After a long weekend of playing Diablo ll with the new sword I bought from the Yes Gamers website, I decided as a pro-gamer, I must also be aware of the dominance that games have.
And now I have finally just finished watching “The Art of the Game” (embedded below), a documentary about the evolution of digital games as the dominant media format.
Me and computer games go back a long way. I got my first PC at the age of 7, a Commodore 64, with a briefcase of game cassettes. You would wait sometimes up to 20 minutes to load one game, which puts some things in perspective. It also came with a version of BASIC, which was my first exposure to programming.
3 years later I got my first IBM-Compatible computer, a venerable XT with a monochrome display. Again, my main use for it was gaming and occasionally fiddling with BASIC (mostly to run Snake, which was sample program included). My memory from that period includes games such as the original Civilization, X-Com: UFO defense and lesser known classics such as Another World and Alley Cat.
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