Well now. That took me back. I started my computer days running TRSDOS in the early 80's and did not get into MS-DOS 3.0 until I went to collage in the late 80's. That was back in the day when my TRS-80 Model IV had a mind staggering 128Kb of memory, no hard drive and two 360K floppy disk drives for $2500CDN in 1984! I had to buy a graphics board for $150 just to get 640x480 graphics capability on my green mono-screen.
I learned how to use visicalc, the first spreadsheet, Scriptsit for word processing and Disk Basic for programming the darn thing. I wrote my own space invaders game, which may seem trivial now, but was way cool back then!
I also had a maze program and attempted to program a three dimensional engine to move through the maze. Too bad I gave up on that little project. I could have done well as the idea was years ahead of any of the three dimensional games that came out later on.
We have come a long way and I marvel at the progress over the last 40 years!
Yes, my very first video game was pong!
Which I played on our black and white TV which looked something like this:
Nice post! Thank you for taking me back through memory lane!
Awesome man, old school. Pong you say? My first gaming was on the legendary Atari 2600 and my friend's ZX Spectrum. I miss those chiptunes.
lol. Those were the days. Simplicity and we still had fun! Most people would be bored to tears playing them now. hahaha