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I'm in my early 30's, so was lucky enough to be in my teens when the gaming revolution broke. I remember ordering Spectrum games on tape cassette through the post, and they'd arrive 2 weeks later in a brown padded Jiffy bag, and then I'd sit there for 10 minutes waiting for it to load, then another 10 minutes waiting for it to load again because the volume on the recorder wasn't set right. Those were the days. Today, I can order games through the post, or in the shops, they arrive in 2-3 days, I can even order one and type this at the same time, and even play another game simultaeneously in another window on my desktop.
In the space of 20 years we have progressed from beeps and white noise to 10 second downloads and online gaming, where you can play against AI or human opponents anywhere in the world at the touch of the button. Consoles are well designed, with more computing power in just one of their chipsets than was used to put men on the moon. In another 20 years we can expect CRAY-XMP Supercomputer power from a box no bigger than the ZX81 used to be, and I expect consoles will have been done away with altogether, with games coming complete with their own individual consoles, perhaps a screen of some advanced technology inserted into the disc's packaging. In the future, games will all be WAP based, no wires as we know them, so you can play "online" against people on the move.
To us now this sounds fantastic, but people my age never believed that today's technology could come about when we were younger, and today's generation just take it for granted now. I envy my kids' future, they will have things that I could never dream of, the way technology is advancing at an exponential rate means that anything is possible in the next 20 years. Can you imagine a cloned copy of yourself playing inside an RPG, against other clones? The technology is there for this sort of fantastic possibility becoming a reality within 2 decades. Our future generations will take that kind of thing for granted no doubt.
As for me, in 10 years or so I will be a dedicated retrogamer, reminiscing about the joys of Metal Gear, Lara Croft, Gran Turismo; no doubt my kids will think that dear old dad is just out of touch and carry on with whatever games are all the rage. Roll on the 2020's.
In the space of 20 years we have progressed from beeps and white noise to 10 second downloads and online gaming, where you can play against AI or human opponents anywhere in the world at the touch of the button. Consoles are well designed, with more computing power in just one of their chipsets than was used to put men on the moon. In another 20 years we can expect CRAY-XMP Supercomputer power from a box no bigger than the ZX81 used to be, and I expect consoles will have been done away with altogether, with games coming complete with their own individual consoles, perhaps a screen of some advanced technology inserted into the disc's packaging. In the future, games will all be WAP based, no wires as we know them, so you can play "online" against people on the move.
To us now this sounds fantastic, but people my age never believed that today's technology could come about when we were younger, and today's generation just take it for granted now. I envy my kids' future, they will have things that I could never dream of, the way technology is advancing at an exponential rate means that anything is possible in the next 20 years. Can you imagine a cloned copy of yourself playing inside an RPG, against other clones? The technology is there for this sort of fantastic possibility becoming a reality within 2 decades. Our future generations will take that kind of thing for granted no doubt.
As for me, in 10 years or so I will be a dedicated retrogamer, reminiscing about the joys of Metal Gear, Lara Croft, Gran Turismo; no doubt my kids will think that dear old dad is just out of touch and carry on with whatever games are all the rage. Roll on the 2020's.
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I had a Commodore 64, I loved it. My favourite game was Ghostbusters. While it loaded, you got to play space invaders. It was great.
Grix Thraves - Age 7
Grix Thraves - Age 7
I'm in my early 30's, so was lucky enough to be in my teens when the gaming revolution broke. I remember ordering Spectrum games on tape cassette through the post, and they'd arrive 2 weeks later in a brown padded Jiffy bag, and then I'd sit there for 10 minutes waiting for it to load, then another 10 minutes waiting for it to load again because the volume on the recorder wasn't set right. Those were the days. Today, I can order games through the post, or in the shops, they arrive in 2-3 days, I can even order one and type this at the same time, and even play another game simultaeneously in another window on my desktop.
In the space of 20 years we have progressed from beeps and white noise to 10 second downloads and online gaming, where you can play against AI or human opponents anywhere in the world at the touch of the button. Consoles are well designed, with more computing power in just one of their chipsets than was used to put men on the moon. In another 20 years we can expect CRAY-XMP Supercomputer power from a box no bigger than the ZX81 used to be, and I expect consoles will have been done away with altogether, with games coming complete with their own individual consoles, perhaps a screen of some advanced technology inserted into the disc's packaging. In the future, games will all be WAP based, no wires as we know them, so you can play "online" against people on the move.
To us now this sounds fantastic, but people my age never believed that today's technology could come about when we were younger, and today's generation just take it for granted now. I envy my kids' future, they will have things that I could never dream of, the way technology is advancing at an exponential rate means that anything is possible in the next 20 years. Can you imagine a cloned copy of yourself playing inside an RPG, against other clones? The technology is there for this sort of fantastic possibility becoming a reality within 2 decades. Our future generations will take that kind of thing for granted no doubt.
As for me, in 10 years or so I will be a dedicated retrogamer, reminiscing about the joys of Metal Gear, Lara Croft, Gran Turismo; no doubt my kids will think that dear old dad is just out of touch and carry on with whatever games are all the rage. Roll on the 2020's.
In the space of 20 years we have progressed from beeps and white noise to 10 second downloads and online gaming, where you can play against AI or human opponents anywhere in the world at the touch of the button. Consoles are well designed, with more computing power in just one of their chipsets than was used to put men on the moon. In another 20 years we can expect CRAY-XMP Supercomputer power from a box no bigger than the ZX81 used to be, and I expect consoles will have been done away with altogether, with games coming complete with their own individual consoles, perhaps a screen of some advanced technology inserted into the disc's packaging. In the future, games will all be WAP based, no wires as we know them, so you can play "online" against people on the move.
To us now this sounds fantastic, but people my age never believed that today's technology could come about when we were younger, and today's generation just take it for granted now. I envy my kids' future, they will have things that I could never dream of, the way technology is advancing at an exponential rate means that anything is possible in the next 20 years. Can you imagine a cloned copy of yourself playing inside an RPG, against other clones? The technology is there for this sort of fantastic possibility becoming a reality within 2 decades. Our future generations will take that kind of thing for granted no doubt.
As for me, in 10 years or so I will be a dedicated retrogamer, reminiscing about the joys of Metal Gear, Lara Croft, Gran Turismo; no doubt my kids will think that dear old dad is just out of touch and carry on with whatever games are all the rage. Roll on the 2020's.