Atari 2600
Every winter, sometime after the holidays, when it’s too cold outside my dad will haul out the Atari 2600 console in an effort to counter “cabin fever”. While visiting one recent day I noticed the game on the coffee table. I plugged in Asteroids and away I went to a “Retro Galaxy”!!
Well, it took a little time to get the hang of it again, but I was soon blasting my way through crudely drawn space boulders, staring eye to eye with murderous martians, and stockpiling extra “lives”. A fun, quick little space blast from the past! Frogger, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, etc.
I’ve played (briefly) a couple of newer games that the younger generation are playing now, and I did enjoy the complexity and realism of the games. But while playing an Air - Sea battle of the old Atari game Combat, today, it struck me how I was still able to get into it considering the simplicity of it. Was it just nostalgia, or was my imagination kicking in, or was it my competitiveness? Or maybe all of the above.