29 Oct
2001
29 Oct
'01
3:19 a.m.
I have three versions of the Atari 2600 (six-switch, four-switch, and the
Sears Tele-Games), and a 7800 that I play regularly.
I also collect the full-size arcade machines. It's very interesting for
games like Ms Pac Man, where I own the 2600, 7800, Atari 8-bit, and C-64
versions, and the real thing......
- Matt
So how many people collect gaming environments? It
seems that classic
computers go back to the early days of the C-64 vs Atari console wars.
Remember the advertisements where the young guy is sitting in a job
interview and the interviewer says, "So you can score 200,000 in space
donuts and get to the 15th level in maze wars, but what else can you do?"
and then they offer that if your kid said, "I can hack a C64" they would
hire him. (they don't really say that, they imply programming ability :-)
But I've been a gamer as long as I've been a programmer (which is waaay
too long ;-) and witnessing the folks who got the original 4.2BSD image of
the game Haunt running under NetBSD/VAX was an example of the extremes
folks would like to get to, to recreate gaming experiences.
All the gaming magazines (especially the ones that are left) wax rhapsodic
about the "good old days" when polygon count and particle physics weren't
as important as game play. There are some classic computer games out there
(SpaceWar being perhaps the most famous) that need preserving.
--Chuck
Matthew Sell
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