I’ll let you in on a little-known fact about me.
I was a good Tetris player. No, I was actually a VERY GOOD Tetris player. I played that game through Windows 95, Windows 98, and eventually, Windows XP. I racked up scores in the hundreds of thousands. Sadly, the original Tetris is one of those games now classified as abandonware (software no longer sold or supported by its creator).
At the office, my colleagues and I spent our breaks and free time playing these games. Those were the days when a PC’s RAM was only 256KB to 512KB so most of our games were stored in floppy diskettes that you had to feed into a diskette drive to upload. Our monitors were cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors, the music was electronically produced, and while the games had color, the variety of colors reminded me of Crayola crayons in 8 colors. By today’s standards of orchestra-level music, 3D animation, and millions of colors, it was pretty boring.
There were a few more games from the 1980s that I remember playing — Pinball, Lemmings (those cute little creatures that you have to lead to exits in every round), and the all-time classic, Solitaire.
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