then a 2600 to whet the appetite just as Space Invaders and then the rest appeared.
What an epic time to be a kid.
Pocket full of quarters from your paper route and mowing lawns and a bmx bike to be a neighborhood terror with your friends.
Played a shit ton of all sorts of games everywhere (because they WERE everywhere.)
Always fun to see new titles and squander some coins on them for bragging rights with friends.
Bums me out that my kids didn't get the same experience that I had but times have changed.
They always do of course.
I invite people over to play vids and pins and occassionally (rarely) it happens.
Everyone has a blast! ...and then goes back to their own life.
And then the games all sit with only me tinkering and playing them again- typically for a long while.
It's a unique hobby in that you can share the fruits of it with a bunch of other people all at once, and confusing to all of us when others don't jump at the chance to partake.
But it is just that- a hobby.
I've had a number of them the last 5 decades.
This one is even more fun for most of us here it appears when shared with others, but if it turns out to be just for you/us then so be it!
But have fun with it.
Lots of people my vintage here -1970- and I think we were in a sweet spot for all the mayhem.
Pong clone at the house then a 2600 to whet the appetite just as Space Invaders and then the rest appeared.
What an epic time to be a kid.
Pocket full of quarters from your paper route and mowing lawns and a bmx bike to be a neighborhood terror with your friends.
Played a shit ton of all sorts of games everywhere (because they WERE everywhere.)
Always fun to see new titles and squander some coins on them for bragging rights with friends.
Bums me out that my kids didn't get the same experience that I had but times have changed.
They always do of course.
I invite people over to play vids and pins and occassionally (rarely) it happens.
Everyone has a blast! ...and then goes back to their own life.
And then the games all sit with only me tinkering and playing them again- typically for a long while.
It's a unique hobby in that you can share the fruits of it with a bunch of other people all at once, and confusing to all of us when others don't jump at the chance to partake.
But it is just that- a hobby.
I've had a number of them the last 5 decades.
This one is even more fun for most of us here it appears when shared with others, but if it turns out to be just for you/us then so be it!
But have fun with it.






