I spent soooo much time trying to get Space Ace to work on my 386 when I was a kid.
Completely failed. As with the author of the story, it boggles my mind when I see things like that on the iphone for a dollar or what have you.
This is a story about me and a video game. Although I have always been and expect I always will be a nerd, the events of this story take place when I was approximately 8-10 years old, meaning I had not yet worn away the extra layer of turbo-nerd that little boys of that inclination tend to have at that age.
I’m not especially proud of this story, but I post it because I think you will find it amusing, and also because it captures a little bit of the essence of the arcade era which has been somewhat lost to time.
As the video game industry was on the verge of collapse in 1983/84, one of its most spectacular dying gasps was the laserdisc genre, and by far the most simultaneously beloved and despised game of that genre was Dragon’s Lair.
Steve F: Arcade Story
I spent soooo much time trying to get Space Ace to work on my 386 when I was a kid.
Completely failed. As with the author of the story, it boggles my mind when I see things like that on the iphone for a dollar or what have you.