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I had a TRS-80 but might have had the atari-2600 before that (Can't remember which came first). Had an activision game system as well...that might have been before the atari (think that was the one with pong on it?).

Hard to remember honestly. Early games I remember are things like combat/pitfall/metroidvania etc, for the Atari. On computers the earliest game I really remember at this point is Wizardry Proving grounds of the mad overlord...which was amazing at the time.

There really isn't anything like that for people anymore, it was a whole new genre, a new world, the first RPG really, no internet, no real instructions, you had to figure out what the spells did yourself, and it was huge (and a blast).

Now everything has been around forever, you are pretty much given all the information when playing a game, and even if your not, there is the internet to look things up etc. A game like Wizardry would probably bore most people today, or they would go to a wiki and read everything about it and not need to play it even, or just zoom through it.

It's actually kind of sad....it was so magical back then, everything was so new.
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