MaxxHoorn

I think the Commodore 64 (or just C64) was my first computer. I was probably about 12 years old. My parents bought it for 'the family', but it was mostly my (5 years older) brother and especially me and my friends who played on it. I remember Blue Max , River Raid , Who Dares Wins II , Fernandez Must Die , Maniac Mansion (which started a long love of LucasArts games), Bubble Bobble , International Karate , Yie Ar Kung-Fu II . One of my favorites was the management game Rockstar Ate My Hamster . With my friends I mostly played dual player sports games like Summer Games , Winter Games , California Games , Skate Or Die , Ski Or Die and Decathlon . We wrecked a lot of joysticks, got a lot of warnings from my mom and we were such fanatics that we ended up with cramps in our upper arms. The C64 was also where I did my first "coding". Yes, the word is supposed to be in quotation marks, because it was mostly typing over BASIC code from magazines and books. It did have some ...