20 Sep
2010
20 Sep
'10
1:17 p.m.
If you were the right age to be in school when they
were full of Apple
IIs, "Oregon Trail" was a big deal. I was not, but folks I know who are now
about 30-35 were.
It's weird: I am 35, and our school was all-Apple II, but we didn't have
that game. Actually we didn't have any games. We learned AppleWorks,
PrintShop, and BASIC. All the game-playing was done at home.
FlightSim, the Epyx olympic series, H2G2, games we wrote ourselves in
BASIC, Pole Position, etc. ..... although I was addicted to a
sword-fighting game called Swashbuckler. Anyone remember that?