My daughter Susan loved it, and she kept playing. In the early 2000s, I remember bringing home Zoo Tycoon for the PC. Marble Madness in particular was hard to adjust to without the original's trackball, which was such a natural way to control a rolling marble. I purchased some of my favorite arcade games such as BattleZone and Marble Madness, but frustratingly these were often not-so-faithful to the original. I had an Atari 2600 and later an Amiga computer. Pac Man came out an element of randomness was added).Ī few years later, after home computers had happened, game consoles for the home started becoming available. My programmer friend Randy had memorized winning patterns of movement for the first few levels and could play that game like a piano (for this reason, when Ms. I also played a lot of Pac-Man, mostly because that game was everywhere including restaurants and convenience stores. Adventure was in fact the very first interactive fiction, and I'll be posting more about it in the future. Adventure was special: you explored a world, found and carried objects, overcame obstacles and adversaries. And, there was ADVENT (Adventure), an Adventure game. There was an ELIZA game, simulating a psychologist. In TREK, the user battled Klingons in a space grid. LUNAR was a game where you could try to land the Lunar Module on the moon with a limited amount of fuel. There was a WUMPUS game where you had to track down and kill an elusive Wumpus creature. There was a CASINO game, offering games like 21 and slot machines.
On the walls were stapled listings of programs and program output, including many games. It was the first time I had ever seen a computer of any kind, and I was instantly hooked. These teletypes were connected to a DEC PDP-10 timesharing system the county owned, and we were fortunate indeed to have access as there were no personal computers at the time. The room was chattering with noisy teletypewriters churning out text on paper rolls. A computer? In our school? This was news to me, and I enthusiastically went with him to see Room 214 of Connetquot High School. My friend Andrew asked if I had ever been to the Computer Room in the Math Department. In High School, on the last day of the 9th grade, I got my first taste of an electronic game. I'm afraid we tended to prey on the third player until we were both powerful enough to take each other head on, not a lot of fun for the third player (our mother eventually refused to play with us). My brother Lee and I played Risk frequently, often roping in a relucant family member to be a third player.
In Risk you are out to take over the world. There were the Parker Brothers classics like Clue and Masterpiece and Risk. As we grew older, there were the old family favorites: Monopoly and Yahtzee and Scrabble. First there were the games we played as very young children, like LIFE and Sorry and Trouble. Growing up there were no game consoles, arcade games, or home computers but there were board games, and boy did I play a lot of them with my family and friends. While I've never worked on a commercial game, I love games-but mostly retro games. I recently joined Twitch, a company that is all about gaming and community-so it only seems appropriate to post something about my history with games.
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