Tag: gaming

  • Space/Invaders Part II

    Space/Invaders Part II

    I’ve had my share of obsessions in the 50-some odd years I’ve been around, only a couple of which were actually damaging. One of the more benign was my obsession with video games, in particular the 10 months or so when I couldn’t go to bed unless I played through certain scenes of Star Wars…

  • Space/Invaders

    Space/Invaders

    I was a 70s/80s kid. And while I’ve written about my gaming obsessions before, along with my space/alien obsession, I’m not sure that I’ve really gotten into Space Invaders a whole lot. I loved that game. Played it until my eyeballs would practically dry up from not blinking for 45 minutes straight. We played it…

  • Meet the Commodore 64/128

    Meet the Commodore 64/128

    Oh, she was a beast. My first computer, along with the printer, the disk drive (which took my all-time favorite, floppy disks), and all the rest of the stuff, was huge by today’s standards. A lot of it was the monitor. But I had a lot of fun on that computer. We had a game…