oh well addicted to...many, but the biggest thing WAS FRONTIERof course i had some fav. coinops like "Phoenix" or "Mooncresta" and like Geraldine i spent every nickel in these "one armed bandits".until i thought, "this can't go on no longer, i need a console, if i save up just a little of what i spent in those coinops i can buy one".so i bought a "Intellivision", it was already late for this system (but back then everything was "late" in switzerland, inty was presented to us in europe when it was already going down on the us market.but, i prefered the many sports games that was available and the available extensions for it, like the keyboard, the ECS memory expansion, and a possibility for a then revolutionary speak module. (later i reckon it was the most advanced cpu they used at this time a CPC1600, there exists still a developing platform for it, crazy no? programs was written in plain assembly language, that's why some still work with that, to get teached)if it wouldn't have cancelled by Mattel, the devs was working on a "supermachine" using the brand new M68000, we found it later in the SEGA master system. guess why... many of the "riders of the blu sky" foundet and moved to SEGA. (not to forget the amiga, but later on more)many words, short sense.i was completely addicted to this Console, i played day and night, single, with my friends and even with my parents, Golf is suitable even for "Daddys".some favorites (it would have been more now since all is available on the web, but back then the selection of games was very low here in switzerland, prices was extremely high and this was going on in this way even with the "miggy", until the rotten PC changed it all in '95/'98. so i was lucky to find SimCity or Railroad Tycoon in the Game shop we had, his personal flavor was different and was reflected in his selection).- PGA Golf, still i like it and remade the course for TWPGA2000, it's the first proper golfing game i know- Star Strike, stupid but was always good to have a break...- Astrosmash, which is also a very simple Asteroid like game. what i didn't knew then, is that Asteroids was on the cartridge to, but banned because ofcopyright, so it was only reachable with a complicated keypress (since Mattel never named the devs, they created later many such "Easter Eggs",just not to get forgotten in time, often you can display the names of them with a special keypress to).i guess my record is about 8hours of continous playing a single game, but i never reached the final screen which should appear at a astronomical valueof points.- Vectron, i guess i'm the sole lover of this game and i loved it much, really a different thing to most other games.- Soccer and Tennis, mostly played with my Friends, you couldn't play them single back then (no power left for a AI).- Armor Battle, a tank battle, still a classic and 1000 times remade.oh, and not to forget "Space Battle", this was my "frontier" back then, it used a strategic screen to command your fleets and a battle screenwhen you got engaged to a fight. i was expanding this game much in my fantasy and dreamed of something that came close to Frontier or Elite.some i never owned, but would have always liked to get,- Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, wasn't available here (why?)- Games Factory, a revolutionary idea, even when it was on a very simple level and the games you could have made with it used only one screen/level.- Space Spartans, like Space Battle a (even more) strategic space shooter, with voice! i neither could get the intellivoice here nor the games for it(well guess if Frontier would have used voices instead printed messages, enemies which can also attack you verbal.... not only "Ha, Ha, Ha".i know a 700k floppy is far to small, and it was only possible on the "inty" with a expensive piece of hardware. the restriction of Frontier to one floppy because statistical seen games with more then one floppy sold badly, was a bad decision, i belive they wouldn't have sold one copy less if they put all ideas in it, on which they was working on then. because Frontier is somekind of a niche game, either you loved it or you hated it, but it was the best sold and widest spread niche game!).but well it get's reasonably hard if i should tell the game i was first falling in love with...perhaps "lunar lander" on a C64, i guess that was the first non coin op, i played, but the C64 was very expensive then, SFr 900.- if you compare, you get a very nice Lap-Top now for this amount of money. you could have get both (C64 and ZXspectrum) as a kit for roundabout SFr 300.-.i decided for the console back then, because i was told that a gaming machine offers more power for gaming rather a so called "Home Computer".which is still true, you can use a cpu that is only for gaming and the structure of all peripherals is made only for gaming, without messing it up with a user interface.many C64 games looked very "homemade" compared to the console games.apart from putting a cartridge into a slot takes seconds, reading a tape with a program on it..... let's see if it's finished tomorrow.children like to play, i mean they play around change games often and and and... and most of all children have no (or little) patience.reading a floppy on the "miggy" took far to long for my son
the A500!i bought my first one from a friend who bought himself a brandnew A1200, shortly after i bought a A2000 used, with a vast amount of software."Home Computers" can be very good for gaming, the A500 showed that clearly, and games that used a boot loader, instead of the AmigaOS got a quality then exactly like their big sisters in the Arcade. who's wondering the M68000 lived on in coin ops a long time the A500 was vanished already.i can't imagine a processor with a greater reliability and stability.no or only very few coin ops used a x86 technology, to unstable, to low in performance.the most used is the M68000 or the little older CPC1600everything was fine until...FRONTIER (i can't make this as bold as i like, it needs a 30pica font)i lost my mind, i lost the feel for time...and for the first time i had a real feel of extreme height in a game, when i tried to scoop fuel for the first time, i was sweating everywhere, from the soles of my feet to the tip of my hairs, i swear!i mean loosing a life was like you die for real! unlike other games where you lost lives often and didn't cared much about.but loosing your life in Frontier, means loosing your whole career in Frontier. even when you can load the game always, it's not the same.well this will stay my first "real" love, no other game i spent so many hours with, no other game has put wings on my mind.i played and dreamed of Frontier, i guess i woke up with it and did go to bed with it.Braben the bold (i have read today)but i have read also, that people aged over 30 who still play videogames are WEIRD.and you should read all the crazy comments to this statement, that's FUN.yes they are weird, strange girls and boys.... i have no problem with that, I AM WEIRD!Geeks, to use the proper term
and thanks D1 that we weirdoz have a forum here, i visited some other gaming forums, but SSC is the most neat (that's true) and the community seems to reflect your nice character, BRAVO!mostly i like that it's not overloaded with commercials, they are needed i understand, if you like to earn a little money for the effort you put in.but compared to most it's only little and very discret. if i think of all the banners others have on top, on both sides and bottom area, sometimes it's hard to find a article because of all the advertises :xnow i move to my most disliked, you will see...
but still great games!!
scary!Here's more recent one: (Space Opera DS 
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oh wait a minute it is a boring economic simulation