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LotsO
Nope not Woz or Romero... But I met Woz once back in 82, does that count?
You met Woz... cool... and back in '82... VERY cool! :notworthy Cool in a
Devo/
Talking Heads kind of way, but I love it!
You wanna hear something funny - and ultra-esoteric - there was a club that met once a month (hometown in Winnipeg, Canada), a club devoted 100% to the "
Adam Computer", that just recently closed (maybe 2-3 years back). That computer goes back to something like 25-years, and you want to talk about a loyal following, they're it.
I was thinking of the
Commodore 64 (and the
Amiga) as being one the earliest of computers that might as well have been made with the video-game market in mind, everything else secondary. Friends who had
Apples or IBMs maybe had a few games (like
Dig Dug or
Pit Fall), but the friends with
Commodores had a whole case or 2 stacked with floppies just for games (and pretty good ones at that for the time).
My uncle is about 70 years old now, and he has been a computer programmer since the earliest days. At Christmas parties, I used to ask him how much he'd pay for an
Amiga, and he'd hesitate for a few seconds, and say $20 bucks, that's it... nothing more.
I'd ask what he had against the Amiga, and while he did admit that the video toaster was the
shit at that time, he was a devoted
IBMer. I didn't agree with him then, and I still don't now. The
Amiga always had the best graphics, until maybe the
Sega Genesis came along, but most surely it wasn't king by the time the
Neo Geo video game console was released (with a completely unaffordable price tag). Then again, he wasn't into games either, so I should cut the guy a break on this one.
Steed
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