Comment I never saw a Grue (Score 1) 539
Being a female born in the 80s who grew up around boys who were more interested in sports and riding bicycles, i was never subjected to a lot of computer games. My foray into computer games came when my father bought home a Tandy computer (around 1987), which ran games off a cassette. One of these games was called Rupert Rythum. I can not remember what this game was about, but from there, we purchased a 286 and i tried my luck at games like solitare and tetris. They kept me occupied for hours.
After giving up on the 286, we were sold on a P500 and windows 95. Here was when i got my first real game. Zork. Now i had to wonder, were all games like this? Why was so much effort required to finish the game. I did not care about lighting lanterns, giant onions or grues. To this day i never did finish the game.I wanted graphics and not a giant paper map i had to have next to me at all times to work out where i was going. After giving up on this i discovered a variety of platform games ranging from Commander Keen (1-6), Duke Nukem, Cosmos Cosmic Adventure (1&2. Were there anymore?). I had a go at Space Quest once, but it didn't hold my interest.
Now i am dating a Software Engineer (yes some of them do have girlfriends), and I am subjected to having many computer geeks (i use the term in a nice way) in my lounge room playing Counterstrike, Need For Speed, and a variety of others until the sun comes up. As for the demise of some computer genres, it means that my lounge room will be free of sweat and spilled coke stains.
After giving up on the 286, we were sold on a P500 and windows 95. Here was when i got my first real game. Zork. Now i had to wonder, were all games like this? Why was so much effort required to finish the game. I did not care about lighting lanterns, giant onions or grues. To this day i never did finish the game.I wanted graphics and not a giant paper map i had to have next to me at all times to work out where i was going. After giving up on this i discovered a variety of platform games ranging from Commander Keen (1-6), Duke Nukem, Cosmos Cosmic Adventure (1&2. Were there anymore?). I had a go at Space Quest once, but it didn't hold my interest.
Now i am dating a Software Engineer (yes some of them do have girlfriends), and I am subjected to having many computer geeks (i use the term in a nice way) in my lounge room playing Counterstrike, Need For Speed, and a variety of others until the sun comes up. As for the demise of some computer genres, it means that my lounge room will be free of sweat and spilled coke stains.
