Why were we so excited?
Well aside from the fact that it was so cool to have your own
computer before most people had even heard of them, you could play
GAMES on them. In fact, as far as we were concerned, there was no
other point to them.
DAWN
PATROL This game was the computer equivalent of Battleships. You had
to guess where mines had been planted on a grid then move a
rudimentary ship-shape around trying to avoid getting blown up. A
crude tennis-style game called PONG was also available, but didn’t
grab me because I’d already played the TV version. HANGMAN was fun
for a while, but not much different from playing it with pencil and
paper. None of these were game-changers, but bear in mind that both
the graphics and the strategic opportunities were minimal at this
stage. The novelty value was restricted to manipulating a few dots
and dashes on a screen, or typing in gobbledegook and seeing it
magically produce some new dots and dashes.
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