nostalgia One of the humourous ZUG articles about Oregon Trail brought back memories ... of me playing B/W games on the macs they had in the school computer labs (PC? What's a PC?).

That thought led to the following exchange:

kofman23: remember oregon trail in junior high
kofman23: that game was the shit
skuotor: haha. and carmen sandiego
skuotor: if you shot a buffalo you were set
kofman23: mmmm buffalo
kofman23: wings

Back then software makers had it made - put windows on 30 floppy disks and who had the patience to make copies of it (me). Microsoft Word was also cool, with the "compose e-mail" button that no one made use of (What's e-mail?). Connecting to the internet through AOL was crazy shit back in the day. Back then the instant messaging client didn't let you know which of your friends was online, you had to manually check yourself. Top-tier!

When 4 MB of RAM cost $200 (ok so that really sucked). Old old school pc games like Day of the Tentacle, X-wing vs Tie Fighter, Lemonade on my friend's BBS. I still remember the first time my friends and I hooked up 4 computers to play DOOM ... "OH MY FUCKING GOD look at the RED marine!!! and the (other color which I have forgotten) marine!!! And even older school like Wolfenstein, Apple IIe ghostbusters, KARATEKA which I played on my cousin's PC when I wasn't annoying him.

*sigh* the good ol' days.  ¶ 8:35 PM