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I literally have no memory of this game anymore. T_T I don't know why I left the exclamation points off my titles. I think that my sort of amused mocking of them broke down into annoyance at the fact they weren't entirely consistent with it. (Computer Intro, for instance.) (Yes, I should forgive them for not being consistent, since consistency isn't exactly a hallmark of my own personal behavior.)

hahah yes! In 2007 I graduated (slightly before turning 40) I started with getting a gig as an accounting clerk for about a year and then in 2008 moved to a big corporation that makes these cool phones with touch-screens on them that turned out to do pretty well...

I'm glad you got to see the helicopter! I'm sorry my link was borked. and yeah, I probably never picked Computer Intro again though I likely still have the book around.

LOL you're absolutely right on the "planets" vs. "moons" call-out. I don't know if I can blame a manual for that mistake either. I certainly knew the difference at the time. xD Oh, I bet I totally bailed on the idea of the Computer Intro thing. From the start of this entry I can tell that I was already procrastinating creating new entries because of the long process for taking screenshots. (I think I had a digital camera and I was overwhelmed by the process of taking the pictures, moving them to the computer, deciding what to crop and use... it was just too much for me while I was going to University at night. If I didn't "get lazy" and simply things, the project would have stopped altogether, which, eventually it did.)

Thank you! Fixed! ^ ^ I don't disagree, it would have been nice. I did like this two player, even if implemented oddly. I don't actually remember playing this with my son. It makes entries like these priceless to me, personally, though.

Yeah, it's an extremely strong memory and I honestly cannot see a black and white TV without thinking about the memory of the black and white TV I had in my room and that night seeing the news of the murder of John Lennon. I don't remember anything else about having it. They really ran with that exclamation point, didn't they? I never did anything interesting with Computer Intro(!). In fact, I'd have to say that most of my adult life was spent coming up with ideas and not having the ability to concentrate hard enough to follow-through on them. I recently was diagnosed with ADHD which explains a hell of a lot about my lack of ability to follow through on anything my entire life. If I'd been diagnosed, say, in my teens or 20s, I may have lived a very different life. (Not saying a better one, just a different one.) Just being aware that this is a "thing" for me now makes it easier to "snap out of it" and pay more attention to what I'm doing vs. what I had intended to be doing. We're still working on figuring out a good dosage for me, but now that I'm aware of it, I get to hate myself a lot less.

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Flack!!!! Reading this again reminds me how much I always liked how you write. I hope you're doing well. (I haven't gotten to the point of my return where I actually start looking people up yet. Mostly because I don't expect that many will remember me. Regardless, it's great to see "you" here even from 15 years ago.)

Dang. I don't have the strength to fix all those links again. I will remove them and not call them links. Thank you for checking. Fixed!!! (only took 8+ years)

Nelio, you were my long-suffering friend/reader from the future and now you're my long-suffering friend/reader from the past. I do apologize from the bottom of my heart that I was and may yet still be such an inconsistent person at this.

Damnit, i did it again, Nelio posted something in 2012 and I accidentally deleted it. grrrr. He was saying that in 2012 he went to look for my blog over on DP but to no avail. This is why I should sleep more, else I start deleting bits of history. Sorry, Nelio!

xD I haven't seen that correction yet. I've been reformatting entries but not really re-reading them. I guess I'll do that after I've finished reformatting. I actually wrote a little correction in the entry a couple nights ago that my memory seems to think I must have plagiarized from somewhere else but I have no idea where I could have read another explanation of this game. (ooooh, now I see the correction! herp derp)

It is super cool of you to have provided these instructions for Nelio and others that came after. Thank you, Sir Lance!

Sadly, I have no idea where any of this stuff has gone. The intervening years were a rough patch. I still have my physical things, but I'm unsure about where any of my digital things are. Even if I had the foresight to back this stuff up, they're probably burned into a CD-ROM that I might not even be able to read anymore. (I have one CD drive in the house. A superdrive that works with a MacBook Pro from 2015 or so.)

The whole blog is absolutely riddled with linkrot, I'm so so sorry to say.

I had remembered they were different, but I hadn't remembered enough about their differences to write about them. I just now made an edit to the entry, though I can't remember if what I just wrote was something I read elsewhere in the intervening years or if it was something I'd figured out on my own. My brain bugs me sometimes.

Oh, I think I was making reference to the idea that I only saw "ZZZs" as something people do when they're asleep, but it was pointed out to mean "snoring" which can happen if someone is asleep or knocked unconscious (different from sleep in a few ways, but I'm no doctor.)

I'm sure I've mentioned this in other Bowling videogame experiences, but after thinking about it some, I realized that Bowling was one of the very few Real Life experiences I could claim that have been translated into videogames. (Skiing is another. Driving should count, too.)

I wish someone had asked someone who might have known. I had remembered playing Checkers on the Channel F but I'd forgotten I'd used the MESS for it. (MESS doesn't exist in 2021 anymore, it's merged or something with MAME or another emulator designed to play a bunch of different emulators. I'm SOOO lost now with emulation and I used to be able to feel my way around before.) I'm really happy I found this entry for Checkers. While playing through 1980 there have already been three checkers games. I'm glad I don't need to do this one after all.

OH WOW! And PAC-MAN! Dang, I have missed out on the comings and goings of Channel F. I did get to play Tetris on the emulator though, that was a real treat. Thank you for that link! I did figure it would take longer at higher levels. I'll babelfish the instructions. (Well, I don't think babelfish is still around (though that was an awesome name for it) but google translate is going strong.) I really do like the light!

oh dude! I envy your journey. I do hope it has continued (Playing computer games, i mean, not the whole "talking alone" bit, which I'm kind of doing now, too.) And yeah, the thing about looking into the past, it's so easy to get nostalgic, morose and melancholic, at least it always has been for me. (even when I was a kid, which, I mean, c'mon, as a kid it wasn't like I had a whole bunch of years about which to feel melancholy, but I managed to do it then, too.)

Here in 2021, I've encountered something I never expected that would have made the handheld games better to play sooner rather than later: Eyesight! Playing handhelds is a bit of a chore now. I can take off my glasses and hold things close to my face, but it's just not as pleasant as sitting at a desk or on a couch in the living room. I'm in my early 50s now and was in my late 30s when writing these entries originally. I just had no idea that it would become a hassle to play something on a tiny screen some day. (This eye sight kicked when I was about 45. I can play on handhelds with my glasses off, but if I'm wearing my contacts forget about it.)

I think you do mention it in another comment as the "old computers" site. I think you also mentioned how oddly formatted some of my entries had become. (Which I hope I've fixed for good now, but who knows.)

Here in 2021, I have an Apple II-GS that I probably got not too long before you came long and started commenting. I think I booted it up once or twice and was happy to discover it working. Apparently the thing has a board in it that's an entire working Apple II. I really love the computers from back then and I suppose I'll get around to exploring those, someday, too.