I know the worship of old machines is really very sad, and most definitely misplaced because of the over glamourisation of my hazey memory.
However, my first computer did seem to be a mysterious alien device, and because of this cool. I still remember the first time I got a program to "load" on my Commodore 64 (an Xmas present), it felt like such an achievement. I felt like I had bonded with a creature though a new foreign tongue I had learned.
Once I met a member a Zapp64 journalist. I genuinelly felt like I had met a true a-list celebrity.
I remember when magazine's printed code? Not just hardcore publications either, even comics where getting in on the action - 2000AD used to include small programs for it's readers to try out on their home computers. It seems I wasn't the only one getting the computer bug (no pun intended), the world was hooked!
Maybe we take home computers for granted nowadays? Maybe we don't care enough about them and therefore fewer happier memories develop? Maybe retro worship is merely an acknowledgement how these fantastic machines could, and have, changed our lives?
Or prehaps just a meeting of a select obsessive few, who may or may not be overweight and may or may not have hygiene issues.
Who knows? One thing is certain though, light guns always have been shit.
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Date: 2005-08-18 01:32 am (UTC)However, my first computer did seem to be a mysterious alien device, and because of this cool. I still remember the first time I got a program to "load" on my Commodore 64 (an Xmas present), it felt like such an achievement. I felt like I had bonded with a creature though a new foreign tongue I had learned.
Once I met a member a Zapp64 journalist. I genuinelly felt like I had met a
true a-list celebrity.
I remember when magazine's printed code? Not just hardcore publications either, even comics where getting in on the action - 2000AD used to include small programs for it's readers to try out on their home computers. It seems I wasn't the only one getting the computer bug (no pun intended), the world was hooked!
Maybe we take home computers for granted nowadays? Maybe we don't care enough about them and therefore fewer happier memories develop? Maybe retro worship is merely an acknowledgement how these fantastic machines could, and have, changed our lives?
Or prehaps just a meeting of a select obsessive few, who may or may not be overweight and may or may not have hygiene issues.
Who knows? One thing is certain though, light guns always have been shit.
PS Rob Hubbard rules.