> John Lennon wearing a Space Invaders t-shirt on Thanksgiving 1979 in Long Island. A massive hit for Taito in Japan, Midway only started distributing the game in the U.S. a year before in October 1978.
If you want to know what the state of computing was when you were born, visit the computer history museum timeline. For 1968, it was the year of the Apollo guidance computer, Kubrick’s 2001, Dijkstra’s “goto considered harmful” and “the mother of all demo’s”. Not bad.
I've been looking at nostalgic videos of Amstrad CPC and Amiga 500 stuff from when I was a kid. Indeed. "Wasn't even born"... generally stuff after 1985 is what I remember. TMI for my old(ish) soul :)
The Commodore/Amiga meetings at my local mall every Sunday afternoon in the 80s are the most entertaining and instructive time I can remember from my youth. Quite literally changed my life looking back on them!
“please forgive me, this game came out before I was born”.
Wow, the only games I can think of that apply to me and maybe some of you are what, Pong and Space Invaders?
Thanks for making us feel old !