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How did people react to computers and games? Did you talk about it? And if so, with whom?
At the time I got my first "real" computer, an Atari 1040stf, almost no one of my peers had one, except a guy called Alex.
So we had both a computer with "Zack Mc Cracken" on it. We discussed for month how to get past the two headed squirrel, how to enter the huge pyramid on Mars etc. etc.
The other kids on the schoolyard just watched us and didn't get the appeal of ganing. We were the weirdos, the strange kids.
Today gaming is a huge industry, but back then it was just a bunch if nerds having fun...