I was at a friends house the other day playing on his Nintendo wii. Wow, the graphics are amazing....
We have a play station 1, and I thought at the time that came it it was good, but obviously when that developed into play station 2 and 3, and then the X box and all the other consoles everything got better and better.
It got me to thinking about my first computer, the ZX81. A touch pad keyboard, connected to the TV, black and white with no sound. All the games were on cassette, would take half an hour to load and if you so much as sneezed it would loose the connection and you would have to start again.
The graphics, if you could even call them that were made up of letters and numbers and random shapes, and moved slower than anything on Earth, but I loved it.
After a while i went onto a Commodore 64, coloured images with sound and music, amazing in comparrison to the ZX81. It still took an age to load on cassete, but had some fantastic games.
So compared with todays computers it was pretty basic, but on the whole i think as kids growing up in the 80's we appreciated things a little more than the kids of today who have the games consoles, internet, hours and hours of TV on tap over hundreds of channels when we only had 3 (untill chanel 4 came along).
And todays kids moan that there isnt anything for them, to do. Most of themn dont know they are born.
ajnspencer
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Lol, I used to have a Speccy 48k, it was a top machine
Back in the day when you could easily program your own things