vizunary said:
lmao another game that got me really involved was killing time on the 3DO. it was the very best fps of it's time, it had a super spooky horror storyline that was unheard of then in a fps. it came out just after doom, too bad more people didn't get the chance to play it. |
It was meaningful. It was in 1971 or 1972 and I was visiting the Ben Franklin Museum in Philadelphia, PA. There was a computer there, probably a PDP-10 but I'm not certain. At the time it seemed like it was as big as two refrigerators stuck together. There was a small CRT monitor mounted in a wooden box and a large toggle switch mounted on a board. The toggle switch made the "paddle" move up or down. The game was single player PONG with the "ball" hitting a backboard. The object of the game was to keep the ball in play.
There was a line of people waiting to play and you lost your turn playing after two missed balls. I stood in line for a couple of hours and got to play twice. Definitely a foreshadowing of what was to come. I was in one of the best museums in the US and I "wasted" my time playing a video game... it was pretty meaningful.
