Now couldn’t be a better time than ever to be a classic gamer. One thing I remember most about my first computer, the original Commodore 64, was playing Zork, an all-text adventure game set in a magical, fantasy world. I can still hear the sound of my dot matrix printer screeching away as I kept an ongoing transcript of my latest adventure. In 1992 id Software released Wolfenstein 3D, and a year later their Doom series further defined the FPS in all of its gruesome detail.
And who could forget Dragon’s Lair, the animated adventure from animation genius Don Bluth? I spent many a Saturday at Putt Putt Golf & Games and Aladdin’s Castle going through the moves to slay the dragon, Singe, as the crowd of teens around me cheered me on at every move. Now I can take the games around in my pocket and play whenever I like. Zork © Infocom, Doom © id Software, and Dragon’s Lair © Digital Leisure, Inc.
