I played Atari 2600 at my friend’s house. My parents couldn’t afford one–really just didn’t want to waste money on another toy I wouldn’t play with. Just as well, the arcade games were much better.
We used to play Space Invaders after Karate while we were waiting for various parents to pick us up.
If you got one of the high scores, you used the left/right joystick to scroll through the alphabet and the fire button to select.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that they called it the Java Development Kit because JDK, who held nine of the ten high scores, ended up working for Sun. We never knew who JDK was, but when Michael moved to our school, he wiped the floor with JDK.
Once, he made the high score table say
YOU
ARE
ALL
LZS
but we threatened to put him permanently in defence for lunchtime footy if he didn’t make it say you are all NOT losers. He changed it to
YOU
ARE
NOT
ALL
LZS
which we thought was fair because by his own admission, Colin was a bit of a nerd.
Joke’s on us now, though, because Colin the nerd was a late bloomer, dated an ultra pretty goth girl at university who he’s still married to, (she’s not goth any more) and having weathered the dot com bubble, the credit crunch and the rest and stayed on top, is seriously considering early retirement because he can, and doesn’t like the look of what AI is doing to the tech industry. He still makes fun of himself today and winds up his teenage daughters with how badly he uses trendy phrases he ever hears from them or their friends. Great guy.
I played Atari 2600 at my friend’s house. My parents couldn’t afford one–really just didn’t want to waste money on another toy I wouldn’t play with. Just as well, the arcade games were much better.
We used to play Space Invaders after Karate while we were waiting for various parents to pick us up.
If you got one of the high scores, you used the left/right joystick to scroll through the alphabet and the fire button to select.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that they called it the Java Development Kit because JDK, who held nine of the ten high scores, ended up working for Sun. We never knew who JDK was, but when Michael moved to our school, he wiped the floor with JDK.
Once, he made the high score table say
YOU
ARE
ALL
LZS
but we threatened to put him permanently in defence for lunchtime footy if he didn’t make it say you are all NOT losers. He changed it to
YOU
ARE
NOT
ALL
LZS
which we thought was fair because by his own admission, Colin was a bit of a nerd.
Joke’s on us now, though, because Colin the nerd was a late bloomer, dated an ultra pretty goth girl at university who he’s still married to, (she’s not goth any more) and having weathered the dot com bubble, the credit crunch and the rest and stayed on top, is seriously considering early retirement because he can, and doesn’t like the look of what AI is doing to the tech industry. He still makes fun of himself today and winds up his teenage daughters with how badly he uses trendy phrases he ever hears from them or their friends. Great guy.