Barkley's Justice
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Where were you? How did that make you feel?
I was 14 and very rapidly losing interest in video games. For me, it was a matter of hitting puberty and losing interest in pretty much whatever I was into as a kid. Getting up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons, Star Wars action figures, video games, whatever. No doubt about it, they *were* childrens' toys back then. I was totally unaware of a crash or the market being flooded or whatever. All I knew was that suddenly all I wanted to do was play guitar, and I started saving my allowance to buy Devo and Ramones albums instead of blowing it at The Dragon's Dungeon playing Sinistar.
Man, that sounds awesome. I started gaming at 2 (1982) and hearing about the state of videogames from an age where I was in 1993 (13) it's cool thinking about how it would have been to be a teen during the crash.
As a kid at the time you didn't think of it as a Crash at all, because how would you know? There wasn't much in the way of an industry new letter, or the web to tell you that such a thing had happened. I gamed right though those years and thought nothing of it. You could still buy games and there we plenty to choose from. Of course in the retrospective it clearly was a bigger deal, but most kids had zero idea it happened.
Well it's kinda depressing when I try to play Pitfall or Chopper Command nowadays and can't figure out how in the hell I could have spent so many hours on them back then. =P
I was playing Pac-Man.
Well it's kinda depressing when I try to play Pitfall or Chopper Command nowadays and can't figure out how in the hell I could have spent so many hours on them back then. =P
I feel like I was kinda of oblivious to hints, like when Electronic Games magazine changed to Computer magazine and stopped covering games at all. But yeah, it seemed like right around the same time me and all my friends just left it behind as part of growing up. I never would have started up again, but after college I bought an SNES as part of a scheme to establish credit. I almost didn't even take it out of the box and was going to just give it away or sell it. The fact that I made the mistake of setting it up and playing Super Mario World one night is the reason I'm here now.
Well it's kinda depressing when I try to play Pitfall or Chopper Command nowadays and can't figure out how in the hell I could have spent so many hours on them back then. =P
Playing E.T. trying to get out of that damn pit.
i was 8 years old and in Europe where we had the Spectrum and c64 .... what crash?
The only Crash we had was this :
Man, I must be the Senior Citizen of the group here.
I was 16 during the crash and honestly it was not that bad. I was more into my Atari Computer and learning to program it. I was able to pick up a ton of seriously reduced priced games for my Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intellivision etc.
I was 5, occasionally playing Defender, Superman, Street Racer, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Air Sea Battle on my 2600. My oldest sister, who I would never consider a gamer, nevertheless managed to win Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is insane now that I know what you have to do. She even managed it with no help beyond the game manual, which is even more insane.
I actually didn't really become a gamer until I was in 7th grade. My best friend got an NES when they first released, but I thought the games were too hard until I got my own years later.
at 45, I would say so. Nothing wrong with that, though!
i was 8 years old and in Europe where we had the Spectrum and c64 .... what crash?
The only Crash we had was this :