04-13-2016, 03:45 AM
Harley, have no worries about dating yourself - While "Pong" was available as a game for the Apple IIc by the time I graduated high school, there was no PC in our home for me to play it on. Arcades had not yet become ubiquitous in the malls, so the only games available to me were at the local Mr. Gatti's Pizza...And those were Pac-Man and Space Invaders.
I did have a friend a few streets over during my sophomore and junior years who had an Apple IIC with "Zork" (the old text based RPG) installed on it, and I have many fond memories of being eaten by the "grue". "Kabul Spy" was another such game, I'll never forget typing a suggestion into the command line, and the game responding "You may want to try that with the cassette port in back".
Hey, I was 15 years old at the time. I had to try typing that, it was my duty as a teenager.
Good times, those days of dual 5.25 floppy disk drives (dual because the Apple OS needed that much storage to boot) and 128KB RAM.
I did have a friend a few streets over during my sophomore and junior years who had an Apple IIC with "Zork" (the old text based RPG) installed on it, and I have many fond memories of being eaten by the "grue". "Kabul Spy" was another such game, I'll never forget typing a suggestion into the command line, and the game responding "You may want to try that with the cassette port in back".
Hey, I was 15 years old at the time. I had to try typing that, it was my duty as a teenager.
Good times, those days of dual 5.25 floppy disk drives (dual because the Apple OS needed that much storage to boot) and 128KB RAM.