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SnipSnapped from https://www.theguardian.com/games/20...omputer-gamers
“What was the first game you ever played at home Dad?”
“Horace Goes Skiing.”
“Who goes skiing?”
“Horace. Hungry Horace to give him his full name.”
“Who was he?”
“He was an asymmetrical blue blob, with legs but no arms. Google him.”
“Jeez, Dad. That is the saddest looking video game character I have ever seen.”
“Back then we made do with what we had, son. Times were tough, but we muddled through.”
“What console was this? The original Nintendo?”
“No son. It was the ZX Spectrum.”
“Cool name for a console.”
“It wasn’t a console. It was a computer.”
“You had a computer as a kid? You told me you were poor.”
“We were. The ZX Spectrum was the first affordable home computer.”
“So, you surfed the internet with it?”
“No. We didn’t have the internet.”
“So, you could do spreadsheets and Word documents.”
“Didn’t have those either.”
“But you could type your schoolwork?”
Technically.”
“And print it out.”
“Sort of. But it printed stuff on to a tiny strip of shiny toilet roll.”
“Oh! Like that cool thing from my Twitter feed today! That looked amazing!”
I sigh. “Yes, son. Just like that.”
“Could you turn them into stickers?”
“No.”
“Sounds rubbish.”
“Horace Goes Skiing.”
“Who goes skiing?”
“Horace. Hungry Horace to give him his full name.”
“Who was he?”
“He was an asymmetrical blue blob, with legs but no arms. Google him.”
“Jeez, Dad. That is the saddest looking video game character I have ever seen.”
“Back then we made do with what we had, son. Times were tough, but we muddled through.”
“What console was this? The original Nintendo?”
“No son. It was the ZX Spectrum.”
“Cool name for a console.”
“It wasn’t a console. It was a computer.”
“You had a computer as a kid? You told me you were poor.”
“We were. The ZX Spectrum was the first affordable home computer.”
“So, you surfed the internet with it?”
“No. We didn’t have the internet.”
“So, you could do spreadsheets and Word documents.”
“Didn’t have those either.”
“But you could type your schoolwork?”
Technically.”
“And print it out.”
“Sort of. But it printed stuff on to a tiny strip of shiny toilet roll.”
“Oh! Like that cool thing from my Twitter feed today! That looked amazing!”
I sigh. “Yes, son. Just like that.”
“Could you turn them into stickers?”
“No.”
“Sounds rubbish.”
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