remember this people this gen people!, this gen is where our nerdy little backbedroom hobby becomes mainstream! and when people say yeah i was into gaming before it was cool! we can really say that ! although no one will believe us...

but its also a new generation of young experincing gaming for the first time, and although we can talk about uor retro heydays with pride how we remember using that BBC to play Chucky Egg, or trading on the amiga with a bit of ELITE, we talk of our cartoon heros being Transformers, Thunder Cats and Mystrious Cities of Gold, how we remember Skips and Tizer for 20p with change, these kids will grow up and say "yeah i remember running home to watch Ben 10, then jump on my Wii and have some sessions of WiiFit and Big Brain, and finsih off the night with Creme Egg Bar and a Red Bull sigh it only cost me £1.80"

Ifeel for them i really do, neevr will they know the sinple joy of listening to spectrum load.


awaits Tims reply about how he quite possibly remembers Prof Hucks Root Candy and Ginger Beer for 3/5 bitts while listening to the adventures of Bucaneer Jake on the old wireless while reading about the A.S. Douglas Tic-Tac-Toe and how the EDSAC vaccuum-tube computer wopuld allow us to one day around 1987 be living on the moon (ducks)

Oi! I remember Tizer and Blackjacks while listening to Journey into Space on the old wireless (or watching Bleep and Booster on the black and white Redifusion telly). I was late to 'puters so was only read about Colossal Cave Adventure. As for silliness about living on the moon, that was never in my scope of belief. I am firmly in the flying cars school of practical science for gods' sakes!

I'd prefer it if governments kept their noses out of videogames. Let freemarket economics decide who wins and loses.

Oh and damn Chucky egg was a good game

I have a soft spot for Monty Mole.

I am very old.

Cheers

Tim