Happy Anniversary & Remember, Remember
Oct. 19th, 2005 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyWell, the NES (Nintendo Entertainmetn System) is now 20 years old as of yesterday (its US debut was Oct 18, 1985). In honour of that, I've set the theme to Super Mario Brothers as my ring tone.
As with all anniversary's rounded off to a number divisible by 5, it makes you realize how long ago something was. This is 20 years ago. And, even worse, I now remember that it came out a generation AFTER my console of choice, the Intellivision.
I was a hardcore Intellivision player. I never picked up the Intellivoice, but I was big on the AD&D and Tron cartridges. And I could play Astrosmash until the cows came home, or my dad shut it off (why he didn't just ask me to pause the game, I dunno). Utopia probably initiated my lifelong love affair with sim games and RTS.
A few years later, when I was getting into working on my C 128 (you know how they say your first million words will suck? Mine were all on C128), my brother Uday got an NES. It wans't enough to distract me from SSI's Gold Boxes o' pleasure (which kept me from tossing myself in front of a CP Rail train over the worst D&D game ever), but it was an a cute diversion. I never got into Final Fantasy (Uday enjoyed it, but it never clicked for me), and the only games I really enjoyed were Star Wars one, primarily for the setting. Although I think they may have come out on the SNES.
So, now, that's 20 years ago, and I'm just getting older and older as the days go by. Xbox is my love now, as my PC is too decrepit for me to play anything fun on it (and now I can't even run Galactic Battlegrounds, which means until I get that resolved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bnddbl07 will have to wait for his whuppin'.
Ah, well. Time flies.
Open Note to all: Guy Fawkes Memorial Halo Party at Casa Bitter Nov 5. Any To based folks interested in play? I can probably squeeze a few more in. Dinner will be pizza and beer, beer optional. Fireworks, hopefully. There will be bomb games to commemorate papist treachery, if nothing else.
As with all anniversary's rounded off to a number divisible by 5, it makes you realize how long ago something was. This is 20 years ago. And, even worse, I now remember that it came out a generation AFTER my console of choice, the Intellivision.
I was a hardcore Intellivision player. I never picked up the Intellivoice, but I was big on the AD&D and Tron cartridges. And I could play Astrosmash until the cows came home, or my dad shut it off (why he didn't just ask me to pause the game, I dunno). Utopia probably initiated my lifelong love affair with sim games and RTS.
A few years later, when I was getting into working on my C 128 (you know how they say your first million words will suck? Mine were all on C128), my brother Uday got an NES. It wans't enough to distract me from SSI's Gold Boxes o' pleasure (which kept me from tossing myself in front of a CP Rail train over the worst D&D game ever), but it was an a cute diversion. I never got into Final Fantasy (Uday enjoyed it, but it never clicked for me), and the only games I really enjoyed were Star Wars one, primarily for the setting. Although I think they may have come out on the SNES.
So, now, that's 20 years ago, and I'm just getting older and older as the days go by. Xbox is my love now, as my PC is too decrepit for me to play anything fun on it (and now I can't even run Galactic Battlegrounds, which means until I get that resolved
bnddbl07 will have to wait for his whuppin'. Ah, well. Time flies.
Open Note to all: Guy Fawkes Memorial Halo Party at Casa Bitter Nov 5. Any To based folks interested in play? I can probably squeeze a few more in. Dinner will be pizza and beer, beer optional. Fireworks, hopefully. There will be bomb games to commemorate papist treachery, if nothing else.
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Date: 2005-10-20 12:17 am (UTC)I ain't never played Halo. You Xboxen owners. :P
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Date: 2005-10-20 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-20 03:06 am (UTC)Let's face it, Commodore's machines were gaming heaven back then. Lemmings on the Amiga was so good!