Hello. Thought about starting an off-topic on "gaming" in a larger sense in different cultures and decades (historical). Would love to learn more about it from different places in the world.
So might as well start off with me, since I am not a gamer really and can only talk of personal experience.
Probably an oldie already by now, my first game ever was playing that Atari ping_pong game (bar at the bottom reflecting a moving dot) at a friends house. Had to wait for the Commodore64 under the Christmas tree to play the likes of Pacman, Frogger, Scrambles, Summer Games (with surfing!!!) using casettes & then floppy disks before the usb_like_blocks came out.
Moving to Hong Kong in the 80's it was Arcade World and what really impressed me as a zitty kid was the number of adults (in Europe\German culture videogames was pretty much kids only to my awareness) in the arcades spending their whole lunchbreak thrashing away at space invaders while barely gulping down some instant noodles or a sandwich.
Back in europe in the 90's played a bit of RPG but mainly had other interests.
Only the Covid Lockdown brought me back to... ,..well Eternium only really - guess it reminded me the most of those old school games and no necessity to spend any real money. Started with my son and daughter, but both abondened me for Mobile Legends, which is absolutely humungous here in Bali (Indonesia in general ?)
Here in Bali the digital age for the masses pretty much only started about 10 to 15 years ago with the advent of the smartphone. Noone here has computers or laptops or even tablets unless they need them for work or studies (starting to change slowly) but mobile gaming is huge with the kids. One of the reasons surely that it is a cheap hobby but big fun potential. Village people from my generation in general do not have "hobbies" (interests yes o.c.) and the concept of a "weekend" or doing something fun on a Sunday is still a pretty new concept.
Well enough babbling from me.
What is\was the gaming situation in the U.S. \ Korea \China (H.K. was still a British Colony back then) \ Australia \ etc. ??
?
So might as well start off with me, since I am not a gamer really and can only talk of personal experience.
Probably an oldie already by now, my first game ever was playing that Atari ping_pong game (bar at the bottom reflecting a moving dot) at a friends house. Had to wait for the Commodore64 under the Christmas tree to play the likes of Pacman, Frogger, Scrambles, Summer Games (with surfing!!!) using casettes & then floppy disks before the usb_like_blocks came out.
Moving to Hong Kong in the 80's it was Arcade World and what really impressed me as a zitty kid was the number of adults (in Europe\German culture videogames was pretty much kids only to my awareness) in the arcades spending their whole lunchbreak thrashing away at space invaders while barely gulping down some instant noodles or a sandwich.
Back in europe in the 90's played a bit of RPG but mainly had other interests.
Only the Covid Lockdown brought me back to... ,..well Eternium only really - guess it reminded me the most of those old school games and no necessity to spend any real money. Started with my son and daughter, but both abondened me for Mobile Legends, which is absolutely humungous here in Bali (Indonesia in general ?)
Here in Bali the digital age for the masses pretty much only started about 10 to 15 years ago with the advent of the smartphone. Noone here has computers or laptops or even tablets unless they need them for work or studies (starting to change slowly) but mobile gaming is huge with the kids. One of the reasons surely that it is a cheap hobby but big fun potential. Village people from my generation in general do not have "hobbies" (interests yes o.c.) and the concept of a "weekend" or doing something fun on a Sunday is still a pretty new concept.
Well enough babbling from me.
What is\was the gaming situation in the U.S. \ Korea \China (H.K. was still a British Colony back then) \ Australia \ etc. ??
?
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