Ok, I'm not *that* old.... but put it this way, I was around when Pong was "it".
Arcade games cost 20c a go. Then along came the Atari 2600... free, unlimited games of Space Invaders, Packman, Asteroids, right on your TV!!! Course, they weren't as good as the arcade games, but hey it was free.
During the 80's my dad bought me a Vic-20 computer. I remember thinking clearly as if it was yesterday: "OMG!!! What did I do before home computers came out??? Man I pity the saps who had to go through life before home computers, they must have been soooooo bored!" :crazy:
Fast forward twenty years. Now the tune is: "OMG!!! What did I do before Freelancer came out??? Man I pity the saps.... blah blah"
So to answer my own question, what did I do before FL? Well, I played alot of Doom, Age of Empires, Theme <whatever>, <whatever> Tycoon, and Myst <whatever>.
But none of that matters now :yahoo:
Anyway thanks for indulging my nostalgic stream-of-consiousness blather.