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I've been a gamer since the 70s. Started with pong, Atari 2600, Atari 800 with basic... Compute magazine where games weren't included on media, it was 5 pages of code you had to type in to play the game ...
I keep telling young people the reason you have these awesome titles today is because of my generation playing fucking pac man.
I love hearing about the development of the old arcade games. It was truly the wild west. Uncharted territory.
I grew up playing a lot of them on my dad's Atari 2600, early DOS ports, and whatever arcade cabinets were still around through the 90s.