As per usual, communication difficulties and sense of humour mistranslations / failures have resulted in a Cold War situation.
And because you failed to understand this.
You wont understand some of us were playing Saboteur (1985) as shown or even this the year before:
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This is why people have such difficulties with you Serica, even when a fairly obvious hand of friendship was tentatively offered despite all your past endevours, you blasted it with Ice Crystals.
Stay out my friendly threads or just delete em eh?
Your aggressive tone is uncalled for.
While you may have been playing Saboteur with your friends then, others (including me) were not.
Are you suggesting that members can only post here if they were playing the same games then as you were?
And if they suggest they were playing other things, they should be abused for mentioning them?
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We were all at different stages of our lives in 1985, as now.
And while technology might be ubiquitous now with internet shopping and global shipping, we didn't all have the same access to technology then.
It might be hard for some younger members to really grasp just how limited it could be back then, and how much we just take for granted now.
In 1985, I had a
TRS-80 (16k of memory and a cassette drive - those were the days!). Games were sold as cartridges, but the local availability was really limited.
My brothers (then in their early teens) were probably involved in a school-based 'computer club' and so able to swap games with friends, but I was well out of that sort of community by then.
And I was living in a small town on
an island.
Just to show how much had changed in the few years before 1985: when I finished highschool just 5years earlier, there was
one computer on the Gold Coast - a mainframe owned by the City Council and used for producing the rates notices.
I don't recall there ever being anything like a 'computer club' at school then.
I was one of the couple from my school chosen that year (the local schools all sent a couple of students) to attend a week-long series of on-campus Uni outreach-type lectures on 'programming'.
It was all using
mark sense cards.
While I upgraded computers more than once, it was still quite a few years after 1985 before I bought a modem (9600 bps!) - or had any use for one, because until Compuserve Pacific launched its first server in Melbourne (in 1994 iirc), there were no public ISPs in Australia.
There was AARnet which could be accessed by university staff, but nothing for the public until Compuserve started up here.
For the first year or so, every connection (for me) involved an interstate phonecall to connect to their server; the phone bills that year were enormous!
Fortunately they opened the door for a plethora of other, more local, services.
So much has changed since 1985.
Now we think nothing of churning through games - they can be free, they're online, available 24/7.
There's tutorials and walkthroughs, Facebook groups, and watching other people's streams and vid clips to get tips on how to play.
Back then there was none of that - not for me anyway.
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