PixlBit

     I wasn't going to do it this week, but the alure of accumulating gamerscore and playing Xbox 360 with my friend was just too great. I had to feel the thrill of victory and the agony of bad gameplay as I muddled through any-and-all in the quest for more achievements.

     In the late eighties, instead of playing Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros., Metroid, or Legend of Zelda on NES, or Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System, I was either in the arcades or playing games on my Apple Macintosh computer. At the time, I had no idea there were new home consoles out on the market. Maybe 'cause I was never home. I was in college. This explains the following list of games that I call my number ones from the late 80's.

              The first handhelds were these LED light arrays overlayed with different painted designs like the different sports fields. I played all three of the ones shown below which came out in the late seventies alongside Atari 2600 and then Intellivision in '79. Me and my neighborhood friends played the heck out of these things to the point where we wore the buttons right off and the casings were so beaten up, the circuit boards showed through. I picked up these again off of ebay a few years ago for nostalgic reasons.                                                             

     The years 1990-1994 were my return to consoles after turning to Apple PCs after the video game crash of '83. My favorite games of this time were mixed evenly between Genesis and SNES except for one PC holdover. What a great time that was for gaming!