mutuum8 on Nostr: When I was a kid living near Seattle, I would go to the local arcade and burn my ...

When I was a kid living near Seattle, I would go to the local arcade and burn my quarters on the kiosks of the day. I finally figured that I better learn how to master one in order to maximize my play-time. My game of choice was Joust. With just a left-right joystick and a flap button, the controls couldn't be simpler. All you needed was to memorize exactly how all your opponents moved. At my prime, I could play for hours on a single quarter. I would literally "wrap" the machine through all it's levels such that it would start over. It was pure and simple domination. I never was able to do that with another game. Years later I would play PC games late into the eve. I make it to the final level of Doom but at the price of nearly falling asleep at my job. I finally got a project programming a game on a now long forgotten console called the 3DO. I spent sooo much time programming that game that it totally burned me out on the idea of ever playing a computer game again. Never picked up a game again seriously, but I remain fond of Joust where it all really began.