Well now. That took me back. I started my computer days running TRSDOS in the early 80's and did not get into MS-DOS 3.0 until I went to collage in the late 80's. That was back in the day when my TRS-80 Model IV had a mind staggering 128Kb of memory, no hard drive and two 360K floppy disk drives for $2500CDN in 1984! I had to buy a graphics board for $150 just to get 640x480 graphics capability on my green mono-screen.

I learned how to use visicalc, the first spreadsheet, Scriptsit for word processing and Disk Basic for programming the darn thing. I wrote my own space invaders game, which may seem trivial now, but was way cool back then!

I also had a maze program and attempted to program a three dimensional engine to move through the maze. Too bad I gave up on that little project. I could have done well as the idea was years ahead of any of the three dimensional games that came out later on.

We have come a long way and I marvel at the progress over the last 40 years!

Yes, my very first video game was pong!

Which I played on our black and white TV which looked something like this:

Nice post! Thank you for taking me back through memory lane!