cschloss@mb.sympatico.ca wrote:

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:57:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: cschloss@mb.sympatico.ca
To: lady macbeth
Subject: RE: For all the people I know who actually played video games
before 1985!

Actually, I was 11. I jogged my memory a little and this is what I remember
about 1985...

- I just finished grade 5, and got better marks than Shawn that year. I
rejoiced greatly. It never happened again.

- When I grew up, I wanted to be a truck driver.

- My grandparents came to visit. It was the first time my grandpa had ever
been in an airplane. Much to his surprise, the plane didn't erupt in a
firey ball, as he had feared. No wings broke off and he didn't fall out
either.

- I would eagerly await the next issue of Compute! magazine and spend hours
coding the latest and greatest games into my Vic-20. Pacman was old and
boring. The hottest new game was Gorf. I managed to get the rank of "Space
General".

- My favorite band was Alabama. I knew all the words to most of their
songs.

- I saw my first dirty magazine. My friend Dennis swiped it from his older
brother. There were about 10 of us in the principal's office that day.

- I just learned to weld and how to drive a standard. I started building a
go-kart. It never got finished.

- I had already been playing D&D for 2 years.

- My friend Brad's cousin Jeff was hauled off to jail for robbing the ice
cream shop. Jeff wrote Brad funny letters about prison life.

- The coolest guy I knew was Andy, our farmhand. He had a puffy mullet,
wore shirts with no sleeves and drove a beat-up yellow Camaro with bondo
all over it. He had just replaced Bob the farmand who skipped town and had
amazed me with his skills of crushing beer cans against his head. Bob
didn't have a car, and my mom had to pick him up every day.

- I nagged my parents to take me to the Mid-Canada Boat Show, since Mr. T
was there!


Yipes!