Pure, Grade-A Nostalgia

It’s mildly alarming to contemplate how many years ago Ultimate Play The Game were ruling the ZX Spectrum gaming world. Jetpac, Knight Lore, Lunar Jetman: classics, every one.

That said, I’d completely forgotten about Atic Atac introducing the Chicken-o-meter to the world of gaming:

It’s entirely possible to look at many of these videos and be amazed at how crude the graphics were, at how limited the gameplay was by modern standards. But consider that just a few years after the first generation of dedicated video consoles it was in the early/mid 1980s there were millions of households using cheap, mass market personal computers to play these games. If you were the right age in the early 1980s, these things were just plain miraculous!

[Via Flowing Data]

Tank!

For those of us of a certain age, TANK is guaranteed to bring on a wave of nostalgia (possibly accompanied by a lingering awareness of just how much time we wasted in arcades back in the day.)

I’m getting a definite Tron vibe watching that.[note]Yes, you young whippersnapper: that’s a GOOD thing![/note]

[Via Daring Fireball]