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January 20, 2006
We should teach kids to POKE
Sam posted this funny account of what it was like to grow up back in the days of old. Like Sam, I'm over 40, so boy do we still have tales to tell. And our kids will hear them all.
Actually, I disagree with one little statement from that post -
We had the Atari 2600 with games like “Space Invaders” and “Asteroids” and the graphics sucked ass!
No they didn't. We thought the graphics were really really cool. Especially because we had to write the games ourselves (or type them tediously out of magazines) and design the graphics by filling out pieces of squared paper and mapping that to lots and lots of POKE commands. Seeing that "little square" then move across the screen because you had written the correct lines to make it do so was just so exhilarating.
Posted by Matthew at January 20, 2006 05:54 PM