I was working as an IT Support spod at Oxford Uni when Doom came out. I remember downloading the shareware version from some ftp site (this was before the days of yer internet) and installing it on one of the lab's PCs - stuck a pair of headphones on and got goose-pimples the moment I first hear...
The great thing about being born when we did (as I too harken from the days of the Zx81 and the Atari VCS) is that we can actually afford to buy these consoles and games. A bonus of course is that we've also seen some halcyon years of Computer gaming in our time - Elite? Pyjamarama? Tau Ceti...
Bit of beatles:
"Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone.
But it all works out,
It doesn’t matter much to me.
Let me take you down,
‘Cos I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real
And there's nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields...