Writer's Block: Beep, Bop, Boop

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Brick Drop on Commodore 64. It came with a bundle of games, and I would play them for hours. As soon as I used a computer, I was hooked. I have been using them obsessively ever since. <3

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[hercircumstance.livejournal.com]

I started off with a C64 too and then a 128. Four years old and already typing in L-shift-O,8,1 and loading games. Not sure what the shift-O part meant because those keyboards back then had different alt functions. It is going to drive me nuts until I figure it out.

Did you see they are reissuing the C64?
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

[zzzzsleep.livejournal.com]

It was a shortened form of the LOAD command.
So you could type LOAD"*",8,1
Or L-shift-O"*",8,1 to save time.

[hercircumstance.livejournal.com]

Ah! I'm glad I wasn't going nuts. What I'd do was make the computer tell me what was on the disk and then I'd bookend those around the file name. I couldn't spell/type well at that point, but apparently I could memorize a series of random keystrokes. That's why I am not so amazed by kids being intuitive with the iPad. Between C64 and working the archaic tv signal/manual sat turning and teaching your parents how to use the VCR I still think the kids of the 1980s have the tech edge.

[lauredhel.livejournal.com]

Wow, I don't even know. It would have been something I typed in to a ZX-81 in BASIC from a dinky computer programs zine. After that, into games that actually came pre-recorded, probably BurgerTime on our XT? Or maybe the Hitchhiker's Guide text RPG. And then came the age of the C-64 and Thing On A Spring.

Hang on, I'm only thinking in terms of computer games. If you count retail (not arcade) console games, we had Pong, then an Atari (Night Driver, Space Invaders).

Loved all of the above. Hated Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, though.

[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

Pong,on a huge machine in a pub.No PCs or games consoles existed then.I was good at it but thought it dull.I also have played Asteroids on an Atari machine in an amusement arcade that was purely mechanical, revolving transparent drrums with the features painted on..