[quote="Johnny MacI had a Sinclaire ZX81 once. A gun would look like this, >, which would fire bullets like this . and a lazer gun could fire things like this, - and an alien would look like this, A. Cool graphics huh! You had to load the games via a tape player and it would take forever but well worth it with it's advanced graphics![/quote]
I had a C64 also with DataTape, the sound that stuff made I heard again when I used my first modem (the phone physically plugged on a device that listened and made noises and was connected to a computer).
I killed many joysticks doing decathlon and summer games, where it was key to hit buttons or wobble sticks as quickly as possible. There were even some guys using the first cheats: electric tooth brushes on the joystick button to get better high scores.
