In a bar in Montreal, I recall playing my first arcade game. I was underage, intoxicated, in digital delirium in 1981, and the original Pacman was an arcade game. It was the best thing that I’d ever seen. Even before the first arcades and arcade games existed, I’d always had a thing for games. And prior to home Console video games. I used to subscribe to magazines for games that never, ever mentioned the word machine. This was a completely new and sumptuously fascinating thing. Checkout original site for more info. Long after a lot of beer swelling in the nearby bar, countless hours of my well-wasted childhood had been spent in arcades. Since then, arcade games and computer games have come a long way, but there’s nothing like your first time out there.

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My family bought their first home PC shortly after my lascivious experience with arcades and the hypnotising arcade game jewels concealed inside. A Trs-80 radio shack. More generally referred to as a trash-80. It was here that I got to learn the cunningly devious backgammon game. Not sure I would ever have mastered the game without a computer being introduced to it. It’s not the kind of game that a veteran of the arcade game wars would relate to. Something that belonged more to a retirement home’s smoky backrooms. My views have already been expanded by computers, arcades, and arcade games.

The Commodore 64 is next on my list of technical wonders, you scallywags. Now, there was an arcade game killer here, if I looked at each one. Arcades are few and far between now, and one of the reasons for that is the Commodore. Why waste hours in an arcade, watching a console suck and swallow in my pocket every last quarter? When I can sit in the less comfortable decadence of my basement playing the jumpman ‘s likes and setting high scores in arcade game style for my baby brother to try and beat desperately. Not as if he could be humbled in front of the crowds in the arcades, but this gem of the arcade game will serve my purposes no less.